Job 13 :: The Departure Job [Audio]

[shadedsunlight]

[Ginia's helping herself to a bowl of cereal when there's a meow and a sudden tail tickling her face. Her first inclination is Edna somehow escaped the apartment, but as she pets the cat, she realizes it's a smaller cat and the meows are different. Orenji? Ah, that makes sense, what with his very odd teleporting ways. Gently scooping the cat back

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[Voice]

[not_a_bluesbro]

[Not something Wolfwood expected to hear today. He frowns a bit, wondering if Livio really had anything worth returning to or not. He hoped so. I mean, that's the sad thing about Gunsmoke, or whatever he called his version-most of the time? Anyone who'd come here wouldn't wanna go back.

But he manages to push that all down and speak in a thankful voice,]

... Thanks a lot. I appreciate you telling us; how long has he been gone?

[Voice/Private]

[not_a_bluesbro]

True enough. Well, in a place like Gunsmoke, that's particularly obvious. If you don't fight for yourself, you'll either be dead, or wishing you were; that's just what kind of place it can end up being.

[Voice/Private]

[shadedsunlight]

So a far cry from a top tourist destination. I guess it makes sense that's why Livio is so good at fighting too. [And Razlo... and the both of them as kids, but there's still so much left unexplained there. So much Ginia figures she doesn't want explained.]

[Voice/Private]

[not_a_bluesbro]

[He laughs humorlessly, leaning back, blowing a puff of smoke from a cigarette.]

Well, I've always said it: if you're born there, you know how to use a gun. It's a sad inevitability.

[Voice/Private]

[shadedsunlight]

Are there any places that are safe? Or relatively safer?

[Voice/Private]

[not_a_bluesbro]

If there is, I've never heard of it; I was a nomadic sort of guy, back when I was raising money. No town was without their traumas, unfortunately. But that's just how it is when we're not meant to live on the planet in the first place.

[Voice/Private]

[shadedsunlight]

"not meant to live on the planet in the first place." Sorry, but does that mean humans settled on that planet from elsewhere?

[Voice/Private]

[not_a_bluesbro]

Thaaat's right. Earth became unlivable one way or another, so the people before me loaded house and escaped on ships. Unfortunately, something went wrong and they ended up crash-landing on the planet we're currently on.

[Voice/Private]

[shadedsunlight]

Wow. On the other hand, it says something about the way humans can survive even in the worst of situations?

[Voice/Private]

[not_a_bluesbro]

Mm, I've got to admit, our grip on life is pretty damn impressive.