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Firsthand History- Monday- 1st period

Sep 05, 2016 08:45

Today the class was in a Danger Shopped outdoor concert venue. No way was Kitty taking them to the real one without chaperones. But it was crowded and still kind of muddy, and there was music, so ( Read more... )

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Re: Listen to the lecture vrajna_kralis September 5 2016, 18:18:49 UTC

Hyacinthe really was not paying attention to the lecture; he was too busy gazing around the venue in shock. He had never seen so many people in one place in his life. The City of Elua had maybe a hundred thousand people? Maybe? He'd never looked at a census. And here was a third of that at a concert.

Re: Listen to the lecture intotheout September 5 2016, 21:48:39 UTC

The last time Tip had been anywhere this crowded, nearly the entire population of the US was living in Arizona. But she didn't go to a lot of sporting events or stadium concerts. "Kind of crazy, huh?"

Re: Listen to the lecture vrajna_kralis September 6 2016, 01:56:27 UTC

"It seems impossible there should be so many," he murmured, staring out over the ocean of people for a moment longer before glancing over at Gratuity. "Is this normal, then? So many people all at once?"

Re: Listen to the lecture intotheout September 6 2016, 02:06:14 UTC

"There are seven billion people on Earth." There was before the invasion, anyway, so she assumed that was how many non-invaded earths had. "So . . . kinda. In the cities and at events, anyway."

Re: Listen to the lecture vrajna_kralis September 6 2016, 02:19:43 UTC

"Seven billion?!" Just when Hyacinthe thought he was at the limits of his ability to be surprised... "'Tis not a number I can conceive of."

Re: Listen to the lecture intotheout September 6 2016, 02:22:30 UTC

Tip smiled. "Yeah, neither can anyone else. It's like trying to picture how far away Saturn is until you actually have to drive there -- that's not going to help, is it."

Re: Listen to the lecture vrajna_kralis September 6 2016, 02:25:36 UTC

...Yeah, that planet wasn't going to be discovered for another few hundred years, even as fancy as the D'Angelines were. Nor did Hyacinthe have much use for the concept of driving.

"Might if I knew half of what you were speaking of," he said with a rueful grin. "Seems like no matter what conversation I am in, either I'm confusing people or being confused. You're Gratuity, no?"

They'd had several classes together and she was cute. Obviously Hyacinthe had noticed.

Re: Listen to the lecture intotheout September 6 2016, 02:31:03 UTC

"That's right. And you're Hyacinthe." He had an unusual name, and Tip was not immune to the pretty, so she'd noticed him, too. "And it's alright, I'm pretty much always confusing people, too. Apparently my world is pretty weird."

Re: Listen to the lecture vrajna_kralis September 6 2016, 04:14:10 UTC

Weird-named kid pride!

"As is mine," he said with a commiserating smile. "Being a thousand years ago and several dimensions over, or so I hear." He shook his head, wondering at such turns life could take. "What is so odd about your world?"

Re: Listen to the lecture intotheout September 6 2016, 04:17:52 UTC

"The Earth got invaded and taken over by aliens who made us all live in 'Human Preserves' and basically were giant space assholes." Pardon her language. "And another race of aliens showed up to conquer those aliens and tried to kill all the cats. It was a whole thing."

Re: Listen to the lecture vrajna_kralis September 6 2016, 04:38:10 UTC

"...Oh." Even the normally silver-tongued Hyacinthe had to take a second to take all that in. "I will grant you that does sound weird," he said, unable not to smile at least a little bit. "What did they have against cats?"

Re: Listen to the lecture intotheout September 6 2016, 04:41:09 UTC

"They're allergic," Tip said, smirking. It was all thoroughly horrible in almost every way while she was living it, but in retrospect she could definitely still find the humor in it all. "That's actually why they finally ended up leaving. They just couldn't eliminate the cats."

Especially when an 11 year old girl and a Boov handyman were madly cloning them.

Re: Listen to the lecture vrajna_kralis September 6 2016, 04:50:49 UTC

Hyacinthe would agree that would do it, if he had any idea what 'a Boov' and 'cloning' was.

"I've noticed cats rarely do what you wish of them and will most cheerfully be where they are most wished gone," he said. "So that, at least, seems to be a point of similarity."

Re: Listen to the lecture intotheout September 6 2016, 04:53:50 UTC

Hey, Tip was actually very used to explaining things that were well known concepts in her world. Maybe some day she'd explain them to him.

"Cats as a universal. I like that." Peridot would beg to differ, but then she always did. "So a thousand years ago, huh? So is your world run by a feudal system of lords, or. . . ?"

Re: Listen to the lecture vrajna_kralis September 6 2016, 05:05:37 UTC

"Feudal lords?" Hyacinthe made a mental note to look that up on the Wikipedia on his phone. As he did with so very many things. "Terre D'Ange has a ruling family, as many countries do. The de la Courcels are directly descended from Blessed Elua himself as are all of the noble families. Each of the provinces has a duc that rules in the king's stead, as well and various aristocratic families if you're looking for lords and ladies."

Re: Listen to the lecture intotheout September 6 2016, 05:22:03 UTC

So . . . that'd be a yes, then. As far as Tip could tell. And a system that had the whole 'destined by god' crap that most of the Christian world had tried at one point or another, too.

Gross.

"We've got some countries that still have kings and things," Tip said. "But in most places in my world they're just ceremonial now." Actually, in several places in her world, they'd been dethroned by Boov and never replaced, but that was neither here nor there.

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