mercenarymayhem | Test Drive Meme

The city of Gulch is a bustling place, a haven for criminals and rogues, yet a cherished home to its natives. You might be a native, well familiar with typical, day-to-day life here. Or you may be from off-world, here for some opportunity you think you can't get elsewhere.

Or, you may have been dragged here by the dimensional portal known as the Transponser™— an outsider, confused and weary.

What will you do while you are here?

1) New arrivals: Maybe you're a mercenary who just arrived from off world. Or maybe you're a visitor who came through the transporter. Either way, you're new, and it's time to explore.

2) Taking a job: Everyone who comes to Gulch needs to have a means of making income. Maybe you've taken a job as a mercenary. Maybe you become a lowly store clerk. Either way, you need to make contact with customers.

3) Avoiding the plague: The clouds are descending and it's time to find shelter! Make your way through the streets with the others who have found themselves vulnerable.

4) Touring the city: It means a long train ride but you want to see the sights, so you pay for a token and off you go!

5) Wildcard: Whatever you want to play out! Tag around and have fun!

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Watch out for Theta's sock-bombs. He has prepared a whole pile just for you. I made him use clean socks, of course.

Appreciate that warning, Sigma. And the clean socks.

Wouldn't want you to get contaminated. The only thing worse that Theta's dirty socks are Gamma's. Or maybe yours, since you don't come home often enough to change them.

Mine would be worst easily.

And don't you start, I get it enough from Omega.

Don't we all. You wouldn't believe some of the things he said last week. In front of my guest, even.

It's Omega. I can believe a lot from him. And you should know guests aren't going to shield you from him.

So, who was the guest?

Nobody you've met. A friend. . . . More than a friend. You would know if you'd been home.

Don't start, Sigma. Just don't.

Don't start with you, or with him? I suppose if you aren't in the mood, I can drop that issue.

I get enough jabs about not being home from Omega. I don't need them from you.

All right. No more from me, then.

Are you going to be in school this summer or will you just wander the railways?

Yes, though I'll still be wandering.

It keeps things interesting.

Speaking of interesting, have you heard the news about Omega's sponsor and Delta?

Sponsor? What kind of sponsor?

The guy who's funding his mercenary training. You've heard about that, right?

...

WHAT?

Surprise?

Please tell me that was some kind of joke.

Unfortunately, I'm not. He ran into someone at his construction gig and it's all been downhill from there.

And here I was worried I might make a mistake and have work follow me home for doing courier work. What the hell is he thinking?

That it's good money and it sucks a whole lot less than construction? He even found someone to sponsor him. Took him on as a demolitions specialist, and now the guy's dating Delta. Is that confusing enough for you?

I can't exactly argue that logic, if it pays well enough...

Wait, Delta is dating?

Yeah. . . Delta may never forgive you if you do. Like I said, you've missed a whole lot of drama. And yet he's now dating the guy who started it all. Maine--the eponymous sponsor and boyfriend--is coming over for dinner on Sunday if you're curious.

...

Well. I think I'll have to come home more, at this rate... I'm missing way too much I should know.

And we're missing you way too much. Thankfully, you can kill two birds with one stone.

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