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[waytodie]

[Her hair is in two messy twin braids. Her eyes are glassy. The sharp-eyed might notice she's probably, definitely drunk. The less-so might just assume she's overly tired. Her tongue presses into her cheek as she considers how to start this one, but in the end she just rips the bandaid off quickly: ]

So, tell me, how is it that you handle grief?

[She probably won't be elaborating on why she's asking, unless she has a certain level of familiarity with you, but you can try. People closest to her probably already know what this is really about: Her sister is gone. From Moorecroft. From Etraya. From the top side of the dirt. Gone and back to dead, and Yelena is spiraling.]

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[waytodie]

[She purses her lips and nods a little.] Yeah... Is there some kind of official request channel, or do we just talk to Aurora? I haven't bothered with any of that so far... [She looks thoughtful for a moment.]

Agreed. I do love a good dance session, too.

[hasitsthorns]

We'll probably have to just talk to Aurora, honestly, but-! I don't mind. I've been wanting to say 'hello' to the lady? AI? in charge.

Especially if it means we can help everyone get their groove on.

[waytodie]

As requests go, it is a pretty good one to make of her, I think.

[hasitsthorns]

I think so, too! Okay, I'll definitely reach out to her and see if we can't get some jams going.

It'd help, too, if I'm gonna' seriously consider this musician business again...

[waytodie]

Let me know what she says.

Oh? Colour me intrigued.

[Anything to stop thinking about the actual point of her post, honestly.]

[hasitsthorns]

Sure thing!

[ Rosie gets that, honestly, and is kind of... why she was steering the conversation that way.

Avoidance is tried and true for her, at least. While she knows that Yelena will eventually have to address some of it, well- Why not think of something else for a bit? ]

Oh, well- I was a roadie for a while, but gave it up to settle down somewhere for my last job before here. I never quite made it as musician myself even though that the was goal, so... Someone said I should try again while here. That's all!

[waytodie]

A roadie... is that the slutty girls that sleep with all the musicians they stalk on their tours or is that something else?

[There's no judgment in her voice at all; she's just trying to make her assumptions line up with the picture Rosie is painting, here. ]

[hasitsthorns]

[ So, that gets a perhaps uncharacteristic-seeming long-suffering sigh from the woman. It's clearly something she's had to clarify before, which-! That isn't Yelena's fault because: ] No, but that's a common misconception.

Groupies are who you're thinking of for that. They're there to, like, build up the band member's egos, sing their praises, and are mostly around to try and get into their pants.

Roadies are people who travel with bands too, yeah, but to set up stage and make sure everything goes as smoothly as possible. It's actually pretty frowned upon to be a roadie involved with any of the band since it's a working relationship even if more casual than professional sometimes. I can't say the lines never get crossed between roadie and groupie, but-! I was always just a roadie myself.

[waytodie]

Err- English is not my first language, [The Russian accent should make that pretty obvious, tbh~] and it can be very confusing, so apologies if I made offense. Not my intention, I promise.

But I don't want to stroke anyone's ego, that sounds terrible. Your thing sounds more fun than the other one, if I am honest.

[hasitsthorns]

Oh, yeah, no! I didn't think so, it's just- Like I said, it's a common misconception and for understandable reasons. That just means I've had to explain it a lot which can be kind of tiring. I know you didn't mean anything by it though.

But- Yeah, agreed. I did think the musicians were talented and enjoyed working with them, but that's always where it ended for me. Also because I wanted to be one eventually and, well, couldn't risk my reputation like that anyway.

[waytodie]

Okay, just checking. That must be very annoying to have to explain all the time. [Weird that she needs to do that with other people who's first language is probably the same as hers, but..... Yelena knows people can be very, very dense at times.]

Did doing that get you some sort of... I don't know, connections in your industry, at least?

[hasitsthorns]

It is, but! Ah, well. Most people seem to take the correction just fine. Others, well- They're usually trying to imply something by remaining ignorant.

It did, for a time, but once you aren't active in it anymore... People tend to forget, I guess. It's a pretty fast-paced kind of career, music.