text, un: yuuki

[siriusly]

Hang in there, everyone... This should just be only a couple weeks more right? The darkness at least. I've been on a planet for so long I forgot how to manage the darkness effects at first...
But take it from me and some other folks who worked or lived in space-
Try your best to keep a routine of "day" and "night" hours so your body has some sense of cadence
It should help you feel less messed up when theres no daylight to rely on
(To say nothing of the bugs which you should already know to be avoiding by now)
I'll try to think up any other good tips but the sleep cycles a big one
If you need help getting around too let me know
I don't mind lending a hand

Comments

[siriusly]

Holy crap that's a long time ago
Thats gotta be close to when Ryunosuke and Kazuma were from

[nothinglikea]

I suppose it is, when compared to everyone else?
I'm afraid I don't know either of whom you speak.
Sorry?

[siriusly]

Oh no its not something to apologize for its just surprising to hear
Im from around 2221 so its always a little surprising when i hear from someone with a history that far back
I guess that means you were on Earth too huh?

[nothinglikea]

All right. If you're certain?
And that sounds impossibly far in the future.
I'd imagine that the Earth I came from managed to destroy each other in the meantime.
And I was. No longer.

[siriusly]

Oh dont worry!! Earths still around in my time
I never visited it myself but its definitely out there and people are still there
Mostly old people i think
It went through a lot but its resilient
Like people i guess haha

(CW: Trumpism)

[nothinglikea]

Oh, thank God.
I've been told horror stories about what happens to the earth into what becomes the 21st century.
To think, an entire nation confused by a liar real estate "mogul" with pretty lies and a wretched face!
To think further, that future foreign policy would be dictated by said "mogul."
JJ Astor or Benjamin Guggenheim, had they lived, would have put such a person in their place.

People are resilient, I'll give them that.

[siriusly]

I admit i wasnt really the best history student in class haha...
The stuff about the illumidas and the alien occupations were more interesting to a kid in school than real estate moguls

[nothinglikea]

I ask too many questions about the future for my own good.
But, illumidas and alien occupations?
I can't say that anyone's ever mentioned those to me.

[siriusly]

That's OK...lots of different earths seem to have missed that part
Or haven't gotten there yet haha
Anyway, you needed me to show you how to do the alarm stuff right?

[nothinglikea]

I'd wager mine simply hasn't gotten to it yet.
It was 1912 when I left.
Yes, yes, I do.
I'd really be grateful for your help.

[siriusly]

no problem!! one second

[siriusly]

-lo? Ahem. [he's swapped to video, so behold: fluffy-haired, one-eyed man sitting at a desk peering a bit over the device.]

Just give me a quick yes or no if you can see and hear me, okay?

[nothinglikea]

[Rose smiles warmly and calls out] Yes, I can hear you just fine!

[siriusly]

Oh! [he double-blinks, then laughs sheepishly.] Didn't know it'd snap us both to--a-anyway! [he clears his throat again.] So! You're already good enough to know how to check around posts and chat with folks, so I'm gonna walk from there...

[editor please put in a montage of me BSing how to navigate spooky blood-moon tech; it has to be easier than programming a VCR.]

...and if you tap it again, see that it's off? So if you don't want that alarm anymore, that's all you do. Aa, hopefully that makes sense...

[nothinglikea]

I think I'm doing well enough? It's hard to be certain, though. But you see me and hear me fine?

[theoretical physics was easier than programming a VCR]

Yes! Good-bye alarm, hello to a welcome...I hesitate to say night under the circumstances. But a night's sleep.

[siriusly]

[he breathes out his relief with a little laugh.] Okay, good. I must be getting better at teaching these kinds of things, between you and Ryunosuke and Kazuma... But either way, this can at least help you keep track of time! Until we get the sun back. Any day now, I hope...

[nothinglikea]

Practice does make perfect? Though, neither of those names are familiar to me. Granted, this is my third month, but I wanted to be sure that every I was dotted and every T was crossed in my search for coming fully into myself. This is unlike anything I knew in my world, but I won't let this world get the better of me. I will fight.

And I do hope so. An endless night is terribly gloomy.

[siriusly]

It's not really something humans are used to, huh... [he looks askance for a beat before looking back with an apologetic kind of look.] If it helps thinking about it like...working in solidarity with space-workers, then think like that! That's what I do.

[nothinglikea]

We're really not. [and she smiles back hesitantly] I'll try. Even though the very idea of going into space when I'm from was only a fantasy. The idea of it being a reality is reassuring.

[siriusly]

[nodding with certainty:] More than real. I went out into the stars all the time for my job! And where I'm from, people travel planet to planet pretty regularly.

[nothinglikea]

I wish I could see all of that. May I ask which year you're from? I want to know if there's even the slightest chance I can see it, even if I'm too old to go myself.

[siriusly]

[he scratches at his cheek in something of a sheepish manner.]

Auh...Pretty sure it was 2221 or 2222. Too many two's, eheh...

[nothinglikea]

Ah. So long, long after my time. Maybe my great-great however many greats grandchildren will have a chance.

[siriusly]

[he frowns a little, then tries to push on a hopeful tone:] D-don't count yourself out just yet! We're in a pretty crazy world, right? Who knows if we'll see the stars again or not?

[nothinglikea]

[she smiles at him] I suppose anything is possible, given the varying givens about this place. But do you think Moon Presence would allow it?