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[gardensniper]

[The video feed starts up and shows a young man in a cowboy hat. He doesn’t look all that happy at the moment, and that’s not just because he’s stuck here.]

I’ve barely been in this place a couple of days, and already I had to make repairs to my apartment. Is throwing a paper through the window what I should typically expect from the newspaper? Because if so, I’d like to just go ahead and unsubscribe now. I’ll just buy it myself when I go out in the morning.

[He sighs a little and looks to the window that he patched up himself. He had to go and buy materials to do so, and he was hoping not to have to spend his money on needless things until he got a job. He turned his attention back to the device. Now, introductions were probably in order.]

So as you can probably tell, I’m new to this place. The name’s Irvine Kinneas. Nice to meet you all. I haven't made much use of this device since I've still been getting settled in and all and trying to learn the place. Kind of an interesting setup that they have going here.

Comments

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[soldierofloveandbeauty]

[Hello cowboy. Have a bubbly teenage girl appearing on your feed.]

I assume you had something broken by the newspaper guy to right? Try having that happen so many times. It gets annoying. I would consider maybe boarding your windows with something to protect them.

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[gardensniper]

[Hello there pretty girl.]

I guess? I didn't see who threw it. [For all he knew, it could have just been some guy that was going around breaking windows and not just the newspaper guy.] It's happened to you a lot, I take it?

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[soldierofloveandbeauty]

You don't need to, all one knows is they are the same person every time. It happens on the same day every week as well that's how you know.

[She nods slightly.] About three, four times or something. Kind of lost count after a certain amount.

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[gardensniper]

Now that is just a crime. A beautiful girl like you should be getting treated so much better.

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[soldierofloveandbeauty]

Exactly! Though there is someone else whose got it worse. Another girl they seem to be picking on. So I've been thinking of doing something about it.

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[gardensniper]

Doing something like what? I hope not anything that will put you in danger.

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[gullwingsgunner]

Nice to meet you, I'm Yuna.

[She smiles slightly for a moment.]

I hope you managed to settle as best as you can... I guess it looks like you have, which is good.

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[gardensniper]

It's a pleasure to meet you, Yuna.

And I have so far. At least as best as could probably be expected from a strange situation like this.

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[gullwingsgunner]

Yeah. It is an odd situation, but I'm thinking if we find answers then maybe we could leave when that happens.

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[gardensniper]

Then let's hope we all manage to find some answers sooner rather than later. Though, getting to be in the company of such beautiful women like yourself isn't a bad thing. Maybe I shouldn't be in a rush.

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[gullwingsgunner]

Let't hope, though I've been here some months already so for all I know it might be a little longer. Though it looks like you are happy being here for now.

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[gardensniper]

I don't know if I'd say happy. [He's already pretty damn sad that he has none of his friends here or anything, but he's hiding it.] But it could be a whole lot worse.

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[vinculo]

[ She'd only just arrived and started trying to look through the posts once she'd gotten out of the Bay-- mostly because it seemed like she'd be able to get some help, hopefully. ]

That doesn't sound very good.

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[gardensniper]

It isn't. It's really annoying. And its only happened to me once so far. [If it was a common probably, he'd have to reenforce his windows or something.]

I hope you haven't run into any trouble like this, beautiful.

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[vinculo]

Since I just got here today, I haven't found a place to stay yet. At least I can't have a broken window if I don't have one, right?

[ That was probably the worst optimism she's ever managed and she seems to be aware of it, judging by her expression. ]

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[gardensniper]

[That is pretty bad optimism, even he has to admit that.]

That's not a very hard problem to fix. Renting a place was pretty easy. You just gotta budget your money.

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[vinculo]

Things were a lot easier last time I went through something like this.

[ In a way. On the one hand, no one's threatening to turn them all to stone and never let them leave if they don't do what he wants. On the other hand, they got some mega luxury suites, food, and just had to go to school. Her job was making sure that a handful of gods actually learned something and participated. ]

I wonder if there's a nice place around that isn't too expensive.

[ She honestly has no idea what to do for a job. In fact, she has even fewer options now that she's not in her home world or Zeus's Garden.. ]

[tessenjounin]

It would be useful to keep iron railings along your windows that can be opened from the inside. Simple really.

[She nods and notes his name. It seems like there is a rapid influx of people in the city as of late. Curious.]

[gardensniper]

Yeah, but iron railings would kind of look hideous on the windows. It'd make me feel like I'm in a prison. [Not that being brought to this place and told he couldn't leave didn't achieve that feeling well enough.]

[tessenjounin]

Your choice. If you want to live with broken windows or with iron railings.

Either options seems to generate an ill response from you.

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[redsnowangel]

Man, sounds like everyone's getting that whole newspaper-through-window thing lately.

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[gardensniper]

And yet no one has gone out of their way to fix it. Or alert you to it when you first arrive.

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[redsnowangel]

You'd think the welcome message thing'd include something about it, huh? I think people've been trying to stop him for a while, but somehow that guy keeps doing it.

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[gardensniper]

All in all, it probably isn't the worst menace that we could be plagued with. Getting our windows broken is better than getting hit into the face with the papers, at least.

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[redsnowangel]

Don't give him ideas! I don't want those things hitting my pretty face!