007: AMAs, Third Round

[tarnishedavenger]

So, we've got a load of new people, and that means it's time for me to do the only thing it feels like I get on these comms to do anymore: AMAs.

For you new people, I find it helps when we get together and explain a little bit about ourselves, any powers we have, and our skillsets. That way we know what we're starting with and what we can build off of. So, please, come and introduce yourselves and be willing to answer questions.

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[acroodawakening]

Phil and Hope - they're my parents' best friends - they kind of invented farming back home, so I think Dawn, their daughter, she's the first one who can eat a lot of it without a big stomach ache. Since she started eating it when she was really little.

[He opens the carton of broth and sniffs it, then starts chugging some down. It doesn't matter that it's room temp. When you grow up in a world without electricity, sometimes food doesn't always come at a temperature that's ideal.]

[He looks at the carton thoughtfully, taking a moment to read the labeling. He has to do it slowly, and mouths the sounds out like he's trying to connect the words to spoken language.]

This tastes good but what kind of chicken is able to make this? I thought they could only make eggs.

[hallelujahjunction]

[Phil, Hope and Dawn are not what he expected Guy's friends back home to be named, and he grins with entertainment at that. Hope and Dawn, he guesses, make some sort of sense. 'Phil' just feel link he's been joked at.]

Smart folks. I'd bet ninety-five percent of the folks here never invented nothing in their whole lives, much less a way of sustainably feeding a family.

[Guy taking his time and slowly working out word by word is light years ahead of Dan, who still signs his name with an X. He smiles, genuinely, to see that Guy's got more capacity here than he would have assumed. It's a nice way to be proven wrong.]

Oh, ah...that's the meat and bones of the chicken boiled in water. [He bites his lip, hoping that Guy's not a vegetarian who just downed a bunch of bone broth unwarned. That would be silly in Guy's time period, wouldn't it? It's hard to get enough fuel to function on plants and nuts you find scavenging alone.]

[acroodawakening]

Oh! It's just soup! I know what soup is. One of my friends makes really good soup. I'm just used to it having stuff in it.

I invented some of the same things Phil and Hope did, at about the same time, like fire and shoes, just not agriculture. Wish I'd thought of that one, it's pretty inspired.

[Inspired by the death of his family but he doesn't say that.]

[He keeps digging through the basket, shaking the little jello cups and looking entertained by the jiggling.]

Where I'm from is kind of...new. I guess is the best way of explaining it. There's room for new things to be made that already exist in other places.