etraya | UN: UNKNOWN

are guitars in your world normally animate? Are they people?

The lower grade ones tend to be cuz theyre often used for beginners They arent people though

You may have to try to earn one. I understand such things are possible from the bots or Aurora.

Oh.

[well, crap.]

Is THAT why people bother with all the ridiculous crap that’s asked of them around here? Besides the “world saving” stuff Theres gotta be another way…… besides cooking, getting gossip…

there was a car race a couple of days ago. this place is just weird like that.

Great Im just gonna try to see if I can get stuff without having to participate in these dumb games and stuff……

[now he feels MORE DEPRESSED. but he’s still sticking to his resolve…]

or maybe someone has one already and I can convince them to trade or something…??

I can't vouch for their quality, but there's a couple of department stores that have a handful of instruments. One's called Gimbels. I saw some on the 4th floor. Between sporting goods and toys.

YES Oh holy crap I really thought Id have to fall in line for our captors just to get my hands on something thank you so much Im so relieved. quality doesnt really matter too much. Just means itll take more work but its not like i have shit else to do

You can usually find you what you need without begging Aurora and the bots for it, as long you're good with the basic version. What's an animate guitar?

Thank god Oh…. an animate guitar is usually part organic life form and part machine or I guess in this case instrument. For example one I had had guts inside the body of the guitar and an external eyeball. [RIP Freddy, who Till smashed live on stage like a fucking maniac]Theyre unintelligent and artificial but they manipulate the instrument to intuit your emotions and kind of exact your sound as you play Ive never had to explain them before…but hopefully that kinda makes sense ?

You put guts inside a guitar? As in ... the innards of a person and or animal?

NO!! no no no They’re like…. formed together. Im pretty sure mine was grown inside of the guitars body for example!! Dont get me wrong, the ruling species are a bunch of evil monsters who wouldnt be against doing something like that im sure but otherwise thatd be so much work and wasted resources probably……

But WHY does a guitar need guts?

[...???

???!]

To.....live??? I dunno man Im not a product bioengineer im just a musician !

[Till may not be aware he lowkey just called himself an idiot, but. well.]

I'm not used to guitars being alive...

oh!
I have a guitar, actually
you can borrow it if you need to
I definitely understand the need to get creative though in different ways

it is inanimate though
I didn't realize there were other kinds

Oh, um dont worry about it. Im starting to realize thats maybe a my world thing only Anyway thatd be really awesome!!! Can I really?? I can do something for you too maybe...? Its cool you play, I havent met another guitarist before

[which. sounds crazy, but it's just not a super popular instrument back home. Till may be a pop idol, but his flavor isn't the dominant sort in the market.]

huh
so your guitars are... alive?
that's neat!

oh, don't worry about it!!
just one musician helping another out
though, really? guitar was kind of common it seemed where I was from
more people were impressed by me playing the violin usually

[ She figures it is just a different worlds discrepancy kind of thing though... ]

Kind of. sometimes... How "alive" they really are is kind of up to debate..... Damn.... you play violin too???? cross-trained threat I can play a couple other instruments, but bowed stuff never really meshed with me in my industry usually people are just trained to be vocal focused so instruments are less common, and things like stringed instruments or piano usually are more appealing than guitar or bass Guitar just makes sense to me, its like another limb[the dude who beat Till on stage, thus leading to his execution, did it with a violin. so there's. that. Till tries not to think about it.]

do they have like
feelings? and stuff? can they talk? that'd be wild

I can!!
my best instruments are guitar and piano, then probably violin
bass I love the sound of but it never clicked right unfortunately
I've dabbled in a lot of them but wind instruments aren't for me I found
like I learned basic flute because someone said I couldn't, but that's about it

singing is my real talent though, I'd say!

i kind of want to get more into wind instruments to be honest, it just didn't really work with my brand. Maybe I can do that here eventually.... I really like singing too. I remember singing even when I was really little all the time[Till doesn't remember much very clearly at all, but he first started singing because...well, the language was in him, and it was his gift; he was passionate about it, and it brought such joy to his mother that he continued relentlessly. he'd even sang more than he'd spoken, as a baby.

in turn, it put Till down a dark vocational path as a human pet, but even so...he loves singing enough that he probably wouldn't have wanted a different fate. all humans die pretty young.]

im also into the idea of just being an instrumentalist and track master too though. but we didn't really collaborate, we just competed

no time like the present, I say!
someone gave me the advice of starting a hobby once I got here, which...
yeah, actually, not a bad idea

I'd love to hear you sing sometime though!
even if just, like, a private show
i.e. in one our homes, haha

[ Rosie's beginnings with singing were similar. She doesn't remember much of her mother beyond the basics, but- She remembers her singing, almost always, and so beautifully that it inspired her to do the same. It's one of the only things she has of her anymore. ]

so, like
no bands or people working together?
that seems kind of... unfortunate
I loved being in bands and helping out others!! we all kind of balance out our skills and stuff, y'know?

[oooh god that sounds like a nightmare. Till is much too shy. playing for some girl he doesn't even know, privately...]

errrr yeah, sure, maybe sometime...haha

[he can't just. admit he's shy. nor can he rudely just turn her down. nor can he pretend he's bad at singing. it's odd, but Till is as proud as he is bashful.]

Oh yeah no it sounds super fun There were some pet humans who were made to work together like that I think they just arent as popular People really like the weird solo celebrity angle... its pretty gross Also makes the stakes in the bloodsport of it all a lot more appealing i think...

[ A rookie mistake with Rosie: showing any sign of vulnerability (cuteness). She sees that hesitation, even in text, and it pings her predatory instincts. Granted, all she really does is act on cute aggression now but still. The Jaws theme intensifies. ]

no pressure or anything!!
I'm just happy to meet more musicians

pet... humans?
wow our worlds really are opposite, huh
humans were NEVER the pets in any situation usually

[Till is highly valuable prey in all universes, apparently]

Me too!! I just met someone else who plays flute..... kinda jealous Errr yeah im starting to learn that thats a lot more unusual than not Seems like my universe is the weird one...... there's non pet humans but theyre a lot less common. even they get snatched up from the slums and sold into whatever slave role pretty frequently anyway, theyre just less valuable So its nice I can at least connect w ppl about music bc... idk... compared to other humans im really not normal, im realizing. Even socially

[like Till...who came from a designer "store." he was still sold 50% off as a toddler, though, because he wouldn't stop biting his handlers, so upset from being torn away from his mother (who he doesn't clearly remember).]

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[ The similarities really are uncanny, she thinks. The only difference is it was her kind snatched from the underbelly of the world and sold into slavery (if they were lucky). It was even planned for her to be sold to a 'collector' of exotic creatures due to her beauty, but then she bit the handler and they set her down a more violent path instead. ]

pft
normal is just a setting on an appliance
no one's 'normal' and being weird isn't a bad thing!!

we all find ways to connect with each other though and
I think music is one of the best ones myself

Inanimates...?

I don't recognize any of those instruments.

uh don’t worry about it Animate guitars seem to only be a thing in my world i guess You don’t know guitars??

[well. Till didn’t know what facial hair was called specifically. so. fine]it’s a stringed chordophone instrument ……

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What do they do?

I don't.

[Ancient China is sadly guitar-less.]

I know of stringed instruments! There is the erhu, the guqin, the pipa...

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Dont worry about it, its hard to describe...... Oh! I think ive heard of the erhu?? do you play any instruments?

Must be!

I play the flute. I taught myself.

!! AGH I was JUST talking about how I want to play wind instruments again The flute in particulars really pretty..... I find the sound of it so calming. Its cool youre self taught, that's not an easy instrument!! Also means youre passionate to teach yourself something like that thats really cool

I guess so. Music has many uses in cultivation. It can calm the spirit and even be used defensively.

defensively??

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