video; un: dovahkiin (backdated to early Nov)

[fusrodaaaah]

Um.

[Wow, it's a rare show of video from Melius. The Argonian is sitting on the beach, in the cold, at his little tent. A lizard, in the cold. But he doesn't seem at all bothered by it.]

[He shifts where he sits, and then just. Straight up thrusts a basket of mushrooms at the camera.]

I was - I was um. [He ducks his head, hiding behind the basket.]

I know mushrooms! Really well! I um - if you need! To know! I can - I can tell you!

Goodbye!

[He shuts it off, right there.]

[... basically, Melius is offering his services as a mushroom expert. With a lot more anxious yelling than necessary.]

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[fusrodaaaah]

It... it's really not. That bad. Or hard... um.

Varian does. The things that explode.

1/??

[danserai]

Yeah, he told me not to go into his workshop. Which is fine.

I've just never been good at handling things delicately. It's always —

[danserai]

"Ahiru, did you drop that book? It's supposed to stay on your head"

Or like.

"Ahiru, why are your legs all wobbly? Keep your pose straight"

Or

"Ahiru, how did you run and roll yourself into that bush?"

3/3 END

[danserai]

Just kind of like that, I guess, ehehe . . .

[ because she is, after all, a literal duck and not a person. ]

[fusrodaaaah]

[Please hold. Processing...]





Wh-why did you... have a book. On your head?

[danserai]

Oh, we use them for practice. To make sure we're keeping our balance in ballet.

[possessum]

( Is he.... oh, he is— he's hiding. That... is definitely familiar, too. Peter spent most of that aforementioned video message with his face concealed.

This guy is clearly very uncomfortable. Shy, nervous, anxious, afraid... it could be any of those, or some mix of all of them. Peter's watching that single pale eye on his screen, and it's... a very different feeling to have someone so seemingly anxious at him when usually it's the opposite. )

Oh. ( Argonian? He's not familiar with the term; maybe he's from some place that's like Lord of the Rings or something? Regardless, Peter feels he should offer something in exchange, so he says, awkwardly, but trying to be friendly— )

I'm— from Utah.

[fusrodaaaah]

Ballet...?

Is... what is that? [If it exists in Tamriel, the lizard living in the woods unfortunately hasn't heard about it.]

[fusrodaaaah]

Utah...?

[His face scrunches up. In thought. Like he's trying to place the name in Tamriel, or figure out if it sounds like something he's heard here. Neither one works.]

[So his head sinks back down again. Sorry, Peter. He doesn't usually do video for this reason.]

I um. I don't... know Utah. I'm sorry.

[This is going phenomenally!!!]

[danserai]

It's a type of dance. We do it on our toes with special shoes that keep us from losing our balance.

But it needs a lot of practice.

[fusrodaaaah]

O-oh.

I'm sorry. I um. I haven't... heard of it.

[danserai]

That's okay. There are lots of things I haven't heard about too.

That's why it's nice to be here, right? To learn new things?

[fusrodaaaah]

I... it is?

I um. I thought it was just. What happened after the dream world.

[danserai]

The . . . dream world?

[fusrodaaaah]

Y-yes. Um...

Deerington. Did - did you not... go there?

[danserai]

No. This is the first new place I've ever been in.

[droptheious]

That's good, too though! In a place like this, we need all the potential food we can find!

Oh yeah, those are...interesting. The blue ones I've seen are super poisonous for us non-Argonians. Just...you know, so you know.

[Because it won't hurt Melius to eat but everyone else would have a real bad time.]

[fusrodaaaah]

O-oh. It's um. I'm not... very good at. Explaining.

[Melius has problems talking about things that aren't alchemy, apparently.]

It um. It was - almost like this. But worse.

[fusrodaaaah]

I um. I can... send a list. Of ones to eat. Some um. Some of them are really... easy to see. Like puffballs.

Y-yeah don't. Don't eat those. Or touch them. Ever.

[danserai]

What . . . happened to it?

[possessum]

Oh— it's totally okay, like it's honestly not that interesting.

( Utah's..... mostly for retired people, or tourists wanting to come ski and stuff. Or Mormons. Lot of Mormons. )

Your place sounds a lot cooler. Argonon? Is that... on Earth?

[fusrodaaaah]

It um.

We... we woke up. Here. I um. I think it. Fell apart.

[danserai]

Why did it fall apart?

[fusrodaaaah]

Oh. Um... is it... cold?

[Skyrim's cold. Trench is cold. Maybe they can talk about that. He's trying...]

N-no. Um. I'm... I'm from Tamriel.

[fusrodaaaah]

I um. I don't... really know.

O-other people might! But... but I don't. I'm sorry.