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[arealeyeopener]

Who: future is now
Where: the most high tech dorms
When: Day 195, post game

[mother is here for you, children

or well, he at least has brought you home. now rest]

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[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Takes a seat next to her, watching her type]

Did you pick up any abilities yet?

[learntofly]

[ "getting 1 now" ]

[ Bless Shine for the reminder. She's navigating to the points shop to pick up Technokinesis now ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[And while she does that, she will receive a transfer of 1,000 points to pay for the cost of it]

[learntofly]

[ Pauses in the middle of setting the phone down to stare at her points counter

... activates text-to-speech to make the phone talk for her ]

"Are you sure? I could afford it"

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Of course you can afford it. But why don't you use that to buy something non-practical instead?

[learntofly]

"Oh."

[ It's hard to tell with the speech synthesizer, but she looks pretty touched by the gesture ]

"...Thanks. I'll pick out something good."

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Most people here have a thing or a theme. Whether it be Angel and sheep, Duality and cats, Silence and her bear thing, or Shine and booze and bad movies.

Might be worth experimenting what your thing is.

[learntofly]

"I probably need to buy memories to figure it out."

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Considering how this is the perfect time for them to drop something awful on you, I might wait a bit before doing that.

Based on anecdotal data.

So maybe just pick out something indulgent for the time being.

[learntofly]

[ Takes a slow breath and nods, dragging the phone closer so she can watch it while she mentally flips through store pages ]

"Maybe something with a bird would be cute."

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Leans over to watch her scroll through the point shop]

So an affinity for birds even though your name is Shark?

[learntofly]

[ She's flipping through categories at random. Blankets, pillows, little plush dolls, a wing shaped couch?? ]

"My name is only Shark because the producers named me Shark Bait."

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Careful of the off-brand furniture. Make sure it has some neon piping or something.

[And glancing over to the phone message]

...

And you don't mind that association?

[learntofly]

[ She sighs, flipping through to some with voice-activated lighting built in ]

"I guess it felt too weird picking my own name. I took the bait part off though..."

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Are you looking for someone to give you a name?

[learntofly]

"I don't know? That's kind of weird too, isn't it? People should just...have names."

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Is that true?

I'm pretty sure parents arbitrarily decide them.

[learntofly]

"That's different...probably..."

"Besides, it isn't like anyone knows me well enough to pick a name yet. Shark is as good as anything."

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

There's a certain practicality to be admired in that.

[learntofly]

[ Shrugs ]

"Pretty sure we all have more important things to worry about than names."

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

And of the myriad of things to worry about, what's at the top of your list?

[learntofly]

"Well"

"I mean"






"Everyone else did so much better in the game than me..."

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Who were you up against?

[learntofly]

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

[ Starts rapid-fire flipping through pages on her phone until she's pulled up a profile ]

"Him."

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Oh...

This guy]

How did you decide who would move forward?