AUDIENCE 🚀 CHARLES

[dropoffs]

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[riverbeans]

[a pause]

That's ominous. Me?

[dropoffs]

Charles.

[riverbeans]

That is my name. And you're... Callisto, but not?

[dropoffs]

No, I am Callisto.

[ With a stern and confident voice, definitely an impression. ]

[riverbeans]

Right, of course. How have you been doing... Callisto?

[dropoffs]

... This event has been a source of enrichment.

[riverbeans]

[a grin]

It has been rather entertaining, watching everyone get together like this, huh? [a beat] Seems like we got the Tesseract, too.

[dropoffs]

Myself and Labs-R-Us have been enjoying the event and the company.

[ Yes, stern voice. ]

You all are more likely to do more with it than us.

[riverbeans]

Well, that's good to hear. [...] I hope everything's going well with Labs-R-Us. They're... colourful folks.

[dropoffs]

They're a fun group! Kind of work too hard, honestly... But I think that's what they're used to. Some of it isn't work, instead personal pursuits.

[ nerds ]

[riverbeans]

[he laughs.]

Yeah, I can see that. I get the feeling a lot of them could use a break, honestly.

[dropoffs]

[ They laugh, too. ]

I definitely think they had fun and enjoyed seeing other people. It's a nice change of scenery, even if this is not real.

[riverbeans]

[OOC CALLISTO ALERT]

Yeah. ... It's too bad it's only for today, too.

[dropoffs]

[ STOP.... THEY LIVE LAUGH LOVE ]

Yeah... I wonder how we got here to begin with. I don't really understand it.

[riverbeans]

You didn't do, uh... virtual reality things to sign up?

[dropoffs]

... No... Not that I remember.

[riverbeans]

Should we be concerned?

[dropoffs]

[ comes back from my weekend ]

Hmm... I'm no scientist, but I've lived with enough technology at this point. There's been a lot of things that can capture what we believed to be intangible.

I feel like... The barrier between technology and that kind of stuff has been crumbling thanks to research.

So I'm not too weirded out, but it is kind of weird.

[riverbeans]

Well, as long as it's a normal technology thing, and not a "whoa, something happened beyond our predictions!" thing.

[dropoffs]

... Well, I don't think it's typical of technology at least from where I'm from, but I really learned more when I was emplo—when I........ Travelled.... Farther.

[riverbeans]

[raises an eyebrow]

Traveled how far, exactly?

[dropoffs]

... Well, I was born on a spaceship, so I already know space travel, but I haven't gone super far.

[ Is what they meant. ]

Different places, different technology, stuff like that.

[riverbeans]

All right. Well, I won't question about your employment—but what kind of places have you seen?

[dropoffs]

[ a nervous chuckle. ]

One of the planets I visited was obsessed was math. No... The planet is math.

[riverbeans]

...

Come again? What does that even mean?