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[geez_louise]

[There are a few clicks and some fidgeting, but finally the phone is being held upright, and a girl with bunny ears and a pretty dubious expression].

Ok, good. Have this working. So that's ONE thing that's going right. Kind of.

So it seems pretty clear that my "world" has decided to pull a Dorothy on me and throw me here, wherever here is, I guess. I'm a kid, I don't have time to listen to holograms when I can just complain about my situation and why it sucks. What can I say, my attention span is my undoing.

But you guys DO have the internet, and assuming its not full of weirdos and perverts like in my world, anybody have any directions to where a kid can grab some grub, and I guess, long term goals, a place that isn't this cave?

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Voice

[blindpuppet]

[She's more comfortable using the phone as a phone than a video chat.]

No google directions. [There is no internet in a traditional sense but Enis wants to change that.] There is a map but if you're from the 20th century odds are you don't know how to read it.

There is a pizza place near the bay. I can give you directions or show you were it is. I'll leave it up to you though you can probably get me to pay if I show you. [Enis is, if anything else, straight forward and blunt.]

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[noguardian]

[Baze hasn't made use of his communicator much since he had gotten it fixed, but he happened to catch this arrival, and remembered a building he had passed. Or was it something he read?

Either way, he comes on screen just a little intimidating.]

They have a home for children. 3rd and Dogwood. They should have food there, too. Numbered streets are in order. You go to 3rd, turn right, keep walking, and you'll see it.

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[geez_louise]

[Video chat was sort of new for Louise too, but you had to do what you had to, after all].

No, and not even a map like in the real world! What is this stationary crap, really?

That's...really nice of you, so now I definitely know I'm not back home. But real test now: how good IS this pizza place?

Re: VIDEO

[geez_louise]

A "home for children." Sounds ominous, but someone mentioned that to me before. They even said that people start out get these apartments, but that they're basic. Know anything about this kid's place? Like, do they serve more than a crust of bread and porridge or whatever? I've been led to believe that places for kids that are charitable usually aren't so much.

Re: VIDEO

[noguardian]

[There's some movement that could be a shrug.]

Don't know. I'm a little old for the place.

I don't think it's like that. Places I've seen like that, they do what they can. If you go and it's not, tell me.

Voice

[blindpuppet]

Think of it as a Twilight Zone rerun.

[Enis hums softly.]

Ever been to New York Kid?

Re: VIDEO

[geez_louise]

You don't say? [Actually, Louise is plenty grateful, and glad people here are a little more helpful for more than a few reasons]. I'll keep that in mind! If it's bad though, maybe don't burn it down, arson's not the cleanest way to go.

Re: Voice

[geez_louise]

In black and white, with some weird guy narrating over a messed up situation?

Of course not. I don't even own a shank. Why do you ask?

Voice

[blindpuppet]

Yeah kinda.

[Enis can't help but smile at Louis.]

If you've never been to New York then the pizza is fantastic.

[geez_louise]

So...basically, any and everything can happen around here? I'll bet, but the only place nearby is this guy that competes with my dad's burger restaurant. I'll be eating that pizza the same day I get my lobotomy.

[blindpuppet]

Yeah. If you want a shank I could get you one.

[Enis would rather she protect herself from some of the messed up shit that happens in Genessia.]

Are you not allowed to like pizza? I think there's a burger place too.

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[noguardian]

[He almost smiles. Given everything that's been going on with him, trust me, that's impressive.]

Nah. Fire's a waste of a good building. Just take out who's running it an get someone in who can.

[geez_louise]

Good luck with that! Decent help is so hard to find these days. [How was she even going to find that here]? Who is usually running things around here?

[noguardian]

Could be fine already.

They've got but they're gone in a week. 'Elections'. There are mayors for each city.

[geez_louise]

[Ok, that was bad. Not the shank part, the fact that she could get one easily, from an adult. Just how dangerous WAS this place]? I want GOOD pizza is what I'm saying. But more importantly, what's the deal with this place?

[geez_louise]

A week? What's with the turnover?

I mean, usually you need at least a month to be embroidered in some political scandal!

[noguardian]

You're in the middle of them. Was supposed to be a couple weeks ago, but some spirits attacked.

[geez_louise]

Oh great. Ok, so when you say spirits, what are you talking about? Like, ghosts? Phantoms? Angels?

[blindpuppet]

[Enis is probably the worst adult to expect adult like things from.]

It’s good. As for this place. [A heavy sigh echoes through the phones.] Okay. The best way I can describe it is like we’re stuck in a game. You don’t know what’s going to happen but we can’t get out and there are sometimes puzzles we have to solve to figure out what the fuck is going on.

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[stairsbro]

Sweet hat. From one kid to another, you're about to see some serious shit unless your world is one of the wacky ones where you're actually some kind of child solider. That's really common, apparently. What the hell, right?

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[firefandance]

Well, there is free housing and an inn in which you can live for free for a set period. But for someone your age, there is housing for children and it would cost you nothing to live there.

[geez_louise]

[Louise is about to figure that out in a moment]. Whoa sister, we're breaking PG-13! [Not that she minded! Louise was actually pretty PG-13 herself]. So...what exactly do we have at our, you know, disposal?

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[geez_louise]

I know, right?

I just woke up from a coffin, so I can't lie too well: my world sucks. So I guess I'm kinda screwed there, huh?

[geez_louise]

I heard the apartments were pretty crappy, since they're free. How does the kid place stack?

[noguardian]

They just call them spirits. They're what that barrier keeps out.