twenty-first snare - backdated to pre-Rex

[fanstheflame]

[this isn't Gale's first time in a hotel, but the Hard Rock San Diego is a far sight different than the ones in Unova. as such, he is being a total tourist. anyone in the lobby can find him sitting at a table, every single brochure he could get his hands on spread out in front of him, poring over their contents with great curiosity]

... This city is even bigger and more extravagant than the Capitol. I didn't think that was even possible. And yet ... they've still got places where they preserve nature, these parks. If this is what it was like before the Districts ...

[he shakes his head, sadly] ... I wish we hadn't forgotten. We lost track of what it means to take care of the world around us as well as the people in it. I hope that doesn't happen to Paradisa, either.

[he picks up one brochure and squints at it, curiously] This one doesn't look like a park, though. Not ... well, sort of, I guess? [he makes a face, because seriously, even the word is weird and sounds odd coming out of his mouth]

What's "golf"?

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[save_the_souls]

[Allen is at the table too, using whatever space is left at the table to be places for food. He's currently nomming down on some pad-thai when he hears Gale talking. Whoa wait-]

Wait. Your world is Earth?

[fanstheflame]

[he looks up and blinks at Allen as though he just said something in another language]

Yeah. ... I - I thought you knew?

[save_the_souls]

[He shakes his head]

You and the others always called it Panem.

[fanstheflame]

That's the name of our country ... it used to be called America, a really long time ago. Back before the natural disasters struck.

[courageous_wit]

Golf is a sport. The modern game of golf originated in the 15th century in Scotland, though its ancient origins are debated. The rules of golf state that-- [she actually manages to stop herself before she goes full steam]

Sorry. Um, the point is that it doesn't really seem like your game. You're more of a track and field type. Golf is quiet and subdued.

[fanstheflame]

[he can't help laughing, because it's good to hear Hermione being Hermione] Quiet and subdued, huh? ... Yeah, no, not really. So I should probably put this in my 'no' pile.

[courageous_wit]

Not at all. But you know, there are so many amazing things to see in this city! The Mission Bay Aquatic Park, for example, is the largest man-made aquatic park in the country. Or you could go see Coronada, which has a beautiful hotel and was the inspiration for a city in a famous novel back in my world.

[bronwe]

Oh! [ Oh, oh goodie, he knows this one! ]

Bandobras Bullroarer Took invented it! You don't happen to know of him too, do you?

[fanstheflame]

Never heard of him, but that's quite a name. Why did they call him Bullroarer? [he likes a good story, after all. everyone in the Seam did, when it came right down to it]

[bronwe]

A Bullroarer is something they used in battle, like a trumpet. He won a battle against the goblins and that is no small feat for a hobbit. He slayed Golfimbul, the leader, and flung his head across the field until it rolled into a rabbit hole, and that was how the game was born!

[whichwayyoulean]

[Wow, Hermione, make it sounds complicated why don't you]

You hit a little ball with a stick to get it into a hole in the ground.

[fanstheflame]

Okay, Hermione's right, that sounds boring as hell. ... You make it here in one piece?

[whichwayyoulean]

It is. I had to suffer through them with my investors all the time. I wouldn't recommend it.

Yeah, I'm fine, I was on the ship through all of it. How'd you guys fare?

[encryptedlock]

Looks like you got gold covered, but if you like parks, you really out to visit the San Diego Zoo.

[Biased because it has pandas? Just a little.]

[fanstheflame]

What's a Zoo? [he's rifling through the brochures, until he finds it] .... animals? ... Looks a lot like what we were trying to do with those dinosaurs.

[encryptedlock]

A little different than that. For one thing, animals in this zoo were bred in captivity instead of being recreated from extinct genetic material by a crazy man. But yeah, it's short for "zoological park" and it's a good way for city people to see animals they usually couldn't.

[eat_me_beat_me]

A boring-ass game.

[fanstheflame]

That seems to be the general opinion. So how many of these things aren't boring? I feel like I should do something while we're here, but I can't decide what.

[eat_me_beat_me]

Oh I'm sure there's a hell of a lot've stuff to do around here. What kinda stuff you looking at?

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[the_effect_she_has]

So you noticed that too, huh?

[She sighed, as she finished tying up her bootlaces, her journal open as she went to walk over to the window. Looking out with distrust, and wonder.]

I don't think we can ever lose track of who we are here. I think this place just reminds us even more strongly of where we came from, and what we have to do to ... to live. [She leaned her head on the window frame.] Maybe that's why we're here. To remind Paradisa that it's not just here to be a mask of something else - that it has to live too.

[fanstheflame]

Kind of hard not to notice, Catnip... but you've got a good point.

Anyway - no one's gonna be running around trying to control us if we try and explore, here. You feel up to it? A little taste of the high life? On our terms?

[the_effect_she_has]

[She grinned as she finished braiding back her hair.] When have I ever said no to doing things on our terms? [Because that's what they had done almost all their lives.]

Yeah, I'm ready, You want to go to this ... 'zoo' thing?

dictated;

[freeslider]

I think I know what you mean. This city is pretty nice in that it's got a lot of everything. I've traveled to wo--other places...that had almost nothing green around, and other places that were barely developed at all! It's hard to find a balance.

[fanstheflame]

Other worlds? Wait, you mean, other than yours and Paradisa? Really?

[freeslider]

[Ooops, should have backpedaled sooner. Although there's really nothing wrong with it, except the habit of keeping it secret]

Yeah. Kind of. It's a little complicated.