hell of a party

[middlingalong]

Ivan must be drunker than he thought he was. He could have sworn he knew his way around Vivienne's parents' house, since she wanted to introduce him last week and showed him the place, but maybe they have a... secret... upstairs... bar? where Vivienne's room is supposed to be? And most certainly was last time he checked? He's never going to find the sweater she sent him up looking for here, anyway. Why is there a secret upstairs bar in Vivienne's parents' house?

Comments

[warpfairy]

"Uh... yes? My mother's still alive. She lives in Phoenix, on Earth."

[isthisart]

"Haut don't have parents in the conventional sense. I have a designer, who I've met once, and a secondary principal gene contributor, who died before I was born. Is why Ivan is so interested to note that you have a different origin story."

[thisvorlunatic]

"I still think parents are bound to be important sometimes," says Miles.

[dream_me_up]

"I found Dr. Hall!" says Lalita.

[or_the_broken]

"Hi," says Dr. Hall.

[thisvorlunatic]

"...Asterion?"

[isthisart]

"Does Asterion look like that?" wonders Linya. "Apart from the height and dentition and so on."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Asterion looks like that. Asterion moves like that," says Miles. "Asterion is like that."

[or_the_broken]

"Who's Asterion?"

[thisvorlunatic]

"He looks exactly like you except eight feet tall and slightly fanged, and he works for me," says Miles. "Not as a doctor, though. Soldier."

[or_the_broken]

"How'd you manage that?"

[thisvorlunatic]

"Oh, we rescued each other from the sub-basement of a biolab," he says. "It's kind of a long story."

[isthisart]

"Does everybody have alts?"

[middlingalong]

"Don't jinx it, I'm enjoying my innocent bystander status!"

[thisvorlunatic]

Miles snickers.

[or_the_broken]

"Lalita said something about thirtieth century medical advances...?" prompts Hall.

[isthisart]

"Ah, yes. We don't have any nonhuman sapients, so we've been limping along without that kind of inspiration, but we have some things. I am not a doctor, but I have a master's in neuroscience and thorough non-degree training in human genetics and some background in allied fields of both and should be able to help poke along through relevant sources."

[or_the_broken]

"I'm interested."

[isthisart]

"What else did Lalita tell you?" inquires Linya, starting to fiddle with her pen to lay things out for neat tour-guiding.

[or_the_broken]

"Alts."

[isthisart]

"Yes. So, I'm her, and you're apparently Asterion who I know only by secondhand report, and Lalita is half of my husband's clone Mark, and my husband has his own alt Stalas - Mark and Stalas are both are elsewhere at the moment but may be expected to reappear eventually - and Ivan over there, my husband's cousin, is an innocent bystander, at least for now. So far only Lalita and Mark are the exact same species; I'm a human, albeit a heavily genetically engineered one, whereas she's a hybrid and rumor has it you're admixed."

[or_the_broken]

"Yeah."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Asterion's also admixed," Miles contributes, "but not with nonhumen sapients, because there aren't any around."

[isthisart]

"Well, that barely counts, there are ba with cephalopod-derived eye anatomy designs, they're still humans - there is nothing else for them to be, unlike Isabella who clearly has something else to be. Speaking of all this, Dr. Hall, would you object to my taking a gene sample? I have no intentions whatsoever of cloning you."

[or_the_broken]

"I don't know you," Dr. Hall points out. "What exactly do you intend to do?"