sixteenth bubble; text/action for pewter. BACKDATED TO THE 2ND/yesterday.

[timelymaid]

no :(
this is entirely unfair!
ive been waiting to go to the museum in pewter ever since john told me about it on day one
and then jade gave me that book for christmas
and i planned it all out so i could come and see it after all of the fossil things!
this was the plan!
to go to the museum!

this is so stupid!!

by the way the museum was robbed i guess
and now its closed
and i cant go in

kanaya will you go to mt moon with me i guess we can at least TRY to salvage this

people who rob museums are the worst

[ After sulkily lurking outside of the museum for a little while in the morning, Aradia will be drawing up a plan of attack for Mt. Moon, easily found either at the inn or on a bench outside or at a cafe somewhere. She is not the happiest of campers for once, although her mood will not last long at all. As ever she'll match whatever mode of reply she gets. ]

Comments

[viiru2alert]

He's the one who got me to thinking about it in the first place, I was gonna tell him what I find anyway. But I'll give you a shout too.

[timelymaid]

I'm not surprised! He's one of the smartest people I know.

[ That's said with a fair amount of fondness; she likes Kayneth, he's rad. ]

[viiru2alert]

[Sollux nods, with an expression indicating that he really does have to admit it -- Kayneth is pretty smart.] He does know his shit. Not bad to talk to, either, when he doesn't talk like someone out of the Earthly medieval period.

[timelymaid]

Does he talk like that?

[ She's never had that issue, really. ]

Still, I'd probably say he's one of the people I speak to most, here. I think we're good friends!

[viiru2alert]

Well, that's what it seems like to me. [Sollux shrugs. He's used to people communicating in extremely vulgar ways, so talking to someone as noticeably controlled as Kayneth is a weird experience.] I mean, I'm getting used to it. But to be honest he's not the kind of guy I would normally talk to, y'know.

[And yet here he is, finding out information for the guy.]

[timelymaid]

Hm...I guess I probably would speak to him, anyway. But I can't think of many people I wouldn't speak to.

[ at least not really. ]

[viiru2alert]

[Sollux shrugs and looks somewhere off to the side.]

Well, of course you wouldn't, AA. I mean, you talk to everyone anyway.

[timelymaid]

Is that a bad thing?

[ She's never found it to be. ]

I think it'd be boring if I didn't.

[viiru2alert]

No, it's not a bad thing.

It's just a thing that most people don't do. We all have our little types of people we interact with. ...And then there's you.

[timelymaid]

Do you really think you have a type, though, Sollux?

I mean, look at our group of friends.

[ exactly what type covers them all. ]

[viiru2alert]

No, that's what I'm saying! You have no type. You just talk to... everyone.

[Which is probably the only reason why you talk to him, because his type is so intolerable that there is literally no one else willing to tolerate it.]

[timelymaid]

Yes, but you talk to all our friends, too, I mean - what sort of "type" do you actually have here?

[viiru2alert]

[Sollux looks at her with a bit of a judging look.]

I'm not here to make friends, AA. I mostly call out the stupid people and that's about it.

[He tried to do something else for a while, and it... didn't really end well. But no one can say that he doesn't deserve a gold star for trying!]

[timelymaid]

Sollux, I mean our actual friends. What "type" would include Karkat, Kanaya, and I?

[viiru2alert]

...

Batshit insane alien refugees type? I don't know.

[timelymaid]

See? You can't think of an actual type! I think it's less to do with a "type" of person and just...what people talk about, and what interests you. Isn't that normal?

[viiru2alert]

I guess. You tell me. I don't know jack-shit about people, it was probably a mistake to put on my big ugly anthropologist hat in the first place.

[timelymaid]

I don't think people are that easy to dissect, really. They're people.

But I think that makes it fun, anyway. And I suppose it doesn't really matter? Just talk to whomever you want to talk to, Sollux. There's no need to justify that sort of thing.

[viiru2alert]

And look how far that's gotten me. [He grins darkly.] ...But this conversation is getting old. Did you figure anything out about the fossils?

[timelymaid]

You mean about the robbery?

[viiru2alert]

[Sollux is silent for a second, having heard nothing about any robbery, but then nods.] Yeah. The robbery.

[timelymaid]

Ugh.

[ While she'd gone back to being more or less okay there, she's dangerously close to irritation again. ]

They won't tell me anything! I'm just not allowed near there. And they won't say how long it's being shut down!

Who would steal fossils after so many were just dropped in our laps? What's the point?

[viiru2alert]

You gotta let the cops do their job, AA.

But that is stupid. Maybe someone wanted to... IDK, hoard them in hopes that another uprising occurs? Zombie Pokémon army.

[timelymaid]

Yes, and then they will slap a great big community service fine on the criminals, if they catch them. I don't think they ever caught the people who robbed Faulkner, you know.

[ okay a zombie army sounds cool but... ]

Hoarding them just seems a bit silly if they're going to be more commonly available. It's like...stealing dirt? I'm not sure how to explain it, it just feels sort of ridiculous to me.

[viiru2alert]

It probably is, but the culprit is probably some super-nerd who thinks that since they're more common, no one will mind that they stole the museum ones.

[s h r u g]

We just don't know.