Mingle: Beach Side BBQ!

[blueyesfanboy]

Today, everybody received a neatly written note under their doorstep:

TUESDAY, AUGUST 20TH ONLY
COME DOWN TO THE BEACH FOR A SPECIAL FEAST!
We will be having BBQ, ice-cold sodas and alcohol (please only drink if you are 21 or older, thank you), and a cooler filled with icecream. There will also be beach toys and towels for the kids. Enjoy the fun and the sun!

So, if you were so curious as to let that note tantalize you and headed to the beach just outside the Campus, you would find the sweet nurse Lisa to greet and welcome you in...and then lunch lady Edna scowling at you as she cooked.

At least with Lisa's supervision, the food might just be bad, instead of likely to give you food poisoning, right?!

"Enjoy the fun and the sun!"

Comments

[fluffydeathdealer]

Huh? That surprises you?

[He stares blinking at the stranger as if it was the weirdest question he's gotten yet.]

Technology will always be limited by the rules of the universe. Short of this place turning out to be a virtual reality with programmed memories, there's little reason to assume any sort of technology was involved.

There's just too much that doesn't make sense if you take it as a technological method. This place is low-tech, mimicking the 20th century in style. There's no electronic locks, no working computers, and the most technological thing I've encountered has been a hologram of a city, which is doable with modern technology.

On top of that, it's able to interfere with non-technological abilities dating back three thousand years. It's possible for it to be technological, but. I doubt it.

[fightordie]

Then what do you suggest did it? Magic?

[Rhetorical question, of course. This kid is smart, and Shepard could see his reasoning. But there was always a logical explanation for everything. Like his "visions" back on Eden Prime.]

[fluffydeathdealer]

I can't claim to be sure. It's possible for it to be magical in origin - I know some people here who have abilities that would be considered magical. But without proof or clearer clues, I'm pretty much just grasping at straws. It's entirely possible that we're all just plugged into a machine and imagining ourselves to be here.

[It's an eerie thought, but one with precedence. He's sure he's heard the others talking about something like that in the past.]

[fightordie]

[Now Shepard is curious about these people who could be considered to have "magical powers". Not that he's buying it.]

That seems more likely. [And yet still doesn't make sense -- not with his current situation.] Except I would have had to have been knocked out and dragged to some machine somewhere near by.

[And considering he was in a literal war-zone before he arrived, that's not very likely.]

What were you doing before you were brought here?

[fluffydeathdealer]

I was knocked out by a dragon.

[That could have been sarcasm. It probably was. But it's all too real a memory. Awakening on that deck... it had been a shock to him. Awakening here, less so.]

Ahahaha, I'm joking, I'm joking! [He holds his hands up.] Actually, I got injured during a tournament and I'm pretty sure I ended up in the infirmary on the Duel Ship. But then I just woke up here.

[fightordie]

[This face. This unflappable lineface is how funny he finds that joke.]

So you were fighting. [That's what he assumes, at least. What other kind of tournament could send someone to an infirmary?] What kind of injury?

[fluffydeathdealer]

Why do you need to know that?

[Besides, he'd already told him, in a fashion. What fool would believe "God smote me"?]