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?

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[dream_me_up]

"Me too."

[warpfairy]

Isabella snorts.

[isthisart]

[dream_me_up]

[thisvorlunatic]

[middlingalong]

"Oh my god."

[warpfairy]

"Has someone tread on a cultural norm?"

[middlingalong]

"Not dwelling!"

[thisvorlunatic]

"Ivan, you are definitely dwelling. You are dwelling as thoroughly as it is possible to dwell. You have bought the apartment, the building, and possibly the entire city block."

[middlingalong]

"I know!"

[thisvorlunatic]

Miles snickers slightly.

[dream_me_up]

"Should we find something else to talk about, I wonder?"

[isthisart]

"More technology to exchange. What year is it for you, anyway?"

[dream_me_up]

"2277."

[isthisart]

"We're in 2998 standard, but humans have been working alone, and it definitely sounds like we have things to share both ways."

[warpfairy]

"Even if warp doesn't work for you? Yeah. What's the most efficient way to do this...?"

[thisvorlunatic]

"If we get information about your world's technology in electronic format from Bar, we can take it home and have somebody convert it. I'm sure Simon would be thrilled. I don't know how well the reverse holds."

[dream_me_up]

"We have some experience in getting disparate systems to play nicely with each other," says Lalita.

[warpfairy]

"If we weren't in the hospital it would be easier to get ahold of my ship's library and pull things from it. I can't be seen leaving, though, even though I'm pretty much healed, and even if Lalita goes instead the ship's docked in orbit, not very convenient to the hospital. Dirtside sources will be worse-curated and less well organized for suddenly making off with huge quantities of data, although I suppose it's not a disaster if you get a lot of popular Vulcan fiction and Bolian music and Klingon translations of Shakespeare on top of your science textbooks. I don't suppose Bar can just duplicate the contents of what I have on the Prometheus...? I sort of hope she can't."

I can't, confirms the bar. The list of items on your ship's library does not count as 'published' even if each item of its contents does.

[dream_me_up]

"You know, I wonder if Dr. Hall would want anything to do with this conversation," says Lalita.

[warpfairy]

"Do you suppose he'd give Linyabel a sample, too?"

[isthisart]

"Incidentally, the door will only continue to lead here as long as somebody from your room is in the bar or holding the door, and unless the door is open to your world no time will pass there," Linya mentions. "Dr. Hall is, I take it, another engineered person?"

[dream_me_up]

"Yes. More species-mixed and more in hiding about it than me," says Lalita.

[warpfairy]

"With some psi - more like very dilute Betazoid than Vulcan, although he said he had both; he gets emotions from a bit of range."

[isthisart]

"Speaking of which, Isabella, I already have a sequencer and would like a sample of you too if you don't mind."