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And, after a few minutes on a rental surfboard, I was in love! I got a pro board, and what a difference! Faster, smoother - even my first time out I had some *really* good runs - though I smacked into the cliff a *lot* trying to stay in the pipe and take pictures at the same time!
I finally wiped out badly enough to call it a day, and went shopping for some basic athletic gear - which turned out to be next to impossible. Don't women in your time wear athletic shoes? But then, one of my moms wears combat boots (sorry, "civilian hiking shoes" - Argent Bury is *not* on active black ops duty! *nods*) and the other wears lethal heels....
I did find a parkour shop, though! Too bad the shirt and sweats I ended up with weren't what the signs said, and the HUD won't display - at least the waves in the past work!
I finished the night chilling in my new room - thanks mom! Um, walls and a door sometime, maybe? Oh, and uh, if you could keep the creepy neighbors away, that wouldn't hurt either, k?
Moms, Aunt Gala - could we *please* get surfing waves for Extropia? I don't know if you have room yet, but when you do, I'd *love* to surf at home...
Well, I *had* a plan!
I was able to get out and make the time jump, though it was kinda late. I figured it'd be past my moms' bedtime, so I could take some me-time and explore the world a bit.
It so didn't work.
The plan was, I'd buy a wetsuit and a surfboard, and go surfing. Argent-mom loves the beach, and Soph-mom used to surf when she was young, and the whole "oceans" thing has always kind of fascinated me. Comes from growing up in a country with gay dolphins on its flag, I guess!
So I went to Namiko Surf Shop, 'cause they take their responsibilities to the oceans really seriously, which I like to see. I paid for a wetsuit, and went off to find a beach.... and discovered I never got my wetsuit. So, like a total noob, I went back and bought *another* - and didn't get that either. Since I'm on an allowance from mom, I felt really horrible about that!
I figured I'd at least go for a walk on the beach, check out where the good waves are, and come back another time. So I TP'd to Venice Beach (it isn't in Venice - what's up with that??). And I'd barely rezzed before some guy walked into me, then started talking at me in some abbreviated language, very strange. He asked if I was from there, and I said no. When he asked where I was from, I proudly told him Extropia Core! That seemed to confuse him, though - he asked if it was "in RL," and I told him no, it was in Extropia. He said, "Im from here -LA," which I sorta figured was a sentence, though I had no idea what it meant.
Confused, lost (LA? Venice? Beach? What?), out 900 of these "Lindens" which I know are real important, and mom doesn't have that many to spare - I just gave up, tp'd back to Sophtropia, petted Murasaki a bit, and slipstreamed back uptime.
My first big solo adventure, huh?
Teen supergenius from the future pffft, as Soph-mom would say. Lost money, *got* lost, got nowhere. I thought things were supposed to be *simpler* in the past!
I'll try again - I didn't get raised to give up! But it's a lot harder than I ever thought it'd be, back there...
- Mood:
intimidated
