[IC - Mehitabel Test Drive]

[keepingtabs]

[You've received an invitation to an elegant soiree, and when you arrive you find yourself dressed in fine clothes that look like what you'd wear to a grand performance at a theatre. Chamber music echoes around the venue--a grand ballroom, with candles and floating, glowing orbs glittering about to give the scene a golden glow. There's a woman nearby dressed like so who is giving you a friendly smile, especially if you look like a fish out of water. Perhaps you can talk to her to gain some footing? Or just find out what the event is for.]

Comments

[keepingtabs]

Fair enough. I don't have anything interesting to say about where I'm from--anything that hasn't already been said.

[telepathetically]

If it was more interesting than here, I'd still be there.

[keepingtabs]

[laughs]

So, what did you come here to find, Shirakawa? Am I saying that right?

[telepathetically]

That's right. Yuki is okay too if that's easier. Um... it's like a study abroad thing?

[keepingtabs]

You're a student?

[telepathetically]

Yes?

[keepingtabs]

We don't see many of those here. What do you study?

[telepathetically]

[shrinks back a little towards his corner]

It's mostly general right now, I'm trying to decide what to specialize in, but I have time...

[keepingtabs]

[no come back, i'm protecting you from sharks]

Naturally, at your age. There are people much older than both of us who have no idea what their strengths and weaknesses are.

[telepathetically]

Yeahhhh.... I'm hoping I don't end up like that.

[keepingtabs]

Don't we all. Tell me, have you ever been to the theatre?

[telepathetically]

Oh, yeah! Sometimes.

[keepingtabs]

What have you seen?

[telepathetically]

The um... I like the ones with a lot of stage-fighting...

[mumbling. this is a fancy soiree, he does not see fancy plays]

[keepingtabs]

Oh, the action sort. You know, those stunts are just as impressive to the actors as they are to the audience--especially if we haven't learned how to perform them effortlessly before opening night.

[telepathetically]

Isn't that dangerous?!

[keepingtabs]

Yes, of course. But that's part of the fun of seeing it, isn't it?

[telepathetically]

The dangerous stunts are the coolest stunts.

[keepingtabs]

Is that how young people are referring to them, these days?

[telepathetically]

You mean coolest?

[keepingtabs]

Yes. Is that common where you're from?

[telepathetically]

It's um, slang?