SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER TEST DRIVE MEME

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Comments

[lordofthefries]

no [Yes. Especially when she gets excited or intensely curious about something new. But the bright side is at least she needs to breathe then.] sorry i only started taking lessons in writing things did i do something wrong

[Sasha also doesn't ask about the Mom Lady. It's a touchy subject and as long as the woman keeps giving her a free lunch every time she visits, Sasha isn't really going to try and accidentally offend her.]

are you asking if we have a dad man here too because no but there are people who are from here but theyre nice sometimes they give you free stuff too

[lyingheart]

You're not using punctuation.

[ The debate is if Annie personally cares, and she really doesn't. The run-ons were making her eyes start to glaze over, but she's read worse digging through archived reports, so there's that, at least. ]

Not a "Dad." [ She doesn't think she'd have handled someone wanting to be called that so well, but she hadn't needed to find out. ] Other people who live here and treat us like we're someone they knew from before we arrived. You say people give free stuff, but what does that mean? Organised charity? Random acts of giving?

[lordofthefries]

oh. sorry. i forget sometimes.

[And now her replies come slower as she takes the time to make sure she's using the right one. Hope whoever is on the other side of this has time to kill.]

oh no not really. we are all strangers to them too. they just give stuff out sometimes. pokemon stuff like potions and food. food for humans too. a couple months ago i got a book and some stickers and when i filled it all up after hunting for people i got a pokemon egg and items to use on my pokemon.

at first i didnt trust them because no one gives things out without wanting something back but i mean it when i say people are very nice here. no ones ever asked me for something in return other than money at the store.

[lyingheart]

[ Annie, off multitasking, because staring at a device is not her plan of action on a given day if it's not also doubling as a research opportunity.

Still, when she does read what this person says, she finds it... bizarre. Not because currency always exchanges, but the gifting without a kind of barter back. Filling in a book with information makes more sense as an exchange than potions or food being handed off, unless everyone's well off enough to not be facing hard times parting with such things. Which might be the case. What status divides are there, if any, here? ]

I see. Do the stores also work on barter or personal credit systems, or are they currency exchanges only?

[lordofthefries]

[Admittedly, Sasha found this whole people actually giving things away without attaching heavy strings to it bizarre too. For a long while, she wondered what they wanted from her in return. She wasn't particularly skilled in Pokemon training, didn't have a gym badge then, and had little to no money. But in time, Sasha learned to let her guard down and trust people. It gained her friends, a steady job, a gaggle of Pokemon who never want for anything and a lesson that sometimes life can be good. And an even larger lesson that sometimes those friends become family and athey even buy a house to make sure you always have a place to rest your head no matter what.

The status divides, like the ones Sasha's way more familiar with, are almost non-existent. Can you believe that?]

they take money but sometimes my friends who have their own stores give me things and refuse to take any of my money. i still find a way to do something nice for them though. its only polite.

[lyingheart]

[ Meanwhile Annie will be back on square one, with the now bizarre juxtaposition of having her cover blown and, well, not currently at risk of warrior failure problems. It's the razor's edge between nothing mattering because every purpose she'd trained in her life for no longer matters, and having no idea what that means, with no nebulous goal to work toward.

And no, she really can't believe the lack of status divides, like those she's known before. They're so ubiquitous the lack keeps catching her attention. ]

Friendships seem to work that way. Giving and taking.

[ So it's seemed from being an outside observer the last handful of years, at least. Not necessarily in equal parts or portions. ]