[Canon is X-Statix] [Game is Trans9]

[look_ma_no_arms]

Okay, look. Before you take me anywhere we've got to sit down and have a major talk about how this is going to go.

First, I need my suit. Showing up naked on a spaceship won't work because I will literally disintegrate into a bunch of jumped-up molecules that don't talk to each other long enough to form a brainwave. I know you like to challenge yourself, honey, but trust me: you do not want to play a mass of thoughtless particles. You will be bored out of your skull. And I'll be effectively dead.

Second, what's all this talk about nerfing me? Teleporting is kind of what I do. It's why I got hired, besides the fact that I look amazing in a dress and someone needed to fill the gaping void in certain people's hearts. It's part of who I am. I know you said no one's taking all my powers away, but jeez, what's a girl got to do to feel good about herself these days?

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[look_ma_no_arms]

Oh, goodie.

Well, if I blow up the next podpop, will you please make sure my grave's pretty? I guess it won't be the tourist trap it'd be on my homeworld but some flowers would be nice.

[encourage]

Yeah, sure, I can do that much. I've been working on memorial stones for the crew as it is, I can have a special aside for you.

Let's just not plan on actually needing to do that. I'd rather get to say hello and have someone say hello back to me, if you know what I mean.

[look_ma_no_arms]

...Wow, this place just sounds better and better.

Oh, believe me, I'd rather that too. I'm just saying! We X-Statix don't have the best track record for survival, and that's why they love us.

[encourage]

Uh, we've got a nice set of mostly-not-destroyed baths in a pretty modern bathhouse? An incredibly large Media Library? Rooms that can literally appear to be whatever it is you want them to be?

[ She's trying to find some positives. ]

They being who, exactly?

[look_ma_no_arms]

...And it's all free? I mean, we got that stuff back home, but the only reason I had any access was because of my celebrity.

The public. The American people. You know.

[encourage]

All free. A few people have a sort of bartering system going on, but it isn't over the baths. Maybe special soaps [ said with a small smile ] but even then, not so much.

Aaaah. [ A nod of sudden understanding laskjdfsd HAHAHA ] You're from the United States. Got it.

[look_ma_no_arms]

...Huh. So this is going to be interesting for me. Can you say 'culture shock'?

[She nods.] Yeah. Hollywood, most recently. You?

[encourage]

I can hand you the embroidered towel. You adapt -- eventually.

[ She... makes a funny face. ]

A whole different world, from a country called the Land of Fire. It's... if you think of it as like Japan, only also not like Japan at all, you may have a vague idea. Include ninjas, and you're getting closer, if your Earth is anything like half the others people've come from.

[look_ma_no_arms]

[Venus laughs. Sakura's a witty one! Kind of like Dead Girl but without the, you know, deadness. Or the general unpleasantness.]

I think we fought ninjas once! It was a PR stunt, though. They weren't very good ninjas. [Venus takes a seat and crosses her legs in a way that's simultaneously modest and suggestive, just like a young starlet should.] So that makes you a ninja, then?

[encourage]

Kuniochi if you want to use technical terms, shinobi for more general, and ninja in just about every world that has an idea of ninjas as fighters.

[ She quirks up an eyebrow. ]

If I got paid for every time someone tells me about the group of either evil or incompetent ninja they've fought... Sounds like we're more of a joke on just about every world -- if we're not totally fictional. Or all secret assassins with really strange ideas of honor.

[look_ma_no_arms]

Maybe you should sue the awful ninjas for defamation.

[Thinking like an american dohoho.]

[encourage]

Sue?

[look_ma_no_arms]

You know. File suit against them for making you look bad, and get lots of money in the process.

[encourage]

... How is that supposed to solve anything?

[look_ma_no_arms]

It'll scare them out of ruining your image!

[encourage]

Wouldn't hitting them do the same thing?

[look_ma_no_arms]

...You know, you have a point. Hitting them would also work. Although in my industry we tend to let competition implode so we look like we got our hands clean.

[encourage]

We tend to do that by a certain amount of posturing and undercover operation.