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Rescue in the City of Angles
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"Sure, thanks. Argyle cape, for the name part? People with superpowers are called capes in my original world."

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"Okay!" So she touches a lot of buttons and downloads an app and sets argylecape at some domain that doesn't exist on Earth dot city as Denice's email.

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"Cool. Maybe give me your address, too?"

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"Yeah! It's," she writes it out on Denice's phone.

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"Great. I might end up moving but now I can email you if I do."

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"Cool! And if I can't get Dad to come around I'll definitely move so we can still keep in touch."

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"Yeah. I haven't been to the suburbs, but if it's not too hard to get there maybe I can visit or something, if you get stuck out there."

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"It's... kinda hard to get there if you don't already know how, there are roads that take a non-Euclidean turn and suddenly you're there, but I bet you can find them with your superpowers."

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"I might have to practice a bit, but yeah, that doesn't sound hard."

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"And anyway there are maps that tell you where they are, the City's big, might not be a good idea to just go around looking."

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"Yeah. I'll figure something out. And hopefully it won't happen at all."

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"I'll keep you posted! I should head back, though, Dad will want to know where I've gone when he comes back from wherever he went this time."

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"Okay. I'll let you know when I can come hang around. Thanks for the help with the internet."

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"No problem! If you need anything else, you got my email."

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"Yup! And you have mine. See you soon!"

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"Bye!"

And off she goes.

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And Denice returns to her subwayish haunts to check out the local internet. After a bit she emails Sadde and texts Hollister with her new contact information.

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Oh cool! She's happy Denice got around to figuring the internet out.

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Hollister is, too! He'll email her in a few days with the stuff they talked about, even with dangerous things like villains this government is slow at best.

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Cool.

Next up: Job listings.

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She can find those! A surprising number of them involve working from home; most people really really don't want to leave. The ones that do make them leave pay proportionally more, because of this fact.

As Penny suggested, she can freelance sell maps of various kinds. The First Action Response Teams are always hiring, and they're pretty much your ticket into any sort of government-backed heroing, like going into the police force or the fire department. There are programming jobs, secretarial jobs, design, fast food...

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Well. She doesn't have to work from home, but she doesn't want to work around people, which rules out a lot of the out-of-the-house stuff. And she definitely isn't interested in government-backed heroing; she'll keep that strictly freelance, thanks. But mapping looks workable, and maybe some secretarial stuff or something. Seems like she'd need a laptop, though, and while she can steal one, she'd rather not... maybe she can find something temporary that'll get her enough money for one? She can relax her 'being around people' limitation a little for that; she still doesn't want to interact with strangers more than she has to, but she could do deliveries or something maybe.

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She could work at a library, not many people do that, or delivery, yes, can she drive or otherwise get to her destinations in a timely fashion?

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She can bike; she hasn't noticed anyone delivering things by bike here yet but that was definitely a thing back on Earth. Working in a library, like, back room or something would be better, though.

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Both things are possible!

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