Your younger sister drops by

A familiar knock at the door announces a visitor you didn't know were coming, because she doesn't announce her visits. You know that behind that door, you'll find Alice, your younger sister. You groan and reluctantly walk over to let her in.

"Hey Mark," Alice chirps and steps past you into the dorm. If you were to describe her, it would be "annoying." She's 21, a few years younger than yourself. She never really grew out of that emo punk phase of her teenage years. She's feminine but makes minimal effort at showing it off, mostly focusing on putting on too much make-up to distract people from her cheap fashion sense. These days she's tentatively studying history and pedagogy, though you suspect she doesn't have the patience to work with people in the way a teacher does. You've mentioned it to her a few times, but she shrugs it off. She has a part-time job in a punk clothes franchise to pay for rent, but now and then she comes over to "see to her big brother" and most of the time, borrow some money for getting drunk or high.

"Oh, am I interrupting something?" she asks as she observes the state of the place. You've planned to clean this place before Steve, your roommate, got back, but hadn't gotten around to doing so before your sister barged in. Not that it was likely that you'd done it before he got back, either way.

"No, not really," you drone as you follow her into the living room, where you see the ray gun lying on the table. "I just got back from a flea market, bought some stuff."

"Ooh, so you've spent all your money then?" Alice asks and giggles at your eye roll, dropping into the spot you'd been sitting on in the couch. "I was hoping you'd be flush. There's a party and I have some new friends that would probably love to meet you, if I put in the right word." she says as she reveals her current leverage. Sure, she'd gotten you a date or two, but you suspect they were more in it for a free meal than a relationship.

Either way, you shrug and ponder for a moment how to approach your sister hunt for easy money. The gun lies casually on the table in front of you both.