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[cryptozoologic]

[Everyone loves dogs, right? That's why the video opens up with a close up of an adorable Papillon dog wagging her tail happily. She prances in place, circles a few times, and then lies down.

After that, Umber turns the video feed around to actually focus on himself.]

Now that I've got your attention, hi, I'm Umber. I know I'm probably not the only one going through this, but damn if it isn't weird to just blink and find yourself in a city, right?

[Never mind that he's never lived in a place like this before, only passed through, but apparently this is where he lives now? He's not sure he likes that idea very much.]

I mean, I can't be the only one, right? The guy at the booth acted like this happens all the time, but this is the first time I've ever been...I dunno, warped? Teleported? I'm hesitant to call this a kidnapping because it's not like we're tied up or there's a ransom or something.

I say 'we' but I haven't met anyone else who doesn't act like they belong here yet. So let's see some hands, who's out there. Also how long have you been here and does anyone have any ideas about what the hell's going on or how we can get home?

[He pauses for a moment, then turns the camera back to the dog, who's chewing on her paw.] Also that's Butterfly.

Comments

[gamerrep]

No. I wasn't doing that before I found myself here.

So I know it's not that at least. But if we go by video game logic, we'll maybe figure out an answer at some point.

[cryptozoologic]

God, with video game logic, there'd be a bad guy who brought us all here and sometime in the future he'll monologue at us and tell us all his evil plans.

Which, honestly? Wouldn't be so bad because at least we'd have a tangible enemy.

[gamerrep]

That is true. Villians do like to monologue, but sometimes in games, villains aren't always shown at the beginning either.

[cryptozoologic]

That's true. Sometimes you don't know who you're supposed to be fighting until later on.

I guess we'll just have to see when our 'villain' will be revealed.

[gamerrep]

And when they do, we will be ready. I hope.

[Though really what does Chiaki really need to fight for honestly. Considering what happened back home she didn't have anything there anymore.]

[cryptozoologic]

Hoping's all we can do, sometimes. We'll either be ready when the time comes or be ready later. I'm sure we'll be able to handle things.

[He wasn't sure, not at all, but he was good at pretending he was. He didn't even know what he could contribute to taking down a villain if the time came, but he'd do whatever he could.]

[gamerrep]

Let's hope so... Though. Is this place really that bad?

[She is starting to think over a few things at least.]

[cryptozoologic]

Not yet. I mean, it seems pretty nice right now. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, is all.

It's hard to believe things are actually going to stay nice when you end up somewhere against your will.

[gamerrep]

I guess... For those who end up here against thier will. But what about those who situations mean they couldn't go back anyway?