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[shes-traught.livejournal.com]

[Hey New Moore, have an Artemis again. She's even looking slightly pleasant, what do you know. Also the video is bouncing slightly - she's walking in a park, wearing normal people clothes and carrying a backpack.]

So, I need money, which means I need a job. I've looked around and done some odd lifting and carrying jobs, but I don't really have any - marketable talents other than being athletic. Anyone know of an opening for a highschool-grunt type job? I could probably do fast food, or a grocery store, or something. 

[She's come to a stop. Putting the phone on the ground, she sits down beside it and starts stretching. In the background is a sign indicating the start of the park's mile-long running loop.]

So yeah. Any recommendations?

And I wanted to say thanks to those of you who helped me get settled in. I - really appreciate it.

[And she reaches over to click it off.]

Comments

[yearoftruth.livejournal.com]

Under the radar?

[shes-traught.livejournal.com]

Not standing out.

I'm a big fan of not standing out. It keeps you safe. Safer, at least.

[yearoftruth.livejournal.com]

...

Not much keeps you safe here.

[shes-traught.livejournal.com]

That bad, huh? What sort of shenanigans does this place get up to?

[yearoftruth.livejournal.com]

I've been here over a year, and I can't count on my fingers all the things that were possibly dangerous that have happened. Volcanoes, animals, monsters, it's all happened.

[shes-traught.livejournal.com]

Well, that's not too awful. I come from a pit of weirdness, so I'm a little used to it. As used to it as you get, anyways.

[yearoftruth.livejournal.com]

A pit of weirdness?

Can I ask about it?

[shes-traught.livejournal.com]

Uh, sure. Gotham City. Home of the Joker, half the organized crime in the country it feels like, way too many supervillains. If something hasn't been blown up or otherwise destroyed, it's a slow week.

Sometimes there are tentacle monsters. Those are always fun.

[yearoftruth.livejournal.com]

Wow, yeah, I guess everything would seem boring after that.

Maybe this place will feel a little like home. There's no supervillans, or villans unless you count the island itself. It seems to have a mind of its own. It's not the same, but it's more difficult to find a common enemy.

But we haven't had tentacle monsters, yet. I'll look forward to it.

[shes-traught.livejournal.com]

Not boring, necessarily. Just - different.

It seems pretty quiet so far. No one's tried to mug me even once, and I've been out at dark plenty of times.

You've just got to remember to stay out of their way. They've got a long reach and generally big mouths.

[yearoftruth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when it comes to the community, I don't think we have much crime. Sometimes, someone shows up from someone else's home and it causes some problems.


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Thanks for the tip.

[shes-traught.livejournal.com]

What, the villains of our 'stories'? [Pause. She would not be happy at all if some of her villains got dragged here.] I don't think I'm very fond of that idea.

Some things are just important to know.

[yearoftruth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, none of us really are, but it's happened.

[shes-traught.livejournal.com]

I can't say that I like this place.

[yearoftruth.livejournal.com]

No one really does ... but ... it's tolerable with the people here.

[shes-traught.livejournal.com]

[So unconvinced.] You've got friends here?

[yearoftruth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's how you get by.

[shes-traught.livejournal.com]

If you say so.