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CHIRPER
Welcome to our bi-monthly CHIRPER post!

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This month there is a special 👻 SPOOKY SEASON 👻 addition: instead of ✓ or ✕ for like or dislike, it's 🎃 and 💀. Whatever the character has the most votes for shows up appended to their username on the network for the next month, as in, un: aurora 💀.

Please feel free to switch out any of the Q&A questions with those listed here!

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I’m certain you would be able to find someone who would want to take you out. There are a lot of wonderful people here and, at the very least, dates are a great way to get to start getting to know someone, whether something romantic comes of it or not.

I have heard many new kinds of music from being here in Etraya and what I was able to listen to when we went on the earth mission. I made sure to download as much music onto my phone from there as possible before making it back to Etraya. Do you like dancing?

So long as it is what you enjoy, there is no harm in your work and your hobbies overlapping. What are the top three most interesting things you have learned about technology from worlds other than your own? Nearly everyone I have interacted with comes from somewhere more advanced than where I am from, so everything seems new and exciting to me when I first see it.

I have picked up quite a few hobbies. I won’t subject you to a list of them. Sitting still isn’t for me, so I find ways to fill my time. Photography has been a big one. I have also learned quite a bit about carpentry and some on stonemasonry. I have been helping to repair the place I live in, and it has taught me quite a few things. I’ve also always liked exploring, so I have been doing plenty of that, as well.

I do like to dance, yes. There weren't often opportunities to go dancing back in Lumière, but I always enjoyed taking advantage of them when they came around. Seems as though there are a few good spots for it here, too. Seems Aurora has an interest in keeping us entertained and on our feet.

As for the top three technologies, how could I possibly pick? This might sound childish, but I find the advancements made for home life here some of the most fascinating, although I'm sure to the people used to having lights you can flick on and off at will or a constant stream of hot water, they seem normal to the point of boring. But — as an example — we had no personal refrigeration back in Lumière... we had to keep our foods cold with iceboxes and ventilated pantries built into the walls of our buildings. So having an electric fridge keeping our food cold is a real novelty and something to be admired!

I'm familiar with the design aspects of carpentry, but a little less so with actual execution. I'm more familiar with masonry, so if you'd like a helping hand with your repairs, please let me know.

It sounds like you've been making the most of your time here. That's admirable — not everyone is so willing to find a silver lining.

Likewise, though we were able to enjoy music regularly. There was a bard who took up residence where I live. We do enough strange and exciting things for him to write entire ballads, apparently. He’s as much a part of my home as anyone who helps build, repair, maintain, and grow the place. I think music is important. It’s certainly helped me through some tough nights.

It isn’t childish at all. The first time I was able to turn a knob and get not just running water but hot running water? It felt like my life had been changed. I have never been able to clean myself so quickly. Funnily enough, I did choose to live in a place that has similar amenities to where I come from, though. I’ve found ways to make some adaptations for some things with the help of some friends. There is also a rather expansive network under the monastery itself that works well for cold storage.

I’ve built a couple of things since coming here myself. I could show you if you’d like. Back home, I have a friend who has a saying. ‘Knowledge hoarded is knowledge lost.’ I try to live by that.

So, while talk-to-text has been very handy for me in all of this, I was wondering if you would like to save ourselves the added trouble and meet up, perhaps over coffee?

That's a really good saying. I've never heard it stated quite that way before, but I've always felt the same way.

I'd be delighted to see some of the things you've built, and just as happy to meet in person to talk more. Coffee sounds great. Corrine's? Sometime tomorrow, maybe?

Harpocrates, the friend, has a way with words that helps voice things that I think but can't find the words to.

I would love to. Are you more of a morning person or an afternoon person?

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