tdm 3

[hohnkai]

OCTOBER TEST DRIVE MEME

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ABOARD THE MOIRA

Whether adjusting to space travel has been difficult or not, there is always something to be done. From working to leisure, the Moira offers a multitude of opportunities to get to know your crewmates a bit better. Exploration of the ship is highly encouraged, but as another planet grows closer to being docked, things start to get a little hectic. You'll notice a slight change in the artificial gravity as the Moira is pulled into a gravitational field; however, more noticeable changes can be found in the overall morale as you prepare to descend.

☄ on your own:

There are plenty of other communal areas on the ship to explore! Pick a place, and see where it takes you.

AREA 895B EXPLORATION

Most of this colony has certainly seen better days--on the inside. Upon disembarking the Moira, crew members will notice that Area 895B appears poor but densely populated. It’s a mid-point between several planets, so the culture and its people are incredibly diverse. The docks are intricate and woven together like a maze, and without direction or the numerous signs that decorate the walls, it’s a place one can easily find themselves lost in. The “city proper” consists mostly of slums, but as aboard the ship, there is plenty to do and see.

● bars: A-895B is notorious for them! In fact, there seems to be one on almost every corner that caters to a different sort of clientele. Poor, rich, richer. Do some of them even have an escort service? Most likely, yes.
● sanctuary: Like a church, this building stands tall and proud in the center of the colony. Its structure seems to be in constant change; it is always being worked on. Yet, once inside, the interior is quiet and consists of many, many staircases. Along each step, there are so many candles that there is only enough room for safe passage up or down…
● market: A good place to barter and trade. Like most areas, anything can be haggled for as long as you’re willing to pay the price.

☄ exchange booth:

Throughout random locations in A-895B, crew members will happen upon simple booths with little decoration and a native sitting behind it. For those with experience, they might think it resembles something like a kissing booth. However, these kisses are more an exchange than anything else: trade and receive a “gift”. These gifts will vary depending, but they are all contained inside a tiny box. Could it be something you were missing from home? Is it an item you’ve wanted for the last several trips planet-side? How did they even know, and what’s the catch?

A day of your life taken with that kiss. Should that not be enough to not ask such questions?

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exchange booth;

[anotherdid]

[She'd just left the company of a fine younger person named Clare, the conversation was pleasant, and they'd given her sound advice on these booths. Vanessa had been tempted, slightly, but had nothing she wanted that she'd trade a day or more for. She only desired non-material things, such as people, and she would not mess with that sort of black magic here.

Vanessa watches the man leave the booth with narrowed eyes, her expression lightening as she walks towards him. If Victor cannot be here to ask questions, then she would just have to do it on his behalf.]

Sir. If you'll pardon my intrusion.

[A quick glance to the booth and back.]

Was it worth the exchange?

[incantamentum]

[He picks up the knife he'd dropped only to tuck it away within the folds of his robes, only the slightest crackle of magic visible as his fingers glance upon the obsidian.

He glances from her back to the booth, contemplating it. After all, it was true witches lead longer lives than humans... so maybe that day would be worth it. Either way he'd needed the athame, needed the connection to home, to his bloodline. It was wrought of the same Obsidian that acted as the lodestone for their coven. As such, it was invaluable. As such he gives her a quick and sharp nod.]

It was. I've kissed worse men in bars, after all. [He gives her a smile that doesn't quite reach his eyes.] We're all willing to do stupid things, risk stupid things... all for the idea we may gain something, oui? There is nothing you would want, no, need, yourself, for the sake of just one day?

[anotherdid]

Do you not find the circumstances odd?

[There were things she might trade a day for, but she knew of magic in her world and if this were anything similar, she wouldn't risk it. The trade always came with a price, for both the giver and the taker, and why would these foreign persons trade absolutely anything for just a single day.

What was a day even really worth?]

What would they do with that time taken from us? More so, what if they take a day that you'll truly miss?

[If this man needed something so badly that he would risk it, then that was his decision, and Vanessa wouldn't think ill of him for it, but she wouldn't be stepping into that booth.]

[incantamentum]

[He thinks about it for a few minutes.] It is but one day... an inconsequential twenty-four hours among many million more.

[He purses his lips, clearly not having thought of things the way she'd thought of them.] I assumed it meant I would simply have one less day, that they'd steal a final one I might've otherwise had.