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[serialized]

[ Hey, check it out, a second person chain-smoking all over the podium. Nate kind of looks like he needs it, though. He's got one arm tucked tightly against his chest and the elbow of the other resting on top of it, so the cigarette doesn't have to get very far from his mouth. And he's not real big on eye contact right now, though to be fair, impromptu public speaking in a piazza full of masked hooded figures can do that, plus: hangover sunglasses. ]

Looking for some vacation suggestions. Needs to be not on the North or South American continent, should either be a densely populated city or somewhere difficult to access. Like a seafaring cult cruise ship. But not... a seafaring cult cruise ship.

[ Excuse him while he million-mile-stares into the distance. ]

I don't think I'd like that.

[ Another moment of hollow-eyed contemplation of the air. ]

Also I need to leave like, now.

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[kashaph]

( well that's slightly suspicious, but watch it fly entirely over their head — )

I was very fond of Izmir.

[serialized]

Is that... in the Balkans?

[ Check out his shaky grasp of geography instead. ]

What do you like about it?

[kashaph]

Turkey.

It's by the sea — the weather is so nice. Ehm... is pretty tourist-y. Crowded. Safe, for foreigners anyway.

[serialized]

That does sound nice.

[ Sort of weak praise there, and he presses that arm harder against his ribs. Nice things... are bad? In Nate's bizarro world? ]

Is that, um — what you said about it being safe, for foreigners. Are there problems going on for people who live there?

[kashaph]

Mm, no, not really, just, ehhh — I don't know, people talk about how unsafe it is to travel alone, but ehm, pickpockets and muggers, they leave foreigners alone mostly.

[serialized]

Oh. Yeah. That kind of thing. That's... I don't know, I just hand whatever they want over, at home. So that's actually a step up.