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"Home"

There are plenty of places to call home, but for the Mirai sisters and the folks who have gathered to live with them, "Home" is a specific home.

Home is a small but well furnished house fitted with a Reality Engine for Mobile Buildings. In this home lives Meiko, Eiko, Lorelei, Kisei, and recently Mallory. It's a two floor home with a kitchen, living room (complete with a Video Network Set 3.11), bedrooms for everybody other than Mallory, and a door in the back leading to the Onsen-of-the-Month Club.

Blueprints are available here. (Courtesy of Neko-Neko)

The kitchen is usually well stocked with both healthy food and Krap unless money is tight, and the in-kitchen table seats six. Strategic meetings and impromptu Ping Pong matches can also be held on this table; the portable Ping Pong net and paddles are kept next to the bug spray beneath the sink.

The living room has a nice little conversation pit in the form of an L-shaped couch, upon which Mallory sleeps at night. The coffee table has magazines, stray toys and drink coasters. A work desk with various maps, glossy brochures and other travel paperwork can be found across from the Reality Engine itself, which is tucked away behind the entertainment unit. Mallory has a small closet in the back where he keeps his stuff (including his 8-Bit Commandos collection), much smaller than the big closet which is used for general storage.

Eiko's bedroom is the most nicely furnished. She has her own Video Network Set with subscriptions to various children's video streams and financial news streams, as well as boxes and shelves and closets for her huge toy collections.

Meiko's room is a bit more sparse; she has an old fashioned kotatsu from Nippon, her RealNet Workstation, a bed, and little else. Shelves hold a few treasured keepsakes.

Lorelei's room has all her stuff pushed to the walls, to leave room for her to train on her exercise mat. A table is there but she makes little use of it other than as another place to put her dirty laundry. A closet holds her various fashions, which range from scandalous to merely revealing.

Kisei's room is rarely visited by anybody other than Kisei, but it's very dark and undecorated and holds only an ordinary cot, some shelves for boxes of ammo, and a big armory filled with various rifles and guns. The door has three locks on it and her air vents have extra grates on them.

Rooms are also set aside for handling the plumbing and heating of the house, which automatically connect up to rentable services when the house docks.

See Also: Transients