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[notatherapist]

[ hey look, after meandering around the place for like three weeks, the guy is finally talking to people who aren't the ones he's meeting at random. gettaloadathat. ]

This is - unlikely in the highest degree, but does anyone happen to know where I can find a piano?

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[mallarkey]

The hell do you want a piano for? I don't even know if there's a good place to keep one.

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[notatherapist]

[ is that a trick question ]

There probably isn't. I'd settle for one of the little electronic ones you give eight year olds at Christmas, in the vague hope that they grow up and support themselves with it. I haven't found any other reliable sources of music either.

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[mallarkey]

[ Well... ]

Can you blame 'em? Pianos aren't exactly easy to move around. And someone's bound to get stuck to their horn if they tried to play in weather like this.

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[notatherapist]

[ No, he doesn't blame anyone. He's just... tired, and everyone had stuff going on back home, he's chatted with enough people to know that, but it's Christmas and he hates Christmas except under very specific circumstances that, currently, this place is keeping him away from. ]

So how do you guys vent?

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[ex_longanimity327]

You play?

[ of all the things someone wants, somebody has to look for a piano. ]

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[notatherapist]

Dabble. Seems like I'm in a silent minority.

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[ex_longanimity327]

A kindred spirit. [ a wry chuckle on his end. ] It'd be lovely to have one, I almost miss it—playing.

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[notatherapist]

Well I've got a decent word on someone who might be able to make one. Have you ever been on one of these missions? [ It's all but pronounced with the quotation marks around "mission" intact. ] We might be able to at least bring back the strings. As far as I can tell, there's time enough plenty to figure out the rest in terms of building. If she can't do it, anyway.

What do you play?

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[invisibled]

Tell me if you find out.

Do you play?

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[notatherapist]

Can I get a name for the message?

Sometimes. Better than nothing.

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[charming_jerk]

Here? Man, that's a long shot. Instruments were rare even in the old city. Somethin' that big'd be hard to keep in a place like this.

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[notatherapist]

Guess I was hoping maybe even a little one. If nothing else I suppose my suspicions have been confirmed.

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[charming_jerk]

Huh. too bad ya didn't say somethin' last week. I could of at least grabbed ya a keyboard on one of my supply runs. I might be goin' out again next week, I can take a look. I can't leave a musician hangin'. The two weeks or so I was without a guitar was drivin' me outta my mind.

[notatherapist]

[ Wow that's very nice of you Mr. Horns Guy. ] I can come with, if it'll make things easier? Gotta get my hands dirty at some point anyway. How did you swing a guitar?

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[khajidont]

I'd say that you can find pretty much everything you need on missions, but a piano? Might be a bit hard to lug over to the Transporter.

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[notatherapist]

Bit less likely that someone would be able to make one, right? Predate half this other stuff, but still too complicated. Maybe I can find a glockenspiel.

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[khajidont]

Yeah, I'd be seriously surprised if someone just had a piano kicking around. People play music pretty much everywhere, though, so maybe stuff like... wooden recorders or drums or something could be kicking around.

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[notatherapist]

Anybody you know have a guitar? That's probably a little closer.

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[5055034455]

[Hello, dude who looks a lot like Tony.

Saul meets the camera with a wry little smile, like he knows something the new guy doesn't know.

But! He'll be nice and spill the beans as a first-time-meeting courtesy:] There's a girl here named Ella Ellis who can make just about anything your heart desires. You could give her a call.

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[notatherapist]

[ saul you are the first person who actually has given him some good news

even if you are doing it with a weird expression on your face ]

Oh yeah? That sounds promising. She can make anything? She must love being stuck here.

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[5055034455]

[But it's such a handsome face, isn't it?]

Okay, let me backtrack — she can make a lot of things. Very talented, that girl. As for the sarcasm, I'm in no position to say whether or not someone "loves" being here.

[A pause, then:]

I don't think it's so bad.

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[notatherapist]

[ Oh, to be sure. ]

Sorry, I didn't mean anything by it. Call it a beginner's cynicism.

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[motherofnemesis]

[ squinting so hard ]

What do you know about science?

[notatherapist]

[ what did he say about science??

but ok sure bro ]

Hard water isn't actually just ice. Light moves really fast, but dark's faster. I would have argued that I knew a fair deal, and then I got here, so.

[motherofnemesis]

[ it was just. a test question! she's so confused right now. suspiciously following all conversations and checking his username id. ]

And your name's Larry Paul?