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Tweak says, "tomorrow will be a great day"

To Boldly Go | RPG Community (boldlygomod) wrote in toboldlyrpg,
@ 2017-04-05 13:57:00

Entry tags:

WHO: All crew & travelers.
WHEN: 226404.05, mid-morning
WHERE: Starbase Yorktown, Botanical Gardens & Hydroponics Bay
(Imagine Disney's Living with the Lands but on a much, much bigger scale.)
SUMMARY: Organized tour, open to any traveler.
WARNINGS: None at the start.

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Aloy & OTA

aloy
2017-04-05 06:46 pm UTC (link)

The waterway tour shenanigans were actually pretty funny to Aloy. If she knew what popcorn was, she'd be eating some right now, watching those two splash about in the water. That was probably embarrassing. She's glad it wasn't her.

The most interesting thing about the tour to her were the trees. So many of them were alien to her, even many from Earth. On the Enterprise she'd gotten to look at pictures of animals that GAIA had loved, but didn't exist for her. She murmured to herself, "I wonder if there's any place on this station with animals."

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Aloy & Ginny

ginnerly
2017-04-05 11:05 pm UTC (link)

Her good deed completed, Ginny waited several minutes before she moved from where Marian and Lucifer were sitting towards another redhead on the boat. Noticing fellow gingers was one of her inadvertent past times and she gave a friendly smile towards the other woman as she approached.

"I think there is a zoo of some sort," she replied, having overheard the comment. "It might not be a good one, but they would have animals." Of course, she didn't really understand why muggles wanted to put animals in cages just for people to stare at them, but that was a conversation for another day.

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	Aloy & Ginny aloy 2017-04-05 11:23 pm UTC (link)
	Aloy smiled back. "I don't really know what a zoo is, but if it has animals, I'm interested. Didn't have anything bigger than a boar where I'm from. There hadn't been time for bigger animals by the time I was born." Which sounded weird, she knew, but Aloy had never been one to mince words. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Aloy & Ginny

ginnerly
2017-04-07 06:09 pm UTC (link)

"It's......" Ginny began, eager to explain a zoo until she realized that she actually didn't know what to say offhand. "Ummm...." the redhead paused, a line forming in the space between her eyebrows while she considered what to say. "It's a place where people to to stare at animals," she said, "But the animals are separated from them in these big spaces that are made to look and feel like where they are from originally."

Which was still pretty much a cage, but she was trying to be encouraging. And it was always possible that the zoo in Yorktown was nothing like the London Zoo where she had spent an afternoon or two in her life.

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Aloy & Ginny

aloy
2017-04-07 06:38 pm UTC (link)

"So like a cage," Aloy bluntly stated. She wasn't sure how she felt about that, having been in a cage at least once in her life. Granted, that had been shortly before being dropped into a death arena so it was probably a little different, but still.

"But I can't see how you'd have animals wandering around freely." But maybe it was holographic. Like that thing that Dax was making. Which made Aloy wonder if she could see things she'd only ever dreamed about.

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Aloy & Ginny

ginnerly
2017-04-08 12:57 am UTC (link)

"Yeah, like a cage." Ginny agreed easily enough, seeing no real reason to dance around the truth. "But, at home at least, it was a pretty nice one." Though she didn't really think it made it any better but it certainly could have been worse.

"No," she said with a nod of agreement, "Especially since a lot of the animals are usually dangerous for Muggles." And there she went again, using words and phrases from her isolated world and expecting everyone to just know precisely what she was saying. Sighing at herself, Ginny quickly explained, "People without magic. We call them muggles where I'm from."

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	Aloy & Ginny aloy 2017-04-08 02:30 am UTC (link)
	Aloy nodded. She wondered what a zoo in her world would be like, with machines. People would be stupid enough to pay a lot of money to see a Thunderjaw. She lifted a hand to touch the little triangular device at her ear. "People can be really stupid. What if one of those animals got loose?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Aloy & Ginny

ginnerly
2017-04-08 11:36 am UTC (link)

"I guess they would try to catch it."

How they would do that Ginny didn't know, but it'd be vastly different from what witches and wizards would do. Charlie worked with dragons and knew all the best spells to contain them but they weren't allowed to do magic in front of Muggles at home, so catching a loose animal in front of them was pretty much out of the question.

"I'm Ginny, by the way," she said suddenly, realizing that she never introduced herself to the other woman.

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Aloy & Ginny

aloy
2017-04-08 07:20 pm UTC (link)

"Not before a lot of people got hurt." Aloy shrugged. There were a lot of things about 'modern' and 'future' culture that she was trying to understand. Mostly because some it seemed really dumb to her. But then she'd had the same reaction to a lot of the people she'd met on her journey.

People were kind of stupid no matter when or where you were. "I'm Aloy." She pronounced it with a long A, otherwise it sounded suspiciously like alloy. Fitting for the Rider of Machines.

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Aloy & Ginny

ginnerly
2017-04-08 10:22 pm UTC (link)

"Probably not." Ginny agreed with a nod.

At learning the other woman's name, she didn't try to hide her surprise. In a culture where odd names were the norm, Aloy was one that she hadn't heard before but she thought it was quite pretty. "That's different," she said after a beat, "But I like it. My parents named me Ginevra and just called me Ginny which...." Ginny shrugged her shoulders, pretty ambivalent about her name though it always could have been worse.

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	Aloy & Ginny aloy 2017-04-08 10:36 pm UTC (link)
	"Ginny sounds better then Ginerva," Aloy said. She wasn't sure why. Maybe because it was less formal, and Ginerva sounded like a really prissy noble lady in Meridian, and most of the prissy noble-ladies in Meridian made Aloy want to throw them off a cliff. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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