Fieldstuck (Chapter 2)

[RobotInProgress]

> Pick up and briefly read Astromomy Notes

[psychapprentice]

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What's happening now?

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Oh, it's raining. Again.

It has been an unusually wet dry season. According to the conspiracy theory websites you occasionally visit, the unusual weather is due to atmospheric disturbance, caused by some top secret project by the government.

Nutters, the whole lot of them.

[Flaise]

> Set up your dehumidifier outside and turn it on.

[benevolentBaroness]

>Gwen: Get pestered by someone.

[Naristar]

put away your astronomical survey equipment te rain can't be good or it

[fupaPhisicist]

>Gwen: activate umbrellaficationifiroboticinator. wait you have one of those right?

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do not mind this

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[psychapprentice]

Gwen: Get pestered by someone.



Nobody has been online all day. At this rate, you doubt you'll get to talk to anyone before you leave.

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In a way, the rain and your friends' absence have the same effect. They both serve to isolate you.

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Press ==> I'm about to do something vaguely poetic.

[Rafter]

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[Rafter]

Gwen: Gaze up at the rain and recite quotation.

[guillotineGuardian]

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http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002167
"Just one ==> will suffice."

[psychapprentice]

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The sound the rain makes as it continues in its unseasonable descent relaxes you. It is the calming sound of solitude.

You always loved going outside. Playing active games, making friends, enjoying the sun.

And yet, you love the comfort of home as well. You have grown used to a life of luxury, and it suits you.

Although rain has always acted as an isolating force, keeping you stuck at home, you know that you prefer it to being stranded.

You might be able to survive in the wild, but if you had to choose between survival and comfort, you would have to choose comfort.

"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."

-Ayn Rand

There's no way Ayn Rand didn't say that.

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HOLY SHIT, I MADE MUSIC

[guillotineGuardian]

> Gwen: Exit observatory dome.

[Naristar]

((freak that was beautiful!! ))

Hear your mother calling you

[benevolentBaroness]

>Sleep.

[psychapprentice]

Gwen: Pack! You've been stargazing too long!



Right, right, focus. Notes, telescope, suitcase. You're running out of time here.

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By the way, I'll let you guys know when there will be a full version of that song available. I think I'm liking this whole "music" thing.

[guillotineGuardian]

> Exposit on Modus type and operation.

[benevolentBaroness]

>Exit the observatory, as your mother is calling you.

[Flaise]

> Gwen: Step outside.
> Rain: Ruin Gwen's equipment.

[psychapprentice]

Gwen: Exposit on Modus type and operation.



Ugh. Org Chart modus. You hate this thing. You thought it would help you organize your stuff better, but it turns out you need organization skills to use it properly. You really have no idea how it works.

You usually just kind of carry things in your hands. If necessary, you store a few items at a time, since the clusterfuck of the org chart is semi-manageable with smaller numbers. When you have to transport a lot of objects at once, like now, you stow them in suitcases, then captchalogue the suitcases as single objects, thus keeping the disorganization to a minimum.

[psychapprentice]

Gwen: Exit the observatory.



Right. No time for sylladex shenanigans. You think you hear your Mother calling.

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This staircase always makes you dizzy.

[Fish]

> Gaeze upon ye motherly figuere.

[causticlyOptimitious]

> Gwen: Safely arrive at the foot of the stairs.

[Naristar]

whoops!

[Rafter]

Hapen?

[Flaise]

> Step out into the rain and ruin your equipment.