Sime~Gen Roleplaying on IRC: Bender Cove Township Scenario
Episode #88: (12/1/97)
Lanyi comes downstairs in a worn Tecton uniform.
Lanyi consults the schedule board.
Goss knocks tentatively on the door of the establishment, looking as if she's not at all sure if she wants to be there.
Lanyi hears the knock and goes to the lobby door.
Lanyi opens the door.
Alea comes bouncing down the stairs, back to her perky self this morning.
Lanyi: Come in, please.
Goss: Umm ... is this ... y'know ... the place for donating?
Goss comes in, eyes flicking around the room nervously.
Alea pauses at the bottom of the stairs and studies the new Channel she hasn't met and the stranger at the door.
Goss looks about nineteen years old, slightly plump. Dressed in jeans and a t-shirt.
Lanyi is a tall dark-eyed brunette Sime in a worn Tecton uniform.
Lanyi looks about 21 or so.
Lanyi: Yes it is.
Lanyi: And for other things like healing.
Lanyi sets mode: +o Alea
Goss: I just ... a bunch of my friends are going to visit someplace ... inside, you know? They said I had to come here ... first. Like sorta shots, I guess.
Goss is making a great job of staring at the floor.
Alea slowly goes down the stairs not wanting to startle goss.
Goss's eyes flicker to the stairwell, obviously scanning for tentacles on the person descending.
Alea moves forward to Lanyi's side and smiles at Goss.
Goss: Umm ... hello. My name's goss.
Goss looks up at Alea.
Alea: Hello, Goss.
Alea nods curiously at the new channel.
Tarsh is now known as Lanyi.
Goss looks up at Alea and Lanyi.
Lanyi: Pleased to meet you. I'm Lanyi ambrov Dar.
Alea's eyes widen at the mention of Dar.
Alea: I'm Alea Farris.
Alea nods to Goss.
Goss goes to put her hand out, then retracts it, realizing apparently that shaking hands would mean -touching- Lanyi.
Lanyi: Donating before a trip in-territory is wise, yes.
Lanyi: It keeps you field from bothering Simes. And it gives you money to by souvenirs.
Goss smiles a little, "I need the money too, is it much?"
Lanyi bows as an alternative to shaking.
Lanyi: For a first time donor, 50 to 100, depending. It goes up on subsequent visits.
Goss: Goes up? Does that mean I can learn to do it better?
Alea sets mode: +o JonDrake
Lanyi: Donating will increase your selyn production, just like exercise strengthens your muscles. So you have more selyn the next month.
Alea smiles.
Lanyi: Donating is completely painless, and will enable some Sime to live for a month.
Goss: You're sure it won't hurt?
Alea sets mode: +o goss
Lanyi: Absolutely. Most donors don't believe me when I say I'm finished.
Goss giggles softly, "Wow! Well ... what do I do first?"
Lanyi smiles kindly. "Just come this way to fill out a few forms."
Lanyi snags a clipboard and holds it out.
Goss follows Lanyi obediently, eyes still flicking around the room curiously. She takes the clipboard and inspects the forms.
Alea trails along behind Lanyi since there doesn't seem to be a Donor with the newbie channel.
Lanyi turns to Alea as goss works on the forms.
Alea lifts an eyebrow in query.
Alea: Yes, Hajene?
Lanyi: Hello, Sosu ... Farris?
Alea: Yes.
Alea: Alea Farris ambrov Zeor.
Lanyi: Are you assigned to assist me this shift?
Alea: It looks that way, doesn't it.
Goss turns the page, "This is worse than math test!"
Lanyi is reluctant to reveal to goss that this is here first day here.
Alea: I believe room 2 is open for donations, Hajene.
Alea motions to the hall behind her.
Lanyi leans over and says sotto voce "Only the name and address stuff really matters. I can fill out the rest."
Goss giggles then hands the clipboard back to Alea, despite that she's standing a little further away than Lanyi, "I think I got it all right"
Alea smiles and makes a show of looking at the clipboard before handing it to Lanyi.
Lanyi glances at the forms. "Very good. If you will walk this way... "
Alea turns and follows Lanyi subtly nodding toward where they should go.
Goss follows Alea a few steps behind.
Jammy enters the Sime Center
Lanyi goes into the donation room 2 and looks around at the furnishings and equipment.
Jammy is a renSime new to Bender Cove.
Jammy gets some paperwork from the clerk to fill out and takes a seat in the lobby to take care of it.
Alea moves over to the transfer couch, smiling gently at Goss.
Goss luckily left the center before Jammy came in. She looks around the transfer room wide-eyed.
Lanyi goes and sits on the edge of the couch, writing on the clipboard.
Goss just stands in the doorway, watching.
Alea: Please, come on in Goss.
Lanyi: [ the room has a couch, a shelf with tea paraphernalia, a sink, and several cabinets with mirrors.
Jammy returns the paperwork to the front desk and sits down to wait for his transfer.
Goss comes in, standing a little awkwardly in the middle of the room, "Where should I sit?"
Lanyi gestures at the other end of the couch.
Alea glances to Lanyi.
Jon Drake goes down to the lobby to see what needs to be done.
Lanyi looks up. "whenever you're ready."
Alea forces herself to concentrate on the channel.
Goss sits on the couch, as far away from Lanyi as she can be without actually falling -off- the couch.
Lanyi finishes writing and puts the clipboard down on a table.
Lanyi smiles. "It's ok, I don't bite."
Lanyi zlins goss carefully.
Briel strides down the hall to her office, hating the load of paperwork that she's been putting off.
Goss moves a full inch up the couch. She zlins nervous but nothing significantly interesting aside from that.
Wise Snake is feeling in a weird mood.
Jon Drake goes to the front desk.
Lanyi holds out her arms palms down in front of her, not that close to goss.
Goss stares somewhat surreptitiously at Lanyi's hands.
Wise Snake approaches the Sime Center from the rear.
Lanyi hands have calluses on the edge of the palm, and neatly trimmed nails. The tentacles are all retracted into their sheathes on muscular looking arms.
Wise Snake is quite alone.
Goss takes a deep breath, "Okay ... what now?"
Lanyi: Hold out your arms under mine, palms up.
Briel scans through the papers, snarls disgusted and tosses them aside, before rubbing at her temples goss holds out her small hands, slightly sweaty palms up, in such a position Lanyi will have to shift forward to actually get to them.
Wise Snake opens the Sime Center's back door and slips inside, shakes the snow off herself.
Lanyi shifts forward carefully.
Lanyi gently grasps Goss's wrists with her fingers.
Alea adjusts her position.
Lanyi: Now I will put my handling tentacles around your forearms, ok?
Goss nods, staring at the linked hands.
Lanyi extends eight handling tentacles and twines them around Goss's forearms.
Wise Snake walks through the hallways, avoiding the attention of others when possible, enjoying their expressions when not.
Lanyi: Very good. Now I have to make contact with my lateral tentacles. They are very delicate and a little damp. Ok?. goss sounds hesitant, but she hasn't moved, "Slimy?"
Wise Snake makes a short stop in a supply room.
Lanyi: Not slimy, but a little wet with ronaplin. Like eyes are.
Wise Snake continues on to Briel's office.
Goss nods slowly, "Okaay ..."
Briel gathers the papers back together and begins sorting them again.
Lanyi extends her laterals, making contact on each side of Goss's arms.
Lanyi: Very good.
Goss jumps just a little, but doesn't shift apart from that. Her eyes flick from the linked arms to Lanyi's for a second, a hesitant smile.
Alea continues to stand quietly, offering support to Lanyi.
Lanyi: Everything is all right. Now the last step. I'll touch my lips to yours and hold them there for a little while. Then we'll be done. Ok?
Wise Snake signals at Briel's door.
Briel: Come.
Briel lays down the papers and turns toward the door.
Wise Snake walks in, closes the door behind her.
Briel: Hello snake.
Wise Snake: ~~~ weird mix of amusement and other emotions, mostly hidden ~~~
Briel zlins snake.
Briel's eyes widen on snake's finger.
Briel: Zeor's ring....
Wise Snake's own eyes dart down to her finger, then glint brighter.
Wise Snake: Do you like it? [conversationally]
Briel wonders why she isn't surprised this Farris is finally acting like a Farris.
Briel: It's...fine.
Briel doesn't care much for any Farris.
Goss nods a little and closes her eyes, lips pursed in a rather comical parody of a kiss-me position.
Wise Snake lifts her hand to study the ring briefly, then lets it fall again.
Wise Snake: I thought I'd wear it for a day and see if it had any effect.
Briel: So, how can I help you?
Lanyi smiles in amusement. She leans forward and carefully makes contact.
Briel motions to a chair with a tentacle.
Briel: Has it?
Wise Snake lounges on the indicated chair.
Wise Snake: [carelessly] oh, in some cases, yes, in other cases, no.
Lanyi carefully starts drawing from the GN-3 Level.
Briel nods.
Briel: I see.
Goss holds perfectly still, eyes squeezed shut.
Briel: You are looking...nice.
Briel notes that Snake has actually bathed and has on clean clothes for a change.
Wise Snake: You, for example, seemed to react the same as always... surprise followed by a faint but undeniable revulsion.
Wise Snake is surprised by the compliment.
Briel shrugs.
Wise Snake: Ah... I have a new housekeeper who is quite devoted to the subject of cleanliness.
Briel: You're a Farris. I react that way to any Farris.
Briel smiles.
Wise Snake seems disturbed by that statement.
Lanyi draws the last of the GN-3.
Lanyi pulls back from the lip contact.
Lanyi: That's all.
Briel: That's right. Linn is living with you now.
Wise Snake: Yes.
Briel: I take it she has quit teaching?
Goss blinks. "That's all? Really?" She laughs in nervous relief.
Wise Snake: No. Just between jobs.
Lanyi: That's all. We're done.
Wise Snake: She has been doing some volunteer work.
Lanyi withdraws her laterals.
Briel nods rubbing at her neck before leaning forward in her chair again.
Briel: I see...volunteer work.
Wise Snake fiddles with some items on the front of Briel's desk, examining them.
Briel wonders what type of work a simephobe could find while living with a Sime.
Alea: That wasn't so bad, was it?
Briel: What brings you here, Snake?
Wise Snake's pale eyes flick up to meet Briel's, then slide away.
Wise Snake: Oh... various... errands...
Wise Snake: A question or two.
Briel sighs, zlinning snake.
Lanyi dismantles the transfer grip and sits back.
Wise Snake: ~~ hint of nervousness ~~
Goss slumps back onto the couch, laughing softly, "I can't -believe- that's all there is to it!"
Briel: Snake...you can ask me anything. There's no reason to be nervous.
Wise Snake's eyes meet Briel's again, this time for longer.
Briel smiles encouragingly.
Wise Snake: Have you heard anything about an... artwork... a stolen artwork being investigated?
Briel thinks....
Briel: No, no, I don't think I have.
Briel frowns.
Wise Snake: Neither have I.
Wise Snake: Or rather, I'm not supposed to have.
Lanyi offers goss a towel.
Briel: Oh.
Briel: But I take it, unofficially, you have heard something.
Wise Snake: ~~ restless nervousness, not quite hidden ~~
Wise Snake: Yeah.
Wise Snake: Something big was stolen somewhere. The investigation is very undercover.
Goss accepts the towel and towels off her forearms, "How do you figure out how much money I get?"
Lanyi: Everyone says that. But I got a decent amount of selyn, enough to sustain a renSime for a month.
Briel: Oh really?
Briel: And what was it that was stolen?
Lanyi: Just a moment while I fill out the forms.
Wise Snake: I don't know. I was hoping somebody here had been formally contacted by the investigation and could tell me more.
Alea hands the chart to the channel.
Lanyi picks up the clip board and writes, muttering to herself.
Briel: Why would we be contacted?
Briel ~~curious~~
Wise Snake: [fidgets]
Briel: We have no art here.....
Wise Snake: I think this is fairly high level stuff.
Lanyi nods her thanks to Alea.
Wise Snake: No, but you are the government's representatives here. You and Tormer.
Briel grimaces at the mention of Tormer.
Briel: He's involved in this?
Wise Snake doesn't mention the Mayor, who is not only widely viewed as a joke, but also doesn't consider this part of town to really be part of Bender Cove.
Wise Snake looks impatient.
Lanyi tears off the bottom of a form and holds it out to goss. "There you are..."
Wise Snake: I don't know. I heard these rumors of a Tecton investigation involving a piece of stolen art, very very valuable, and I was hoping somebody in authority had some clue what it is about.
Goss takes a bit of paper and inspects it, "What's this?"
Briel: Well Snake, I haven't heard a thing about it.
Lanyi: That's your donation voucher. Take it to the Bursar's office and they will pay you there.
Lanyi: [ voucher says 62.37 ]
Goss stands up, looking pleased with herself, "Hey, that's neat. Thanks!" She nods to Alea too, "Umm, can I go now?"
Wise Snake: Oh.
Alea goes over to the door and opens it.
Alea: I hope you come back next month.
Lanyi: Yes. You can come back in a month to donate again, or sooner if you require healing for anything.
Briel: If I hear anything, Snake, I'll make sure to let you know.
Alea: I think we have some more, Lanyi...waiting on us?
Lanyi watches goss go, then turns to Alea. "That went very well. Thanks you Sosu Farris."
Alea nods.
Alea: As you say, Hajene.
Lanyi: Sorry for not introducing myself, but it didn't seem prudent to say it was my first day in front of a first time donor...
Alea: Of course not, Hajene.
Alea: I had heard we had some new staff coming in. It's nice to meet you.
Lanyi makes a polite tentacles gesture. "Lanyi ambrov Dar, Tigue QN-1."
Alea: My pleasure.
Alea: Alea Farris ambrov Zeor...Donor.
Wise Snake zlins Briel.
Lanyi: Dar extends greetings to Zeor.
Jammy: ==correction; Jammy is a Channel ===
Alea: We actually have another channel here temporarily from Dar...Kaymeil, though I'm not exactly sure where she is.
Jon Drake is in the front area in case anyone cares.
Briel tilts her head, curious
Jammy has been waiting in the lobby for about an hour now.
Lanyi: Kaymeil?
Jon Drake went to the lobby to see if anyone was there, and no one was apparent.
Lanyi looks thoughtful.
Jammy gives up and leaves.
Lanyi: I've heard about her, but I don't think we've met. The tecton keeps us running around rather a lot.
Alea: Perhaps if things slow down here, you'll get a chance to meet her.
Wise Snake: Well, then, I guess that answers that question.
Wise Snake rises.
Briel: Is there anything else I can do for you?
Briel rises also.
Lanyi: I hope so. Speaking of which, I'm ready for the next client.
Alea nods.
Alea: I'll go get them if you'd like.
Wise Snake: Not unless Veraik's policies have changed.
Lanyi: If you could, please.
Briel: Oh well.
Briel smiles helplessly.
Lanyi finishes Goss's paperwork.
Wise Snake ducks out of Briel's office.
Alea goes to the lobby.
Briel shakes her head, sighing and sits back down to work.
Jon Drake heads back to his office. A bit restless despite his exercise. He's feeling the pressure of being late for transfer.
Alea looks around, having seen someone earlier, but doesn't see them now.
Wise Snake leaves the Sime Center via the front door, ignoring its personnel.
Alea turns and starts back down the hall.
Alea heads back into the donation room to Lanyi ambrov Dar.
Alea: Excuse me, Hajene.
Lanyi: Yes, Sosu?
Alea: It looks like you have some free time. We're caught up and don't have anyone else in the lobby.
Alea shrugs, smiling.
Lanyi: Ok then. Could you show me the cafeteria? I could do with something.
Alea allows her own hunger to show.
Alea: Of course. Right this way.
Alea goes out the door and down the hall toward the cafeteria.
Lanyi follows Alea.