W.E.: Test Drive Prompts

[bjornwilde]

 So I got to sleep in but the Weekend Edition still needs to happen!

Since it is app time, how about folks tag in for prompts and fill them with any pup they are thinking of app'ing or wish they could app. If that is too structured, just tag in with the pup and see if anyone wants to try out a thread.

ETA: Tag in with your approved pups for prompts as well or tag new pups. Far be it from me to exclude folks. =]

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[defiantsheriff]

[OOC: Whoops misspelled the alien word, my bad.]

"Shtako," Nolan repeats. "Sorry, it's an alien word. Pretty much means shit but more of the weird things life throws at you than the biological process. The Votan common tongue can be like German that way."

[27yrsandwelldoitallagain]

Alien. Votan. At least German made sense. Audrey tilted her head considering him, asking "So, you're from one of those other planets people said all come here?"

Okay. So. Yeah. Maybe she's still a little new.

Especially when she was considering the fact if anything he reminded her of a rough and ready cowboy. Dirt still packing the grit all over him. The kind you'd see in some kind of western movie, from decades and decades ago. Except. You know. With aliens. Cowboys, with aliens, from a completely different planet.

[defiantsheriff]

Nolan shifts to a wry grin with a head tilt for good measure.

"Not quite. I'm from and on Earth. We had aliens come to us a few decades ago. Things worked out for a few years, then went to shtako for a few more, now we're rebuilding what's left."

[27yrsandwelldoitallagain]

"Huh." Audrey leaned on the bar. "Decades from when? And where on Earth?"

And is it her Earth, or another Earth? Are there other Earths? How did she end up somewhere she asks questions like that to begin with. Didn't Haven make her question a whole lot of other things, things one didn't ever have to question before getting there, already?

[defiantsheriff]

"2013 is when the first Arc ships arrived. I saw my first in St. Louis, Missouri. It's 2046 now and wouldn't you know it, I'm right back in what used to be St. Louis."

As he speaks, Nolan pulls a tumbler and a bottle of bourbon to the bar top and pours himself a few fingers.

[27yrsandwelldoitallagain]

She doesn't mind, leaning in, forearms both on the bar now.

More studying the guy, himself, than watching him pour his drink though. He's not lying. She's met counterfeiters. Tracked serial killers and pedophiles for the bureau. So she trusts the hunch that says he isn't. Says he doesn't have any reason to. And is pretty positive about that.

"Does that mean it happens to the Earth I came from when we hit that year, and the decades after, or is it different?" Because it's still Earth, right? How exactly does that whole thing work out. And could you change things if they had to happen like that.

[defiantsheriff]

Nolan plays lots of card games and so is used to close scrutiny. What is different about this though is that he isn't hiding anything, so he smiles again, completely open.

"No clue. And I'm afraid I was a kid so a lot of the details of my 2013, like who won what world series and all that, I ain't got a clue of. What year is it for you?"

[27yrsandwelldoitallagain]

Audrey lifted a hand, to trace the edge of her martini glass with the tip of a finger, looking from it to him. "2010."

Makes it a pretty good and justifiable question, doesn't it? Whether her world gets aliens in three years?