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You ever have that moment when you feel like the last few days were an absolute blur? Is this what it’s like winding down the last few weeks of high school before you graduate? Because damn. Hopefully I’ll actually remember my graduation here. And prom. Oh god PROM I can’t wait till summer vacations when I do a whole lot of nothing between work shifts.

[Filtered to Dustin, Eddie, and El; filter edited to include Kamala a little later]
Welcome to the beginning of talking about our Starfarers game!
First, a question: how would you guys feel about asking Kamala Khan she wants to join? She's cool at school, and I don't think she has a game right now. Or maybe she does and it's just the timeslip version of her didn't. But I figured I could ask anyway, and that would bring us to four at the table, which is a pretty good number.

Second thing, here's a quick rundown on the races and classes, so you can start thinking about what kind of character you want to play.

Classes:

• Marine: Basically your fighter class. Uses laser guns and hand to hand combat to kick ass on the ground.
  
• Pilot: Basically another fighter class, but provides air support with a shuttle or flies the main ship
  
• Engineer: Uses a drone and some other tech tricks in a fight, kind of feels like a space-ranger to me.
  
• Starwalker: closest thing to a mage class. Uses natural telekinetic abilities and space manipulation in battle. NOTE: this class cannot be played by humans
  
• Medic: Healer class, obviously. Keeps everybody alive (hopefully)
  
• Captain: Has some combat abilities, but mostly works as a support class, kind of like a bard. NOTE: If you want your own ship, you have to have someone playing this class.
  
• Smuggler: Basically your rogue class, but in space.

Note: El already mentioned she wants to play a Starwalker

Races:

• Kanbarans: Long-lived residents of the planet Kanbara (average lifespan about 200 years). They're built like humans, but their skin comes in varying shades of blue and green, and they are comfortable in much colder temperatures than most humans. There is a dominant matriarchal religion on the planet, which if you're not going to follow you'll need a good reason for. They get bonuses to Intelligence and Wisdom.
  
  
• Oransi: Similar lifespan to humans, from the planet Insal. Their homeworld is much warmer than Vallo, with most regions being either tropical or desert by comparison. Don't call them lizardmen unless you're deliberately trying to be rude. They get bonuses to Dexterity and Strength.
  
  
• Human: You know humans, but we're kind of different in comparison to the other races. Humans are known in the galaxy as persistence predators, able to survive in all kinds of environments and keeping going when others would fall. Being from Vallo, they also have little bits of magic - nothing fancy, but any human character will have a minor magical talent or two. Humans get bonuses to Constitution and Charisma.

There are some other races available in the Bonus Books, but these are the ones in the base game, and I would really like it if we could stick to the base game for our first run at a campaign.

Okay, so there we go! Hit me with your thoughts! And when we decide about adding another person, then we can start talking about your ship and stuff.

[Filter to Kamala Khan, added a little later]
Hey Kamala! Dustin, Eddie, El, and I are getting ready to start up a game of Starfarers with me DMing. It's a local Vallo tabletop RPG that none of us have played before, so we'll kind of be learning together. Want to join in? We haven't got a schedule set yet or anything, but we're thinking we'll play at Wicked Games.

Wow, look, I once again just found some random stuff in my stuff this morning when I woke up, how very strange and coincidental:

- a set of dice, I think? One of them looks like a dice, but the rest are interestingly shaped *
- a marker that says COPIC on it *
- an eyepatch *
- just a fuck ton of daggers that I'm pretty sure are your make, Fen *
- a little friendship looking bracelet *
- a book that I think might be in Zemnian, Caleb *
- several sets of keys that can probably be identified by keychain *
- two different chapsticks, both vanilla latte flavored
- a black bucket hat that says "Raccoon Whisperer" on it
- a nearly empty pot of what I assume is body glitter (this is becoming tradition and makes me think younger me should have had more access back home)
- one black fingerless glove
- jar of crunchy peanut butter that might just be from our kitchen, now that I think about it
- a sewing kit with all the black thread missing, apologies
- a rainbow scrunchie
- two empty flasks this year, oh ho
- a belt that isn't one of my many belts

There also are a number of items here that I recognize from a certain shop. I will return them to you, my glorious fiance, when I bring you lunch.

Anyway, I do apologize--my fingers were incredibly sticky as a teenager due to a slew of father-based issues that we don't have to get into right now. If any of the above sounds like it belongs to you, let me know and I'll get it to you, alongside my deepest apologies and an offer for a round somewhere, because wow.

[ooc note - if an item is marked by * then it has been volunteered by someone, otherwise feel free to claim any of the other items! also poke me if you'd like to add anything to the list.]

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Waking up to a very happy tiger pouncing on you and telling you that you were old for a week is definitely a first for me. I hope older me wasn't the worst? It's hard to tell with Cringer's dramatic storytelling style.

[FILTERED TO ADAM]

Hey. I think we need to finally talk.

Well, as Katou would say, shit.

I apologise to anyone who was insulted, injured or robbed by my younger self over the last few days. I won't make excuses, since I we he didn't know any better, but if you've lost something valuable I'll do my best to get it back to you. He may well have stashed things in a few places.

If it's any consolation he's made a wreck of my clothes and my shakkan's in the worst shape it's been in in about eight years. Next time maybe someone could tell him he's a mage and not to touch any plants that have been carefully cultivated to store raw power? Not that he'd listen, but worth a shot.

Oh my! What an experience! I can't say that I would ever choose to switch places with my child self. But now at least I can say that I have some happy memories where there weren't many before. Thank you everyone who took the time to watch out for the younger versions of us all!


Filtered to Edwin Courcey and Nikolai Lantsov

Thank you both very much for letting my younger self stay with you the past few days. You both were very kind and I hope I...that is she... wasn't too much trouble (or got under foot too much). As a thank you, I'd like to treat you both to dinner. I can either cook for you at my apartment, or we can go out. Your choice!

Filtered to Briar Moss

Briar? Are you back as well?

[Lan Xichen, Darlington and Alex]

I wanted to say thanks for helping out little me. It doesn’t seem like I was too much of a handful, but I know she had fun and felt safe here because of you guys.

[Callum]

Maze says you did a brilliant job keeping the demons occupied so I’ve decided you can keep the kingdom and I’m taking over your apartment.

I'll take disconcerting experiences I'd rather not repeat for $100, Alex.

[Lydia Martin]

So. That was a thing.