Report Two: Exploring

[derringerous]

[For the past few weeks Meryl has mostly kept to herself, still trying to understand everything that was going on and trying to get used to all the green everywhere. Today you can find her in a few places. 

 

A. In the park you can find a woman practising her shooting. She's got a few tin cans set up on some rocks and taking aim at them with the gun she got from Nina. She's a very good shot. 

B. In the flower store. She's buying some random flowers for the house. They look nice alright? Even if she doesn't seem like the sort of person who'd like flowers. 

 

C. Looking at the pool in the rec center....you ...can swim in water? Isn't that a waste?]

Comments

[derringerous.livejournal.com]

I'm an agent of the Bernardelli Insurance Society.

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

What is that?

[derringerous.livejournal.com]

....you don't know what an insurance society is?

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

Can't say I have heard of it.

[derringerous.livejournal.com]

It's rather prominent on my world. We live in on a very harsh planet though.

Basically we're sort of like a bank for emergencies. People pay as so much money based on what their property or land is worth and then if a disaster happens we give them the money from their insurance.

It's a way to make sure that when a disaster happens, people don't lose everything.

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

I see. That kind of bank would go bankrupt where I'm from.

[derringerous.livejournal.com]

Well as long as people pay their insurance fee's we don't go bankrupt. No matter how many disasters we have.

But my job is usually to go and make sure that the claims are legit and that people aren't trying to get free money. I work with another agent of the company named Milly Thompson.

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

So if an entire planet was razed, you'd be able to pay out? Where'd you get all that money from.

[derringerous.livejournal.com]

A planet?

I think if the planet was destroyed we'd have a little more to worry about then insurance.

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

It happens quite a bit. Then again, there are more planets out there than I can count.

[derringerous.livejournal.com]

Well we don't have to worry about other planets. Were stranded on Gunsmoke anyway.

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

Let me know if you need a lift off. I'm sure I can get a transport going your way.

[derringerous.livejournal.com]

I'm sure we'd all be happy for a lift. But we're probably not from the same universe.

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

I'm coming to understand that but it's a shame. I wouldn't mind spending a couple weeks in the Warp to come grab you off a planet.

[derringerous.livejournal.com]

[She laughs.]

That's nice of you to say. But I'm probably one of the ones who would stay. Gunsmoke isn't much, but it's home.

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

Doesn't mean you couldn't travel on vacation. Though, with a planet name like Gunsmoke, I don't recommend you travel to Valhalla.

[derringerous.livejournal.com]

Valhalla? What's that like?

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

It's an ice planet.

[derringerous.livejournal.com]

[She blinks...]

An entire planet made of ice?

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

Mostly. It was probably a decent place until it moved too far away from its sun. Then it froze.

[derringerous.livejournal.com]

Wow...that's...Amazing.

Do people live on it?

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

Plenty of them. I'm currently attached to the 597th Valhallan Regiment in the Imperial Guard.

[derringerous.livejournal.com]

What's it like living on an ice planet?

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

Cold. These guys turn the air conditioning to below freezing when they travel.

[derringerous.livejournal.com]

No wonder.

You're right. I probably wouldn't like the place. I'm finding it cold here now and then.