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Who: everyone!
When: Day 6
Where: everywhere!
What: regrouping after the event

Well, the swarm is over and the queen has died. What are you doing now, friends?

Heading back to the boneyard to regroup? Staying at the queen's carcass to harvest meat and pearl things? Staying maybe to heal if you're banged up? Or maybe you're arguing with others over what to do.

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Maybe they're boss loot. [ This is Inui helping and not at all being sore over the fact that he can't move his legs right now because they're numb from trilobite....bites. He's had a rough day okay? He wants to be able to do more than sit on his butt but he can't :c ]

We can sell them to a vendor if we ever find anyone else on this giant awful planet of death.

[Guess who's never played a video game in her life.]

... What?

[ Ahsoka you are an embarrassment to the future. If his time has catchy apps then clearly hers should have something even better?? And she should have played them before. ]

I'm saying the rocks are vendor trash. You know, grey items? That you sell to in-game vendors for cash?

I literally have no idea what you're talking about. What game?

Any game! Like seriously, any RPG will give you junk to sell to vendors for cash. [ Inui pauses, studying her like he can't be sure if she's dense or has genuinely not played before, and if such is the case then the future is bleak indeed. ]

...You know what a video game is, right?

I know what a game is. What's a video game?

[They probably call it something else in Star Wars lbr.]

[ True. Star Wars loves it's fancy words ]

...A virtual version of a game? You've seriously never played one?? [ Ohhhhh Ashla, he has so much to tell you♥ ]

Oh. Well... I mean... not really?

That's like, literally the saddest thing I've ever heard in my entire life. Don't aliens do anything for fun?? [ No wonder Ashla is such a stick in the mud ]

... I do things for fun.

[DOES SHE THO]

[ HAHA that's literally with this expression says as he looks at her, pointedly. ]

Like what?

I... fix stuff!

Mechanical stuff.

"Mechanical stuff." [ Can you feel his smug skepticism growing, dearest Ashla? Because it's spread to his cocky little eyes and mouth now. ]

Right. Like droids!

Like...what? [ Does she mean robots or something? "Droids" sounds like it should be "androids".

...Man, now he's picturing her working on human-looking robots and that's just kinda weird. ]

[She looks at him like he might be simple.]

... Droids. You know. Clankers? Tinnies? Mechanical units with programmable functions?

...Robots? [ Inui offers. As in, you know, the normal-people word for all that? ]

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I... guess? But who calls them that anymore?

Everyone on Earth I'm pretty sure... Why do you use "droid"? That sounds weird.

[ Inui shifts his weight a little uncomfortably and pushes his palms down into the middle of one thigh again, trying to prompt some sense of feeling there. ]

That's just what we call them. Don't ask me, I don't make up the words.

Man, how do you still not know video games if you hang out with robots all day? Video games, like, invented robots.

I understand the sort of thing you mean, but-- I just don't have time for that kind of stuff.

Oh right, too busy with your high school alien espionage stuff?

[???????????????????????????]

What? No.

How does your mind even work?

Come on, you're so totally suspicious. You've gotta have a cool backstory or something. I mean...you're an alien. Your life has gotta be indefinitely more exciting than mine. [ And as silly as it is to suggest 'all aliens surely have exciting scifi lives", he really does think that compared to his life as a regular student going to regular school is much duller compared to everyone else here. They're all...adapted to this kind of thing. ]