Robo27

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Kei Kinzo

Upon hearing her admit to looking at him, he felt a bit of the awkwardness in his mind go away, he felt a little better about approaching her. He still did not want to come off as a creeper though so he kept as collected as possible. After taking yet another sip from his drink, he finally finished it off, ice and all, considering the ice just melted away. He placed the cup down on the table and with a light cling sound he then slid the cup away from the two of them. After being preoccupied with his cup for a good five seconds he finally looked at the girl as she spoke to him again. She had mentioned how she thought Kei possibly looked like someone from Anchorage. He let out a very friendly small laugh and began to speak.

「Ahaha, that clears everything up then, well I am sorry that I was not the person from Anchorage.」

He let on a friendly smile as she began to mention the sports facility and how she used to be a competitive swimmer.

「Hey I feel the same way, if life let's me I try my best to be at the gym everyday of the week. Just like you, though, sometimes life gets too busy. Also got to say, I could never imagine trying to swim competitively, I can swim but I completely suck at it when it comes to speed and form. Maybe you can teach me sometime?」
His eyes went wide for a very brief second, he felt that he said「 something that could be completely misunderstood, after all Kei was just trying to be friendly to someone he just met today, but not come onto her. He was deep in thought before she had asked him a question, at first he didn't catch the first half of it, but he immediately caught the tail end of the question.

「My thing huh?」

He really had to think about that for a second, how could he just openly go and tell her I am currently a student that day trades as his job and for side money deals small arms. That's not something everyone hears on a daily basis and nor is it something that people normally take part in when trying to be a good member of society. He ran his fingers through his hair and scratched his head for a brief moment.

「Well I am a student currently. I work from home, the pay is decent, I make enough to say that I am comfortable.」

Kei paused for a very brief second.

「Aside from that I honestly don't do anything else, I just kind of go about living life as the days come」

@PrinceAlexus

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Great! I'll just wait for @aladdin_sane to reply before I post more. But maybe @PrinceAlexus or @Robo27 heard the large thud from the bathroom? :')

@Furiosa

I'll say for my character he didn't due to the ambient music of the place.

Also @PrinceAlexus I shall have a reply to you soon.

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Kei Kinzo

Kei listened intently as the female named Marlin spoke, and as for the guy, before giving any sort of name he called Kei out for being presumptuous. Honestly he was right for all Kei knows maybe they were trying to get the attention of someone else in the Old Starboard. It wasn't long after that though that the male of finally introduced himself as Ren. Kei smiled and nodded, as he went to open his mouth and apologize for being presumptuous about the stares, Red stood from his seat looking a bit uncomfortable and excused himself to the bathroom. As such Kei didn't get to apologize or say anything at all to the male rather. Now it was just down to Marlin and Kei.

It was during this time that another patron had come into the store but, Kei did not pay much attention to the other customer. After a brief second of silence, Kei looked towards Marlin and began to speak.

「Well as Ren said before excusing himself, I was definitely being presumptuous and as such I wanted to apologize for being that way. As such there is no reason to be apologizing for anything as in all technicality you could've been just staring into space that coincidentally was in my same direction.」

After taking another small sip of his now diluted rum and coke, he coughed slightly to clear his throat.

「Anyway as you were mentioning about the pool, I definitely did see you there earlier today, while brief, I did see you. Is going to the sports facility a part of your daily routine? Thinking back I have seen you there other times besides today. Sorry if I am being a little nosy, no obligation to answer by the way.」

Kei didn't realize but he was starting to become a blabber mouth, he was just going on and on about something he really had no business knowing about. Not only that it was starting to make him sound a little creepy. In his mind he had come to realize this and as such he was starting to become a little embarrassed of himself. He let out a small laugh trying his best to mitigate any awkwardness between the two of them.

@Furiosa@PrinceAlexus

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Personally for me your writing style isn't problematic at all, quiet makes it easy for me personally to know what you are reacting to in a sense. As for giving a heads up I feel that if things get really fast and people are posting one post after another we would need it, but right now I think everything is a ok.

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Also speak of the devil, looks like Furiosa got a post in minutes after I mentioned something lol. Perfect timing.

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@Robo27

Aye. If things are slower I'm thinking about time skips.

Monday night blues and Jazz is planned.
A evening at music venue, jazz, blues. Maybe even you dare take to the stage!

@PrinceAlexus

Nothing about it being slow, just wanting to make sure everyone get a chance is all lol.

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Will wait and see if @Furiosa will post an IC post any time soon otherwise I shall reply to you @PrinceAlexus

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@Robo27, @PrinceAlexus

Alright, here's my take and I'm a little bit torn on this one. I'm working on a map for us and I tend to look at the locations that we've all put together as dots on the map that we will be able to pinpoint, same as if you were a tourist. All major cities have "slums" per se, but you wouldn't necessarily be able to open up a map and point to a particular spot and say, "Here's where we find the slums, let us go there and do crime." Muggings and killings are not exactly what we wanted to get into with this game and I say that while the "total freedom" side of me rages at the thought of limiting anyone's creativity. I will go for this, but it's going to have to be a good bit more nebulous in the description for sure.

With that in mind, Alexus and I have been discussing perhaps giving a little bit of direction to everyone's creative juices as far as locations. We appreciate that everyone wants to contribute and you can certainly keep them coming, but try to think in terms of places that we don't already have. For example, we already have two major airfields so we probably won't need another airport... Well maybe a single runway GA strip wouldn't hurt... KIDDING!, but you get the point.

Coming up either tomorrow or Friday, we're going to put up some kind post detailing our first week's activity, how many people we have here in the game, strategies for expansion/retention and other items such as the first time skip, and what I mentioned above concerning locations. We're also interested in vague over-arching plots or plans you may have for your characters.

Stay tuned.

@Pilatus

Perfectly fair, as I said I was just wanting to throw it out there as just kind of figured it was missing in a sense lol. Also the description was just a quick thrown together thought, I didn't actually sit down and flesh out the area.

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Sounds good, also I have an idea for a new area in sol city. Wasn't sure if we had something like this already, if one of the areas is already considered the slums, ignore my recommendation xD

Sol Slums

The Sol Slums, the place to go for all things illegal. Whether it is drugs, guns, or services, the Sol slums is the place to go. This is where the outcasts of society end up and live out their lives whether they chose to or not. While it used to be a thriving area of the city, over the years it slowly became wrought with crime. Slowly degrading it to what it is today. The only reason to be around in this area is if you are looking to be mugged or killed.

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Oh yeah of course I know very real world, I was just talking about the coincidence in terms of your characters father and my character dealing with guns in a way.