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Video - Jun 11th

[The camera is turned on, this time propped up against a napkin dispenser so there's a stretch of bar ahead of it and Drifter's leaning on it. Fortune the Seviper has her head resting on the counter as it's just lazing through his work hours and providing the necessary duty of being inconvenient to step over.]

So, since I got to Goldenrod I managed to find me a job at a bar. I figure some of you are way too young either in body or in spirit to stroll in here and ask for whatever strikes your fancy, but those of you that are of some variety of drinking age back home? Ol' Wu Ming did ya a favor. I talked the management into lettin' you have a free drink on the house.

So if you stop in, it'll save you a few coins. We're a little off the beaten path in Goldenrod. Further away from the Pokecenter. Don't wanna be too bad an influence for the free-range kiddos. [He gives the address. As he's doing so, Orin, now a female Meowstic, barely peeks from behind him, just one eye visible. And she's staring again, just piercing holes into anyone looking at her with the bland intensity of her ongoing gaze.]

Especially since the forecast says that some days comin' up the cement's gonna be hot enough to fry eggs on. Tried that once on a Cabal shield in this kinda heat. Let me tell you, some of the best sunny-side-up I ever had. Hope I see you 'round.

[Oh, wait! Suddenly he remembers something, and it shows as he thumps his fist on the bar.]

Right! Yeah, that. If anybody has any idea if breaking down a holdable object into core components ruins it or could it maybe be used to infuse into somethin'? Askin' for me. I got a few ideas I wanna try out.

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[She had thought he was talking about an annoying neighbor here, in this world, but is completely distracted by his description of the places he can travel. She's only ever read about those places in books, and - as far as she knows - they are far, far beyond reach in the present she left behind in Ooo.]

...Oh, wow.

I know you said where you come from is super messed up from a thousand-year long war, but dang I still want to go.

I'll be honest. Sometimes that's half the fun of it.

Only one frontier left, sister. And at risk of sounding like a dramatic stereotype, all the good stuff is out there.

I don't even hate it so bad. I just hate the whole 'Traveller was the source of everything good' dogma. It ain't the big and great gift givin' thing that's the important part of the world. It's the people. Forget that an' we pretty much deserve the dark ages we end up with.

Yeah, that kind of weird cult-y propaganda can put a damper on a lot of good stuff. But it sounds like you never took your eye off the prize, so good for you.

[The wording may come off as sarcastic, but she truly means it. She's had her own share of ups and downs over her thousand year long life, and the effect both ups and downs had on her really depended on the people around her.

It is agreed: People are what's important.]

This place must seem like a total backwater after traveling around the whole solar system, though, huh?

[Problem is he's relatively sure at the moment they're all gonna die because they've bought into this Last City thing so hard none of them are prepared to leave like they should be. And they've been told. They have an entire faction telling them (Dead Orbit). They have another one telling them that a war is coming (Future War Cult). But nobody's budged.]

[So Drifter's about ready to be one of a functionally extinct race.]

[Easy to keep his mind off that with little monsters floating around.]

Sorta. But I've... been around for a while. Been through some bad times. It's in good shape, so I wouldn't call that backwater. Hell, it's got runnin' water and nice livin' spaces and everything. I've slept in a Hydra's shell or used Cabal shields to block out the rain.

I can afford a room all to myself, and even regular fresh food and things to cook with. That's not too bad at all. I feel like I'm livin' like a king.

[Drifter is easily satisfied.]

Those are all super good points. I just took off from Cherrygrove and I'm back on the road, but it was really nice to stay in a place with indoor plumbing for a few days.

[She has a pretty sweet setup in her cave house, but she's also had plenty of time without that sweet setup. More than enough to appreciate it when she's got it.]

I'm really excited to get to a place where I can practice cooking.

Hey, you get any extra practice in? Save some of that for me. I always can use a bite and I won't judge too much.

It's gonna be better than hundred-year-old canned food.

Anything's better than hundred year old canned food.

And I'll be sure to check in if I ever have any leftovers. Gotta find a kitchen first, though.

[There aren't likely to be leftovers. But if there are, she will let him know.]