[OPEN LOG] who's gonna take you home?

[frontality]

Who: Full Frontal and YOU.
When: Throughout late July
Where: ADI headquarters and ADI housing
Summary: Adjusting to life in ADI is a difficult feat... aka, the log where I put intro-y prompts.
Warnings: None as of yet!


I. HQ Canteen

[ Out of the recent arrivals to ADI's ranks, Frontal likely looks like one of the stranger ones if only for the metal mask with the red eyes that he has yet to take off even once. For a few days now, he's been a fixture in the headquarters. Striking in appearance but quiet, only observing. When he's standing in a corner, unmoving, it might be easy to mistake him for a mannequin.

Today, however, he seems to have made up his mind to stop being an extraordinarily unsettling potted plant and instead actually interact with somebody else. Are you about to settle down with your food? So is Frontal and you'll find him approaching with a polite nod. ]

Would you mind a bit of company? I've gotten the impression that you're new as well.

II. The Docks (after the Kelpie crisis)

[ If you're by the docks sometime during the day, you might find Full Frontal (still masked, still unnaturally still in the way he is standing) staring out at the ships. Being one of the few who did not participate in the hunt for the Kelpies, he's not yet sick of looking at the water at least.

He seems to recognize you as you pass by, having memorized your appearance during his time examining the headquarters. There aren't many others around, so he feels comfortable striking up a conversation: ]

Good afternoon. Would you say these ships roughly correspond to your definition of 'modern'?

III. ADI Housing - Laundry Room

[ And finally, you can find the masked man facing a rather mundane problem. Though usually his lieutenant Angelo is the one who does the laundry for him and Angelo is still very fortunately by his side... today, Frontal has decided to pull his weight around the household. Different times call for different measures.

The only problem is, he does appear to be reading the entire backs of several different detergent bottles, struggling to decide what would be most appropriate to use. Please help... ]

Comments

[marmoron]

[ the admission that full frontal doesn't deal much with people at least earns him a point in keith's favor. if nothing else, it's relatable even if in keith's case that might be more of a self burn. the frowning eases up ever so slightly as he takes a sip of water. ]

Very likely.

[ a beat. ]

So are you actually from a version of Earth then? Or are you some other kind of alien?

[ for all he knows the mask's there to hide some crazy alien eye going on. of course, one doesn't actually have to look alien to be alien, but what would keith know about that anyway... ]

[frontality]

I'm from the Earth Sphere, but I've never been on the planet itself before coming here.

[ Frontal looks... well, he looks a little bit off and not quite human but in that uncanny valley way a good wax figure doesn't look human. No alien physiognomy, just a really weird guy. ]

My last place of permanent residence was Palau, a mining asteroid. We're not aliens though, the people living there have merely been space colonists for one or two generations.

[marmoron]

[ right. so in this alternate reality of earth, there are space colonies full of people with odd names and possibly space radiation has altered the way people look? kinda interesting. ]

I see. So people are settling on space colonies... and fighting wars against aliens?

[frontality]

Mhm, that would be the more exciting option, wouldn't it?

[ At least to Frontal who still continues aliens nothing but a trope used in fiction for teenage boys, not something that is close enough to have any bearing on his reality. ]

Unfortunately, mankind simply is at odds with itself, as it always was and always will be.

[marmoron]

I wouldn't call it exciting at all.

[ said in that very deadpan tone that makes it fairly clear that keith has had some not so great experiences with aliens, actually. there's more he could say about this "always will be" take on humanity, but actually.... he kinda feels like this is just going to launch into some maudlinn armchair philosophy that he doesn't actually want to listen to.

grom nom chicken tenders. ]

[frontality]

[ Keith is making a very wise call here, you do not want Frontal talking about the fate of mankind. ]

It would have a degree of novelty compared to the tradition of man-made wars. But you are right, in the end it would still be a calamity first and foremost. Are you speaking from experience?

[marmoron]

[ expression flatlining; ] Yeah. [ a beat. ] Trust me, it's not exactly a novelty you want to be dealing with.

If the aliens find you before you find them, that's probably because they're thousands of years ahead of you and have the kind of technology that makes nuclear warheads look like firecrackers.