audio | @Kromer

[gripper]

( It's everyone's favorite person, Kromer!!! She whistles to announce herself, then more properly introduces herself— )

Been a while, hasn't it? For those who don't know me, the name's Kromer. Pleasure's mine. I posed some questions last time I posted here, but I won't bother repeating them for you—I got the picture the first time. ( She pauses, then laughs shortly. ) Actually, speaking of questions—

I'm sure you've seen them! The kiosks over at the tourist center in city hall. You can ask them questions and you can get mostly useless answers. They've got some interesting ones every so often, though, like how this isn't the first time this has happened.

( She's been thinking on that answer for a while, and now she's just casually dropping it into conversation. Whatever. )

I'm collecting questions and their resulting answers, so if you've posed any, let me know... or you can pass them along to Junpei instead, if you're familiar with him. We're partners. ( in a way. ) It's nice to be able to make sure we're not needlessly going in circles, right? And putting all the information in one place makes it easier to put the pieces together.

( ... )

That's all. Let's do our best to work together and find a way home, alright? Chin up, everyone.

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[indwelt]

[ He has so many questions (still). ]

Is that how you view most people? As useful connections above all else?

[gripper]

( welcome to the city....(projmoon version) )

I won't lie and say no, but that's the way of things where I grew up, you could say... though it's not like I'm completely unsympathetic or without people I consider important either. It's just more that everyone's got something to offer, right? You never know who's gonna have a skill or bit of knowledge that might just prove crucial to one problem or another...

( ... )

Are you saying you don't feel the same way? Hahaha.

[indwelt]

There's value in understanding what skills a person can bring to the table, and in being able to use those skills when the time calls for it.

[ He's not so naive as to think everyone in the world, himself included, waltzes through life without at least subconsciously taking note of such things. ]

I just think that it's impossible to form meaningful relationship if that's all the other person is ever viewed as, a tool or a means to an end. But I realize that most people think that a foolish way of seeing things.

[gripper]

You've got more comrades in that camp than you think, I'd bet, but you're right. Most of the city I'm from thinks of it that way.

( and, as someone raised in that environment, she, too... )

Hahaha... but that doesn't mean it's completely impossible. If you're both getting something out of it, both using one another, both thinking of each other as a "means to an end", whatever that "end" is... you really don't think they couldn't form a meaningful relationship like that? Time spent together is time spent together, whatever the intentions are.