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WHO: All y’all
WHAT: A nice vacation to ease everyone in
WHERE: Various locations on Alkonost Island, including Navi
WHEN: Sept 12-30
WARNINGS: Use ‘em in your threads if needed!
Welcome to Alkonost, the beautiful tropical island on the planet Tetagari where you have just made an emergency crash landing! You’ll be here for a while, so settle in and get cozy with your new shipmates until Navi is repaired and ready for takeoff.
Alkonost is a small island with an eponymous beachfront village, with the rest of the land covered in tropical rainforest, dry forest, and grasslands. Most of the land is still wild, as the Alkonost population is centered at the beach, though ancient ruins can be found a bit more inland. Alkonostians are a humanoid, amphibious people, with light green skin, gills, and webbed fingers; they are friendly and welcoming to tourists, business contacts, and intergalactic refugees alike.
Speaking of business, the main exports of Alkonost are various types of fish, shell jewelry, and a unique, dark red pearl that is only cultivated in the waters surrounding the island. These red pearls are highly prized on other islands and provide the bulk of income for the Alkonost population. They’ve also recently attracted a band of pesky pirates, which has taken to raiding export ships and even the pearl farms themselves, on occasion. Warning signs are posted near the shoreline and will be explained by locals if asked.
While visiting, you can elect to work as part of a fishing or pearl farming crew, or with one of the island’s fruit collection squads, and you’ll be paid daily in fresh fish and equally fresh fruit. For necessities of the non-consumable sort, the village open-air market is open every day for all of your shopping needs. Otherwise, grab some sun on the beach, dance and sing around bonfires at night, get to know your fellow passengers, or just chill on the ship and get to know Navi.
WHAT: A nice vacation to ease everyone in
WHERE: Various locations on Alkonost Island, including Navi
WHEN: Sept 12-30
WARNINGS: Use ‘em in your threads if needed!
Welcome to Alkonost, the beautiful tropical island on the planet Tetagari where you have just made an emergency crash landing! You’ll be here for a while, so settle in and get cozy with your new shipmates until Navi is repaired and ready for takeoff.
Alkonost is a small island with an eponymous beachfront village, with the rest of the land covered in tropical rainforest, dry forest, and grasslands. Most of the land is still wild, as the Alkonost population is centered at the beach, though ancient ruins can be found a bit more inland. Alkonostians are a humanoid, amphibious people, with light green skin, gills, and webbed fingers; they are friendly and welcoming to tourists, business contacts, and intergalactic refugees alike.
Speaking of business, the main exports of Alkonost are various types of fish, shell jewelry, and a unique, dark red pearl that is only cultivated in the waters surrounding the island. These red pearls are highly prized on other islands and provide the bulk of income for the Alkonost population. They’ve also recently attracted a band of pesky pirates, which has taken to raiding export ships and even the pearl farms themselves, on occasion. Warning signs are posted near the shoreline and will be explained by locals if asked.
While visiting, you can elect to work as part of a fishing or pearl farming crew, or with one of the island’s fruit collection squads, and you’ll be paid daily in fresh fish and equally fresh fruit. For necessities of the non-consumable sort, the village open-air market is open every day for all of your shopping needs. Otherwise, grab some sun on the beach, dance and sing around bonfires at night, get to know your fellow passengers, or just chill on the ship and get to know Navi.
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Instead, he offers a shrug, as easy as anything, before speaking up.
"A matter of necessity, given the mountainous climate of where I'd been staying, prior to this."
Which... probably also explains the layers, as well.
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They're not friends or whatever, but he's treated her okay. That's something.
"Where are you from?" she asks, genuinely curious. A cold mountain climate would explain the thick clothing, although not why his aesthetic is basically 'fancy upholstery.' "Jane, by the way. Crazy Jane."
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"Garlemald, most recently."
He doesn't expect the name to mean anything. It hasn't to any of the other people he's mentioned it to.
"Emet-Selch."
By the fact that he offers this latter after she offers her name, it's presumably his, strange though it might sound.
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"Cool, where's that?" He's right, Jane has no idea what that means. Not that that matters: he probably has no idea what "Ohio" means, either.
"You okay being called Emet?" She will likely call him that anyway, but at least she's asking permission first?
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"It lies in the northern reaches of the continent of Ilsabard."
Which will likely also not mean anything. But he offers it all the same, in the hopes that it might sketch out at least a little more of a picture of his home.
...And then she asks about what he might prefer to be called, and he pulls what is very distinctly an unamused face.
"I would rather not be, if it's all the same."
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"Explains the chair. And Ilsabard's on what planet?" If he's an alien, she can handle that.
Jane shrugs. "Selch it is."
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In fact, judging by the expression on his face, he likes it less than the first option she's offered. Whether or not this will actually have an effect on her decision is a question he can't answer - or not with any certainty - but all the same he can't help but offer the comment.
"And when it's called anything, the planet is generally referred to as the Source."