>>954596
Sounds about right.

Don't know why everyone was expecting her to be here.
>>953584
>"Room 474, Rezi Plaza. I just got word she's still out, but we can get her on the way back."

Either you old crew where idiots or this person has a connection with Pond. Regardless we need to swear our aligence keep her safe.

Oh, I thought "on the way back" meant something else which on hindsight was pretty convoluted. So yeah, they're gonna ambush Pond outside the hotel or something. Which means we should probably get this lady to either help in the ensuing fight, or contact Pond to warn her.

Ask if you can talk to Pond.

Well, whoever this is there's a hit squad coming her way. Which is even worse if she's a completely unrelated person.

Let her know she's in danger and ask if she's Pond.

Apologize and ask if you've got the wrong room?

Cluck like a chicken in fear.

>>954589
Kiss her you fool.

1/2 Anisha 2020/02/12(Wed)09:36 No. 956071 ID: 5fc3a0
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"Y-you're not Pond."
>"And you're not Rumplefucks, wanna make something of it?"
"S-sorry, I was just looking for Pond and... thought it might be you?"
>"You'd better leave thinking to the scientists then. It doesn't sound like you're here to goad me into a fight, so I'm gonna shut the door now."
"U-um?"
>"Or am I wrong?"
"N-no it's just -"

2/2 Anisha 2020/02/12(Wed)09:36 No. 956072 ID: 5fc3a0
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The door's closing!

>Kiss her
Not a solution to any problem I've ever had in my life!

"WAIT there is a fight!" The door stops. "S- I'm from the harbor and Pond's in trouble cause they wanna exact revenge on her!"
>"Wait a second, are you one of those assholes from dock E9?"
"Y-yes."

"I mean no."

"I mean I don't think I'm an asshole but I'm from the ship from - I quit so no I'm not with them but until 15 minutes ago I was!"
>"Oh, you. How in the fuck did you confuse me with that doofy ass face?"
...
>"Do you think duduks all look the same, cause we're on opposite ends of the spectrum! You are goading for a fight, aren't you?! Claws up and poofed out and everything!"

I kind got distracted by everything and forgot that my crewmates said Pond was out and that they'd get her on the way back, so Pond probably isn't here!

You can still ask her where Pond is and tell her they think this hotel room is hers. Also maybe that you didn't think she looked like Pond, you just expected her to be here.

>>956072
Well, this person probably knows where they're at! Might even be able to call them so they don't get pegged!

You'll just have to convince her that you're terrified of her, and not being aggressive.

... sit down and cover your head with your claws while pleading pathetically that she listen to what you have to say?

"Pond pretended to be a crew member and talked to me, and it kind of freaked me out a little, so I asked my captain, and Pond wasn't a crew member, and now the crew's all angry she's been butting into their business, and I'm actually not that happy to have her become their target even if she lied to me, so I'm trying to get in contact with her and tell her they're trying to get the drop on her on her way back to this room and maybe, uh, just maybe does she know someone who needs an engineer for hire?"

"they'recomingtogetpondandthiswastheonlythingithoughtof" Cower and ramble

I literally said you're not pond as soon as I saw you! I overheard someone say were going to ambush pond when they showed up at this address! aaaa why do i tryyyy

>>956072
Make a more submissive pose somehow.
Tell her you could tell she wasn't Pond as soon as you saw her but this is Pond's room and you weren't expecting a roommate. Ask her to at least warn Pond, you don't want her to get hurt. You're here to help.

You're not racist! You correctly identified her as Not-Pond. But she's very scary! Floof feathers more!

"I overheard my former crewmates say this was where Pond was staying and I wanted to come to warn her I don't wanna fight I just get scared really easily please don't hurt me!"

>>956072
say something about poofy being a arousal response, and that you were trying to help pound.

You definitely don't think they all look the same! She's strong looking and muscular and tough and nobody could mistake her for anybody else.

>>956072
Tell her that you fluff up when you're scared and you're just trying to help Pond.

Squeak out a sorry and mention this was just the room you heard she was staying in.

"SorryI'mthrownoffyou'reobviouslynotPondbutIwaslookinforherIwannahelphershewasnicetome"

Translation, because this is hard to read: Sorry I'm thrown off, you're obviously not Pond but I was lookin for her, I wanna help her, she was nice to me.

1/4 Anisha 2020/05/14(Thu)10:22 No. 966599 ID: 5fc3a0
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"But I recognized you as Not-Pond! I just wanted to warn her because the people at the docks got mad at her and might want to hurt her and said this is the place they said she was at so I wanted to warn her! Aaaand I don't know why I try when I might just get beat up for it by a far fluffier muscularer tougher looking person than Pond but it's all I thought of to do!"

I assume a different, less threatening pose. It might just be cowering.

2/4 Anisha 2020/05/14(Thu)10:22 No. 966600 ID: 5fc3a0
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This duduk gets on her phone and texts for a little bit. She doesn't drop eye contact once. She's not even blinking...?

3/4 Anisha 2020/05/14(Thu)10:23 No. 966601 ID: 5fc3a0
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Ah?

4/4 Anisha 2020/05/14(Thu)10:23 No. 966602 ID: 5fc3a0
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She's... on my back.

Oh god this is a huge faux pas! Or at least I've heard from someplace that riding a kigavi is seen as scandalous for both parties!

>"We're gonna meet Pond. Start moving."

Run! Fly! Flap your arms like a bird to go faster!

furry Voltron

seek the others

"C-can you please just lead the way? Riding me like this is scandalous!"

Get moving in the meantime, however, so she can't accuse you of wasting time. Leave out the back, and try not to get seen by people. After the question of scandal is resolved, ask in which direction exactly you're supposed to be moving.

Moving where?

>>966602
Eh, you're already a social pariah even among Kigavi. Who cares? Run!

>>966602
Congratulations. You can claim that you've been ridden hard by scaryly sexy duduk. Back to the elevator.

>>966602
GO. Ask for directions once you're near the hotel exit.

Make clear that she shouldn't be doing this, but don't push the point if she insists. Get moving!

>>966602
"If any other kigavi see us like this they're gonna think we're perverts and call the cops"

Yee haw.

Wark.

Well, ask where you should go.

Luckily this hit to your reputation will still leave it at zero.

Protest meekly while moving as indicated

just... just go, man. it's ok to look extremely uncomfortable about it. People that see you should be very well aware that this is super not your jam.

Start running off and ask where?

>>966602
Well, at least people will notice you.

...right?

>>966602
ask if she is "coming on you?"

1/3 Anisha 2020/08/31(Mon)12:24 No. 975365 ID: 5fc3a0
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I start walking.

"Wait where am I going?"

She grabs my neck feathers and steers down another hall.

"I'm not telling you to stop because I am afraid of you, but I want you to know I'm not totally okay with this."
>"You got weak legs or something?"
"No, I mean, it's scandalous! It makes it look like you're coming on to me, metaphorically I mean, er also literally but I meant - "
>"Who the hell cares what these assholes think?"

We enter the elevator and I learn that I care what they think.

2/3 Anisha 2020/08/31(Mon)12:24 No. 975366 ID: 5fc3a0
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Outside of the elevator, I get even more stares while we leave the hotel.

Before I realize that entering a dark alley with this angry duduk is a really, really bad decision, I've entered a dark alley with this angry duduk.

3/3 Anisha 2020/08/31(Mon)12:24 No. 975367 ID: 5fc3a0
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>"Hi, there!"
"Oh! Pond! Am I in danger?"
>"Nope! Not from us anyway."
>"No promises." says the one on my back.
"Hey uh what do you mean 'not from us'?"
>"Us two won't hurt you, but, um... Wall, here, texted me and said that your guys were hunting me down?"
"Yes, I think, um... 'Wall', here too, since she beat up some of them. Oh, and they're not really my guys anymore, I quit."
>"Oh, I'm sorry! Thank you for the warning, but I figured they might've tried it. Just to be safe, we weren't going to use that hotel room anymore. Wall was just gathering up all our things so we could leave it behind. Speaking of that! Where are our things?"
"This kigavi showed up and distracted me. So I forgot because of that. Shit's still in there."
>"Hey don't blame Anisha!"
"She came knocking to - oh whatever, yeah fine." She slides off my back finally. "I'll go get it back."

That's what she says but she's looking right at me.

"I don't have the key to your room and I doubt you have faith in my self-defense abilities if they find me."

>>975367
Offer to fetch their things. Your former employers shouldn't care about you walking around.

>>975369
There is almost no chance that her old crew will be fine with her walking around the hotel and taking stuff out of the room they think Pond's staying in.

Anyways, proceed in trying to convince Wall to not force you to go back unsuccessfully. Just like how you were surely planning to. I'm sure she won't make you go back alone at least. Probably.

>>975370
They would have to follow us into the hotel to know that. So far all they know is we quit.

Tell her to hop on your back again. It’s back to the hotel, you’ll get the stuff together.

>>975367
She's not going to ride you again unless she buys you dinner. If anyone goes back up to the room, then they need to be prepared for company.

>>975367
“Please don’t mount me again. You haven’t even bought me dinner yet!”

>>975372
Anisha got the hotel and room number from the crew. They were planning to go and attack whoever they found there. They don't need to "follow" Anisha there to find us there. Being in the same hotel is suspicious enough, much less that we left a letter of resignation and bee-lined here.

They might not even know about the letter yet but it doesn't matter. Pond is only known about by the ship through Anisha reporting her. To then leave the ship and look like you are meeting up with her again is suspicious. Suspicion is really all this crew needs to decide they need to deal with you one way or another. They did the same when Anisha reported Pond originally.

>>975400
They're not going to attack us in the hotel. Thus, they aren't going to bother going in the hotel.

Yeah no. Not this time. Someone else has to do it, you're going to be getting in massive trouble if they find you there. You explicitly don't want them knowing you're interacting with these people. Tell this; maybe look at the less scary one when you do so?

Well you're too heavy for both of you to ride. The heavier one's walking.

Hey don't look at me, the crew would suspicious if they saw me in there grabbing stuff out of your room.

1/3 Anisha 2020/09/10(Thu)15:24 No. 976020 ID: 5fc3a0
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"Um, me going isn't going to go well I don't think, if my old crew happens to come right now. I quit my job. And I think even if the people coming don't know that yet, they're going to think it's very suspicious of me to go to the hotel myself! I just don't like what would happen if - please don't mount me again or look at me for this I mean it's not like I don't want to help but I don't think I'm in a very good position right now, I - "
>"Th'hell are you on about? No one told you to grab my shit for me."
"Oh."

2/3 Anisha 2020/09/10(Thu)15:25 No. 976021 ID: 5fc3a0
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"Wait then why are you looking at me like that?"
>"'cause you're still hanging around here. You think I'm leaving you alone with Pond?"
>"I'd be okay with that, but we should go up together anyway, Wall."
>"That's your name?" Wall asks - wait, she's asking me? "That's a duduk name."
>"That's you." Pond whispers to her.
>"Oh, yeah. Shit." Wall answers. I guess I should have known that was a fake name, like I'm sure Pond isn't called Pond.

3/3 Anisha 2020/09/10(Thu)15:26 No. 976022 ID: 5fc3a0
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>"It was nice to see you again, and it was sweet of you to warn me." Pond says. "You said you quit your job?... Was it because of me?"

Only as a catalyst to an ongoing process.

"Er- I don't know if they even noticed I left yet, so it's not like I completely burned that bridge. Things were building up for a while; all you did was break the seal. I- I think I was looking for one final reason to get out. An opportunity? Are you secret agents - like, with the law or something? Or just a rival group? I-if it's the former, that means your goal was 'flipping' me as an 'asset,' right?
"Wait, does that mean I have to go back to them? Please just let me testify, I'm okay with witness protection, don't make me go back there, I don't have any influence..."

Yes and no. It wasn't a great job, wasn't great people, wasn't a great working environment. But you were too comfortable in the bad situation to get out of it until she showed up and made it blatantly obvious you couldn't keep on with it.

>>976022
Partially. She was nice to you. That's rare, for some reason. Was she faking it?

It was a long time coming, actually. She just made you realize the time was now.

>>976022
This is your not-so-subtle hint to skedaddle. They don't want you, and you certainly can't go back to the old crew.

You get to have a fresh start though. Maybe you could go off-planet or go back to your relatives.

>>976022
Nah, you're quitting your job because everyone hated you there. This is just saving a stranger from being murdered.

Nah, you were just the straw that broke the camels back.

1/4 Anisha 2020/09/24(Thu)16:46 No. 977146 ID: 5fc3a0
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"I, um, no. You kinda, er, sort of? No. The straw."

...

"You were the last straw, it really wasn't a good place to work. Are you law enforcement? A rival group? Do I need to go back there? Wait, were you faking being nice to me all this time?"
>"No and no and no and the biggest no of all!"
>"Pond."
>"What is it, Wall?"
>"Focus."
>"I am! Anisha, right?"
"Y-yes?"
>"Do you have a place to stay?"
>"Pond." Wall repeats except louder.
"Um am I interrupting something?"
>"No, please answer me."
"I don't, uhm, really, no. I don't think I have much money either. In fact I actually have no idea what I'm going to do because I've been trying my best to avoid those thoughts!"
>"Here, I have an idea. Take this money and get yourself a hotel room so that you at least have a few days to think it over." She pulls some bills out of her wallet and holds them towards me.
>"Pond, don't just give strangers money!"
"You've been acting really nice to me, just tell me, are you... pretending? To be nice?"
>"No? I can't pretend to give you real money, you can shine it under some light if you want to see it's not counterfeit. I really am worried, because - "

2/4 Anisha 2020/09/24(Thu)16:46 No. 977148 ID: 5fc3a0
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>"I really do think you're a good person, and I do like you."

3/4 Anisha 2020/09/24(Thu)16:46 No. 977149 ID: 5fc3a0
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"U-urhgn..."
>"Are you okay?"
"Yes that was very good to hear thank you."

4/4 Anisha 2020/09/24(Thu)16:47 No. 977150 ID: 5fc3a0
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Wall groans and then she keeps on groaning louder and louder until finally it stops.

>"Gods, Pond, just offer her to stay at our ship while you're at it why don't you?"

....

>"Wait you're thinking about it now aren't you?"
>"Yeah because that's a great idea, I don't know why I didn't think about it already!" says Pond.
>"We're not a vagrant shelter!"
>"She's not a vagrant, she's an engineer!"
>"We're not an engineer shelter either!"
"Um, you mean a mechanic? Because I'm more of a ship mechanic, uh, if that's... "

Wall turns to me.

>"Aw shit a mechanic? We do need one of those."

>>977150
How convenient! The springtime of your life's begun. Now you just need to worry about immense sexual exhaustion, the mafia trying to murder you, petty coworker bickering, their ship maybe being weird, that sort of thing. Ask about any non-secret details of their ship to see if you're familiar.

I'm sure you'll fit right in.

List your rates and dietary requirements.

I don't know, are duduk ship vents big enough to crawl around in?

>>977150
Tell them you would like to work for them. Please. But also they need to not forget to get Pond's stuff.

...huh, not a rival group OR law enforcement? Makes me wonder why "Pond" approached you, then. Maybe they're independent contractors...

>>977150
It's really the best place to go for you. You can hide under the engine until the scary things you're dealing with are dealt with.

>>977151
>immense sexual exhaustion

It seems a bit early to be assuming these attractive[ss] aliens are [s]reciprocally at all sexually attracted to you.

But yeah, jump on that opportunity like you want them to jump on your back.

In for a penny. What else have you got going? It’s time to go on grand adventures in space.

>>977154
I mean, do we need to crawl around in the vents anymore? I thought we only did that because we didn't like being around our previous crew.

>>977150
Is there a more powerful way to say yes?

>>977150
Politely ask for a job and a bed.

>>977214
An awkward hug.

A job with even one person who actually likes you? I don't think that's going to happen again. Take offer immediately

Do a goofy flex and reply "Well I just happen to be a mechanic looking for a new job."

1/2 Anisha 2020/11/04(Wed)19:23 No. 980375 ID: 5fc3a0
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"Are, well, that is, I am a mechanic!" I try and strike a pose or something but I just ruffle my feathers up. "That is um, are duduk ship crawlspaces big enough to crawl through?"

Wall gives me a weird look.

>"What do you mean by duduk ships?"
"Ships for... duduks? Er, is it not...?"
>"No no!" I'm happy Pond is interjecting now. "We have an amtsvane on board. There's plenty of room."
"O-oh! I think I do want." Not even our ship has amtsvane! I don't know why I'm thinking that's a surprise. Amtsvane quarters aren't given by people who pinch their pennies.
>"Good! I think. You know that was a figure of speech about living in the crawlspaces right?"
"What?"
>"You'll have your own room."
"I will?"
>"If you join us, yes, of course, at worst you'd have to bunk with somebody but right now there's plenty of spare beds. What are your rates?"
"My what?"
>"Ahh, that is... your salary. How much do you charge?"
"Anything's fine."
>"If you're going to work with us, work with us on this first! How much did your previous employers pay you?"
"I uh..."

2/2 Anisha 2020/11/04(Wed)19:23 No. 980376 ID: 5fc3a0
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>"What did they do to you, Anisha!"
"Not much! Including paying me! Yes I would like a job please I don't ask for much and if I had my own room that's more than I know what I'd do with but all I'd ask for is the ability to get some alone time sometimes even if it's hiding in the vents but I'll still do my job of course!"
>"Okay! Do you have any dietary requirements?"
"No just the standard kigavi spectrum!"

I don't know why Wall is silently smiling and I'm too afraid to ask.

"Can I learn, that is, what are some non-secret details about your ship?"
>"Well, there's only a few of us on board, it's mostly a freighter ship, taken up by the amtsvane and all. It's not a bad ship!"
>"Not a good ship either." Wall says.
>"But you can make it better! Since you're a mechanic. Actually how about we just invite you on the ship and show you around? If you join us we'll have to tell you what we're up to anyway. Go ahead and grab the stuff out of the room, Wall, I'll show Anisha to the ship, if she's willing?"

>Invite her to jump on your back
That's really scandalous still but if I did it willingly I think I would want Pond to be the one to - oh no what am I thinking?!

What are we waiting for? Let's go!
...Does the amtsvane have a bunkmate already?

>>980376
Ok, see you later Wall.

You are thinking that if you are to be ridden. You'd like it to be Pond. Though you should probably figure out a wage at least. You could now actually buy things for yourself that you would own.

>>980376
Amtsvane bedmates yeah!

>>980376
go to ship. ask if they need to move in case your old shipmates decide to follow you guys to their ship.

>>980376
Pond can ride you for now. Wall got her's and everyone gets one freebie.

Sounds like everything is working out! Also sounds like a ride to the ship is probably a fine idea! Can't wait to meet that amtsvane either!

Do not make outrageous proposals, let's just go to the ship.

Sounds like we got a ship to check out then.

>>980376
>oh no what am I thinking?!
Very scandalous thoughts!

>Scandalous
But at least people aren't ignoring you.

>>980386
also maybe kiss pound in joy. then be embarrassed.