That takes so long but yes it's worth it to be careful here.  And then they can set it up and plug in the iPod hopefully???? <Do you want to take the right hand on 'The Red Blossoms of My Affection' and we'll just jam and see how complicated we can work up to - >

<Fuck yeah!>

They can get so complicated!!  Colley takes a bit more of the lead, since Ispalt can read her mind and the reverse isn't true, but she knows how to give and take and leave room for Ispalt to sparkle.

Ispalt can pick up everything Colley's putting down!!

Colley's willing to go literally until the break of dawn if Ispalt's down!

Ispalt is SO DOWN. Though in the morning they will have to step out to collect their complimentary continental breakfast and the wakefulness of the morning people who are up this early.

Can they get breakfast and wakefulness in headphones?

Yes they can! They can download a bunch of stuff onto their iPod and do a little dance while they are in the elevator and going through the buffet for, wow, this all looks amazing, maybe because they have been continuously doing music and stuff for the last many hours without having eaten anything since the Happy Meal. They are going to get one of each kind of pastry and try the scrambled eggs and copy that old man who is toasting and buttering an English muffin and ooh bacon smells fantastic and gosh there are so many things they can put in their oatmeal and also there is OJ and - their tray is full! They will make another trip if they are still hungry.

Ispalt is extremely cute and also there's so much food here and they have PORTABLE CONCERTS.  (She wishes her people were here; they would love this - except that it would probably be a little awkward and difficult to explai -  ooh, wow yeah bacon, meat is at all a thing on Citrelia but it's even rarer as food goes, and more expensive, and this just came with their room and there doesn't even seem to be a limit on how much they can take - )

<Well, probably if we just walk off with all the bacon in the hot plate they will be like "uh what are you doing" but if we at least make a credible attempt at eating it yeah!> Omnomonom. Ispalt loves orange juice and is not wowed by oatmeal (probably she put in too much cinnamon) and is big into the scrambled eggs.

That's too obviously antisocial for Colley to have considered as a course of action!  (And also she near-exclusively goes to discrete food places to eat food and then eats all the food there; she's not into cooking and neither are any of her close friends.  But that part's less obvious to her.)  <This isn't terrible or anything but I wish you could taste citreliac food - would it help if I concentrated really hard on some of my taste memories  - >

<I don't think concentrating actually helps, but I can remember 'em.>

<I bet all-of-Earth-food is better than all-of-Citrelia-food though.  Just because there's so much more of it; it doesn't have to be as much of a special treat.>

<Yeah, probably. At least on the high end. There is probably also much worse food here than anyone on Citrelia would bother with making.>

<. . . I hope no one's stuck eating food that tastes worse than not eating anything just because they have to eat all the time; that would be sad.  Probably not, if this> (came priced in with the room, the staff isn't tracking how much they sit here and eat, buffet style probably means there's going to be a fair bit left over) <is as good as it is.>

<I think some of them probably are but in poorer places, not right around here. We picked a richer place to land, more industrial base.>

<Huh.>  That's slightly confusing but not enough to warrant actual curiosity, especially up against this PORTABLE CONCERT.  What even are these instruments; she has no idea what could produce anything like that kind of sound.

Good question and there is no obvious way to find out solely by listening but they can find a list of all the instruments that exist on Wikipedia on their laptop!

Also Ispalt is going to send her commander an email proposing they meet to talk about her host's applicable skills.

Oh synthesizers??  They should maybe read the instruction manual for their keyboard later; it seems like probably there's stuff about it that didn't get picked up with what they got on acoustic pianos from that one lady.

Skills: she has so many of them!!  What's Ispalt saying about her?

My host was blacked out at the time she stumbled into the dentist's office, so I'm unsure how she got there or what she'd taken, but with me keeping her sober I think she has what it takes to pull off a serious musical career. Obviously money per se is not at issue but a celebrity could present opportunities for access, public opinion effect, etc. which might have me more valuable in that capacity than as a more conventional plant or operator. Happy to demo next time I need the pool.

What a good Ispalt.  No notes!

Well, some notes, presumably. Musical notes! The keyboard can sound like different stuff, turns out!

YESSS.  Let her at it let her at it -

All hers!

Aaaaaa there are so many sounds just in this one thing!!  Some of them have cool delay-y effects and she can make tunes that harmonize with themselves even when she only plays one note at a time!!  - There are string instruments on here??  Copies of other instruments instead of just completely new ones she's never heard of???  They don't sound perfectly right but it's still extremely impressive.