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[At first, there's no image coming up on screen. Just the sound of some keys being pushed, a voice muttering, and the sounds of fabric and skin being rubbed over the microphone and- ah, there. A video flickering on, revealing an extreme close-up of an extremely unhappy man. Well, at least he looks unhappy. And rumpled. Like, say, he'd just been fished out of the ocean and told he's in some between worlds land of the dead place. That kind of unhappy.]

Alright, look here. [Oh, yeah, he's pissed.] I don't know what you people here are thinking, but landing on the back of some turtle in the middle of some spirit world doesn't really pass as normal back home.

[He leans back a little, narrowing his eyes at the screen in front of him.]

If I'm to actually believe this isn't some sort of scam or elaborate, drug induced plot, I'm guessing I'm here for the long haul, huh? Living on the back of a turtle.

[He scoffs, but the anger is fading back a bit, as it has been the more the looks around at this place, sharp eyes picking up sights of things that seem like something straight out of his imagination. Hell, the console in front of him is enough to have him almost thoroughly distracted.]

Right, well, cut a new fella a break, would ya, Keeliai? Could use a drink and a bit of a run down on the tech you're working with, here.

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I'm sensing a theme here with the older people arriving. Maybe we could keep a tally of everyone who mentions needing or wanting a drink. Oh! Or 2 juulan for everyone who says it.

I'm probably not the best to talk about the technology here. Parts of the turtle have tech more advanced than my own world.

This isn't really anything like the spirit world, not the way I've heard it described.

Juulan? [There's a bit of curiosity, despite the undercurrent of discomfort that there's apparently kids stuck in this in-between world.] Not a form of currency I'm familiar with.

Something we have in common, then. [He's still poking at this computer thing, even in the middle of conversations.] I can see the roots, here. Dreamed up designs like this, myself, but we're not anywhere near this, yet.

[Oh, right. The spirit world stuff.] Second person to talk like they know the spirit world so far, kid.

Honestly? It's not something I've used before coming here.

[Oh, he's pinged.]

You're an inventor?

[Sokka doesn't usually check other responses so he's curious about who else talked about the spirit world. Sokka nods though.]

Yeah, it's not somewhere I've been, but I know someone who has. It's sort of important to us. Or, well the people from my world.

Local currency, then. I'll have to get my hands on some. [And then some. Howard's not letting dimensional displacement get in the way of his fortune building, after all.]

Best of my time, kid.

Kind of the Shangri La of your world? [World being said with the vocal equivalent of air quotes, of course.]

You can get a job here and they pay you, they're kind of boring, but it's something to do and it's income while we're here.

[Sokka grins at that.]

Wow, really? That's so cool. I tried a few things back home, never got anything going but I did help with a war balloon.

[Sokka doesn't know what he means by that, but he can take a guess.]

He's the Avatar.

[As much as he hates the thought of working up from a dinky electronics store again...] Mind giving me the rundown of job opportunities?

[His eyebrows arch up a bit]

War balloon, huh? I'm a military inventor myself, provided most of the weapons and technical advice our side needed to win, back home.

Shangri La's not a person, just a spiritual utopia dreamed up by the fantasy lovers back home. Curious about your Avatar, though. [Even if he doesn't really believe anything about this "spirit world"]

Well, everything was already there, I just came up with the idea of how to control it and it wasn't really for the military. I mean we're at war back home, but it's more disorganised on all fronts but the attacking one.

Oh well...The Spirit World is real for us and Aang can go there. He's sort of a big deal. He knows how, or he will eventually know how to bend all the elements and then we can end the war.

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