un: eudaimonikos; video

[eudaimonikos]

Hello, Trench! Boy, that's a fun name for a city, isn't it? Trrrrrrench. Sounds...about like what it is, I guess.

So! [He claps his hands together.] Who's here from Deerington? Man, it must've been at least a century since I saw you guys! How's it been? Oh - oh, and look! Eleanor made it too!

[He reaches off-screen to fling his arm around the neck of what, when he pulls it over in front of the camera, proves to be an enormous dappled grey Warg. Her teeth are huge. She's still wearing her enchanted leather war-armor, which really just makes the optics here worse.]

This is my dog, Eleanor! Also, I'm Michael, for all the new folks. I was in the nightmare city before this one, and then I went home for a little bit.

So - what's everyone up to? And what's with the new phones? Are we all using weird, smoky first-generation birds as phones now?

Comments

[eudaimonikos]

You're just...talking to yours a bunch? I didn't...think they talked...

[He says awkwardly, since he's definitely using his as a phone still and that makes it awkward to talk about it?]

Can you talk...?

[laminae]

well she makes noises and i understand her
yours might too?? who knows

[eudaimonikos]

.....well, now it won't.

[He definitely gets the vibe that wanting it to talk just to show it can will make it not do that thing.]

[laminae]

wow really? you got a rude bird, M

[eudaimonikos]

[Michael snickers.]

Oh, well. Maybe it just doesn't want to do silly pet tricks.

[laminae]

man
i don't think being able to have a conversation with your Omen is just a silly pet trick

[eudaimonikos]

It doesn't really matter. I got along fine with regular mental communication before that, I can do it again.

[laminae]

ok yeah if you're good with that then this probably isn't a huge problem at all, huh?
it's gotta be nice being able to talk to people with your brain
having another option like that i mean

[eudaimonikos]

Honestly haven't done it much for a while, now. We all sort of quit once we started getting human mouth-parts.

[He's not really sure why? Maybe just to show off that they could? Having a human shape is still a bit of a status symbol.]

No point anyway, now, humans can't do that stuff.

[laminae]

can't do that right now you mean
who knows what we can all do with this weird blood stuff going on

[eudaimonikos]

Huh...that's true. Guess I should try thinking at some folks.