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[volitaunt]

01101100 01101111 01100011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01110010 01100101 01110001 01110101 01100101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01110000 01101111 01100101 00100000 01100100 01100001 01101101 01100101 01110010 01101111 01101110 00100000 01110000 01110010 01101001 01101111 01110010 01101001 01110100 01111001 00100000 01101101 01100001 01111000 01101001 01101101 01110101 01101101 00100000 01110000 01101100 01100101

[ Translation: location request poe dameron priority maximum please ]

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text; username scavenger.rey

[talentedscavenger]

[So many things keep happening and Rey has to check out the network and lo and behold...

Binary. Something she can easily read and wonder what exactly is going on.]

01010111 01101000 01101111 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00111111

[Translation: Who is this?]

[volitaunt]

01100100 01100101 01110011 01101001 01100111 01101110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01100010 01100010 00101101 00111000

[ Designation BB-8 ]

[talentedscavenger]

01010111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101111 01110010 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110011 00111111

[What are your coordinates?]

[volitaunt]

[ INSERT THE COORDINATES OF THE COMMUNAL HOUSING BUILDING HERE ]

[talentedscavenger]

[ooc: LMAOO!!!]

01001001 01110100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01010010 01100101 01111001 00101110 00100000 01010011 01110100 01100001 01111001 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00101100 00100000 01001001 00100111 01101100 01101100 00100000 01100110 01101001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00101110

[It's Rey. Stay where you are, I'll find you.]

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00100001 00100001 00100001

[ Literally just: !!!

BB-8 is cruising circles around the lobby now hi. ]

[talentedscavenger]

[It'll be about ten minutes or so before she manages to get back to the Communal Housing. She practically raced out of the market, leaving her things behind when she read it was BB-8.

When she enters the building, she can see him. The little droid who changed her life. One of the first true friends she's ever made.]

BB-8!

[She meets him half way in the lobby, kneeling down to inspect him once he's close enough. It's amazing he's even here!]

[volitaunt]

[ BB-8 lets her look him over, chattering happily as he wriggles from side to side. He didn't expect to find her here! She left for Ahch-To! There are no other droids around, has she noticed? He hasn't found a single one, not even a janitorial model. ]

[talentedscavenger]

[Everything seems to be in working order for BB-8. He's his usual self and she's happy to see his antenna wasn't bent.]

Yes, I know. I mentioned droids to someone else and they were shocked about it. It seems the closest that some people have to droids are 'robots,' but no personality and very simple.

[She's going to...over look the whole Ahch-To thing for now.]

Poe doesn't even know you're here. He's going to be thrilled.

[volitaunt]

[ A disapproving note. Robots. Menial creations at best. Certainly they don't compare to actual droids.

--But Poe! Poe! BB-8 wriggles in place, voicing a cascade of beeps and boops that amount pretty much to excitement and the relief of worry. That pilot gets lost a lot. ]

[talentedscavenger]

[Yes, robots because...they didn't have advanced technology to make droids.]

There was one robot who had some personality to it, but it didn't even speak binary.

[There's a smile on her face watching BB-8 light up like that.]

I know, I was worried too, but he's fine. We'll get you two reunited. Though, one of us should keep a better eye on him, don't you think? [A bit of irony there since she lost him once. ha. ha. not.]

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[ An exasperated noise accompanied by droid agreement. Then he does a quick back-and-forth roll, asking where Poe is and how to find him. ]

[talentedscavenger]

[Rey gives an affectionate pate on BB-8's dome head.]

I can send him a text. He'll be thrilled to know you're here. In the mean time, we could stay here or wait in my room. Your choice.

[volitaunt]

[ Her room! He wants to see it.

(Because he is nosy.) ]

[talentedscavenger]

[ There’s a faint smile on her face. Okay, okay, she’ll show him her room. ]

Okay, I’ll let him know we’re in my room.

[ Another quick text to let Poe know where they would be. It takes some time but she shows them to her floor and to her mostly empty room a bed, some sheets, pieces of paper of failed star charts. ]

See?

[volitaunt]

[ BB-8 takes particular interest in the star charts. He whistles inquisitively, asking for permission to scan them for addition to his databases.

He's barely finished the sequence of tones that indicate a question when someone (someone) bangs on the door.

From outside: ] Rey? It's Poe!

[talentedscavenger]

Those? No, they're not right. I haven't been able to really map out anything..

[And there's Poe! She moves over to the door and opens it wide enough for Poe to see his droid rather than her.]

Come in, think you two need to catch up.

[volitaunt]

[ Poe gives Rey a passing touch on the shoulder in greeting, looking her way so she knows he's not ignoring her. But BB-8. BB-8 is here. Here!

Poe gets down on one knee before he's even finished moving, the result of which is that he slides the last foot or so to his droid's side. ] What are you doing here, buddy?

[ Not that he isn't one hundred percent delighted to see his frand. ]

[talentedscavenger]

[ If Poe ignored her, she wouldn’t take offense to it. She was happy to have the pair reunited. They should all be back on D’Qar, trying to stop the First Order, but they’re all gathered here instead. At least they have one another for support. ]

I have no clue, I found his message on the Network and responded. I wanted to find out who it was before someone else did. There aren’t a lot of people here who’ve seen a droid. [ And best to get BB back to Poe before someone tried to droidnap him. ]

[volitaunt]

On the network, huh? [ He grins at BB-8. ] Smart.

[ To Rey: ] Thank you for going to get him.

[talentedscavenger]

Welcome. I was about to let anything happen to him.

[She nearly says 'again,' but he never got into the hands of the First Order so...all is good!]

[volitaunt]

Thank you.

[ This time it's softer, more serious, because he hasn't forgotten what she and Finn did for his droid the first time around. What they did for the Resistance. ] I owe you twice over.

[talentedscavenger]

[Rey looks down for a moment, noting the softer tone in his voice. He doesn't owe her anything..not once, least of all twice.]

You're welcome. [Her voice is equally soft.]

You don't owe me anything, Poe.

[volitaunt]

Sure I do.

[ He gets up to give her a one-armed hug around the shoulders. ] You saved my friend. You saved him twice.

[talentedscavenger]

[The one-armed hugged takes a back. Oh..okay. This? This is nice.]

He's my friend too, and I wasn't about to let someone pick him up and take him apart.