@joe.jones | 10 july

[malta]

What do people do for hobbies around here? Aside from volunteering for medical torture.

Has Victorian flower languages come back in style yet? Bookbinding and leathercraft seems obsolete by now, but what about backgammon or cards. I once lost a game of trappola to the Duchess of Ferrara, she was shark. Scrabble? Does that work with the translator? Pomme de terre is about twice as many points as potato.

[ please enjoy that this translates to "potato is about twice as many points as potato" unless you also speak french.

anyway joe is bored come talk to him ]

Who wants to bring fencing back in fashion?

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[purrsistence]

You know how to use these electronic maps?

[ Catra drops a pin at her location after she sends it.

It's a genuine question for once, not a snide comment, though tone can be hard over text. The technology here was a bit of a doozy for her originally. ]

[malta]

I do, but thank you for asking. There's a lot to get used to here.

[purrsistence]

I'm not doing it to be nice or whatever.

[ Don't get the wrong impression!!! ]

The world I come from is totally different from this one. You can't assume anything.

[malta]

And yet your intentions aside, I am still grateful.

What is your world like?

[purrsistence]

Smaller. Fewer people. Less technology.

We don't have any large cities like this place. Most people live in villages, unless you live in the Fright Zone, or one of the castle towns.

We have some tech, but nothing like this. Most of it's ancient junk cobbled together from the civilization before us. We don't really know what we're doing with it.

[malta]

To be thrown into this would be daunting, yes. I was lucky to live through the technological progress of my Earth but this is far different for me too.

[ he watched a man! walk on the moon! but this place doesn't have paper. ]

[purrsistence]

I'm not daunted by it. I'm not daunted by anything.

[malta]

My apologies. Challenging then, though one you obviously rose to.

[purrsistence]

Hmmm. I'll allow it.

Meet me at the pin and I'll buzz you up to the roof.

You bring the swords, I'll bring the tuna.

1/

[malta]

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4/4

[malta]

Tuna?

[purrsistence]

It's a fish.

Don't worry, I'd never heard of it before either before I got here. But it's really good. Trust me.

[malta]

[ HMM. it's so earnest and kind from this snippy child... he is never going to tell her he's been eating tuna since before it was so popular it became massively overfished. ]

Thank you, I look forward to it. Give me a couple hours to find suitable practice sticks.

[purrsistence]

It's gonna change your life.

Cool. I'll be waiting.