[Video] Look, even more people to help!

[hugs_for_nugs]

[The video feed showed mostly just...a hat. A big hat with a metal cap and a floppy brim.]

Hello! I'm Cole!

[He sounded very pleased with himself and the hat turned as he looked at someone off camera.]

Did I do it right?

[A faint voice said "yes" in response. He looked back at the camera. The view was still mostly hat.]

I think I'll like this place. I'm here to help! I hope I can help.

Comments

[video]

[hero_for_fun]

Dude, that is a huge hat.

[hugs_for_nugs]

It is! I like it.

[Any comment about his hat that wasn't outright negative was a plus to Cole.]

You are very bright. Are you a mage?

[hero_for_fun]

Wh-what's that supposed to mean?

[If this was about his head--!]

[hugs_for_nugs]

Oh.

They laugh and mock, it's not fair! I'm a hero like them! Why does he point it out so much?

[A pause.]

I'm sorry. I meant your clothes! They're nice! You look almost like a mage. Or a noble. But you have no mask?

[Video]

[jadedkill]

[Here's a legit fellow mage, though from a different world. Unfortuantely, he's afflicted by the disease and loss his sense of touch/sensation, so he can't travel much out of his room at the inn unless it's necessary.]

Hello, are you new here? Have you just arrived?

[hugs_for_nugs]

Ah! No! I showed up a few days ago... I think.

Yes! Yes a few days ago. It was cold and lonely, but not anymore.

[Cole's voice switched rapidly from forlorn to pleased again.]

Oh... I am new, then, I guess.

[jadedkill]

Ah, I see. A few days ago. Are you familiar with most of the towns and cities by now?

[After some thought.]

I'm Jade. Been here for almost a month now, I think. Easy to loose track of time. Also, be careful when you're outside. As of now, there's a disease spreading from the towns where people gone deaf, blind, or loosing their sense of touch.

[hugs_for_nugs]

Not... Really. There's been so much to look at in the middle city.

[The hat moved side to side as he swayed on the spot.]

Jade. Jade, I see. A disease? Is there a way to stop it...?

[video]

[burning_highway]

Well, you're certainly an enthusiastic one.

[hugs_for_nugs]

Yes! Yes? That is good?

[burning_highway]

I mean, I guess it's not bad.

[hugs_for_nugs]

You seem sad...

[Video]

[shy_mage]

[Practice makes perfect. Taking a breath, he turned on the video and said, perhaps a little too vigorously...]

Hi, I'm B-Bracken!

[hugs_for_nugs]

Hello! [Cole sounded overjoyed to meet him. He was in a good mood.]

Bracken, Bracken... Like plants! That is a good name. Do you like plants?

[shy_mage]

I-I've been learning lots about p... plants.

[He was just excited that he brought up a subject he could say something about. He usually had no idea what to say. Unfortunately, being excited and trying to talk too fast never worked out too well for him.]

Are... Are you going to live in... in Fayren? I-It's nice here and th-there's a lot of forest.

[hugs_for_nugs]

Fayren? No, no, the Inquisitor is in the middle city. I stay with her.

[He tilted his head so more of his pallid features could be seen.]

Forest...? Light, bright and warm filtering through the leaves. It's a nice day, a pleasant day, maybe I could stay there a while longer.

Is there more to Fayren? I asked the Inquisitor... She did not have much to say about it.

[arcanevessel]

[As a wizard, Li-Ming thinks that hat is so nifty! So jealous!]

How do you wish to help, Cole?

[hugs_for_nugs]

[This hat is the very best hat.]

Any way! I can make people smile, see what they like. Sometime words are enough. I can kill, if it helps... But I don't want to.

[arcanevessel]

Sometimes, the simple things are best.

Unless you try to take down the lords of Hell. Then simple is not enough.

If you do not need to kill, that would be best.

[Video]

[youfool]

You are? Wonderful! If you're a miracle-worker, that'd be best. But if not...well, what are you? Oh, I'm Ted, by the way. Right now a great deal of us are suffering from some sensory malfunction or another. Sadly I've lost a great deal of nerve, in the visceral sense.

[hugs_for_nugs]

Miracles are hard. No I just turn, twist, tweak things to make it all work. Miracles get noticed, I don't want that. I don't know how I can make the sensory- sensory problem better...

Oh. I am Cole- a spirit. Mostly. I think. I was a spirit and I still am but I'm also human? What are you?

[youfool]

Haha, I think we're all a little of both Cole. Amphibians of being: flesh and spirit. The soul animating the body, and all that.

Don't I know the difficulty of miracles! I've been praying for one for some time. Hasn't taken yet, but persistence pays, or so I hope.

'Cole'...strange name; I don't see much black in you. Well, if miracles are beyond your power--and one can hardly blame for that--, what is? Surely you've been given a talent or two.

video;

[sizedoesntmatter]

If you mean if you worked the phone right, then you have.

[He figured that as such anyway.]

[hugs_for_nugs]

Good! Good. The Inquisitor showed me how. I've not seen anything like it... Well there's an amulet that let's her and Dorian talk, but it's not the same.

[A short pause.]

Hello!

[sizedoesntmatter]

Hello. My name is Yugi.

[He smiled slightly.]

Then I guess there will be a lot that is strange to you here.