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[heartlessswordsman]

[Unlike everyone who isn't an asocial loner, Zelgadis prefers to keep his face off the network. He doesn't even really want to address the network at all, but he's kind of reached a point where keeping to himself isn't really working out. Sooo this is him stepping outside his comfort bubble, good for him.

Well, kind of stepping out of it. He just goes ahead and skips a proper introduction completely in order to get down to business.]

You'll have to forgive me if this seems like a stupid question, but the sort of technology that you have here doesn't exist where I'm from. To say that everything feels overwhelming is an understatement, but before I get too off track...

[There's a deep sigh, the sigh of a man who is just So Done with all the ridiculous curveballs that life keeps throwing at him.] This... microwave device, I believe is what it's called. It's not supposed to be smoking, right?

[Maybe he should have asked someone for technology tips before almost setting his hotel room on fire. Sorry about the smoke, hotel.]

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[heartlessswordsman]

How was I supposed to know!? It sounded like a legitimate request!

[rediscovering]

some kind of bear
but not a bear ive ever seen
it had the markings of a platypus-bear but the face was more like a polar bear-dog... but not really... i guess it was just a

bear.....???


but yes thats how i saw it at first too
like the world was feeding off us
and it kinda was youre not wrong
i knew a guy who had been spirited away to somewhere with no color and ashen food and a cruel ruler, though, so when i said we were in an energy farm on my first day when i met him, he kinda reframed it for me..... after all we helped save a planet and a people... but in a weird stupid fucking annoying way.

[heartlessswordsman]

I think I'm more concerned that someone was apparently fusing bears and platypuses together.

That sounds so inefficient, but whatever works, I guess.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

It was but pretend to be conflicted or something! Geez!

[heartlessswordsman]

I'm sure I'd be a lot more conflicted in the moment, right now I'm just looking at this rationally!

[rediscovering]

i dont know what that means
it's one animal
platypus-bear
that's just what it is, no one "fused it together"

ive run into this problem with people before
other worlds with weird half-animals
like having ostriches and horses but no ostrich-horses
i dont know which parts makes up which animals but it sounds bizarre to me too ok

[heartlessswordsman]

It's sounding to me like your world might be the odd one out, if everyone else is finding your world's animal life strange.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Yeah well, I hope so.

[Darin takes his fish and takes a big bite out of it.]

[He might be pouting a bit.]

[heartlessswordsman]

[Ugh great here comes the awkward silence. The awkwardly silent fish eating. The problem here is that Darin expected Zel to be a fuckin shounen protagonist about this, but his position as a tritagonist allows him to approach things from a more morally grey perspective. Every group needs That Guy, okay.]

...Well then. Perhaps we should brainstorm some less murder-adjacent solutions.

[rediscovering]

well yeah i thought so too but there are also random things in common with other worlds so i cant tell how it works exactly
and weird things too
like bananas
we have "normal" bananas like many other places do, i've learned
which i thought would be alien, honestly
yet we also have ash bananas as well, which are more common than bananas, and no one knows that those are!
i can never guess what the overlap is

[heartlessswordsman]

Huh, yeah. I've definitely never heard of an ash banana before.

I'd be interested to know what sort of differences each of our worlds have, but I'm not really sure of the best way to go about compiling that data.

[rediscovering]

yeah ive tried to figure that out too
maybe i should buy a notebook just for this or something.....

ash bananas look nothing like bananas
they're sorta yellow but they look more like big berries or something
and taste more like a melonyam than a banana, not as squishy...
ash banana bread is common, it's like fruity and sweet

[heartlessswordsman]

[he has no frame of reference for a melonyam but you know what that's fine.]

I'll just take your word for it.

Maybe it would be easier to use this network or whatever it's called to compile information? Not that I would know the first thing about doing that, but since we're all connected by this it might be a good place to start.

[rediscovering]

you know thats not a bad idea
im gonna tell my friends from home here, maybe they'd be interested in this...
cuz there are really a lot of weird similarities to keep track of
my world's only language is written and read the same as a language from my friends' planet but spoken differently
make sense of that!!?

[heartlessswordsman]

I refuse to dedicate any more brain power to this than I absolutely need to, so I don't think that I will try to make sense of that right now. Even if it is an odd coincidence that we all just happen to understand the same language.

[rediscovering]

ha ha ha....

here its magic
everyone sounds to me as if i'm at home which is nice.
on the other planet there was its own language we magically learned overnight. but could deliberately switch to our own native languages too. so that was kinda cool but weird. i never knew about other languages.