To: Everyone

[freightcars]

Quick survey:
1 - What do you do for work here?
2 - What did you do back home?
3 - What's your skillset?

( note: personally, I'm cool with threadjacking in my posts as long as the other person is too, go to town. )

Comments

[freightcars]

It is. She was great. We weren't close, but she had a reputation.

Bucky.
Nice to meet you.

[shadowthief]

Then I appreciate it.

Likewise.

What is your purpose in this little survey, anyway? Just for curiosity's sake, or do you have something more specific in mind?

[freightcars]

Fishing around for inspiration. It's been a while since I've been in the job market. Trying to get an idea of what the options are.

[shadowthief]

Fair enough.

I'm personally new enough to the city I don't know what the options are here. At a bit of a loss of what to do with myself in this world, as it were.

[freightcars]

I've only been around a couple months myself
I've seen a few people working at inns, running stands. A surprising number of monster hunters.

[shadowthief]

I was in Solvunn initially, but I moved here during the Peace Summit, as my best friend had arrived and I couldn't leave him alone.

I haven't had a very... typical life in years. It's amazing how strange the simpler things feel after living with not so simple ones for so long.

[This all makes her sound so much older than she really is. She's only 17, but the last three years and change have been a lot, and Inej knows she's changed from the girl she was, irreparably in some cases.]

[freightcars]

I know exactly what you mean. One day at a time, I guess. Things start to make a little sense after a while.

[shadowthief]

An unfortunate common experience to share, but sadly unsurprising based on what I have heard from people I've met here so far. It seems this world chooses the people they do for a reason, I think.

I want to remember what it is like to just...live. It feels unattainable, most of the time. The simplicity of... before.

[freightcars]

Yeah. They want people who know how to fight for them. Wonder how well that's working out for them.

You tried shopping for furniture yet?
Felt like the weirdest god damn thing I'd done in years.

[shadowthief]

I haven't seen much in moves of war thus far. Not that I'm hoping for them, mind you.

Not yet. I've not got enough coin for my own place yet. We're working towards it, though, and Mag works with us really well with letting us room at the inn in trade for gruntwork for her.

[freightcars]

Mags is a good lady.

When I got around to getting my place back home, I must have spent two hours staring at lamps.

[shadowthief]

At least you knew what electricity was. I've only really learned of it coming here.

[freightcars]

Welcome to the new age
Trust me, it gets better later
The technology we have back home, you wouldn't even believe it
Hell, I barely believe it sometimes

[shadowthief]

I can't only imagine. Actually, maybe not even that. We still used used torches and traveled by horse and carriage where I'm from.

[freightcars]

Roombas would blow your mind

[shadowthief]

Is it a child's toy? It sort of sounds like one.

[freightcars]

Imagine a broom, except instead of sweeping the dirt it sucks it up into a little container

Then imagine making it about 10 inches around and six inches tall, on wheels

Then imagine that thing rolling around your house automatically cleaning your floors

[shadowthief]

That's a lot of imagining.

So it's... a disc, on wheels, that cleans for you? But how does it know when to stop?

[freightcars]

I genuinely have no idea

[shadowthief]

Perhaps it never stops.

[freightcars]

Oh no
It stops
It wheels itself back to its little house and it electrically recharges itself

[shadowthief]

It has a house? I don't even have a house, how does your cleaning disc have one?

[freightcars]

I told you, the future's crazy
The year I lived before I got here is decades later than when I started out, it's a little complicated
The point is, I totally understand the feeling

[shadowthief]

Truly mad when our cleaning tools have houses.

Complicated is everyone's life story here, I think. But I'm glad to know someone besides Jesper understands the wonder of it all.

[freightcars]

Happy to help. I'm a bastion of wonder.