voice

[outer_npcs]

Ah! These now work as well. Excellent.

Welcome to your new home away from home. I am the first and last person you'll ever need to know. You'll notice we don't have much in the way of material goods but you are in luck. I am the resident trader of the Old City.

Should you need something, we might be able to make a trade.

Comments

[Private | Video]

[breakablegirl]

[You guys are totally responsible for all this aren't you. :|] What kinds of things do you have? Clothing, weapons..?

[knightoflight]

The Great War. [It can't be the same Great War. ]

If this war was like the one I know, very likely they were too busy trying to destroy each other to bother with anything not a direct threat.

[voice]

[waspromisedcake]

Like food?

this is beautiful

[outer_npcs]

It would be, as I said. Many things are valuable here.

[voice]

[outer_npcs]

Yep. Most have dried and canned but I get a supply of fresh stuff now and then.

yesss

[equivalent_trade]

Heh heh heh. Okay, just checking. When I need something, we can work out a deal.

[voice]

[original_fine]

We'll see about that. Does this happen often, then?

[voice]

[waspromisedcake]

I don't need fresh.

[In fact, always being in stasis means she hasn't eaten in a looooong time.]

[diziet_sma]

Old City implies there's a newer one.

[Private | Video]

[outer_npcs]

[Edmund is an innocent trader! Who likes to make people do things for him... totally legit.]

Clothing, weapons, rugs, spices, furniture... anything that is worth a trade I have.

[outer_npcs]

You'd be right on that. The new one would be the one sitting all pristine under the dome.

Where we're now used to be part of that one but they couldn't take extend the dome over the whole thing. So, we got left out in the cold.

[outer_npcs]

Yeah, well. Long as those lights on the thing don't get the attention of them now.

[voice]

[outer_npcs]

Which part? People wake up out of that ship? That one is a new one.

[voice]

[outer_npcs]

How much do you want? Then we can work out your payment.

[knightoflight]

Them.

They still live? Your war continues?

[outer_npcs]

The guys in the dome are still at war.

[knightoflight]

...with whom? You?

[diziet_sma]

That's not very sporting of them. I take it there's rules about who gets in and who doesn't?

[outer_npcs]

They don't care about us. They're fighting with another planet in our solar system.

[knightoflight]

Ah. And your people are paying the price for a war you've had no say in.

[This sounds familiar. This was why the Circle had left Cybertron.]

[outer_npcs]

Yeah. We stay out here and they stay in there. Well, sometimes they kick their own out. They don't last long out here. Last one caught something and died a week later.

[outer_npcs]

Seems to be the case. Some of out ancestors had a choice but not much we can do about it now.

[knightoflight]

[A sound of assent. ]

That is how it is with war. It becomes a devouring machine.

...but surely, something can be done?

[voice]

[waspromisedcake]

[There's a brief pause as she doesn't know the answer.]

How much have the others asked for?

[diziet_sma]

Oh. Wonderful.

[Have a fair dose of sarcastic contempt for oppressive segregated societies with unequal distribution of wealth.]

How long's it been like this?