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WELCOME POTLUCK

Greetings, residents! Those more observant sorts among you may have noticed a large influx of very crowded ferries. In order to welcome our new residents en masse, Town Hall is holding a potluck in Town Square. Please bring a dish if you are able and make a new friend!

All of our newest arrivals need only bring themselves. We look forward to welcoming you all into our community, and may your lanterns always be lit.

This event is open to all! In light of our new influx of prospective players following the Great Sail Migration, we've decided to offer a small public event to tide everyone over until the TDM this weekend.

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"You choose your place to sit like you fear attack, miss." A casual enough observation. Siebren's sure that Reaper would have picked similarly. Moira would never have come to a potluck. Mauga would be in the center of chaos somewhere. Sombra...he wonders how she would deal with being in a world without computers. Poorly, for certain.

Caught out. She looks up - and up and up - at the stranger, raising an eyebrow.

"Says the one hovering as if he fears assault from below. This seat has a better view of the festivities, as it so happens."

Maybe. But it also means no one can sneak up on her, and after the last...however long stretch of time, her nerves are the tiniest bit fraught.

"I'm not floating because I'm scared. I'm floating because my joints ache and this relieves pressure on them. No weight, less strain."

And also gauging the reactions to him floating might help him get his social bearing, before his mind starts playing tricks.

"...Huh. Do you have to sleep like that too?"

He'd need a very particular bed to accommodate, in that case. Or a hammock.

"I don't have such fine control while I sleep. Plus, I have nightmares. But I use pillows to cushion my body properly."

"You're very free with such information to a stranger."

Still, though, she inclines her head. If he wants to "sit" near her, he's welcome to it.

"Do you mean to do me harm, stranger?" He does, in fact sit mid-air, legs stretched out in front of him and crossed at the ankles. "From what I was given to understand, we share a commmon goal."

"I bear you no ill will at present. Unless you have a deep desire to alter that, it's likely to remain so."

She takes a bite of the salad that she'd picked up in one section of her plate - it's glorious, truly, to try something novel, and she will never let that go - chews, and swallows.

"But we can certainly alter the part about being strangers."

"We certainly can. I am Dr. Siebren de Kuiper." He offers her a hand to shake.

"Dr. de Kuiper. I'm Fever. Newly off the ferry and pleased to meet you."

She takes his hand, shakes it, and flashes a more genuine smile.

"I really didn't expect such hospitality when I woke up."

"I'm also newly arrived, straight from--ah, well, nevermind the circumstances. I am here now, and that is what matters."

She is hardly the only one who is now free in a way that could only be imagined before.

"If I had a drink, I'd propose cheers to that. As it is, you'll have to merely imagine."

Salad is not a very good toasting material.

"It's easy enough to acquire a drink at an event like this. Would you like me to go get you something?"

Okay, if she's paranoid that's likely to be a no. But he still ought to offer.

"Why not? Surprise me, doctor."

Not so paranoid she won't take her chances if they're open.

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Sigma meanders off, returning with two glasses of berry cordial. He allows her to pick which glass she wants.

"To your health, Fever."

"And yours, and being here now."

She raises the glass she's chosen in his direction before taking a sip out of it. That's good - she'll have to get her hands on a proper bottle of it sooner or later.

"Being here now, indeed. It is...very different than my previous circumstances."

He isn't yet sure if it's for better or worse.

"A change of pace usually helps throw things in perspective. Or if nothing else, it's new memories, new people, new experiences. The chance to try anything and everything you get your hands on."

Which may go a ways to explaining the eclectic mix of food on her plate.

"I wonder if the night sky here is substantially different from back home. New stars to map, hm?" Look, the man has his priorities.

"Are you an astrologer, doctor?"

The sky - the stars being different hadn't occurred to her until this very moment, but it's now exciting.

"One better--I'm an astrophysicist, specializing in the study of gravity!" Hence the floating, obviously.

"Physicist...is that a form of scientist?"

There is genuine desire to know behind her words, a careful extending of her curiosity. When one comes from a realm of magic, those who achieve such things as being able to turn one thing to another, travel to distant places, communicate without sending spells? Those become the true wonder, much as the idea of sorcery might be new to them as well.

“Indeed, a scientist who studies the stars and how they dance, and why they burn.”

It’s clear he’s driven by wonder, rather than how his innovations can be used. Which makes his life in his canon all the sadder.

"Why, that's extraordinary."

And all the more so that his people have deduced it without magic. At least, that's her assumption, given how he has no magical presence. Hard work and things she can't even comprehend must go into it.

"I've never met someone like you before, doctor. Not in all my life."

The closest she got to those who study the stars, they were spacefarers, and their areas of expertise were quite different.

“Well. Now you have, and you can join me to watch the stars some night. Yes? In a town like this, light pollution at light will be limited. It’ll be a very crisp night sky. Perhaps I’ll even be able to point out other planets orbiting the same sun.”

This is on absolutely no way an attempt to ask Fever on a date. He is purely looking for a stargazing partner.

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