[OPEN] BABES IN TOYLAND

[speakveryclearly]

Date & Time: December 20th, 2013
Location: New York City!!!
Characters: HOLIDAY SHOPPERS. Please note that with mod approval, any character is allowed to have joined the mob in front of the transporter, regardless of whether they responded to the network post advertising this event.
Summary: In a bid to conserve energy, over a dozen transports do all of their Christmas shopping at once. I hope you brought money!
Warnings: None for now!

All the transports are dropped into New York at 6:00, simultaneously but scattered. Coding the drop points for this mission was hell.

It turns out that the weather is actually fairly mild on this date; there is snow neither in the air nor in the ground. That isn't to say there's nothing of visual interest: All the lights of the city are on at this hour.



The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree was lit back on December 4th.



Shop until you drop, Transports.

Comments

[controlledvariable]

The best thing about being back in a civilized time period? Google, including google maps, since it means that Steph can pull out the cellphone she got herself and look up where the nearest bank is.

"Yup, what you've got now are yen, I'm guessing you got those in Japan?" It seems like the logical conclusion to make.

[speakveryclearly]

"Uhuh. I'm just glad they're usable in both Tokyo and Osaka." She pronounces these place names without the missteps that accompany some less familiar elements of her vocabulary. Languages with five pure vowels, that's what makes sense to her. "I have to concede the appeal of linguistic and financial hegemony..."

[controlledvariable]

"Having everyone using the same currency wouldn't be too bad, but language is really important for a lot of cultures," And English already has a habit of steamrolling over a lot of languages; she wouldn't encourage it any more.

[speakveryclearly]

She shrugs, a little more force than entirely necessary going into the surly motion. Back in Exsilium, she'd gotten used to having to disturb a gradual pile of snow forming on her shoulders. "Huh. I didn't know that." Maybe she's trying to shrug the chip off her shoulder against English language policing too. Steph wouldn't understand that, though, Kanaya thinks.

[controlledvariable]

"Earth can be kind of complicated, but it's one of my favourite things about it," She can't really imagine living somewhere completely homogenous; she gets bored easily enough as it.