001: GROUP INTRODUCTIONS

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Okay, so everything's settled down a bit and people have stopped trickling in. Great. What a situation we're in, right? We can't even wander too far away or we're teleported right back to the group.

[She's definitely going to be testing those boundaries later.]

Anyhow, I'm willing to accept that this probably isn't a Rig mission now. Wherever we are, it's not the same world. The level of technology isn't too high either, but we know someone out there has a radio transmitter or else the big yellow guy wouldn't keep playing songs at us.

So, since we're stuck together for the foreseeable future, it's probably time we settle in and get to know one another. Names, skillsets, dreams, etc. You know, important things. Don't hold back, we're probably going to need to know each other pretty well if we're going to survive here.

Comments

[likeits1999]

Oh nah, it just like... I guess it seems to be a thing that's going around lately?

[ He shrugs, a little helplessly. Honestly, the thought is pretty distressing and he doesn't want to linger on it. ]

[hourglasshalfempty]

What, like a bad case of the flu?

[he couldn't repress the sarcasm if he'd tried, and he's not trying]

[likeits1999]

Oh yeah, there you go!

[ Kevin points cheerfully at the mirror, glad the idea landed. ]

[hourglasshalfempty]

[Raistlin has absolutely no idea what to do with this reaction]

I see. And were vampires common there?

[likeits1999]

I mean...

[ Kevin tips his head back a bit as he thinks. ]

There were a lot of us in New York but like, there are a lot of normal people in New York too so that's just how that goes. The more people you got, the more vampires you might also got.

[hourglasshalfempty]

I'm afraid I've never heard of New York. My impression of vampires was that they were solitary creatures, not urban.

[likeits1999]

It's a real big city.

And like, nah dude, vampires like cities. That's where people are.

[ With, of course, the implication that people are what vampires eat. ]

[hourglasshalfempty]

No one notices the hundreds of dead and enthralled?

[Raistlin is from a psuedo-medieval setting. Raistlin thinks of cities as topping out at about a hundred thousand people, and that's for a capitol city on a trade route.

In 1999, the population of NYC was 7.4 million]