ARRIVAL LOG 010

[larkers]

WHO: Everyone
WHERE: New Amsterdam
WHEN: Evening of October 21 and 22
WHAT: The tenth arrival
NOTES OR WARNINGS: Coercion, loss of autonomy, sexual themes and alcohol usage. Further notes at end of log.

> ARRIVAL LOG #010

Awareness comes to you in blurred snatches, cloudy fragments of sound and light, color, sensation. Hazy and difficult to grasp on to, but slowly aligning into focus. A series of regular, rhythmic beeps. A medicinal, astringent smell. The sensation of movement, a low hum and accompanying vibration under you. Your eyes are heavy, hard to keep open, but in the glimpses between slow, dark blinks you see four people in black body armor seated opposite you, as well as a man in dark gray scrubs.

You realize there are others next to you. All of you in white scrubs, hair recently cut but at various stages of growth, restrained by straps across your chests, arms, feet, holding you to the bench under you. To your left, an armored interior door, two more people visible, the movement of streets passing through a windshield. You try to open your mouth to speak, but it's as if your tongue is coated in tar, and you manage nothing more than an empty parting of lips.

The vehicle stops. The guard opposite you stands and comes to unbuckle you from the bench, helping you to your feet. Your limbs feel wooden and heavy, slow to move. One guard opens the back of the vehicle, and false, colored light, illuminating the streets in the distance will first alert your senses of being somewhere else, combined with air that's only cooled with the setting of the sun. The nurse moves to stand at the back, checking each passenger over one by one just before they're helped out of the vehicle, quick and methodical. He doesn't climb out after you, moving to sit as the last passenger is unloaded.

The guards keep their heads down. Their actions are quick, firm, but not entirely unkind. Once all the passengers are out, they drop some masks on the ground in a tan-colored tote bag. "Pick a mask," they bark, and then turn to climb back into the vehicle and close the doors. The engine powers up again, and then the bus is gone.

You're left alone in an alley, with no idea of where you are or why you've been brought here.

Around the corner of the alley, there is the sound of various different carnival rides and men yelling for someone to step right up and try their luck on the various assortment of games that are available. Off in the distance, there's a large, hulking structure – perfectly vertical in nature, and people on it twist upward and then come slamming down mere moments later. It seems that you've just arrived as a part of some festivity, though it's probably hard to tell if you're an attraction or a coincidence of this all.

Either way – time to pick a mask. They're nothing special: they go over the head, but no one was ordered to put one on. They show various monsters – generic and otherwise – and it looks like they were purchased in bulk.

◉ Though entirely capable of independent action and thought, new characters will find themselves completely, unquestioningly compliant to any verbal statement which could be taken as a command or request.

> 10 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN: OPENING CEREMONY

The message from El comes the same as usual: insistent, not waiting for any active attempt to open it. Scrolling within your vision as if being written while you're reading it.

Here we go again. You know the drill by now. Our new batch has been thrown into the middle of a Halloween party. They should have masks on which doesn't make them much easier to find, but I trust you guys can figure this out. You know the signs to look for by now. So… Happy Halloween. 🎃

Having ten actual days dedicated to Halloween may seem like a bit much, but New Amsterdam takes the festivities seriously. Thanks to being a melting pot of two millenia's worth of cultures, they try to touch on every aspect of it. The launch party is a two-day event set in the cultural district. Thanks to the lack of ground traffic, the city easily rolls in what acts as a mini-carnival. The ground throughout the carnival is lit with candle-filled pumpkins, providing a warmth of inviting light as the nights grow cooler. While the carnival shuts down during the working day, it opens again in the evening, allowing working parents to bring their children before the hours come to a close. During this time, children run around with their friends in costumes to ask for candy or food from nearby businesses or carnival booths. Sometimes these children have to perform a task before they get what they've asked for – either through playing a game or answering a trivia question – but they're never turned away empty handed.

The first two days are largely billed as a time for people to come together and have a good time, but Halloween is also known for offering opportunities to local artists to get their work recognized. Whether digital or otherwise, artists are asked to commit to a theme and produce art on the first day of the event that's viewed throughout the next nine days. Part of the tradition is the crunch of trying to produce a work of art with limited notice and time. If they aren't done before the first two days are over, they won't be able to get free advertisement for their work. When the event is over, all of the art will go up for auction, and the artists will receive 75% of whatever is offered for their work. This year's theme is "Remembrance and Renewal" – and most themes from past years are just as open for interpretation.

As it gets deeper into the evening and children have returned home, the festivities turn toward being more adult. While barred from selling alcohol until 9 PM, the various carnival booths change their tune after that point, offering a wide array of alcohol – including their own takes on moonshine. The first night even features a competition over who's brought the best, and everyone's invited to try a sample and put in a vote – for free. A rather savvy individual would likely be able to find themselves well in their cups just off of these samples, as the moonshine contest is the way for the adults to get a treat of their own. For these evening festivities, everyone is allowed to wear a more risque costume, and sex workers come over from the neighboring Red Light District in order to advertise some of their more unique services for the evenings ahead. Every brothel will have a unique theme of its own to mark how special the event is, and their services will match.

Otherwise, the first two days of Halloween are known for allowing kids to have fun and for adults to be anonymous for a little while. Anyone who holds down a day job will still be expected to turn into work, but there's a tacit understanding that most people will be under the weather during this time.

◉ The carnival will have a wide array of rides that are set up rather quickly. There's a ferris wheel with seats that will rotate around a large machine like an atom, but with many different "branches" to allow a great deal of people to go on at once. Everyone gets on at the same time, and the seats "float." Each person can pay for how long their ride is in increments, and extend that time if they so choose. For the after dark people, there is a definite badge of honor in having a good time in a ferris wheel without getting caught with your pants down. Other rides include the Wicked Force – which rapidly takes people up 500 ft into the air and then drops them – as well as carousels that allow someone to customize their mount for an additional amount of money. Want a lewd mount? That's fine … after the kids have gone home to play, and some people like to show off whatever they thought up on Cooltalk.

◉ As always, there are a large number of food options available thanks to the local food trucks coming out to sell their food. Taco trucks are the most popular around this time, and that's most of what will be offered. Many trucks will have some homemade candy that they offer for free with each meal – with the option to get more.

◉ Throughout the city, there will be controlled bonfire pits that are lit every night at 8 PM, though they won't be present in the less cared for parts of New Amsterdam. Ahead of the event starting, there will be a website to let people know where these pits are going up so they can set up meeting places with their friends – or even reserve a pit for a private group. Reservations around the more popular areas cost more than ones that are nearing the "disreputable" sections – though "disreputable" is shorthand for rundown buildings in need of repair more than any crime.

◉ There are, of course, costume contests! While many local bars – dive and otherwise – will have smaller affairs, there is a large contest held on these first two nights. Because of the wide array of people and costumes available, someone has to enter their costume according to a certain theme. Some of the themes are: vampires, ghosts, zombies, pop culture (animation), pop culture (action movies), pop culture (celebrities), political figures, historical figures – and more! In the five days that follow, people will be able to go online and vote for their favorite costume. Whoever accumulates the most votes gets a meal of their choice at a number of participating restaurants – HAPPYHAPPYJOYJOY, SOL, Monde Pizza, Sweetwaffel and more – as well as 200 credits added to their funds.

◉ There will be dealers around the carnival trying to get someone to buy something to "heighten" their experience. While the "monster drug" is out in the city, it won't be available here. Halloween is thought of as a neutral ground for the city, and even the gangs recognize that. Most drugs will be hallucinatory in nature, providing effects similar to shrooms. Of course, any drugs are still illegal, and people will want to be careful not to get caught – or buy from the wrong person.

◉ Anyone who chooses to take part in the more illicit and sexual activities will be advised to go home to finish out their nights. Being handsy is fine, but getting caught on the ferris wheel? Well, the goal is to not get caught. Public acts are still illegal, though most people just spend a night in jail thinking about what they did. It's treated as more embarrassing than anything, but sometimes people let things get away from them. Many of the brothels will offer rooms to couples for the evening, complete with toys and supplies to practice safe sex. Even if they aren't spending their night with a sex worker, the themed goods are still there to enjoy.

> 10 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN: THE NEXT EIGHT DAYS

After the rowdier events pass, Halloween splits into two main categories: corporate popups and remembrance. Halloween parties continue to be thrown at restaurants and bars, allowing people to enjoy a more low key version of what was previously available. Many of the bars have karaoke contests and themed parties, and many retail stores maintain a Halloween section until November first. If anyone's been invited to a party last minute – or they need a series of costumes to be extra about the whole occasion – they can hit these stores when needed.

◉ Pulsar's hover car-focused subsidiary, Bakker, advertises their 2512 line of cars by having hover hay rides around the city. Their trucks can hold up to six. Anyone hoping to go on a hover truck hay ride around the city to take in the sights and bonfires in the evening can call one on New Amsterdam's special Halloween app! These rides don't only show the city: they give a glimpse at the large amount of forestation just over the wall, allowing people to see that the Earth is gradually improving.

◉ There are, of course, haunted houses set up around the city! Haunted houses come in two varieties: virtual reality and 4D. Vyonation's gaming subsidiary, Vizija, sets up the virtual reality popups around the city. Due to the high tech nature of these setups, people do have to be on site to enjoy them. They interface with someone's neural implant, and depending on the experience, they can involve puzzles, escape rooms, murder mysteries, or even dissection tables. The 4D houses are the result of a joint partnership between Poe and Polarized – which are subsidiaries of Giles Bell and Pulsar, respectively.

4D haunted houses involve a great deal of props, realistic sights and smells, as well as the potential for certain drugs that can help provide a certain physical or emotional response. Whereas Vizija's simulation comes with the reassurance that nothing is real, Poe and Polarized team up to scare someone – and try to ensure it's as real as possible. Nothing offered at either is illegal, including the drug – though people with a history of heart issues won't be allowed to use the drug at all.

These experiences are made unique for everyone going in: people are allowed to opt out of anything that might make them uncomfortable, or even add in something along the way. If someone is feeling too much anxiety thanks to the drugs, they'll find a counter-drug added to their system to negate the artificial effects rather quickly.

◉ Remember that art contest? Anyone who finished a work will find their art somewhere in the city – and that includes anyone among the Displaced. If anyone is looking for artwork that's similar to what's been featured on the shrines, there will be a few, only they will seem more inviting. Whereas they celebrated people before, they now involve hands outstretched, welcoming someone down a blue-lit path. The same imagery – triangles and overlapping circles – will still be present, especially on the hands as tattoos.

◉ Five days before the 31st, there is a tradition of everyone donating a knife from their house to make it so that "spirits" can return safely. While no one in New Amsterdam genuinely believes that they might be visited by a spirit, the odd occasions around the city recently have lent some credence to this superstition. There will be knife disposal boxes all around the city – and anyone who doesn't give up a knife, butter or otherwise, will be seen as a bit of a spoilsport.

◉ On October 29th, there will be a procession from one end of the city to the other that starts just as the sun goes down and finishes when everyone has reached the other side. As you might imagine, this is a very, very long walk, and many people slip in and out according to what they can individually manage. People walk with candles along the way, and there will be booths selling new or replacement candles for a low price. Since the procession goes along the path of a lot of bonfires, it won't ever be difficult to get them lit. The purpose of this? Everyone uniting in remembrance: of a world that's healing, to celebrate the lives lost to usher in a peaceful era, to thank everyone on the colonies for offering a humanity a new home, and any personal losses that people might have faced. Even though there are still billions of people alive, there is the sense that everyone knows that they remain on Earth on borrowed time.

◉ For the last two days, people light candles and put them in their windows, and they also leave food outside of their windows and in the front of their apartments so that "spirits" can return safely. There's an implicit understanding that most of this food will be taken by people who aren't doing as well, and much of it is nonperishable. Anyone who's down on their luck will see candles in the window and will know that they will likely find food there. Many people stock up for this occasion so that they can replace any food. Unsurprisingly, most high-end apartments with well-off people don't honor this tradition, but people in mid-to-low end apartments will almost always have something to spare in the spirit of charity.

> SAFEHOUSE

Access to the safehouse is a hatch hidden behind stacks of empty storage shelves in the back of an abandoned supermarket in an outer district of the city. The immediate area is similarly abandoned, empty stores, flanked by several blocks of dive bars and clubs which cater to more niche tastes. A place where people can come and go unseen, or, if seen, not spoken of. A dark haired woman called Gaby is ready to greet the new arrivals and get them settled in, brusque and no-nonsense – she'll be open for in depth questions later, but will advise everyone to ask the people who brought them in for the beginning bits of information.

◉ The safe house is a large open space, filled with rows of basic cots set up to sleep a large amount of people. Basic, but outfitted with everything necessary for daily life. A few doors lead to back rooms for storage, medical care and a large communal bathroom, and past the long rows of cots there is a communal kitchen, fully stocked, and an eating area. Privacy is at a minimum.

◉ New characters will be asked to pick their beds, and provided with a change of (second-hand, mismatched and somewhat threadbare) clothes and basic toiletries.

◉ Any belongings from previous safehouse occupants have been packed up – and that includes any current Displaced who just got back from a trip. If someone left something out while they were in New Tokyo, Gaby will tell them where these objects can be found. For her part, she's just trying to get everything set up for the upcoming move.

◉ Gaby will make it clear to all new arrivals that if they have any requests or queries, they should contact her or El.

◉ Once everyone that El spotted has arrived back, they'll be informed that the safehouse will be a temporary location. By the end of the month, everyone will be moving to a new location about fifteen blocks away.

◉ The drugs making new characters compliant will remain in their systems for a few hours after their arrival at the safehouse before finally beginning to fade. They will be gone entirely after a night's rest. In the meantime, they may want to be careful of what others say to them.

◉ New characters will be given rudimentary access to the network on arrival in the safehouse, but will not have their ID set up yet. They will be able to make posts and replies, but their messages will be anonymous and they do not have inboxes yet.

◉ New characters will not be allowed to leave the safehouse until OCTOBER 25 (MAY 19). These 4 days are for them to adjust, learn about the world they've arrived in from their fellows, and for El to speak with them and work on setting up their IDs.

> FINAL OOC NOTES

Welcome to Meadowlark, newbies! You're now free to post to the network and logs comms. To reiterate, your characters will have no IDs or inboxes, nor be allowed out of the safehouse until OCTOBER 25 (MAY 19). At that point it's expected they'll have gotten a good idea of their new situation from their fellow characters, and will have discussed their background and job potentials with El in order for their false IDs to be set up.

If you have an artist character, please feel free to comment below under our QUESTIONS header to submit a description for a work of art! As long as they submitted something, you can feel free to assume they made some credits off of the whole experience!

Since there is a part of this log that involves explicit sexual activity, please remember content warnings. If your character engages in a sexual act, slap a warning on that! None of the drugs available at the event will involve aphrodisiacs or anything that will remove consent. Some of the brothels may involve play with that, but everyone entering those arrangements would need to consent from the start. We're well aware of the sensitive nature of having a Red Light District-adjacent event while characters are under the influence of compulsory drugs, so no characters will be forced or asked into any acts against their will. There will be no exceptions to this. In addition, any newcomers won't be able to skip off into a brothel because they're new, won't be able to confirm their ages, and they won't have any other identifying information. Otherwise, please be respectful and check everyone's permissions.

As a blanket reminder, all arrival logs are designed as mingle logs for the entire game.

If you have any questions or ideas about how you'd like to get your character involved in the world, please head over to the plot engagement post and drop us a comment! For questions specific to this log, there is a thread below.

Please check out our May calendar rundown for a look at things happening this month, as well as some additional notes from the mods.

As a reminder, AC for new characters accepted in May will be 10 comments across 2-4 threads, while current characters will need to provide the full AC of 20 comments across 2-4 threads. AC will be posted on June 1 at 12 AM UTC and close on June 8 at 12 AM UTC. If you do not reply to AC, you will be considered idled and dropped from the game. We will not post a warning list.

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[strove]

One thoroughly impacted by global warming. Of course, they do their best to handle it here. [She studies him for a moment, and then realizes the circumstance with the hoodie. Why it's there?]

It works for what you need it for, though. So, I'll take that back if you'd prefer. [The mild jibe toward his hoodie.]

[strove]

Markus took me to a restaurant and taught me about pairings. [And then she cried a lot. Actually, the crying came before the pairings. That had been put on pause until she could get through the part where she wasn't dealing with Bellamy's absence particularly well.

Of course, she isn't going to mention that here, but there is a sense of sadness that floats between them. Weird to associate wine pairings with sadness, but Eugenides may be used to Clarke exhibiting an odd mix of sadness plus whatever else.]

Of course ... [This is a world that may not be known for its wines.] It may be that the wine isn't very good here. Have you had enough to judge?

[laozu]

So I've been told. You're very self-sufficient, and that's good. I'm not asking you to give up your independence, only rely on your seniors a little bit - sometimes it's okay to work together in pursuit of your goals.

[ at the taco stand, he orders four more of the damn things - extra extra extra spice on mine, he says and looms over the edge of the window to watch them add in chilis and sauce and more to his, until it resembles more of a sloppy joe than a taco. it smells like spice and nothing else, and he looks absolutely DELIGHTED WITH IT, passing dawn his pair of tacos once he's paid. ]

What do you want to do? I know Riku and Sora are pursuing their education, are you doing the same?

[inherited]

Rey suggested something similar. I've looked into what it takes to sign up to be a cop, but ... [Well, he's not old enough, but that doesn't matter here. As far as the world of New Amsterdam knows, he's eighteen. He doesn't voice that.] I need to brush up on my schooling. I haven't read large blocks of text to figure them out for a long time.

[He looks around for a way to box up the food. It looks like they might have to ask. Eh, he'll wait.]

I like the idea. I just don't think I can do it yet, and I wanna get us moved out soon.

[dragonwarder]

[Daenerys can't help the suspicious narrowing of her eyes, though it is a brief thing. Her exhale comes slow, slightly impatient -- though more with herself than with Clarke.]

You likely have the right of it.

[For what kindness he had shown her, Jon Snow was still something of an enigma, and someone she had planned to tread carefully around. And yet -- he is still somehow the most familiar thing to her here. Her, and the Lady Stark.]

It would be unfair of me to assume otherwise with what little I know of him.

[transuniversal]

He said it very quickly. [ Noh pauses, as though this requires thought. As though he's not totes faking. ] And gave me snacks.

[ He'll continue looking for a pair of pants that will sit correctly on his hips. Damn being so well built. ]

I have been in such circumstances before, you know. [ Idly, like one would discuss the weather. As though it didn't cut Noh-Varr to the core. As though he didn't do terrible things, last time. ] He made it clear that it was...different. And since I find I am only double-jointed now, I assume Billy is right.

[laozu]

[ such a gentleman! ]

Mm, I can regulate my own temperature. It's one skill that wasn't locked away from me, I've found.

[ since it's not magic and more the result of extreme and consistent physical training that allows him to focus in mediation, to adjust his breathing and heartrate and keep himself functionally warm. it's why, when he pats connor's hand ( so protective, it's flattering - ), even his fingertips are warm, despite how exposed he is. the website he shows him, the information accompanying it - encoded deeply into his identity - makes even him double-take. three sizes! ]

It's Cooltalk. Do you not know wh-- oh, [ and he twists, to peer better at connor's face and seize his hand, instead of briefly patting it, waiting for the burst of blue between them. on his bare chest, it's painfully obvious, but he curls the jacket around him to hide most of it. ] Are you fresh off the boat, mister?

[strove]

For what it's worth, he was in no position to pass warnings or cautionary tales about a people I don't know. About a people no one here knows. [Quick to reassure—to apply some even footing. Clarke barely knows Jon herself. He says she asks a lot of questions, but it seems that he's all too keen to share the answers. He has a mind for politics, for what they're doing here. She has the impression it may be that way for most people from his world.

Which is a welcome thing. Not everyone here is politically inclined.]

For better or worse, you won't have to worry about anything like that here. [Unless more people from her world show up, the types who would say that. Clarke's disinclined to add this.] We all start from nothing. [A beat.] Started, in my case. [She's in a better place than she was from the start.]

[hadtolose]

[ Later on, when she had the time to reflect, she'd realize who was under the mask. She'd been standing there during Markus's victory speech, proudly at his side. Her reverence for him was already high, but to know someone else who'd worked so hard to spearhead the revolution? She'd count herself incredibly blessed to have someone like that around. ]

You're right. We do need each other. Even if we didn't make it to Canada...thank you all.

[ As happy as she was for the serendipitous connection, Kara wants to continue her search. No matter what other people said to try to discourage her, she couldn't give up hope on finding Alice. ]

And thanks for offering. I don't know how much I can help in return, but... [ Her usual strategy in a fight was to run like hell, so. ] I'll do whatever I can, too.

[ She glances away into the crowds, preparing herself. ]

I'm going to keep looking around.

[hadtolose]

[ Kara simply studies him for a while. There's something about him that's...interesting. Not that he hasn't been interesting before, but it's different this time. There's a gentle calm there she wasn't used to. She was used to him exuding calm, sure, but it was one with an undercurrent of power and stoic poise. Crossing him seemed like it'd be a grave mistake.

...So why was he actually working with humans now?

She shakes it off as best she can. Perhaps it was some long-term strategy she'd learn about later, one that he didn't feel should be discussed in public. ]

I guess we should be thankful for that.

[ That statement carries some subtle darkness. Another thing probably not to be discussed in public? A lot of those horrible things she'd gone through back home. ]

I'm glad it's gone well for you, though. [ She smiles a bit. ] You deserve it, Markus, after all you've had to deal with.

[hadtolose]

[ Her eyes blink rapidly, going wide. ] Y-Yeah. I know him.

[ Hearing his name is the first thing to put a smile on her face. A small one, but it's there.

It's woefully short-lived, however, as reality sinks back onto her shoulders. Of course they'd take him. She hated the people who'd done this even more. ]

Where are we, then? [ She tenses, anticipating more bad answers. ] ...What's the situation?

[hadtolose]

N-Nice to meet you.

[ The extreme formality throws her more than anything. It fit in more with the thousands of fairy tales she'd had in memory, not an ultra-large city.

Then she sees the tail. Wow. The costume was more elaborate than she previously thought! But she couldn't keep focused on that too long. A lot of what he said was disturbing. It's hard to decide where to start. ]

You...make it sound like you're from another planet.

[hadtolose]

[ It does give her some comfort, him agreeing with her. It wasn't clear approval, but it was something. ]

Yeah. You can't blame programming.

[ Normally, it'd be hard for her to keep eye contact with someone, but he keeps veering the topic in a direction that makes her anger spike, even if he didn't seem complicit. Her gaze stays steadily focused on him, her brow tightening. ]

I'm not saying it's good what happened, but... [ Her lips press together. She hadn't felt much sympathy for any humans she'd seen die, but she knows some deaths were needless. ] Sometimes you have to do whatever it takes to live, especially when someone's telling you that you don't deserve to.

[hadtolose]

[ For a moment, she stares at the water blankly like she has no idea what to do with it. Her first instinct is to get up and give him a refill, just like a good maid would do, and she almost makes a move to do so. But no, he's offering. Somehow, that's as overwhelming as the single strand of spaghetti.

Kara takes the glass like it might shatter in her hand, then drinks. And drinks and drinks. Only now does she realize truly how thirsty she was. So that's what dehydration felt like?

Now she'll actually get him a refill, as well as some water of her own. After doing so, she sits back down and places the fresh glass next to him. ]

Sorry. Guess I didn't realize I needed that.

[ What she really needs is to get the attention off of her strange behavior...

This time around, she actually follows his advice, pecking at her meal at a snail's pace. Each bite's like an explosion she needs to control carefully. ]

Um. I'm Kara, by the way.

[selfimage]

There's not much too it, don't let anyone try and tell you differently.

[ and she pauses to drink.

there are people who would make everything more complicated than it was, for various reasons. there were points of knowledge that were power, after all. ]

It just makes the who world larger.

[selfimage]

[ ugh, of course Billy had snacks. Loki just got barfed on. ]

Aye—we both have.

[ though this was more ... permanent in its own way. they had less control over their circumstances, and more mystery surrounding their arrival. ]

And so has he—but yes, not like this. [ he continues with his little interjections. ] I take it he showed you the empathy exchange along with your loss of ability.

[lighthearted]

Maybe do the courier thing for now, and if you want to join the police after that, it'll be something to aim for.

[ Sora wonders if he should have similarly lofty goals, but one step at a time, right? He doesn't mind letting Riku take the lead on it while he figures out his own path. Cooking or baking seems pretty inconsequential in comparison, but it's a starting point.

He hadn't missed the way Riku was looking around, so Sora stands from his seat and asks the woman behind the counter for two boxes. She even smiles at him as she hands them over, and he nods his thanks before returning to their table to pack everything up. ]

So, where to now? Should we just keep wandering?

[rehandle]

Not what I asked.

[ she's got two options here: give him a straightforward answer or imply that she might be on her way to something resembling the performance he got from her when they met. one of them is going reassure him that she's a rational individual capable of reaching out for the necessary help as required, the other cast her in an altogether less favorable light.

she made a questionable choice and he'll give her the opportunity to try again, expression mild. not overly impressed. ]

[realists]

You can't even undress yourself, you're so drunk.

[ she has to stand on her tiptoes to reach, but she does drag the jacket off of him. she drags the jacket off of him and falls off her tip toes and stumbles through the curtain of the dressing room and suddenly she is sitting on the stool in the fitting room, jacket in her lap, bleating out a surprised noise.

how did this happen to her. ]

[realists]

Sure.

[ she has nothing else to do and caroline's not terrible company. she's supposed to be making friends so this is a good spot to start, someone who is seemingly open to it and isn't likely from her own galaxy. she's done with that. ]

They're all rigged. [ that is universal. ] But since you're not taking me on the Ferris Wheel, maybe you could win me a.... honey badger.

[heliophilous]

You're on the ground.

[ he states it plainly, like he can't even believe it's happened before he starts laughing. ]

And I'm the drunk one. Sure.

[realists]

I'm sitting!

On a stool!

[ not the floor, marcos diaz. she will fight him in the street. doesn't matter, she's laughing too because it's funny and she's drunk and there is no other reason. ]

[realists]

Outside perspective. [ she gives a lazy shrug. it happens to the best of them, she remembered her mother coaxing her father out of his distractions. they were a team. maybe she needs a team. ]

You've been too close.

[heliophilous]

You're close enough.

[ from where he's standing, that's the floor. ]

You want me to get you a pillow so you can take a drunk nap?

[realists]

[ squint ]

Do you have a pillow?

[ she might like to take a drunk nap honestly, holding the jacket in her lap like a teddy bear. it's very soft leather, it's going to last forever and jyn is into it. sustainable livinggggg. ]