Who: Ruka, by her lonesome. When: Late summer 2009. Where: Beautiful Los Angeles, California Mission Objective: • Stated objectives: "research, investment, and development of potential resources," with a side order of a supply run.
• Actual objectives in the past: get her nails and hair done (hard to mask the scent of hair color in a moon base bathroom!), gamble her way to a thicker wallet, stay in a nice hotel where she can sleep in an actual bed and order room service, work on a tan, see a play, have an existential crisis and cry a lot, and maybe get a few things to take back with her.
("things" may include: new clothes; trail mix/dried fruits/compact and lightweight dry goods; a collection of sample paints from a home improvement store; a flip knife; makeup/concealer; a pound of coffee and a personal coffee-grinder as a present/bribe for the unfortunate loser stuck operating the transport pad on the condition that they not shout from the rooftops that she specifically was the person who gave it, at least not within hearing of other transports; cat...food...; a set of moon and earth globes, one each. this should fill no more than a single dufflebag; only the cat food would be donated to the cause).
• Actual objective for leaving moon base in the first place: being any-fucking-where other than around other Transports during Halloween. Hell. No. She has dealt with zombies and jackasses too many times to fall for this again. (And so that I can hiatus her guilt-free for the necromorphism plot at the end of the month.)
Preferred absence window of leaving on the 27th and returning on the 4th.
Success or Failure?: Success for her, "mixed bag" on her stated goals.
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When: Late summer 2009.
Where: Beautiful Los Angeles, California
Mission Objective:
• Stated objectives: "research, investment, and development of potential resources," with a side order of a supply run.
• Actual objectives in the past: get her nails and hair done (hard to mask the scent of hair color in a moon base bathroom!), gamble her way to a thicker wallet, stay in a nice hotel where she can sleep in an actual bed and order room service, work on a tan, see a play, have an existential crisis and cry a lot, and maybe get a few things to take back with her.
("things" may include: new clothes; trail mix/dried fruits/compact and lightweight dry goods; a collection of sample paints from a home improvement store; a flip knife; makeup/concealer; a pound of coffee and a personal coffee-grinder as a present/bribe for the unfortunate loser stuck operating the transport pad on the condition that they not shout from the rooftops that she specifically was the person who gave it, at least not within hearing of other transports; cat...food...; a set of moon and earth globes, one each. this should fill no more than a single dufflebag; only the cat food would be donated to the cause).
• Actual objective for leaving moon base in the first place: being any-fucking-where other than around other Transports during Halloween. Hell. No. She has dealt with zombies and jackasses too many times to fall for this again. (And so that I can hiatus her guilt-free for the necromorphism plot at the end of the month.)
Preferred absence window of leaving on the 27th and returning on the 4th.
Success or Failure?: Success for her, "mixed bag" on her stated goals.