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	♥ 1. Where did you come from? You may not know anyone else on the boat, but you've all got one thing in common; you're headed to Republic City. ♥ 2. It's your first day in Republic City. You might wanna get a job lined up or you'll be living on the streets. ♥ 3. You're the new person in the city. You gotta make some friends, right? Go find someone and strike up a conversation.
	♦ 4. Feeling a little crafty? Maybe you could make a quick yuan. Sell information for money or do a little threatening. ♦ 5. Vines. Vines everywhere! They're like the heads of a hydra. What are you going to do about the vines that just invaded your apartment? ♦ 6. Triads, Equalists... thugs in general. Welcome to the aftermath of losing a fight. Are you gonna go find a healer or are you gonna tough it out?
	♣ 7. You've got a job. What is it? How are you going to get customers? You better get some soon. More customers equals more money. ♣ 8. You're a bender, right? Then you better practice it. What's that? Oh, a non-bender? You can still find a partner to spar with, right? ♣ 9. It's late. Have a drink at the pub! Get to know one another. Let it all flow freely!
	♠ 10. Yeah! You've got a driver's license! Everyone else better watch out... ♠ 11. Entertainment's just rolled on into the city! Watch the ostrich-horses race or the acrobats perform. Or maybe you're one of them! ♠ 12. It's a long line at whatever vendor you're at. Make small talk with nearby civilians or try and haggle the vendor down to a better price.
	• Make up your own scenario!

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[raavashing]

Spirits like most humans that aren't mean to them or trying to destroy nature.

[He gave a shrug and leaned back against one of the vines that was thick enough to be a tree and rose up like one. Wan tilted his head to look up at it, tracing it's twisting path back to one of the many strangled human buildings.]

So how did the spirit wilds get into the city like this anyway?

[spiritjourneys]

[Jinora looks at him, puzzled. She thought everyone knew, but maybe he came from somewhere remote that doesn't get news very often.]

Avatar Korra left the Spirit Portals open after Harmonic Convergence. That meant the spiritual world and the physical world merged, since nothing was sealing the spiritual world away anymore.

[She looks around at the vines.] They're trying to make their homes in our world. It's a shame about the buildings, but it's their home now too.

[raavashing]

Is every city like this, then? Covered in the wilds?

[Wan wasn't opposed to the two worlds being merged, but the spirit world was the home of spirits, not the material world.]

[spiritjourneys]

[Jinora shakes her head.]

Not that I know of. Most spirits seem to like to wander rather than settle down.

[raavashing]

That's not true. Most spirits like to settle in a place they can care for and cater to the well-being of. If so many are wandering, then I guess it means they don't feel at home yet.

[spiritjourneys]

It hasn't been very long. I think everyone-- humans and spirits-- need more time to get comfortable.

[She smiles and gestures to the spirits gathered around them.] At least some of them have found new homes already.

[raavashing]

At the expense of humans, yes.

[Wan's voice was sad as he went back to looking at the overgrown houses.]

Part of learning to live together is doing so without invading another's home. The spirits didn't do this on purpose, but they did it all the same. To give themselves a home, they drove out those who were already living here. That's not right or fair. To spirits or to humans. It creates resentment, anger.

...has anyone tried burning the vines yet? I don't expect it will work, but, no one has resorted to violence in retaliation yet, have they?

[spiritjourneys]

No, nothing will make the vines go away. The more you try to get rid of them, the worse it gets.

[She shakes her head.] Nobody's resorted to violence yet, but there's tension. There have been times where neither the spirits nor the humans would listen to reason. Avatar Korra tried to convince the spirits to leave and find a new home, but they refused.

[raavashing]

I'm not surprised. Spirits are very hard to convince when you ask them to leave a place they call home. It took me-

[Wan's mouth snapped shut and he glanced sideways at the girl with wide eyes ans he realized he'd been about to say something related to being the Avatar that he probably shouldn't. It was Korra's era, not his. She was their Avatar and drawing attention to the fact that he was somehow walking the world at the same time as her would cause more chaos. She didn't need any more of that to deal with. Not when she'd already dealt with so much. According to the people he'd talked to and the various history documents he'd read, anyway.]

-saving an animal to convince just one to let me live with him. I didn't know he was watching when it happened.

[Yeah. Nice save. Good job Wan.]

[spiritjourneys]

[Jinora can tell he's lying (or at least trying to bury the truth) and it shows in her expression. But she doesn't push it. In fact, she's far more interested in the fact that he's lived with spirits.]

You live with a spirit?

[raavashing]

Sure do.

[He smiled a gentle smile as his eyes unfocused for a moment. When they snapped back, he waved a hand.]

Not the one I befriended by saving Mula, though. I haven't lived with that spirit in a long time. But the one I live with now is my best friend. We're pretty inseparable.

[Pun intended.]

[spiritjourneys]

[Jinora looks around, searching for the spirit.]

Are they here right now?

[raavashing]

[And that was where his good natured joke ended up hurting a little too much.]

She... she is. But she can't be seen or heard by anyone right now. She's... sleeping.

[Sort of.]

[spiritjourneys]

[Jinora looks sad, knowing that they've hit a sensitive subject.]

Is she okay?

[raavashing]

[Wan gives Jinora the biggest, most gentle smile and nods.]

Yeah. She is. She's doing great.

[spiritjourneys]

[Wan's smile makes her grin too.]

I'm glad.

[raavashing]

[He bit at his lower lip for a moment before pushing off the vine and waving to the distance.]

The building I'm staying in is only a couple blocks that way. It's in the wilds and otherwise abandoned, but it's safe enough. We can go there and have some tea if you'd like. All of us.

[He tilted his head at the spirits.]

It's not as good as an oasis, but I can at least make a decent pot of tea.

[spiritjourneys]

[She smiles again.]

I'd love to.

[She gives him polite bow.] My name is Jinora. It's nice to meet you.

[raavashing]

[Wan returned the bow.]

My name is Wan.

[Then he turned and started walking off toward the formerly nice building he had claimed for his current, if temporary, home.]

The vines shouldn't bother us and you can meet Mula.

[spiritjourneys]

[She follows along, her small train of spirits following along with them.]

Mula is the animal you saved, right?

[raavashing]

She is. She likes to keep to the wilds. She'll go into the city with me, but she doesn't really like it. All the noise and those big mechanical carts running around. Satomobiles I think they're called, right?

[spiritjourneys]

You know a lot about spirits. Have you always been able to communicate with them?

[It was a rare gift, before Harmonic Convergence and the merging of worlds.]

[raavashing]

Yeah. Once I left the city I grew up in, anyway. Couldn't talk to spirits before then since spirits kind of avoided it. Too many humans. Once I got out into the wilds I met spirits pretty much wherever I went.

[He totally didn't realize this could be interpreted as how Jinora had grown up seeing them.]

[spiritjourneys]

[She nods in understanding.]

It was the same way for me. They played with me more when I was at the Northern Air Temple.

[raavashing]

They must be everywhere now that the portals are open.

[Wan said with a nod and then ducked around a large vine that otherwise blocked the view. The familiar sound of short wind blasts could be heard before Jinora would get there and once she was around the vine, Wan would be three stories up at hole in a wall that had been forced thre by a half-dozen vines that twined around each other like a braid.]

This is the only way in to the third floor. The vines cut off the stairs from the first to the second. I'd ask if you can climb, but you're an airbender. It shouldn't be hard for you to get up here.