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[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

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[deathrespect]

You're mad peppy, bro. Something got you in a good mood or are you always all sunshine.

Does Eleanor bite?

( He realizes after he hits send that he's coming off a lot meaner than he intends. )

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[laminae]

dog what the heck's a first-generation bird?
mine's a bug
a pink one
she looks like a flower, i guess? she says she's a mantis but i'm pretty sure those things are green

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[prescind]

I remember you. You made it, huh?

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[opress]

I remember you. You're terrible at hide and seek. [Says the alien who happened to be a six-year-old at the time. Never mind that.]

I like your dog. She looks vicious.

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[entreats]

[ .. by god, if this isn't ever a Michael video. It's the most Michael-y video ever. ]

It's not really been a century for all of us.

[ She says it pretty easy, in her usual deadpan tone, but then suddenly seems to look a bit more thoughtful as she adds: ]

.. I think. [ Gosh, she actually doesn't have a clue how long they were in a kind of haze before ending up here, huh. ]

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[demonicbeauty]

[Have your favorite confused demon friend, Michael. She ripples her fingers in a small wave.]

It's nice to see you again, Michael.

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[delilahs_death]

Ah, you've joined us on the other side. Hello, Michael.

What a lovely dog you have!

[eudaimonikos]

Hide and seek? [Just give him a second...] Oh! That! I was cheating, I didn't want you to not find me and just leave me there!

[is this seriously an argument he's gonna have]

Thanks! I guess she's technically some kind of direwolf thing. Pretty much a dog, though, right?

[eudaimonikos]

Yeah! Just had a quick stop home - but this place was leaking into my afterlife there, and I really couldn't have that.

[eudaimonikos]

You know, the early ones. Can you...can you take a video of yourself, or...?

[This is probably directed at the Omen, though given how this works he is still just talking directly to the "camera".]

Oh, well...here. [Snap! He's looking right at it, so he ought to be able to make a picture of it, right...? He shows it to Fern - it's literally just a small feathered dinosaur.] They just don't make birds like that these days...

[eudaimonikos]

I figured! You'd all be dead!

[That comes out inappropriately cheery, but he's just happy to see Ange again!]

'Course, there could be some weird timeline stuff. There usually is, traveling between them is weird. [He ponders that for a second before dismissing it.] It's good to see you again, Ange.

[eudaimonikos]

Might as well start off on a high note! I'm sure we'll have plenty of time for horror later on.

[Like, just judging by how Deerington was...]

Not if you don't mess with her!

[eudaimonikos]

Hi! She is, isn't she? I had no idea if she'd still be around when I got back! [sigh] I would've taken her with me, but you know. The afterlife.

[He isn't even sure how or if that would work?]

[eudaimonikos]

Oh, hey, you too! How's it been?

[It probably hasn't been all that long, but Michael really has no idea how much time might've passed, beyond "not all THAT much".]

[opress]

[Savage made a soft affronted noise.] We would have found you. We were determined, so cheating wasn't necessary. [Actually, they had been getting hungry and they may have wandered off. Children weren't the most reliable.]

I wouldn't know. She looks canine-like and has her teeth on display. She looks like something off of my planet.

[demonicbeauty]

Um...a little confusing, I guess. I've never been a squid before.

[But she smiles nevertheless. Best to keep up as much optimism as possible.]

It was different.

[delilahs_death]

I suppose that is fair. Though admittedly I don't truly understand the rules of your form of the afterlife.

[But maybe that was for the better. It seemed less wild and untamed than what he'd always imagined it to be, demons included.]

My own pets came here with me as well. I admit, I'm very glad to have them here.

[prescind]

I went to a few different places after Deerington.

( he kind of wanted to stay there. )

And now I'm here. I don't think I would have chosen to come here. How was it leaking into your afterlife? What was happening?

[eudaimonikos]

You were like five. [He can't even gauge age well with humans, he stood no chance with a whole other species.] Yeah? I think Earth used to have things sort of like her. Not anymore, though, they died out. All those big animals did.

[eudaimonikos]

Oh! Ha ha, yeah! That was sooooo weird!

[He says, totally normally.]

But, uh...now it's over, I guess?

[eudaimonikos]

That's good. I left Eleanor with Amara, but I haven't...seen her around yet.

[Which is. Well.]

[eudaimonikos]

Oh, you know - reality glitches, occasionally things getting sucked into the interdimensional void. We had a handle on it for a while, it just wouldn't stop.

[demonicbeauty]

Seems like. But if this place is anything like Deerington...you can only count on it being unpredictable.

[Although Deerington had developed patterns, certainly. So perhaps Trench will as well.]

You seem well, Michael.

[eudaimonikos]

Yeah! Yeah, I'm good. Things back home went weirdly fine, after I got back.

[He supposes it had already felt like it was over, so he wasn't too surprised. It's just the most relaxed he's been in his home dimension for a really long time.]

How about you? Did you stop off anywhere, first?

[demonicbeauty]

I don't think so. I seem to remember being home. Then then I wasn't.

[She shakes her head.]

It was all so fast.