Night at the Museum (OTA)

[kyley_b]

WHO: Kyle Broflovski and YOU!
WHERE: The Underground of Coruscant (Level 4)
WHAT: A very wholesome field trip to the lost Galactic Museum.
WHEN: During the event. (Mid-ish?)
WARNINGS: The foulest of language. Injury extremely likely. More as needed.



Kyle's seen aliens before.

A group of them from the Jannex Galaxy, a spaceship full of greys, the Marklar, and Jeff Bezos. This is the first time he's seen quite so many different kinds in one place, but even so it doesn't take him long to feel comfortable enough to talk to a few of them at the Senate Tour that Obi-Wan had suggested he take. One of these friendly aliens had mentioned in passing that it was a pity that the Galactic Museum could no longer be toured, due to it having been lost and forgotten somewhere down on Level 4.

A lost museum seems to Kyle like exactly the sort of thing the Agrii would want them to find. And even if not, well. Kyle really likes museums.

Is it difficult to get to Level 4? Oh, yes. And extremely dangerous. This doesn't deter Kyle one bit, and so he puts out a call on the Network to let people know that hey, he's putting together a museum field trip and anybody is welcome to come! Provided, that is, that you don't mind finding your way down through huge portals/ventilation shafts into a world where sunlight is less than a memory and dangerous people and creatures lurk around every corner.

But hey, if you decide to come down, you'll find a too-tall ginger waiting for you with some flashlights and a notepad.

You bet your ass he's going to force you to use the Buddy System.

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[OOC: Feel free to skip straight to the Museum proper of course! Mingle away, create your own TLs, whatever!]

Comments

[ezra_of_lothal]

"I think knowledge about the Force is part of it," Ezra hazards. "Before we were even sent here, from what the Agrii showed us all about the storms, and talking to people have been on Agra longer who said the storms seem to affect the Agrii not just physically but on some other level, like mental and emotional, I thought - that sounds like Force stuff."

He spreads a hand in a half shrug. "My guess is it'll take investigation, and data analysis, building things, and other stuff I don't know the first thing about, to figure out what's causing the storms and stop them . If it turns out they're coming from something intentional, maybe some fighting. But yeah, maybe an aspect of how Jedi see the Force is something we need to keep in mind. Balance? Connections that can't be...measured?"

[kyley_b]

"Force stuff," Kyle repeats thoughtfully.

"Like there's an almost... metaphysical component. Or. Okay, on earth? Some people have this idea that like, everything on the planet is part of the system, like we're all microorganisms on a living breathing THING, not just like... humans are the dominant species, right, and we always kinda act like everything was made for us to exploit. But this theory is like, nah, you're just like little bugs that have started working against the whole's greater interests because you've forgotten you're not in charge.

Maybe the Force lets you guys see that better. And maybe Agra was like earth, you know? Maybe the Agrii fucked it up so hardcore the planet was like, 'ah, screw you guys, you can't stay here anymore.' I dunno, I'm just thinking out loud."

[ezra_of_lothal]

Ezra nods along. "On Lothal, the planet where I did grow up, there were stories about wolves. But no one had seen had actually seen a lothwolf in hundreds of years, at least. It was generally accepted that they'd died out."

He pauses. "Except, that's not true. A little before I ended up Agra, I went back home after being gone for a couple of years. The Empire had been busy strip mining, building factories, burning what was left of the forests. It was bad enough you could see the destruction from space. At any rate, not long after I'd gotten back to Lothal, a pack of lothwolves found me. Turns out, they're really smart, and had been careful to avoid people. Like, before the Empire, things had slowly changed while more settlers had spread out, and they'd figured out how to survive. This was different. And the Empire was after messing with a Jedi temple site. The wolves were upset about all it. Not that they cared about sides, really. What you called the political stuff. They just knew the planet as a whole as in trouble and that I could communicate with them, and we could help each other."

[kyley_b]

Kyle listens, eyes growing wider. "Dude," he says respectfully. "That's it exactly. Like... the natural world, it's not what we make it. It's independent.

"Can you talk to the animals on Agra?" He's thinking of the Glownies.

[ezra_of_lothal]

"I think it can be...interdependent?" Ezra replies. "But yeah, not something we can just do what we want with and assume it'll all be fine."

"I can..feel the animals on Agra, sometimes connect enough for them to feel me? Kinda get something like a conversation going with the glownies, but with emotion and sensation, not words. The lothwolves had been watching people for a long, long time. They did know some words."

[kyley_b]

"Yeah. Where I'm from, that's a reality we're facing."

The concept of animals with intellect isn't entirely foreign, and he's also not surprised that glownies aren't the smartest animals around. "They probably had big brains, like cetaceans on my world. Which are, uhm, aquatic mammals."

[ezra_of_lothal]

Ezra does, in fact, looks puzzled at the word cetacean and more enlightened after the explanation.

"You said you're from a planet called Earth? Mr. Sims said he's from Earth, too."

[kyley_b]

"Yeah! We're not sure if it's the same one, though. It's kind of hard to tell, especially with time travel and stuff?"

He shrugs, smiling a little. "It's weird. But I'm used to weird. Okay, so, maybe a dumb question but can you fight?"

[ezra_of_lothal]

"There might be more than one Earth?" He..hasn't put together the similar but parallel universes part yet.

"And sure. I can fight. Lightsaber. Blaster. Piloting a fighter. Hand to hand not quite a well." Although, the Force helps with that. "Why?"

[kyley_b]

"Apparently. It seems like quantum mechanics stuff to me. I'm pretty sure I once met like, the evil universe version of myself." He says this far too casually.

"Just keeping track. If we wind up splitting up it would be dumb to put all the badasses together. And you sound like a badass."

[ezra_of_lothal]

Evil universe version? Ezra mouths, in confusion, but doesn't ask, immediately.

"Oh! Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah, stick me with someone who hasn't really been in combat, sure."

[kyley_b]

"Which at this point I think is literally just me and Jon," Kyle says. He's a little miffed by the fact.

"Like I've been shot at and crap, but I've never been in a war."

[ezra_of_lothal]

"I've been more in an insurgency than organized warfare." Although now he's curious. "Who have you been shot at by?"

[kyley_b]

"Oh, okay."

Kyle shrugs. "Police, FBI, army dudes, hunters... I guess I just have a knack for getting into trouble." This is an incredible understatement.

[ezra_of_lothal]

Well, he doesn't know what the FBI is, but the Empire has the ISB. He figures it might be sort of along the same lines. He also assumes by hunters Kyle means bounty hunters.

"And a lot of people in your government who like to shoot first, ask questions later?"

[kyley_b]

Kyle is of course meaning guys in orange vests who kill deer. Bullets work the sme either way, though.

"Most of them, yeah. Yours?"

[ezra_of_lothal]

"Well, yeah, but if people older than me are to believed, it wasn't always quite so bad, back under the Republic." Ezra may have a rosier picture of the Republic than it deserves. "Do you have an evil Emperor putting bullies in charge, too?"

[kyley_b]

"We did for a while," Kyle says, because it's not entirely inaccurate. "But we elected him, so... more proof people are pretty dumb where I'm from."

"I feel like you guys are just living problems on a way bigger scale. With more like... Force magic stuff."

[ezra_of_lothal]

"Well, ours was elected Chancellor first, before he got a bunch of emergency powers because there was a civil war and then declared himself Emperor," Ezra says with a shrug.

"Yeah, he has Force powers, but I'm not sure how much he used them to get the political power versus his philosophy about the Force being motivation for making for the power grab?"

[kyley_b]

"...huh, okay, that's a bit like ours, too. I guess politics are essentially the same across time and space. Not very comforting when you think about what that says about the nature of man."

Kyle kicks at some debris. "Sounds like the Force itself is neutral. So this dude was just justifying his own desires."

[ezra_of_lothal]

"Yeah, if the Force has opinions, I don't think it goes around revealing them much. Even the clearest visions I've had...it's shown me choices and maybes."

He sighs. "Do the best we can, I guess. Even if people are pretty flawed."

[kyley_b]

"You get visions?" He sounds a bit skeptical of that one.

"Yeah. But, I mean, hey! We've got to build our own little society on Agra, right? So we'll just do it better!"

[ezra_of_lothal]

"Of all the thing I've talked about Force-wise and visions is the one that trips you up?" Ezra asks, amused.

[kyley_b]

"I mean... a little? I guess it is kinda dumb, but visions sounds like outright psychic bullshit instead of some sort of natural human sense that you just happen to have more developed."

[ezra_of_lothal]

"I kinda get what you mean," Ezra says agreeably. "But on the other hand-" He stops a second, glancing around, and shine his flashlight towards a fist sized chunk of concrete crumbled off of a wall onto the ground.

He holds out his empty hand that way. A second later, it floats off the ground and drifts up and towards his hand. "What's natural?"