a simple question

[incensor]

Type: Voice
Sender ID: incensor (Lio Fotia)
To: Public (locked to rift-farers but well...)
Subject: Rift-farer treatment
Warnings: None, topics of general prejudice and oppression could come up

I've been here a few weeks, and this isn't the first time I've found myself in the position of being an outsider. So, I just have to ask. What's your experience with the locals and their treatment of us rift-farers?

[ Someone just wants to be prepared in case he has to deal with the same bullshit he just left behind. ]

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[moremystyle]

Eh, they're not too bad--your regular pack of do-gooders, scoundrels, and outright eccentrics. Don't act like a bilgebrain and you should get on with them all right.

[incensor]

I'm glad to hear that. It didn't expect that people would stop existing with the full spectrum of personalities and preferences I'm used to. For better or for worse. As long as most of them are better.

[moremystyle]

Aye, well, I can't tell you which side of the scales it falls on compared to your own planet. To mine, I'd say it's more or less alike.

[incensor]

Does that go for things in general or just the people?

[ Admittedly, there's plenty he still has to get used to. It's just nice to know this isn't one more thing on the list. ]

[moremystyle]

Just the people, lad. There's a distinct lack of giant, strangely hospitable sea creatures back home--that one, I'll admit, took more'n a little getting used to.

[incensor]

A lack of hospitable sea creatures implies the existence of inhospitable ones? For me it was the sea in general. We had been suffering a world-wide drought since before I was born.

[moremystyle]

[ooc: sorry for the late reply, may in academia is A Lot™]

Are you saying the world didn't have a sea anymore where you're from?

That's a thing that is hard to imagine.

[incensor]

The oceans existed, but they had shrunk drastically. Travel was difficult as well, so I never saw them with my own eyes.


ooc: no worries I can completely sympathize living the same life

[moremystyle]

Damn. That's a terrible thing to have happened. [The oceans--and well, every other part of the environment--had been in terrible danger back home. Lenna had said that they would have become polluted and ceased to flow, but might they have evaporated like that?] How did folk get around with no ships? Did you have to take to the air?

[incensor]

By air or over land. In many places, we had to forge our own paths. That's why my friends and I preferred motorbikes for their maneuverability.

[moremystyle]

Motorbikes, eh? [Faris isn't familiar with those, but he's picked up what regular bicycles are during his time here.] Sounds like fun. You had a crew of your own, then?