Terra - Ottawantreal

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A huge North American city, built in a mishmash of styles from many eras of architecture. the spaceport is bustling and filled with cruise ships, racing yachts, and transport craft. It's full of shops, clubs, gardens, and tourist attractions.

The weather is currently cool but sunny.

"Oh yeah, it'll be terran trivia here," Ellie said excitedly. "I'm awesome at that."

Tobias smiled fakely at Silence. "It's not cheating to mindread, unless it's the opponent who's doing it," he told her jokingly.

Silence smiled weirdly at Tobias, like she was trying to imitate an expression she barely understood.

Matt snickered. "This.. could be amusing."

Ellie watched Silence and Tobias smile at each other. Okay, that was some serious Uncanny Valley creepiness from both of them. She tried not to stare.

Moriah didn't seem bothered by the weirdness, she was pretty used to her Five series friends and their slightly wrong imitations of human expressions, and Silence wasn't too different to her. "Let's find somewhere with trivia!" she said brightly.

Shane chuckled and started walking again. "Trivia night it is."

They'd go looking for somewhere with a trivia contest. Maybe some sort of quirky Terran club, maybe a library, maybe even a bar if the bar was okay with ninety percent of the group not buying anything.

There were a surprising number of options, yay.

Ellie hurried along, talking loudly about how great Terra was.

Matt wheeled along, amused by the idea of trying to make up answers to terran trivia.

Silence followed along quietly.

"Oh look, there's a trivia night over there," Moriah said, pointing to a building.

"That's a senior center," Ellie said, snickering. "We're not old!"

"Speak for yourself, at my age I'll fit right in," Tobias joked. "Besides, seniors always like company."

Shane shrugged and glanced around "If they have an 'open' sign, then we can join in, if not then it's only for the residents."

"Looks like it's open to anyone," Tobias said, pointing to a sign. The idea of playing with senior citizens was amusing, and somewhat appealing, to him.

"Hey, that means it's wheelchair accessible!" Matt laughed. Old people, you were going DOWN.

Shane grinned and looked around "Careful there, old people usually know more trivia than younger people." He said with a laugh, heading in

Ellie giggled. "Yay accessibility! And I am SO going to win, I'm the best at Terran trivia!" Never mind that she hadn't even ever lived on Terra, she KNEW she was the best.

Moriah and Tobias stayed toward the middle of the group. They were a little nervous, and didn't want to draw too much attention to themselves.

There was a little reception desk where everyone would put in their names, the receptionist looked surprised to see so many younger people, but he smiled politely and let gave them all nametags to write their names on.

"nametags!" Matt rather eagerly wrote his name, forgetting at first it was supposed to be in common. He wrote "Matt" underneath the runic symbols and a few smiley faces for extra decoration. Yes, perfect.

Silence stared at the tag and the pens, she had no idea what you were supposed to do with these.

Shane smiled at the attendant and wrote his name, putting the tag on.

Skye wrote her name then looked to Silence, moving closer to her. "It's a name tag, you write your name and put it on so others will know what to call you for the game." She explained gently. "Want me to write it for you?"

Ellie wrote her name happily, maybe this would be fun. At least it'd be different, anyway.

Moriah and Tobias wrote their names on their nametags, and stuck them below their badges.

There were already a lot of older people doing trivia, most of them were Terran, although there were definitely a few other species in here. Quite a few of them looked up curiously at the odd bunch of newcomers.

Silence frowned, then nodded slowly. She didn't really HAVE a proper name, 'silence' was just what people decided to call her as a sort of joke when she didn't respond. It had sort of stuck.

Matt waved cheerfully to the old folks.

Skye nodded and wrote it out, handing her the tag. "We really should think about giving you a real name, if you want one." She said softly.

Some older ladies kind of eyed Matt and Shane and tried to wave them over. Young handsome men! Whoo.

Ellie headed into the room, looking around and choosing somewhere comfortable to sit.

Moriah and Tobias stayed near Silence and Skye for the moment.

Shane laughed and waved back, staying closer to Ellie to sit near her.

Skye looked around with Jewel on her shoulder. Jewel was too small for a nametag.

Starr got her tag and went to find a place to sit too.

Silence tilted her head. "Real name?"

"yeah you know, like... what people call you." Matt told her, wheeling alongside her.

Silence looked at her name tag. "this no name?" She asked.

"well, what'd your family call you?" Matt asked. He waved back at the old ladies, he'd be there soon ladies, soon.

Silence hesitated, then shook her head. "Doesn't translate."

Moriah smiled at Silence. "Well Silence is a pretty good name. If you like it, you certainly don't need to go by any other name."

Ellie grinned at Shane and scooted her chair so she could lean against him. Sorry older ladies, this guy was taken.

The little group of old ladies all started talking, presumably about Matt.

There were other people around room, in little groups here and there. Most had sheets of paper they were looking at, it looked like the game was underway.

"Yeah, Silence is a cool name." Matt told her.

Silence looked bewildered.

Matt laughed. "I'm gonna go say hi to the competition." He declared, wheeling over to the old ladies because hey, who didn't like attention from random old ladies? Ahem.

Silence smiled her strange smile to Moriah. "Works fine."

Skye smiled and shook her head "It is unusual, but still good." She said then looked for a place to sit.

The old ladies chattered to each other as Matt went over to them. "Hello dearie, are you here to visit someone?" one of them asked.

"It's a good name," Moriah agreed with Skye. She led them toward a table, Tobias following her a little nervously.

Matt shook his head. "nah, we're totally just gatecrashing." He laughed. "Hope you guys don't mind."

Skye followed Moriah, staying close to her and Silence.

"Oh no, we don't mind at all. Maybe you should join our team." One lady winked at Matt. "You don't look like you're from Terra," she added.

A volunteer came over to the group to start explaining the rules. Not that there were many rules, mostly just have one person write down answers for the group and shout the answers after each round of they were called on, don't check your phones, and don't be a sore loser.

Ellie leaned against Shane. "Man, this is a big production. Do you think the old people will be mad when we win?"