Post by Kingdoms of Cal on Jan 9, 2011 13:32:11 GMT -5
OOC: this thread can be largely viewed as non-cannon and is very much character based, just a bunch of people from different cultures trying to share a student flat. Have fun with the small things that make them different and the same.
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OOC: Yeah I'm stalling by starting the thread before they even get to the flat...I have to get a map of the city...well the local bits where the uni buildings are done and figure out what my ISP is playing at re ftp.
OOC: Oh yeah I've added stuff to the notes in the sign up thread, when more stuff appears I'll say so here so you don't have to keep checking it.
IC Eventually:
Ah looked over her half empty room in the family flat in asylum the hybe capitol.
"Now have I missed anything" she said to herself.
She walked into the hall, then into the living room where her parents where watching television on the couch, well vaguely. She was an only child and she was leaving home for the first time at the age of just sixteen, her parents, like her had mixed emotions.
Ah said "Well looks like it time for me to be off, the next tram to the station is in five."
Her father a vulpine looked up "What's the hurry? Your train isn't till midnight."
Her mother a teerie put a paw round her father and said "She has to be there to help the foreign students and I think the first of them is on a flight getting into crusas su at half past."
"But it will take them at least half an hour to get threw customs."
He mother whispered to her father "Dear, let's get this over with." and stood up.
"We'll get you to the tram stop." her father said standing up.
"I'll get that" he continued picking up the larger of Ah's bags and slinging over his shoulder. It contained a couple of days clothes and the minimum computing power Ah figured she could live with for a couple of days (A laptop come tablet (well if you can call a 12" thing a laptop), a small headless server and a switch, she also had a smaller rucksack that had her little net-book co tablet that she always had with her.
She slung her small rucksack over her shoulder and headed for the door past her large speakers that were by the door packed in a large box.
She said "Mum, you know they are picking them up tomorrow? Make sure someone is in."
Her mother smiled "Believe me I won't miss them. I'll probably still be able to hear them all the way from Liye Andra"
"Mum they ain't that loud."
"Tell that to the neighbors twelve doors down, they seemed to think so."
"That was once" Ah said defensively as she walked out into the stair.
They fell into a nervous silence as they walked down the stairs and out into the street, none of them sure what to say.
Ah's mother broke the silence as they walked down the street "So what do you know 'bout your new flat mates? Well other than Oi?"
Ah shrugged and took on a vexed look "You know very little I have there names and did manage to get the foreign student lot to get a message to them. So they know where I will be but nothing terribly useful."
Her father said worried "I've heard things about the northerners, they are barbarians."
Her mother smiled "They probably think the same of us, we're here"
Ah smiled "Anyway I'm packing" quivering her tail.
Ah had not inherited much from her mother other than her colouring, eyes, intelligence and well certain glands.
Her father put the larger bag down at the tram stop, the board indicated the next number 23 that would take Ah to Drainie Street station was due.
They fell into an awkward silence again, this was it. They could see the tram in the distance.
Ah's father put his paws about her and smiled with a tear in his eye "Make us proud", her mother joined in "I know you will, Phd by twenty?"
Ah chocked back a tear "I will, I will."
They hugged until the tram slowed to a stop and ah separated herself from her parents. She slung the larger back over her shoulder and smiled "Well that's me."
As she got onto the tram, like she had countless times, but it felt different. She was leaving home.
As the tram pulled away she brushed a tear from her eye. She said to her self "Well this is it."
The journey seemed to take longer than normal past all the familiar buildings of her home city, they seemed different this evening. She was lost in thought until the automated voice said "Drainie Street 1."
She picked up her larger bag and slung it over her shoulder. She looked at the impressive entrance to the old part of the station, normally she would have got off earlier and gone in one of the back ways. But this evening she had set this as her self imposed point of no return, she looked at the tram stop on the other side of the road a 23 would be there to take her home in five minutes if she wanted to go back. She steeled herself and entered the station.
She said to herself "No turning back now." as she walked threw the old station's concourse to the Entrance pub towards the back.
The Duncan arms was once on a street on the side of the station with a entrance inside. Everyone called it the entrance as before the station was expanded to take cats and the maglev from crusas su international it was used as such by many commuters. The owners never minded that as they did brisk trade in bacon rolls and such, when the commuters were heading home they did good business on post work pints.
Now the street was gone and the new part of the station was there. It was modern, functional, efficient, well thought out, environmentally friendly and utterly dull and characterless compared to the old station.
Ah entered The Duncan arms and dumped her stuff at a window looking out over the new part of the station. She walked up to the bar and said "I usual Vi."*
Vi, a teerie smiled and started to pour a drink "So your off to uni today up north."
"Yip, do you mind if I put this in the window?" Ah asked.
"No probs, it'll be dead in here till one. That for these new flat mates of yours?"
"Yip."
"They are northerners ain't they."
Ah laughed "Most people are."
"What are they like?"
"No idea, I'm kinda the native guide to get them to the place...well me and Oi" Ah shrugged.
Vi smiled "So just you wrangling them and Oi, good luck on that."
"Oi isn't that bad."
"Come on if she isn't making something she has the attention span of a five year old on speed."
Ah would have raised a protest but well it was true, she grabbed the pint and reached for her purse. Vi smiled "Don't bother, it's on the house"
"You feeling alright?" Ah laughed.
"Not too sure, I would ask if they will drink but if Oi is going to be here for a bit I she'll make up the diffrence and well we're dead this time of night anyway." Vi shrugged.
"Cheers." Ah smiled as she returned to her seat and put up a printed bit of paper in the window. It read "Talies land, in here" in various languages** most of which she didn't know.
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* the commonwealth has no minimum drinking age, it is left to local authorities to set them, in sanctuary it's 14, in teer is...well non-existent. Up in Liye Andrac it's 16.
** have fun with the utterly appalling transactions, she's used something like google translate.
--
The message she had manage to send to the other students:
"Greetings
I am Tie Ah en and it appears I'm to be your native guide, so to speak. I will meet you in The Duncan arms, I'll put up a sign so you know I'm there.
It's on the side of the old station, just over from where the steps from the maglev from the airport comes in in the new bit. You should have no trouble finding it.
I would meet you at the airport but the only place I can think to meet you there is the over priced and frankly crap chain pub there. Since I doubt you will all be arriving at the same time and well people take different amounts of time to get threw customs and passport control.
So if you catch the maglev to the station I'll catch you there.
Ah"
Sign up here: here
OOC: Yeah I'm stalling by starting the thread before they even get to the flat...I have to get a map of the city...well the local bits where the uni buildings are done and figure out what my ISP is playing at re ftp.
OOC: Oh yeah I've added stuff to the notes in the sign up thread, when more stuff appears I'll say so here so you don't have to keep checking it.
IC Eventually:
Ah looked over her half empty room in the family flat in asylum the hybe capitol.
"Now have I missed anything" she said to herself.
She walked into the hall, then into the living room where her parents where watching television on the couch, well vaguely. She was an only child and she was leaving home for the first time at the age of just sixteen, her parents, like her had mixed emotions.
Ah said "Well looks like it time for me to be off, the next tram to the station is in five."
Her father a vulpine looked up "What's the hurry? Your train isn't till midnight."
Her mother a teerie put a paw round her father and said "She has to be there to help the foreign students and I think the first of them is on a flight getting into crusas su at half past."
"But it will take them at least half an hour to get threw customs."
He mother whispered to her father "Dear, let's get this over with." and stood up.
"We'll get you to the tram stop." her father said standing up.
"I'll get that" he continued picking up the larger of Ah's bags and slinging over his shoulder. It contained a couple of days clothes and the minimum computing power Ah figured she could live with for a couple of days (A laptop come tablet (well if you can call a 12" thing a laptop), a small headless server and a switch, she also had a smaller rucksack that had her little net-book co tablet that she always had with her.
She slung her small rucksack over her shoulder and headed for the door past her large speakers that were by the door packed in a large box.
She said "Mum, you know they are picking them up tomorrow? Make sure someone is in."
Her mother smiled "Believe me I won't miss them. I'll probably still be able to hear them all the way from Liye Andra"
"Mum they ain't that loud."
"Tell that to the neighbors twelve doors down, they seemed to think so."
"That was once" Ah said defensively as she walked out into the stair.
They fell into a nervous silence as they walked down the stairs and out into the street, none of them sure what to say.
Ah's mother broke the silence as they walked down the street "So what do you know 'bout your new flat mates? Well other than Oi?"
Ah shrugged and took on a vexed look "You know very little I have there names and did manage to get the foreign student lot to get a message to them. So they know where I will be but nothing terribly useful."
Her father said worried "I've heard things about the northerners, they are barbarians."
Her mother smiled "They probably think the same of us, we're here"
Ah smiled "Anyway I'm packing" quivering her tail.
Ah had not inherited much from her mother other than her colouring, eyes, intelligence and well certain glands.
Her father put the larger bag down at the tram stop, the board indicated the next number 23 that would take Ah to Drainie Street station was due.
They fell into an awkward silence again, this was it. They could see the tram in the distance.
Ah's father put his paws about her and smiled with a tear in his eye "Make us proud", her mother joined in "I know you will, Phd by twenty?"
Ah chocked back a tear "I will, I will."
They hugged until the tram slowed to a stop and ah separated herself from her parents. She slung the larger back over her shoulder and smiled "Well that's me."
As she got onto the tram, like she had countless times, but it felt different. She was leaving home.
As the tram pulled away she brushed a tear from her eye. She said to her self "Well this is it."
The journey seemed to take longer than normal past all the familiar buildings of her home city, they seemed different this evening. She was lost in thought until the automated voice said "Drainie Street 1."
She picked up her larger bag and slung it over her shoulder. She looked at the impressive entrance to the old part of the station, normally she would have got off earlier and gone in one of the back ways. But this evening she had set this as her self imposed point of no return, she looked at the tram stop on the other side of the road a 23 would be there to take her home in five minutes if she wanted to go back. She steeled herself and entered the station.
She said to herself "No turning back now." as she walked threw the old station's concourse to the Entrance pub towards the back.
The Duncan arms was once on a street on the side of the station with a entrance inside. Everyone called it the entrance as before the station was expanded to take cats and the maglev from crusas su international it was used as such by many commuters. The owners never minded that as they did brisk trade in bacon rolls and such, when the commuters were heading home they did good business on post work pints.
Now the street was gone and the new part of the station was there. It was modern, functional, efficient, well thought out, environmentally friendly and utterly dull and characterless compared to the old station.
Ah entered The Duncan arms and dumped her stuff at a window looking out over the new part of the station. She walked up to the bar and said "I usual Vi."*
Vi, a teerie smiled and started to pour a drink "So your off to uni today up north."
"Yip, do you mind if I put this in the window?" Ah asked.
"No probs, it'll be dead in here till one. That for these new flat mates of yours?"
"Yip."
"They are northerners ain't they."
Ah laughed "Most people are."
"What are they like?"
"No idea, I'm kinda the native guide to get them to the place...well me and Oi" Ah shrugged.
Vi smiled "So just you wrangling them and Oi, good luck on that."
"Oi isn't that bad."
"Come on if she isn't making something she has the attention span of a five year old on speed."
Ah would have raised a protest but well it was true, she grabbed the pint and reached for her purse. Vi smiled "Don't bother, it's on the house"
"You feeling alright?" Ah laughed.
"Not too sure, I would ask if they will drink but if Oi is going to be here for a bit I she'll make up the diffrence and well we're dead this time of night anyway." Vi shrugged.
"Cheers." Ah smiled as she returned to her seat and put up a printed bit of paper in the window. It read "Talies land, in here" in various languages** most of which she didn't know.
---
* the commonwealth has no minimum drinking age, it is left to local authorities to set them, in sanctuary it's 14, in teer is...well non-existent. Up in Liye Andrac it's 16.
** have fun with the utterly appalling transactions, she's used something like google translate.
--
The message she had manage to send to the other students:
"Greetings
I am Tie Ah en and it appears I'm to be your native guide, so to speak. I will meet you in The Duncan arms, I'll put up a sign so you know I'm there.
It's on the side of the old station, just over from where the steps from the maglev from the airport comes in in the new bit. You should have no trouble finding it.
I would meet you at the airport but the only place I can think to meet you there is the over priced and frankly crap chain pub there. Since I doubt you will all be arriving at the same time and well people take different amounts of time to get threw customs and passport control.
So if you catch the maglev to the station I'll catch you there.
Ah"