Questions

[echo_of_a_jedi]

Who: Meetra Surik and Open
Where: All around Hinoto-Ri
Summary: Meetra is trying to figure out the weather shenanigans, and generally failing
Warnings: Demons?
Hot, cold, hot, cold, hot, cold. The pattern was easy to see and impossible to explain. Today, particularly, it had been hot, and tonight, particularly, it was the New Moon. It was time, as far as Meetra was concerned, to go ask the demon population of the city now that she'd exhausted talking to the human civilians during the day and was fairly certain that none of her fellow guests had the slightest clue beyond this not being normal for this planet.

Meetra was trying several places. First and foremost, she asked demons around and throughout the city. Everyone had their ideas, but as the night went on, she seemed to get no closer to a clear answer, even from the elemental-themed fairies (though their opinions were the loudest). She also checked around the Mictlan (normal levels of government and weird mountain demon activity), with the night owls at the police station in Leo (above their pay grade), and anywhere else in the city that might know anything about the environment.

Barring some kind of divine or Force-based intervention, she was rather frustrated by the time the 13th Hour was approaching. Maybe she'd run into someone who'd know then, or maybe she'd just find someone to help against an aggressive demon. She did have her lightsaber with her.

Comments

[greatergone]

Waiting at the ready was Kais. He had a lesser impact in the Force than nearly every other race that existed in the city but that didn't stop him from doing what he considered his duty. Which was waiting near the Mictlan, biding his time until the 13th hour. Kais hated the waiting but he enjoyed the killing that came after. He wasn't evil...it was just something he did. He had a particular hatred for daemons and tended to avoid them or kill them at all costs.

When approached, he looked up, the red light on his helmet blinking as it took in Meetra and her biological data.

"Can I help you, gue'la?"

[echo_of_a_jedi]

If Kais's armor can detect Psykers or other connections to what his setting calls the Warp, it would definitely bring back some anomalous readings here...although otherwise, she's a pretty standard human female.

"Only if you know something about the strange weather patterns," she said, looking up slightly at the armored figure. "Judging from your outfit and the fact that my translator just glitched, though, I'm guessing you're not from around here either."

[greatergone]

Unfortunately, he can only tell psykers by their gibbering insanity. Well, that was how he was trained, at least. If only Tau could be a psychic species...

"No. I'm not from any human planet like this one. But this weather has been impossible to predict so far."

[echo_of_a_jedi]

Frankly, even by Star Wars standards, they are probably better off without it.

"The pattern's been pretty clear, alternating hot and cold days. I just don't know anything that can do that with this kind of regularity," she said. "Even in a closed environment like this, it doesn't make any sense..."

[greatergone]

"No, it doesn't." No one in their right mind would have such a setting. "The days that are hot, I like. But the ones that are cold are unbearable."

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"You're not used to cold temperatures, I guess?"

He didn't look quite human, but she decided not to assume it was necessarily a biological adaptation.

[greatergone]

"To most gue'la, my home planet would be considered dry and hot to them. The only snow we see is on top of mountains."

Not to mention that those in the Fire Caste drew their roots from living on the savannahs of T'au, a place with little shade and shelter.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"I spent a lot of time moving between planets, so I don't think I ever developed a preference," she admitted. "Although jungle worlds are fairly awful in general."

[greatergone]

I've been to a jungle-like planet before also." And returned with a failed mission but, hey. "It wasn't a pleasant experience, though."

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"That would be the understatement of the year about Dxun."

She scowled. "Then again, it was pretty nice when I wasn't there with an army."

[greatergone]

"My own visit ended in a mission failure...and a delay on my combat experience." First mission was a flop, always ruinous to morale. And it gave him a severe lack of experience when he was deployed for actual combat.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"You had to fight, too? I'm sorry to hear that," she said.

[greatergone]

"Fighting is what I was born to do. I don't see why you need to apologize over that." A world without fighting would leave Kais very lost, that was for sure.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"I just thought you'd have probably had a better time if you didn't have to worry about ambushes and minefields," she said. "Besides, how long have you been a soldier?"

[greatergone]

"I've always been a soldier." It definitely wasn't a choice. "All members of the Fire Caste must join the military after they are finished growing."

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"Mandatory conscription, huh?"

Well, it worked for some cultures.

"I guess you don't know what life as a civilian is even like."

[greatergone]

He shook his head.

"You misunderstand. It's not like your human concept of being forced to join an army. Those of our Caste are born into and spend their entire lives in the military."

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"So it's more like part of your species is just born into a specific role," she said, picking up on the 'your human' enough to be sure she was addressing an alien under all that armor. "I don't think I've met any sentients like that before, but it's a big universe."

[greatergone]

"That's how it has always been for us." Then again, not many races have been under some form of mind control for over 6000 years.