A few hours into the Jaunt

[rustyhonesty]

I've never done this before, but there's a first time for everything.

It's about time to do a check-in to see who are investigating - or at least have an infiltrator persona. My name is Jean Kirstein and... I don't investigate very often.

Apparently, I arrived with an ID that says I'm 21. So I guess age up, or down, is normal in this Jaunt. I also got a surprise guitar and seem to know how to play it...? Anyone else had something like that happen to them?

I won't ask if anyone has an idea of what we're supposed to do, since it's so early on the Jaunt... but it's good to keep your eyes open for any information that seems important.

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Re: it's so okay

[thornsofmalkav]

Also, there's a pawnshop in downtown Santa Carl...ita. So we can probably score some extra money there. Especially if someone goes to liminal space to make, like, gold jewelry and stuff for the rest of us to pawn.

And anyway, this is, like, 1989. Everything is hella cheap. Like I'd say at maximum a third of their modern twenty-first century prices.

[starshaper]

Santa Carlita would be a nice play to see too. Everyone's being so nice, let's do this teamwork thing! ...We can even make things like gold jewelry, really? [ Is she ever going to be NOT amazed by this place? ]

Everything being so cheap makes it easier but it doesn't help much when people could call me like the embodiment of gluttony or something.

[ but she sounds amused by that nickname... and someone is very excited for her first jaunt either way, so much to do and so many places to go to while she can help as staff. ]

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah! Actually, you'd probably be able to make that before you'd make food, at least if it's simple enough. My boyfriend made me a butterfly pendant as one of his first things he made out of liminal stuff. I wear it, like, every day.

I could maybe give you some recommendations for restaurants, since this place is kind of close to a place I lived. Like, they may not have the same names and some might not be open yet, but Pizza My Heart and Woodstock's Pizza are the best places to get, well, pizza. Gabriella's is a cute little cafe place, but kinda expensive. [Which sadly does not exist yet, oops.] Joe's does really great sandwiches. Um. Hm. Hoffman's is a good bakery, Marini's is an amazing candy shop, and if you want Bagels you should get them at the Bagelery, because they actually boil them the old-fashioned way. Plus, a little further away from downtown there should be The Crepe Place. Oh, and there's the Shadowbrook in one of the satellite towns, but fuck if I know what they're calling it here, since so many town names are changed. But if I get a map of the area, I'll indicate where.

Yeah. We definitely should go and make pawning goods at some point.

[sees_red]

Even a hundred and fifty wouldn't stretch too far...

People can make gold in Liminal Space?

I guess if people can make rooms, that's not so weird, but...

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah! Actually, it's easier than making edible food is. It's because gold is a simple one-element thing and food is Complicated.

[sees_red]

That makes sense.

Uh, dumb question. When you make the gold, it's just gold, right?

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah, why wouldn't it be?

[sees_red]

I knew someone at home who did... weird stuff... with gold.

[thornsofmalkav]

... how weird?

[sees_red]

Giant, living, molten statue weird.

[thornsofmalkav]

Okay, that's super weird.

[sees_red]

Yeah. Just wanted to make sure.

[thornsofmalkav]

... I think Zed and Right's world has giant monsters too, for what it's worth. I dunno if they're made of gold, though. I mean, they're a lot more likely to be made of trains or darkness or really shiny things.

[sees_red]

That sounds about right. I mean, as much as any of this.

[thornsofmalkav]

... okay, but, does your world have people dressed in spandex and masks fighting the giant monsters? Possibly with trains?

[sees_red]

No. Definitely no. No trains, no spandex.

There are, uh, people who fight monsters, but they have armor and robot dinosaurs.

[thornsofmalkav]

Huh.

You should probably talk to Zed anyway at some point. Or Right. Or, hell, the yolo ninjas. I think maybe they're the same kind of thing as Right, only more ninja. Or in Kinji's case, cowboy ninja.

[sees_red]

I met the cowboy ninja and his armored buddy. That guy definitely seemed like the same kind of thing as the Power Rangers back home.

[thornsofmalkav]

... Power Rangers.

Well, Right's the same thing as them, only I think train themed? Trains are big in his and Zed's neck of the woods.

That and he's really ten, only he turns into a teenager to fight bad guys. Something like that.

[sees_red]

Power... Traingers?

I guess it could work that way where I'm from, too. Nobody knows who they are.

[thornsofmalkav]

I think it's supposed to be Express Traingers or something like that, but I like your version better.