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[exasperation]

Display Name: Ripley Arkwright
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Notes:

[ the video starts up with ripley at his desk. he clears his throat, trying to seem composed and business-like. he's probably half-way succeeding. ]

Soo. That blackout. That was rough. Right? Right? . . . Right.

Anyway, uh! Stuff happened and — stuff got lost. Or stolen. Stuff and stuff. Oh my god, what am I doing.

[ he clears his throat. ]

My point is. I'm sort of freelancing my . . . powers? They work in teleportation. So I can teleport objects to anywhere in the world, but also if you lost something, I can locate it for you. Anywhere. And that applies to people too.

And, uh, I can also check where to find the best food. Like Yelp, but in my head. Don't ask.

Soo. Anyone . . . interested? Probably?

Comments

[frenchkissed]

Yeah, no, it's a good thing. Flashy or not.

How's your freelancing going? Any bites?

[exasperation]

Yeah, I did.

Then I got a message I might be sniping someone's job and I wanted to curl up into a ball.

[frenchkissed]

Stealing jobs? Someone else is offering global positioning services?

...If there's a market for it, I think the world could benefit from having multiple GPS people... GPeopleS.

[exasperation]

Well, I think they can only do teleporting. But I'm sure it's fine. It usually works out.

[frenchkissed]

You could join forces and make a business out of it?

[exasperation]

That's . . . a pretty cool idea.

But I don't know anything about business running. Ulari was supposed to help me but . . . he kind of. Left.

[frenchkissed]

Ulari? Is that your... partner?

[exasperation]

Oh! No. No. No.

He was just someone I met. He was nice? And he said my power was useful. That's kind of where the freelance idea came from.

[frenchkissed]

Yeah, it's a good idea. He's onto something.

But what do you mean he left? Like, he disappeared?

[exasperation]

Yeah, I couldn't find him. He vanished in one of the Confluences.

[frenchkissed]

Which one? How long ago did you see him?

Is it common for people to come and go like that? ...Like, you've seen it?

[exasperation]

I think it was a month after I arrived.

And . . . sort of? I haven't seen it, but I'm like Google maps right? I get a sense of how many people are here. Whenever a Confluence hits, some people go, some people come in.

[frenchkissed]

Holy shit, really?

You have a walking catalogue of how many people exist in this place at any given moment?

[exasperation]

[ ripley sort of flaps his hand. ]

I mean. Close enough?

[frenchkissed]

...If I ask about about a person, could you tell me if they aren't here? Does it work both ways?

And, completely unrelated, but if Ulari isn't your partner, then who is?

[exasperation]

Oh, yeah. If they're not here, I'd know.

And I don't have one? I don't think I ever had. No wait. There's no thinking involved. I definitely never had one.

[frenchkissed]

...Huh.

No further questions.

[exasperation]

Oh. Okay. Uh. Good. Happy to . . . answer questions. About Stuff.

[frenchkissed]

Okay, yeah, actually, a lot of further questions... like, so many questions, about so many things, but that sounds sort of overwhelming, and I know you're trying to do your freelance thing.

So I'll just... put them in a drawer.

[exasperation]

Oh. I mean, if you really want to, I'm fine with you. Totally.

[frenchkissed]

Fine with me labeling a drawer 'Things To Ask Ripley Later' and filling it full of questions that come to me at odd hours... or fine with me just, like, asking you things?

[exasperation]

[ what is the right answer. ]









All of it? Maybe not the odd hours, I sleep really hard but I mean you can try your luck, so really, all of it?

[frenchkissed]

No, that's good. Sleep is good. I've been trying to get back on track with that.

Are you a nap kinda guy?

[exasperation]

I do like naps! But I sleep pretty lightly during them.

[frenchkissed]

I want to like naps, but naps turn into a whole-day event, and then after like the three hour mark, I think it stops being a long nap and officially counts as a short sleep, so...

And cool. That's one question off the list.