+ appointments

[strangelyliteral]

Please follow the format below:

- If it's a private journal ring: [ voice + date ] (i.e. [Voice - April 11])

- A private journal note: [ written + date ] -- of course, if it's just a note saying "lets meet here", it can progress to action quickly enough.

- A knock/planned meeting/continued thread/etc and so forth: [ action + date ]

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[welnares]

[Continued from here.]

And this [ – he gestures around, to the tags – ] would be your first productive project in Luceti?

I thought it was odd that no had to pay, but everyone treats it in a way that it's starting to feel normal. Even though it's only been a few weeks . . . Isn't that interesting? Compared to everything else, it feels like this is something most of us can adjust to quickly.

[strangelyliteral]

What can I say? I hadn't been feeling the productive vibe until now. Apparently most folks in this town never get it at all.

[welnares]

Do you think they ever will?

[strangelyliteral]

Who knows? Right now they all make good test subjects because they just sit in here and let things happen to them. Well, okay, it's not exactly avoidable, but there has to be more to it than that, right? Than just waiting around, twiddling our thumbs, getting whatever we want with no effort involved that makes the payoff worth it?

[welnares]

When you put it that way, some of us are very tame, aren't we? But after years of nothing coming around to change the situation, they must be discouraged . . .

Well, as far as earning goes, there's C.J.

[strangelyliteral]

It's not the same as having actual money. [Huff.] That's just like being teased with ... with ... some kind of food on a stick. Like in those cartoons.

[welnares]

[That's an odd analogy he can get behind, though Oscar finds that he's more interested in the last mention. Visibly perking up in curiosity, he echos her:]

Cartoons?

[strangelyliteral]

You know, on the television? They're like drawings that move, except they have voices and strange plots. Xander watched them all the time.

[welnares]

[Hm, hm. Xander, huh?]

I don't know what a television is. Maybe I can read about them? Anyway, wouldn't it be more appropriate to have strange plots for that sort of thing when we all live mundane lives? By comparison.

[strangelyliteral]

You don't read a television, you watch it. ... But I guess they are sort of in short supply around here. And - that's not true about "we all". When you live in Sunnydale, strange is mundane.

[welnares]

Really? [Then what's mundane over there; extremely boring?] I'd like to hear about that some time – ah, though I think I've kept you long enough. You have to put up the rest of the tags, haven't you?

[strangelyliteral]

Yes, I do. Thank you for not interfering.

[welnares]

. . . But that doesn't mean I have to pay for my own things, does it?

[strangelyliteral]

As long as they are actually yours, then there shouldn't be a problem.