Shelton: My roommate in college. His name was Bruce, he was a jackass and I was the only one who'd put up with him. He was a genius though, a real prodigy at virtual reality, and I try to keep people like that in my circle. And oh boy did it pay off in this instance.
He'd been interviewing aggressively with Pelvanida, I didn't really understand why at the time (years later, I learned it was because he wanted to join Dragonstorm...) and one day he passed the word onto me that their control room admin, Dr. Denning-Rodger, was retiring after 34 years on the job. That cranky old man gave me the hardest job interview I've ever had...but I landed the position due to lack of other applicants. Most qualified people were scared off by the alarming frequency of workplace-related injuries, but I was just excited to find an American government job that covered reallocation costs. You don't just turn that down.
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Emilena:
Sighhhhhhh... Okay, fine. In the spirit of fair play, I'll give this question an honest shot.
Knocking some easy ones off the list: Lily, Awe, and the lesbians are instant hard passes. Marita and her groupies are idiots and I'd probably shoot myself if I had to encounter them on a daily basis. Lily genuinely scares me with her recent behavior. I already had to experience living with her these past few months, I would not recommend it to anyone. Awe is a vigilante Augmented freedom fighter, and a marriage with him would last about as long as it'd take me to chloroform him and call the police.
The Axel from Lanthae would probably have gotten my vote, but these days he's taken to drinking and complaining about literally everything, I think I get depressed just from looking at him. He needs a therapist, and that sort of person can really affect your psyche as a roommate. Or (
eurghh) husband, I guess.
I don't believe Anne and I have shared a single line of dialogue in all the months we've known each other. I don't know why we keep her around, I despise her inability to keep control of her drug addictions, and in a marital situation I'd constantly worry she'd nick my stuff to finance her substance abuse.
Tony is, for the most part, neutral, with some minor plusses and no major minuses. He once worked for the Purifiers, so I could probably convince him to hate Augments again. He's wealthy, well-bred, and currently the least dysfunctional teammate. But his primary downside is his libido; he just answered he's interested in having kids to further his lineage, and I recall him flirting heavily with Marita in
Racing the Storm. Unfortunately I don't think I'm sexually-compatible with someone who wants to, well, have sex.
Can't believe I'm saying this, but Soren comes with the only major plusses I can think of. He'd be able to take care of my cybernetic hand when it needs repairs, plus I suspect he'd mostly go off and do his own thing in his workshop. He's never shown any sort of sex drive in all the time I've known him, plus I just spent two weeks on the run with him and he's refreshingly self-sufficient. We likely will never agree politically, but I think we both understand that and could do what we needed to make it work. Not that that would ever happen or anything, mind you!
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Awe, are there any significant individuals in your past the other main characters don't know about?
Tony, if you'd been present for Kojurro's brief appearance in this role-play
Kojurro's brief appearance in this role-play, how would you have voted regarding his fate? What do you think about how things ultimately turned out for him?
