RATATOSKR.

[soulping]

[ When you enter the TV, the room surrounding you is notably blank - appearing something like this. Which may seem odd, until words appear out of thin air in front of you: ]

Today, we're going to go through an interactive story of sorts!

You're a college student who's just transferred to a new university, and you have a week to make new friends and potentially find that ~special someone~ people always worry about having.

Luckily for you, your college has a club fair for transfer students just like you! You're headed off there to meet some of your fellow students and get a better lay of the land.

But before we begin, there's just one important thing I need to get down...who are you?

Comments

Re: DISCUSSION.

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

The water table? Why are there tables made of water...?

I mean, it's just space and waiting until it degrades, right? Or just repurpose what doesn't?

I would technically be the alien, yeah, but aliens is good for saying we're not from the same world generally.

Re: DISCUSSION.

[glorifiedtrash]

Oh. Right. If it was an artificial island I guess you wouldn't know what that is... Basically underneath the ground there's a level saturated with water from rains and underground rivers and things like that. This is called the water table. Don't ask me why, I don't know. When you're in an area without ready access to water typically people will put wells down into the ground to access the water from the water table. So whether it's contaminated or not can mean life or death to some people.

As for trash, things take time to biodegrade. It's not a fast process. There's some ways it can be accelerated, but you'll always be creating new trash faster than what you already have degrades. As for repurposing, not everything can be repurposed. And even that has costs, sometimes it's just not as efficient as creating an item from fresh resources. And then because Tethe'alla flourished for so long and we have so much surplus, the upper classes aren't very accepting of using someone else's trash even if you can't tell the difference. It's honestly kind of a pain...

Did you ever get why you're even on her world? It just sounds like there was a mix-up somewhere at this point.

Re: DISCUSSION.

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

So is that how peeps get water in the middle of really large land masses without a river nearby? Like, I know that should be possible, right? Cause deserts and shit.

[Frowns.] So....it's because people are greedy and finicky about where shit comes from?

No, I still don't know. I'm actually really wondering at the timeline. Though I think part of it is being a hidden thing, or maybe it's because mom sees the future and she saw I had the best change there.

Re: DISCUSSION.

[glorifiedtrash]

Yeah. There's some other stuff like aqueducts and rain barrels for when there's no water in the ground or the area makes sinking a well unfeasible. But wells are the standard.

...Don't just ignore half the things I said to focus on the bad. That's only a small part of the problem. You realize we make more waste here than we repurpose or degrades too, right?

So you think it might have been even worse if you were out somewhere else?

Re: DISCUSSION.

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

From rain water? So rain will always get in that far?

I'm still trying to wrap my head around that much stuff can be made, to be honest. We don't have a lot of stuff to work with here, but it hasn't been that bad, has it?

Probably. I mean, there's also Dirk, Jake, and Jane, and with mom future seeing, I'm still trying to figure out why we were separated.