Groovy Tunes, Thursday

[okteiviakom]

It was Octavia's first shift.

Ever, on any job.

Just another thing to adapt to, she guessed. Jono had left her a note with instructions about running the store, and she was quietly grateful for it. Right now, she was learning to work the till – while shaking her head at the whole idea of it. Exchanging pieces of paper and bits of metal for plastic discs to take them home.

This was going to take adjusting to.

She was still wearing her tough leathers. She was yet to start feeling comfortable in anything else, at least anywhere in public. Maybe that's why the stereo was behaving itself, and actually playing the Elliot Smith compilation she'd wanted it to play.

Groovy Tunes was open and there was a Grounder behind the counter.

[ooc: Open, no OCD!]

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[okteiviakom]

"Fucked up how?"

Well. She had to ask. Genuinely curious, too - as much as he'd be able to tell.

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante shrugged. "I'm sure you've heard the whole rundown," he said. "People turning into animals, crazy monsters showing up every once in a while..."

[okteiviakom]

Octavia paused.

"My brother didn't say anything about monsters."

Was it bad that the subtle glint in her eye said she was positively intrigued by that? Like there was something potentially exciting about monsters.

[rebelseekspizza]

"They're not here every day," Dante said, tilting his head. "But sometimes? Yeah."

[okteiviakom]

Octavia could've pointed out that if they'd been there every day, she would've already seen them.

But instead, she asked, "What kind?"

[rebelseekspizza]

"Gremlins, mutant alligators, giant bunnies, we've seen some weird shit," Dante said. "Evil space aliens too."

[okteiviakom]

"What are you classifying as aliens?"

Well, a girl had to see if Skaikru qualified, even if she didn't expect them to. Everything else... pretty much sounded like some of the things that roamed some parts of the forests at home.

[rebelseekspizza]

"Things from outer space that show up and start stabbing people?"

[okteiviakom]

... Honestly, that wasn't too far off from the Skaikru M.O.

"Where I'm from, the ones that came from the sky were more likely to burn people alive," Octavia noted.

Dryly. Very, very dryly.

[rebelseekspizza]

"Burning, stabbing, all in the same family of shit, right?" Dante said, shrugging. "They looked like weird-ass insects, if that helps."

[okteiviakom]

Octavia --

Didn't quite shrug, actually. But her tone made it seem like she might as well have. "Well, we didn't look like insects. So there's that."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Few points in your favor," Dante agreed merrily. "What, you're an alien?"

[okteiviakom]

"Born in space."

So, not quite.

But also not quite not an alien? Depended on your definition.

[rebelseekspizza]

"But human?" Dante guessed. "Hey, there's a new one I can check off my bingo card."

[okteiviakom]

"A little irradiated, but human," Octavia replied. "What's a bingo card?"

Unsurprisingly it wasn't something that had been a thing on the Ark, though she'd heard 'bingo' as a saying before.

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante blinked. Right, different world, differences happened, yadda yadda. "Uh, bingo's a game where everyone gets a card with a bunch of numbers on it, and whenever the leader calls a number, whoever has it on their card can strike it off," he said. "You get a whole row or a whole card struck off, you yell 'bingo'. It's pretty lame."

[okteiviakom]

Octavia didn't look impressed. But she very rarely did. "It sounds it."