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[lootsnshoots]

Listen up people of Earth, this is Cayde-6 speaking. First point of order: I have been informed that I'm your new Gun Safety Campaign Spokesman and I am very happy to keep your guns safe. Safe with me because my gun didn't make the trip and I'm feeling so very, very, very naked without it. If anyone can give me a loaner I'll owe ya big time.

Point number two: Just ... think of this as one of those ice-breaking exercises. You know the ones where everybody's awkward and doesn't wanna talk but you gotta answer some stupid question? One of those. Just. Just out of idle curiosity: what is your favorite thing about Earth? It can be anything, doesn't matter how small. In fact, it might be the small things that are the most important. Asking for a friend who isn't used to seeing it so ... intact.

[He counts out his fingers to four, thinks again, and subtracts one.]

Aaand number three: gimme the skinny on good places to eat around Maurita Falls? Extra points for good ramen joints. And I mean the real stuff, none of that instant business.

Comments

[lootsnshoots]

The shells are just accessories to make 'em look good and protect them, after a fashion. And trust me, people have tried making heads or tails of what makes them tick.

[With noticeably more sincerity than usual.]

Eggheads have tried poking at the dead ones to see if we can fix 'em up but ... it's way beyond our capability.

[codeoracle]

Mm. Maybe it has something to do with your tech? Something else makes them tick beyond the understanding of your world's technology.

Guess we wouldn't be able to know without some dead ones around here--and I don't think they would have ported you in with any of those.

[lootsnshoots]

They were made by an alien artifact called The Traveler when it sacrificed itself to save us. We have no damn idea how it works, either.

Warlocks have mountains of books of speculation on the subject but that's not my thing.

[codeoracle]

You wouldn't have any of those Warlock texts on you, would you? Because I am very interested in all of this.

Mm...wonder if it's something like a contract.

[lootsnshoots]

I have a Warlock friend who wrote twelve academic volumes about the concept of circles and I couldn't make it three pages in much less keep one on my person, sorry.

I dunno what you mean by "contract"; as far as I know, the Traveler has never made anyone sign anything.

[codeoracle]

What would they have to say about circles that would take up twelve volumes? I mean sure the mathematical concepts used with circles can be complex and contribute to so many other areas of differential equations, scientific calculations and the like but...Ghosts.

Oh uhm. Something that can happen back home, where I'm from. Just thinking aloud that they could be similar concepts. You don't always have to sign for a "contract" you know.

[lootsnshoots]

Ikora's brain is like, twice the size of Jupiter so of course I couldn't comprehend the third syllable of the thing. Real nice paper stock in that book. Soft.

Is it more like an honor pact kinda thing?

[codeoracle]

I'd like to pick Ikora's brain about some of this then. If this Ikora ever shows up here, anyway.

...Pretty close, yeah. One of the better comparison's I've heard.

[lootsnshoots]

You don't know what you're asking. You don't just pick Ikora Rey's brain. Once she gets going, Ikora can talk for days. And she don't stop for lunch or pee breaks neither.

[Spoken like someone roasting a dear friend.]

[codeoracle]

I think I can handle it.

[Says the girl that got overstimulated from socializing to the point of being in a coma at one point. W E L P.]

[lootsnshoots]

I'd put 1,000 glimmer on you passing out within eight hours.

[codeoracle]

Not sure glimmer is something that works here, but you know what? If she shows, you're so on for a bet.

[lootsnshoots]

[Fingerguns!]

You're on!