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[farfairersoul]

...Well, as I am once again bored out of my mind, this seems like a fine time to fall back on the old standby so many people in this place seem to adhere to.

["Bored out of my mind" is an understatement. Metallic click of him flipping open his lighter, a pause while he lights up, and then another click at closing.]What is your world like

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[oblique_wisdom]

Until you had come, I had never heard of Kras, Razer. While I do not think the information would help me altogether well, there is nothing wrong with having a little insight. Thank you.

[She feels like she understands a little better, though, thanks to Jak and his explanations about Mar and what not.]

[farfairersoul]

Ah, Haven City has always been rather careful to keep quiet about other population centers, so it is hardly a shock that you are so lacking for information if you have only spoken to Havenites.

If Haven is the only surviving city, then obviously it is the only safe place to live in the world. More people means more power, and the more power a man can get the more he wants. Truly, a vicious cycle.

[He doesn't believe most of that, lol.]

We used to have trade routes and such with Haven, but as far as I know those were all shut down once Praxis came into power. The public ones, in any case.

[Wouldn't know for sure, he couldn't even tell you exactly when that happened. Besides, he's pretty much a black market sort of guy.]

[oblique_wisdom]

I suppose that could be logical. Even if it were true, however, who is to say how many would simply believe what they were told when it was stated that Haven was the only surviving city? Not saying that is what happened. I mean to say that the possibility would likely be nullified by people who wanted to see the outside with their own eyes.

[She knows not everyone is going to be "foolish" enough to go out in the middle of an invasion.]

I could not say what Baron Praxis was thinking, but I suppose a man in power--a tyrannical man, that is--would likely rely upon his own strength before possibly opening the city to other people and cities. To seclude a majority would help one maintain a grasp over the citizens, I suppose.

[farfairersoul]

Well, Kras City is in the middle of the ocean, several hundred miles south of Haven. Spargus is in the Wasteland, roughly the same distance away to the...west, I believe? It would take quite a bit of searching to find either, and with the war as overpowering as it was until recently, it is hardly a shock that so few went hunting for a better life.

[Not that he could say that Spargus would be better. Kras, certainly, but Spargus is all sunburns and sand in the wrong places to him.]

Kras did have refugees, however. Military deserters, smuggled children, some scholars and the like. So obviously Praxis' tactics did not work on everyone.

[heavyweaponsbot]

Our world?

Empty rock.

[farfairersoul]

...That sounds positively thrilling, thank you.

[heavyweaponsbot]

You asked.

[farfairersoul]

I also thanked you for your contribution, as boring as it was.

[conquistasal]

I'm from that Earth place y'mentioned, but specifically Kansas.

If y'ever get the chance, don't go. Though I doubt y'd get the chance. Anyhow, s'flat, lotsa corn an' crops like that. Mostly corn though. Oh, an' wheat. The sunflower fields are nice, though. Pretty.

Not lotsa big cities, though, an' that's upsetting. I like the big buildings. Makes me feel like I'm not the only thing as tall as I am. Not th'point, though, anyhow. Lotsa farming communities an' small towns in Kansas.

People are nice, though.

[farfairersoul]

Interesting name, Kansas.

[He pronounces this like Kaun-siss.]

You say that this...territory, I suppose, contained several cities of its own? That is moderately confusing.

[Lol what are states?]

You would have loved Praxis-era Haven, I think, if tall buildings are high on your interest list. Though I never saw it in-person myself, there was a palace so tall it required support towers to keep it upright; that would make anyone feel small.

...If you do not mind my asking, how tall are you that you would prefer to feel small?

[conquistasal]

Well, s'like I live in Elsinore, Kansas, United States, North 'Merica, Earth. Y'always gotta categorize stuff.

An' nah, I don' mind. I actually get asked lots. I'm 'bout six foot eight. Last I checked, 'least. I shoulda stopped growin' by now, though. An', no, I don' play basketball.

[farfairersoul]

[Chuckles a little. He is honestly moderately entertained by this conversation, so that's major props to Sal.]

As I have no idea what basket-ball is, I had no intention of asking whether you took part in playing it.

Although that is rather tall.

[Has he ever met anyone that tall? Sig isn't even that tall. Razer is one of the tallest people he knows, and he's still a good four or five inches shorter than Sal is claiming to be. Daaaamn.]

Do you dislike it? I would consider it a rather sharp...selling point, one could say.

[nottheaveragekg]

You know where I'm from.

[farfairersoul]

Well clearly, Baroness. Unless you are wearing false ears or something.

[nottheaveragekg]

Very unlikely.

[farfairersoul]

I can imagine that being a roundear would make attaining your position rather difficult, so I will take your word for that.

And while we are in the habit of communicating--is there a particular reason you sound so curt today? Slightly moreso than usual, that is.

lol Blitz doesn't know about hackability yet, but it's okay

[blitzmeister]

[Blitz still doesn't trust talking over the comms so he's going to talk in loops.]

Every smart person eventually comes to Kras, anyway. Havenites don't know what they're missing. Seriously, who'd pass up an opportunity to come to Kras? Even after the ferrys stopped coming, people found a way... just need a little persuasion!

Razer will be a good teacher. And by good I mean punchable.

[farfairersoul]

[Razer laughs, although there is a slight edge of pushing to it--more obvious than his usual fronts, even.]

But of course! Most everyone with the opportunity comes around eventually.

[Dramatic sigh.]

Makers, Blitz, you are making me homesick.

Mizo will just have to get creative in how he deals with Razer to avoid warnings/punishments.

[blitzmeister]

Ahh, but Kras the last I saw was on it's way to becoming a very... different city.

[farfairersoul]

...Was it, really? Do tell.