Welp

[thornsofmalkav]

Okay, uh, I'm sorry it took me this many hours to remember to warn people about this stuff, but to my credit I was pretty distracted.

Anyway. So. We're in the late 1980s as far as things go by date, which means there's one thing everyone has to be pretty vigilant about and that's sex and drug safety. Because while I know this isn't my world, what I don't know is whether or not is if there's the same nasty disease going around that there was in my world's 1980s and I figure everyone should, like, follow some basic safety rules about that stuff. Just in case, but also because they're also good ideas anyway.

First, always, always, always wear a condom when you have sex with someone from this era. Even if you're on chemical birth control or your partner says they are. Even if you're both the same sex. Actually, especially if you're both male.

And second, if any of you are going to do drugs, for fuck's sake, always use a clean and sterilized needle and don't share them.

Please, just listen to me about this stuff. Hopefully, I'm just being paranoid, but I really don't want people to bring a nasty and ultimately fatal STD back to liminal.

Comments

[sees_red]

I mean, when in Rome...

Yeah, I got nothing.

[thornsofmalkav]

Most Jaunts aren't Rome, but it's not unheard of for people to bang Infiltrators or people from the Jaunt worlds.

[sees_red]

Isn't that a little sketchy?

And aren't we kind of busy working for guys who play pinball with planets?

I mean. Okay, sometimes when you're saving the world you need to blow off some steam, but.

[thornsofmalkav]

No, it's definitely sketchy. But it does happen and I figured I ought to address that possibility.

Also, Jaunts usually run for a month and a half and so we usually do need to blow off some steam by the end.

[sees_red]

So I should be looking forward to the afterparty?

[thornsofmalkav]

... possibly. You could say the after party is whenever we get back home to Liminal.

[sees_red]

That should counterbalance the suck.

Seriously. My first alien world, and it's... back to California.

[thornsofmalkav]

Hey, I've been Traveling two years and before that I'd been in Brooklyn for one. Right now, I'm overjoyed to be back.

... we'll probably go somewhere weird and new next Jaunt.

[sees_red]

It's familiar, disappointing, and kind of a slap to the face. All in one. Like I'm getting the kiddie pool version of a Jaunt now. Then, later, once I've been gone long enough to be homesick, we'll be halfway across the universe.

[thornsofmalkav]

... oh. Well. Um. You kind of have a point, then.

But at least we're time traveling? That's sort of something, right?

[Okay, now she feels a little like a jerk.]

[sees_red]

This isn't exactly the time of the dinosaurs, but yeah.

[thornsofmalkav]

I mean, if it were the time of the dinosaurs, they'd probably turn us into dinosaurs to blend in.

[sees_red]

... They can do that?

[thornsofmalkav]

We've been turned into aliens and mermaids to blend in. Remind me to show you my selkie form someday.

[sees_red]

Okay. Turned into aliens.

Every time I think I've been rolling with the punches, this place throws another hook.

[thornsofmalkav]

It helps when you're in Outer Space, dude.