becomemod | AUDIENCE: TAMA

[ ooooooooooh. games. ]

Soooooort of?

'Sort of' means you should try it again, here.

[They are just. Giving Tama a handful of quarters. Play with them.]

I'm not saying no!

[ hang on she'll go and pop a quarter in on the other side of the machine. wheee. ]

[Time to SKEEBALL!

Ox is pretty decent at this, and they will be able to get a score of 32,000. The scores go by the thousands in this one.]

[ rolling a d100 says she gets 23...000, so we'll go with that. ]

...

Man, hand-eye coordination is hard.

It's alright. You seem like you're not used to a human body.

Not really. There's so much happening? All the time? How do you all cope?

All of us are either young or young at heart, so keeping up with a busy life isn't too hard. But if you need time to breathe and refocus yourself, I've heard yoga is good for that.

No, I mean— you feel everything, all the time. Your clothes, the air, the sun. It’s a lot.

I guess so? Maybe that's why babies and toddlers get so upset all the time, they're getting overwhelmed by the world. But by the time you're an adult, you usually get used to it.

What was it like before you were here? If you didn't have a human body then, I mean.

Huh.

I’d have thought you guys had files on us, or something. Like, who we are, what we were, what we were doing… all that kinda junk.

No, not at all! Well, we started them NOW, but we only know what we've seen since you arrived. And potentially what's in your profiles, if it's true.

Interesting.... so we're all wildcards, then.

[ hmmm. ]

But, no. I didn't have to worry about stuff like this back home.

You're all wildcards on the side of good though, which is what matters.

So...if it's rude to ask you can just say so, but what are you?

[ hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. ]

It's not rude exactly. It's more-- who hears these conversations?

[Looking around. Seeing all the people here.]

Ah. It could be overheard here, yeah.

Yuuup. I don’t know if it’d make any sense out of context, but it’s normally classified information, so.

[ she mimes zipping her lips, cheerfully. ]

[They mime the same action. It's fine, they understand.]

It's okay. There's plenty of nonhumans here, this city is pretty welcoming of them.

Hmmm. I guess we'll find out. I'll probably mess up at some point and let something slip.

I hope not! If it's a secret to you, then it should stay a secret.

Ordinarily, I don’t have to keep it a secret even though it is. So… we’ll see how that works out for me.

If it ever gets too frustrating and you need help, you can pull Goat or any of the leaders aside and ask to talk in private. We'll help.

Goat’s already mentioned text channels are secure, but— well, we’ll see. It’s probably not so important here anyway, given whatever happened to my body. As far as anyone knows or cares, I’m human.

Yeah, it's not a problem here. Now we just need to work on getting you used to that human body.

Yeah… I’m guessing that’s an exposure over time kind of thing. Which is why babies scream so much.

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