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[zevranarainai]

[ The video starts with Zevran tapping on the camera with a fingertip, as though uncertain it's really doing what it's supposed to be doing. Or perhaps there's a pattern there with some hidden meaning, who can say?

And then there's his face in focus, complete with tattoo down one side and those signature pointy ears of his. His accent is thick and warm. ]

What a marvelous device this is; I can only imagine what sort of naughty things you all must get up to with it, behind closed doors.

[ Leave it to Zevran to encounter smartphone technology and immediately and independently think of dick pics. Or worse. Considering the video function. ]

My name is Zevran Arainai. I am pleased to make all of your acquaintances, one way... or another.

[ Complete with a suggestive waggling of the eyebrows, that last bit. ]

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[zevranarainai]

I will be careful!

[ It isn't his own heart he has a habit of stilling entirely, after all! ]

It would seem my charms fall mostly on blind eyes, yes. It is enough to drive a man to drink!

[deadlybang]

Try to not take it like to heart, my offers for free hugs didn't like get much success either. I don't know if the people here are like too serious or like they need to be started with smaller steps.

[Mostly joking, though it is true that a couple of people we initially more interested in complaining about her than anything else. And even after that initial greeting they still didn't seem hug-friendly.]

[Fortunately she still managed to get enough sustance to not feel too hungry.]

At least there are like good drinking places around here.

[zevranarainai]

Oh? You have my undivided attention -- there are few troubles that cannot be made better with a good drink!

[deadlybang]

The only troubles that can't be like made better are those caused by the good drink itself.

[She giggles.]

But like, really there's actually plenty of places for you to like choose from. The easiest would be to like decide on the atmosphere, like there are some great places in Nova but like they are all very techy. And then there are like those in Fayren that look like from the times of swords and armours, like out from legends, you know?

Everglade it's like oldish and with like a dangerous feeling, and Attleton is like Everglade but like without the danger and maybe actually a bit boring? And finally there's Genessia that is like just normal, a bit old for me like Nova is more my tune but still good.

Of course that's all like based on my opinion and world, like, maybe for you it's different like, if you aren't used to devices like this I guess that even Genessia would look like totally futuristic for you or something.

[zevranarainai]

Hmm... swords and armors, yes?

[ He angles the phone in his hand to catch a glimpse of the sword and dagger hilts protruding up from behind his shoulders. ]

Genessia City does indeed look strange to me. It may take some time before I am ready to face this Nova City of yours.

[deadlybang]

[Well, well...]

Oh! I guess like that means you will be like at home in Fayren! It shouldn't like be hard to find the gate there. They have like pretty great ale and rum!

But yeah, like Nova may be a bit too much yet. I would like suggest first to settle down as like best as you can and leave like the cultural shocks for later.

[zevranarainai]

I think you are right about that.

[ You know who almost got ran over by a car earlier? This guy. ]

[deadlybang]

Aw, don't tell me that you like already got bad experienced with that.

[She's not laughing at him, swear! It's just... The situation being a bit ammusing, that's all. She tries to hide it, though, so as to not offend.]

[zevranarainai]

Perhaps I did... the things on the roads here are much faster than horses.

[ Which is alarming, but not for the obvious reasons.

...He's going to have to get extra creative to pull off any in-carriage assassinations here. ]

[deadlybang]

[She couldn't contain that giggle, sorry!]

The bad news are that like they can go even faster. But like there are actual speed limits inside the cities so they like restrain themselves. No one wants to like get a ticket for ignoring a traffic light either.

Ah, traffic lights are like lights used to indicate those "things" when to move and when to stop, like, red means they have to stop and wait and green means they can like go on, and like yellow is that they have to like decrease speed!

[See, Zevran, there are still chances for an in-carriage assassination. Not that Angelique knows that he's interested in that, if she knew maybe she wouldn't have said a word about all this.]

[zevranarainai]

Hmm... I see, I see.

[ It's not as awesome as riding up alongside a carriage and then jumping onto it from horseback, but it's something. ]

Well, at least I was not hit. That would make for an inauspicious beginning.

[deadlybang]

It wouldn't have been that bad. If you had like survived, it you wouldn't have had to worry about like housing since you would have been like stuck in the hospital.

[And it would be even worse if he died, though it would have been a quick way to learn the basics of the place.]

But, of course, like who wants to be stuck in a hospital upon arriving to a new place? That would be like super extra boring when you could instead like go exploring.

[zevranarainai]

How fortunate for me, then. And everyone else at this hospital of yours.

[ A bored Zevran will create his own entertainment, as the entire network is liable to discover at some point. ]

[deadlybang]

Don't hospitals admit injured people for several days at your world? Or do hospitals not exist?

[zevranarainai]

We have things of a similar concept, from what I am gleaning from the context.

[ Some places. For some people. ]

[deadlybang]

So like healing houses or something like that. I see!

Oh, right, did you like see the hologram? Ehm, like the welcome message at the bay? It would have like looked like a vision of a girl, with like lights coming from an artifact.

[How to explain what a hologram is to someone who didn't even know what was a phone?]