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[fireofunknown]

[A man stands out in the open rainstorm, blond hair matted to his forehead as his head leans back to let the drops hit down on his face.

There would be normally nothing unusual about this...except for the clouds of steam rolling off from his body and a faintly audible hiss.]

Nice weather we're having.

[He looks down, puts a cigarette into his mouth and exhales. The tip burns bright, then dims and smokes. He covers his free hand over it to avoid the rain.]

So now that the ice is broken-- [He takes a drag and exhales out his nose.]

Someone wanna give me directions to the information desk? I seemed to have lost my tourist information on random-ass-padded-wall-worthy-oh-my-fucking-god-is-that-a-space-ship land.

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[video]

[fireofunknown]

Oh really? That's great. I can look up some maps and you can look up the definition of sarcasm.

[It...takes him a moment to realize that sounded more jerk like than funny and he quickly clears his throat and mumbles looking down.]

So..uh where is it?

[video]

[waspromisedcake]

I know what sarcasm is.

[Even GLaDOS had had sarcasm built into her programming.]

Here in the Old City. [Have some specific directions here. Note that they're rather detailed as she tends to notice everything about an area to help her remember it.]

[video]

[fireofunknown]

[He gives a very impressed look to the directions. He hadn't expected to find much help out here.]

Nice. Old City? That a slang term or were the founders not a very creative lot?

[video]

[waspromisedcake]

I think the people here renamed it after the dome was built.

[video]

[fireofunknown]

The...dome.

And what's that?

[video]

[waspromisedcake]

Big, dome-shaped structure over the city next door.

[video]

[fireofunknown]

Sounds nice. How can I get in that place? Not that this wasteland thing isn't down right homey, but what can I say. I'm a sucker for working A/C.

[video]

[waspromisedcake]

Don't know. But they don't want us there. They sent out people to shoot at us.

[video]

[fireofunknown]

...what?!

Whoa whoa WHOA. Hold on, no one said anything about anyone shooting at people! When was that?!

[video]

[waspromisedcake]

Few weeks ago. Lots of civilians got killed, but the dome people wanted to blow up the ship. They don't want us people who came out of the ship here.

[video]

[fireofunknown]

Jesus, I can tell. I'll just steer clear of those dicks. I don't think fire will be much help against a bullet-

[He stops. Stares. Then mumbles and looks away while quickly speaking again.]

Anyway! Blowin' up the ship? Guess that's not exactly a good thing considering most of us crawled up out of it. Can it take us home?

[video]

[waspromisedcake]

[She doesn't get the sense that he's said something he was trying to hide, so she doesn't question it.]

I don't know much about it, but I think I heard others say its power's running out. So probably not.