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Aadhya is attempting to meet as many people as possible. She writes down names, affinities, room numbers where they're volunteered; she wants to learn who's who, now in the first week where that's not a weird thing to do, and then filter later. There's a little curlicue next to anyone who pronounces her name correctly for bonus points. Here's a person. "Hi! My name is Aadhya, what's yours?"
Aadhya at orientation
have-the-temperament
"Marcy Park; pleased to meet you. What's your affinity? Mine's projectiles."
"Something in artificing, some things that should be hard are easier than some things that should be easy, but I'm not sure of the pattern yet." Write write.
have-the-temperament
"Well, the shop will try to give you in-affinity projects so I bet you'll know soon. I'm really looking forward to shop."
"Me too! My parents turned half our basement into a shop, but they're both pretty specialized, she's a weaver and he's a technomancer, so we didn't have parts and tools for everything I could've tried."
have-the-temperament
"Oh, that's cool! I've had basic hot and cold metal shop, mostly theory but some bench time too, and nothing related to weaving."
have-the-temperament
She asks the question about the box alien again. It really gets around, that box alien.
"I think probably if somebody offers me this deal they are a mal who has figured out an interesting bait strategy and I should run away and not touch any of their stuff."
have-the-temperament
"That's a very reasonable level of caution, but supposing you had some way to be sure it was on the level."
have-the-temperament
Hmm. Sounds like an instinctive response rather than a reasoned one, but Marcy has spent years learning to carefully reason out the correct thing to say and then say it casually like it was natural, and furthermore the analogy to cheating suggests she's seen to the point of the question, so she's clearly not not reasoning it through. She smiles.
"Makes sense. Speaking of, anything you're looking to buy or sell? We came in with some trade goods an artificer might want. Mostly stuff we can find a use for if we don't end up selling it, but variety's often useful."
"I'll want that very much once the void or my shop assignments tell what to focus on. For now I have what I came in with and my parents didn't recommend bringing anything specifically intending to trade it. What is it you have? I can write it down for later."
have-the-temperament
Marcy can give a list of the three or four things they have the most interest in selling, and her room number so Aadhya can find her if she's interested.
have-the-temperament
"So, where are you from?" Marcy asks now that they've been talking long enough that she can be curious about the combination of name and accent without looking like she's hunting for an excuse to say she's from Boston.
have-the-temperament
"It does! A lot of the ones I learned because they're in-affinity are in Korean. I bet Hindi has some cool ones too."
"I'm not going to be able to cast my family's spells for a while, but maybe the void has good freshman-level stuff."
have-the-temperament
"Yeah. I'm really excited for getting spellbooks from the void; everything I've learned so far is by definition something my parents and teachers can do better. Probably that'll be true of everything I get this year too, but it's the principle of the thing."
"My mother recommends learning obscure languages about it but since I'm an artificer I'm not planning to take that advice much. I guess Bengali is a little obscure."