"Oliver Greenfield, new in town, interested in getting Internet access, Robin said you might know something!"

Sebastian opens the door and gestures Oliver in.

"You're new in town? Why did you pick Pelican Town of all places?"

There's a desk in the corner with a couple of computer workstations set up. Both have giant CRT displays.

Across from the bed is a table with three chairs and a Euro-style board game, the kind with a 32-page rulebook.

There are posters of anime characters on the walls.

He steps in, if permitted by physical law.  "Grandpa Greenie died and left me his farm.  I figured I'd at least see the place.  Bus is now broken down and also my life has become all sorts of complicated."

(Oliver is not particularly likely to recognize anime characters in his home universe or any other.)

"Bummer. Quite a place to get stranded."

"Well, as far as internet goes, I just have a VPN into the corporate intranet of the company I'm programming for at the moment. They sent me a piece of hardware and told me to plug it in and it just worked."

"Interesting.  What language do you program in?"

"Tcl/Tk. Why, are you a programmer?"

"Not by the standards of actual programmers, took a couple of college courses on it.  This does let me know enough to ask whether you have the ability to search the wider Internet for Tcl/Tk-related questions?"

"Nah, I don't really need to, I just look stuff up in this book. There are some resources on the intranet too."

Sebastian brandishes a book the size of a toaster.

Oliver examines the book!

"That... does make it look like getting Internet access... might be a bit of a project and maybe not have quite the results I was hoping for."

"I'll probably be back around later, Sebastian.  Any sort of favor you're hoping somebody does for you, at some point?"

"I mean, I guess it would be nice if I could figure out a way to move out of my mom's basement at some point. It's kind of oppressive here. But I don't really see how you'd help with that."

Word, young man.  Word.  "Is there something like an amount of G that you'd need to accumulate in order to move out?  Or a project to build a house for you, that needs wood and stone?"

"Huh, I hadn't really thought that much about it. I guess I'd probably need to earn enough G to afford an apartment in Zuzu City? But I don't know what that costs, probably a lot. At least it's free here."

Oliver is getting the impression, somehow, that there may not be a pre-existing quest chain here.  But Sebastian also strikes Oliver somehow as being unusually likely to wake up if poked, and come that day, it'd be nice to have some way to bind Sebastian into the Awokened Alliance.  "I'll keep a look out for possibilities.  Thanks for letting me bother you!"

"Later."

Sebastian sits back down at his workstation.

Oliver races back upstairs at Running Speed.

...actually, how's Oliver's stamina?  Recovered from his afternoon of farming and singing, visibly, now that they've let some objective time slip?

Nope, exactly the same energy level as when last Oliver checked!

At least running doesn't exhaust it.  But, getting it back would apparently be the point of food, Oliver is guessing.

Mayor still there when he gets back up?

"Any luck down there?"

"Definitely some kind of luck.  Don't think I'd call it good luck."

"Shall we away to tour the Community Centre?"

"I thought you'd never ask! Let's go!"

"Jeepers, it's been ages since I've been in there. I wonder what it's even like these days."

"Vell, let's go then."

Oliver is wondering if they're going to suddenly appear in the Community Center cutscene-style.