Sime~Gen Roleplaying on IRC: Bender Cove Township Scenario
Episode #92: (12/6/97)
Wise Snake sees Nick to bed and then leaves the house, heading toward the Sime Center.
Wise Snake intends to pick up B'cal for a night of hard work out in the city.
Wise Snake refuses to imagine that there will be any problems, any problems at all.
Wise Snake: ~~nervous~~
B'cal sitting in the lobby.
Lanyi jogs in the door with Tamlen.
Lanyi: Thanks Tamlen.
We'll get your stamina back.
B'cal looks Tamlen & Lanyi.
Up and down, showing a slight sign of approval.
Alea putters around in her office.
B'cal: You're Lanyi.
Lanyi stops jogging in place and walks over to check the schedule board.
B'cal stands.
Wise Snake sees some people she knows and waves hello, then hurries onward, preoccupied with thoughts of the coming night.
Lanyi turns at her name. "Yes. Lanyi Tigue, ambrov Dar."
B'cal: I'd heard you were a Tigue.
Lanyi: Yup.
B'cal: B'cal ambrov V'lar.
B'cal: What brings a Tigue here ... where all these Farrises seem to congregate?
B'cal sneers the word Farrises.
Lanyi: But I got 16 months learning done in my First Two Years.
Lanyi: Dar offers greetings to V'lar.
B'cal:
V'lar returns the greetings.
Alea decides to go for a midnight snack and opens her door.
Lanyi shrugs. "They needed someone here who didn't freak out every half hour..."
Alea's gaze widens in horror at who she sees and she goes back in her office, slamming the door.
B'cal cracks the first real smile, nodding.
Lanyi: Tigues and Farrises are like the old story about the tortise and the bunny...
B'cal: Farrises and their shenned temperment....
Wise Snake takes the back door route into the Sime Center out of habit.
Alea leans against the door wondering when the Donor from Hell returned...decides she'll make sure veraik just schedules her opposite B'cal and all should work out fine.
Lanyi: Have you been assigned to bender Cove long?
B'cal: Might do the Center good to have some stability.
B'cal: I am currently waiting for Snake...I was here for a short time...a few months ago.
B'cal: I'm back until she gets whipped into shape or dies.
Lanyi: Snake?
B'cal: Who's your current Donor, Lanyi?
B'cal: Yes, Snake.
Wise Snake ambrov Zeor.
Lanyi: Zeor?!
B'cal: A shenned Farris[muttered]
Lanyi: Well that explains her God complex....
B'cal chuckles.
Lanyi: I haven't.
Been assigned anyone yet.
Sosu Farris helped me the other day with snake's simephobe friend.
B'cal: The little lovebird?
B'cal shakes her head in disgust.
Lanyi: Lovebird?
Which one?
B'cal: They sure don't have very many competent Donors here.
Wise Snake hears them talking about her and stops in the hallway before passing into zlinning range of the lobby... glad Veraik's insulation fetish has made itself useful once again.
Wise Snake leans against the wall and listens carefully.
B'cal: Sosu Farris.
B'cal: Another arrogant Farris.
B'cal: WHo was that Donor with you earlier?
B'cal: He wasn't here when I was last here.
Lanyi: Tamlen?
He just got here recently.
Right before the shaking plague outbreak.
B'cal looks alarmed.
B'cal: Shaking Plauge?
Here?
Lanyi: He's a tough old bird.
He does very well.
Doesn't give up.
B'cal: Maybe a Donor worth his salt.
B'cal nods.
B'cal: Good.
Lanyi: So I'm told.
But Veriak contained it, I am told.
Lanyi: It was before I arrived.
B'cal: Good to hear.
Wise Snake notes they are no longer talking about her, shrugs, and continues on into the lobby.
Lanyi: He says he was in the War.
Fought in the alliance against the Raider Horde.
B'cal1 sees Snake and turns toward her.
Lanyi turns also.
B'cal1: I've been waiting.
Lanyi looks at snake's hands for a Zeor ring.
Wise Snake does seem to be wearing a ring with a blue stone.
Wise Snake looks to B'cal.
B'cal1 frowns at the ring impatiently.
Wise Snake: Hello, B'cal. Are you ready to w... . [sees B'cal's look]
B'cal: Are you ready to go or not? [to snake]
Lanyi observes.
Wise Snake opens her mouth, then closes it again.
B'cal moves over and offers her field for support.
Wise Snake: Yes.
B'cal: So, in the war?
Interesting[to Lanyi]
B'cal: Might make a very good Donor indeed.
B'cal focuses on Snake with her nager, purely professional.
Lanyi: He has very personal reasons for supporting Unity.
B'cal nods.
Wise Snake chafes with impatience, but says nothing.
B'cal: I bet he does.
Lanyi: Nager a bit stiff, but he cares, which is what matters.
B'cal studies Snake.
" Well, are we going to stand here all night or are you going to lead the way?"
B'cal looks sharply at Lanyi.
B'cal: Getting the job done.
That's the most important duty of a Donor.
Wise Snake surpresses irritation with B'cal's power games.
Wise Snake: Are you ready then?
Wise Snake and b'cal leave the Sime Center.
Seezi walks down the street.
Seezi is in need and keeps zlinning passing gens.
Yowza: ~~ high field and at the peak of frustration ~~
Yowza trudges down the street, on the way to work and wishing she were doing anything else.
Seezi zlins the high field gen.
Seezi: [ thinks: How can she be unhappy with a filed like that? ]
Yowza sees Seezi and smiles automatically.
Seezi smiles back.
Yowza: Nice day to day.
Yowza: ~~wishes she didn't have to go into a dark windowless cubicle to work all day~~
Seezi looks up. "Is it?"
Seezi: "yeah, I suppose."
Yowza notices Seezi is in need.
Seezi hates being in need.
Yowza: Oh... I suppose it's hard to tell right now, huh. Sorry.
Seezi: Yeah.
That time of the month.
Seezi: You Gns are lucky.
Yowza notices she is no longer walking to work... they are standing on the sidewalk talking.
Yowza decides her job can go shove itself.
Yowza: Are we?
Yowza laughs, frustration showing.
Yowza: Sometimes I really wonder.
Seezi: You don't have need.
Yowza: Well... that's true...
Yowza knows she shouldn't really complain, but...
Seezi: You get paid for your selyn instead of paying taxes for it.
Yowza: Yeah.
Yowza: I went into the SIme Center and they wouldn't even take my selyn this month.
Seezi: You can go to cosmic places out-t.
Yowza: ~~depressed but trying not to dwell on it around the Sime ~~
Yowza perks up at the idea of travel; temporary fantasy.
Seezi: ~~ puzzled ~~ "They wouldn't?
Why not?"
Yowza: That would be fun to do sometime.
Yowza: I'm not sure... the guy, the channel, was kind of stiff. He said I should read some brochures about working for the Tecton and come back next week.
Yowza: I read the brochures and all they did was make me feel like my job really sucks.
Yowza laughs.
Seezi: My dad says I gotta get a job now that I've grown up.
Seezi: Ick.
Yowza: Yeah... that sucks.
Seezi: What do you work at?
Yowza: Oh, I'm like a clerk at this shipping firm. All it is all day is import export paperwork and bills of lading.
Yowza: What's your name? Mine is Yowza.
Seezi: Bills of lading?
What are those?
Seezi: I'm seezi! [ holds out hand ]
Yowza shakes Seezi's hand, carefully.
Yowza enjoys touching Simes in need for some reason... there was something about that in the brochures.
Yowza: ~~ fleeting pleasure ~~
Yowza: Oh man, you don't even want to know.
Seezi notices Yowza's field much more intently at the contact.
Seezi: Ok.
Yowza: It's just paperwork, and more paperwork, all having to do with who is shipping what to whom and how much it cost and who's going to get in trouble if it doesn't show up where, when, and all.
Yowza: I'm really tired of it.
Yowza: I mean, what does any of that really have to do with life?
Seezi: Like in math class?
Yowza: I hated math class.
Yowza feels her spirits lifting gradually as she gets used to the idea of not actually showing up at work, and begins to enjoy this stranger's company.
Yowza: Were you on the way to the Sime Center now?
Seezi: Me too!
Seezi: Yeah.
I wanna see if I'm in enough need to get transfer now.
Seezi: Now they want me to learn more math just 'cause i'm in First Year.
Yowza: No way! Why?
Yowza: I thought First Year was when you get to have fun. You know, the peak of your existence and all.
Yowza offers, "I'll walk with you if you like. I just decided I'm not going to go in to work."
Seezi smiles.
The idea of this Gn walking with her is very appealing for some reason.
Seezi: OK! let's go!
Yowza falls in beside Seezi.
Seezi is walking with a bit of spring instead of trudging like before.
Yowza: I never saw you before, are you from around here?
Seezi: Yeah.
Seezi:
I grew up over on the Hill.
Yowza: Wow, really?
Seezi: I had a whole buch of Out- Gns there when I changed over.
Seezi: But I fooled 'em.
Yowza: You did?
Yowza: Why were there out-Territory Gens there?
Seezi: They were doing some tour.
They were from some school in eastcove.
Seezi: They wanted to see how schools were in Bender cove.
That channel snake asked me to pretend it wasn't happening yet.
My changeover, that is.
Seezi: And then act like it started while they were there.
Yowza: Boy.. channels sure don't act like how they taught me in school.
Yowza: At least if your experience and mine are any examples.
Seezi: Really?
What did your channel do?
Yowza: Well, like I said... I really had to donate really bad, and he wouldn't let me do it. Said I had to read these boring brochures about how great it is for the Tecton, and come back next week.
Yowza: I mean, usually they are begging us to donate, not vise versa!
Yowza: At least so they told me in high school.
Yowza: You should see these brochures too... all about serving my community and stuff.
Seezi: Ick.
Like those boring assemblies.
Seezi: Where some important windbag goes on and on about boooring stuff like contributing and resposibilty and maturity.
Seezi: I mean, like as UN-cosmic as it gets.
Yowza: It sounds like the schools up on the hill are just as bogus as the ones down here.
Seezi: Oh yeah, I bet.
Do they give you all those lectures on "being a good citizen" and "Knowing your role and doing it well"?
Yowza: Say, some friends of mine are throwing a party down on Verge Street tonight... do you wanna come?
Seezi is chattering again, like she wasn't in need.
Seezi: Sure! sounds Cosmic!
Yowza: ~~ enthusiasm and the pleasure of denying the travails of humdrum daily life ~~
Seezi hops up and down as she walks.
Seezi rounds the corner, coming into sight of the Sime Center.
Seezi slows down, reminded that she is in need.
Yowza pats Seezi's shoulder reassuringly.
Yowza: Yeah, they're a bunch of stiffs, but they give us what we have to have, right?
Seezi: [ slowly ]
Yeah.
That Briel was nice to me last time.
But then she said I had to come to classes here.
Yowza: You too?
Yowza: Geez... and here we thought we'd be free of classes when we grew up.
Seezi: Yeah.
Classes.
Ick.
Seezi: All sorts of gross stuff like how my body is inside and why i gotta eat right and like that.
Yowza: Boring. My mom always said nobody has to have any classes as long as you have Simes and Gens working together our natural instincts will tell us what to do.
Yowza: She would say the Sime would make the Gen eat right and the Gen would make the Sime eat.
Seezi: She did?
Cosmic!
Yowza: Yeah... she was always saying stuff like that. You know, one hand helps the other.
Yowza: Want me to wait in line with you?
Seezi beams! "Yeah. That'd be Cosmic!"
Yowza: Okay!
Yowza accompanies Seezi up the Sime Center steps.
Lanyi is handing a file to clerk.
Seezi zlins around for Brile or snake.
Yowza sees a channel and for some reason starts to feel all frustrated again.
Yowza tries to keep it under control out of respect for her newfound friend.
Lanyi turns to zlin the newcomers.
Lanyi comes up to them.
" Hello.
I'm Lanyi, the channel on duty.
May I help you?"
Yowza steps back a little to let Seezi talk, since she's only there for moral support.
Seezi: I uh, I'm like ...
Lanyi: In need.
Lanyi zlins Seezi carefully.
Yowza feels a sisterlike solidarity with Seezi... us against the stuffed shirts, etc.
Lanyi: You aren't that deep into need.
When was your appointment?
Seezi relaxes a bit at Yowza's support.
Seezi: I know, But i was owndering if I could, uh...
Lanyi: I'm afraid you'll -*
Lanyi zlins Seezi, then Yowza.
Lanyi looks at Yowza.
" Hi.
Lanyi ambrov Dar."
Yowza: Hi. Yowza.
Yowza wishes she could donate, and wonders if Lanyi would let her do it.
Lanyi: Nice to meet you Yowza.
Yowza: ~~~~hey look, I'm high field and would just love to give a donation~~~~
Lanyi turns to Seezi.
" Well, I suppose I could fit you in now."
Lanyi asks clerk to take Seezi to Treatment room 3.
Lanyi: I'll be ther in a moment.
Seezi goes with clerk.
Yowza waves goodbye to Seezi.
Yowza: I'll wait out here...
Lanyi watches Seezi go.
Lanyi: [ to Yowza ]
" You're a friend of hers."
Yowza: Actually we just met. But she's really nice.
Lanyi: You are giving her a lot of support for someone you just met.
Lanyi: Which is not really the best thing to do for a rensime.
Yowza pauses.
Yowza: It isn't? [confused]
Yowza: I was just being friendly.
Lanyi sighs.
" I know.
And it is to your credit. "
Lanyi: But a Sme in need will be attracted to a friendly gen.
She might think you were offering something you arent't.
Do you see?
Yowza: Something??
Yowza: Offering what?
Yowza thinks back.
Yowza: Selyn?
Yowza feels like a giant walking billboard advertising selyn available at fire sale prices.
Lanyi: Yes.
Lanyi: I know you didn't realize it, but she might zlin it that way.
Yowza: Oh. Well... she didn't seem to mind or anything.. [still a little bit baffled at this complete stranger giving her advice, but thinks it just fits in with trying to get people to take classes and stuff... teacherly]
Lanyi: No, she wouldn't.
She may not realize what was happening.
But it might cause her to think of Gns and transfer together.
Which could be a very bad habit for her to develop.
Yowza: Oh..
Yowza: ~~ depression starting to settle in again as the discussion of incomprehensible, subtle responsibilities reminds her of how much trouble she will be in for not showing up at work ~~
Yowza: So I shouldn't be nice to her?
Lanyi: No, I'm not saying that... but try not to see her in the last week of her month, if you can.
Yowza: Oh.. okay.
Yowza: ~~ hope ~~
Yowza: Can I still invite her to a party tonight?
Lanyi: Oh yes.
She'll be post transfer then.
Yowza: Great!
Lanyi: Of course, if you really like helping simes, you might consider training as a Donor.
The clerk over there ccan give you a brochure that talks about it.
Yowza: I think hajene Veraik gave me that one the other day when I tried to donate.
Yowza: He said I had to read some stuff and come back next week.
Yowza: But.. [wants to to what Lanyi wants] I can take another one, just in case.
Lanyi: I agree with hajene veriak.
You definitely could do well as a Donor.
Lanyi smiles.
" That's all right."
Yowza: Is it okay if I wait here for my fr - for Seezi?
Lanyi: I'd better go give your friend her transfer now.
Lanyi: Of course.
It'll only be a few minutes.
Lanyi turns to go down the hall.
Yowza: Thank you. [smiles] ~~gratitude~~
Lanyi leaves.
Yowza sits down in the lobby, and when she thinks nobody is looking, picks up a What is a Donor? brochure and opens it up.