Voice; un: mai

[maipokerface]

Is it just me or are things starting to get a little unpleasant around here?

[She sighs out some. Not that she hadn't expected Olympia and Wyver to start not getting along again of course but it's still pretty annoying.]

I've been outright ignored in a few places in Olympia. Don't ask me exactly what I did to get that kind of treatment because I don't have a clue.

[Now to the meat of why she's drifted onto the network after having not touched it for this long. Her tone actually sounds pretty curious.]

Have any of the rest of you run into anything? Olympia, Wyver, wherever.

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[maipokerface]

I see. I need to get around to buying a mount myself some day.

[planetary_bonds]

they'd probably be more reliable than the motorcycle at this point. i just don't want to leave the prototype behind if i leave, you know.

what kind of mount are you considering?

[maipokerface]

I'm not sure. At home people usually used ostrich horses for everyday travel. I never rode them much but then again we usually always had a carriage.

[planetary_bonds]

ostrich


horses?

[He's trying to imagine it. Every combination he can think of looks ludicrous.]

i'm afraid i only know about...regular horses.

[maipokerface]

You and everyone else here.

[She says that with a fair amount of humor.]

Think of a big bird. They have two legs instead of four like horses do. Otherwise they're more or less the same.

[planetary_bonds]

that's interesting

but then what makes them different from ostriches, though? do they have horse features or something?

[horse...legs? tails?]

[maipokerface]

... What do just ostriches look like?

[planetary_bonds]

kind of like how you described them. big bird, two feet. i don't think they'd be big enough to be used the same way as a horse, though, although they probably could pull something like a small cart if you could tame one.

[maipokerface]

Huh. Might look about the same then but bigger. I don't think we have just ostriches at home. There are bears though, which is pretty weird.

[planetary_bonds]

bears are considered weird where you're from?

[they sound like a normal animal to him. not like he's ever seen a real one. but. bears.]

[maipokerface]

Well I mean, it was just a bear. Not a polar bear, polar bear dog, gopher bear, platypus bear, skunk bear or an armadillo bear. Just... a bear.

[planetary_bonds]

[...]

out of everything you've just mentioned, the only one I'm even remotely familiar with is a polar bear.

[for one thing, that's an actual species.]

[maipokerface]

Now imagine how I felt looking at most of the animals here at first.

[She sounds amused.]

[planetary_bonds]

fair enough.

then again, the animals here are...exceptionally odd.

[maybe he's still a little miffed about what some of them have done to him.]

[maipokerface]

Yeah? I haven't had much trouble out of them. I mean beyond having dragons chase me down. And the invisible thing in the jungle.

...

Alright so maybe they're more troublesome than I give them credit for.