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[peckish4action]

So, I'm still new here so I thought I could ask.

If you can't contact somebody and you can't find them around the island, does that mean they've gone back home? Or something's happened to them? Or something else entirely?

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[easy_a]

Whoever your looking for is either dead or "released".

No one really knows what happens to people who get "released"; no way to tell if the doctors are being truthful about them being let out into "the real world" or if something else happens. Hell, I've even seen the dead end up on a released list, so...

There you have it. Sorry it's shit.

[peckish4action]

[Oh. Wow. Ouch.]

Thank you, that is informative and appreciated.

I hope he's not dead. And he was only here a very little while.

[easy_a]

[Better than sugar coating the situation.]

I hope not, either. Take it from someone who has been there, it's not fun when someone you know is killed. Much better for them to be released, even if we don't really know what the fuck that even means.

[peckish4action]

[That is true and very much appreciated, overall. But he's also fourteen and doesn't always think to say that.]

I'm sorry for your loss.

[easy_a]

It happened a long time ago and the dick responsible is behind bars. It's all right.

["Long time ago" is pretty subjective, seeing as she recalls it happened just last February, but with the way people come and go on New Moore, Simon's death definitely doesn't feel recent or fresh in any sort of way.]

[peckish4action]

It's good to know such things are handled like that, then.

Anyway. My name is Dick Grayson, and all that you've 'said' is very much appreciated. Any way I can give anything back?

[Change of topic time!]

[easy_a]

[Poor, unfortunate bloke, having Dick for a name. It's a good thing he can't hear her chuckle.]

Nice to meet you. Mine is Alisha Bailey.

And if you can figure out a place to get a nice-sized cage for my roommate's cat, that would be brilliant.

[peckish4action]

[Shh, he likes his name. Bad jokes and all. He also occasionally lives up to it, too.]

Hi, Aisha!

Right. Cat cages. I think I can find somebody to help me out with making those, my roommate's cat can use one, too. Though they'll probably be both unhappy about it. The cat more so.

[easy_a]

[Props to him!]

That'd be perfect. I don't want a repeat experience if all the animals go completely mental again... and I don't think Lydia does, either. I still have clawmarks on my legs.

Our roommates can deal.

[peckish4action]

Not like the one here acts all that differently outside such times, but.

I'll see what I can put together... or find from pet care places and reinforce, since I'll probably need somebody's permission to get materials to build one. How big is the cat?

[easy_a]

That sucks.

Normal size, I guess. Hold on, I think there's a picture somewhere.

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There. Lydia has a ridiculous amount of pictures of her cat, I swear.

[peckish4action]

I've noticed a lot of people who have cats do that. Not everyone, of course.

That is a pretty cat, though.

[easy_a]

Yeah. Lydia's one of those completely mental over their cat.

Yeah, she is. Would be prettier if she didn't shed all over my stuff.

[peckish4action]

[Dick giggles a little on his end of the discussion.]

Noted.

And, really. It's not the cat's fault. Though I've seen cats submit to getting vacuum-cleaned, don't know exactly how. That might help.

[easy_a]

I'm sure as fuck not vacuuming Kitty. She ain't my cat.

[Granted, after the bunny incident and Kitty going berserk, Alisha's been taking care not to get too close to any animal.]

[peckish4action]

Hey, that's all your call!

[easy_a]

If the cat likes the be vaccuumed, Lydia can do it. And if I did it, I might piss her /and/ the cat off.

Hard enough living with her without getting her worked up about her cat.

[peckish4action]

Ouch. Trouble in paradise, by which I mean the apartment?

[easy_a]

It's not so bad when she's not screaming into her webcam or banging her robot boyfriend.

She's also a crazy cat lady, so Kitty is kind of a touchy subject.

Other than that, everything is peachy. And by that, I mean I try to get out as much as possible.

[peckish4action]

Getting out as much as possible does make sense. Also maybe doing your laundry out and putting it in places where the cat can't reach it.

I mean. Shedding measures aside, where do you hang out, then? Still new, trying to learn about New Moore.

[easy_a]

Luckily, I haven't had too much trouble with my laundry.

[Mostly because she has too many issue with not putting it away, and thus makes doubly sure that the cat stays on Lydia's half of the apartment.]

The hotel bar, mostly. But that's because I work there. My social life here is pretty shit though; it's not even a fraction of what it was like back home... so I'm not exactly sure I'm the best person to be asking "where to hang out".

[peckish4action]

Hey, I've heard bars are a start.

What was it like back home?

[easy_a]

Not much better in terms of weird shit, but there was loads more to do and everyone wasn't confined to an island.

[peckish4action]

So you traveled around? Cool!

[easy_a]

Er, no. What I meant was I wasn't stuck in the same place /because/ there was no way out. Actually, I was stuck because of community service, but that's a different story entirely.