Voice

[gundhamster]

[As the recording starts, there's the faint sound of movement in the background as Gundham is exploring a bit of forest.]

So, as it seems our 'hosts' - if we can truly call them that - are intent on keeping us here, it would behoove us to acquaint ourselves with the surroundings. I will say that as far as prisons go, this is not the worst. However, I do have a question. Are any that can access this familiar with the local wildlife? I've been attempting to observe but having just arrived, I'm sure my scent is unfamiliar enough to have them on edge.

However... there is wildlife here. That in itself is... unexpected.

Comments

[grilletto]

Yeah, of course I'm a human, but where I come from deer people aren't a thing. Unless it's more like...oh, I just love deer, they're the best animal!

[ Is he laughing at his own impression of people who love deer? Yeah. ]

[grilletto]

[ It's not as if Mista hadn't noticed the way that Gundham talks, but that last message received was enough to make him question something. ]

...are you, like, from here or something?

[ He knows that he probably came from somewhere else, but who in the hell uses the work arcane...? ]

[gundhamster]

[Gundham is still in the whole 'this might not be real' phase so he's just going to raise an eyebrow at that claim for the moment.]

I see. Just how hidden is this magic you claim to have knowledge of?

[gundhamster]

[Gundham just stares at his phone for a long moment.]

...Excuse me?

[Sorry Haru, he's having a tough time processing the idea of a talking rabbit.]

[gundhamster]

Good. Then you can leave me alone.

[gundhamster]

In Japan, it is customary to have an 'animal breeding club' as part of after-school activities that focus on taking care of various animals, usually rodents of some kind given the relative ease in caring for them. However, I took care of many animals from dogs and rabbits to bears and wolves.

[He rattles this all off with a casualness to it that sounds like he's recited such things a million times before. For him, caring for animals is just second nature.]

I've helped several species be brought off endangered lists as well as having bred a new breed of hamster.

[He still hasn't ascertained the fate of that hamster after the whole... thing he was involved in took him away from them.]

[gundhamster]

[Gundham's tone is one of someone clearly shaken to their very core.]

Deer cannot speak! How can you claim to be a deer while speaking on a phone such as this!?

[At least he's not freaking out about fingers anymore?]

[gundhamster]

Hmph. No, I found myself submerged in that damnable lake the same as many others.

[The answer to that question is a goddamn nerd, Mista. A goddamn nerd.]

[gundhamster]

They won't.

[He says that in a very matter-of-fact tone as if it were simple logic.]

Predators do not attack humans without sufficient cause. I am not going to give them cause.

[grilletto]

[ There's a pucker of his lips at that, he has some doubt but then again this total stranger doesn't have a reason to lie about it. ]

Sooooooo...arcane? What's up with that?

[phoenixwiz]

Most of the time and highly guarded, no matter what. The magical community of my world is that protective of our magic.

[hopticulture]

[the sound of her tapping her tiny rabbit finger on the speaker of her phone.]

Was the signal bad or something?

I said I was a rabbit. I don't feel like repeating myself again if the connection is bad...

[gundhamster]

[Of all the things to focus on, that's what Mista went with?]

...What do you mean?

[gundhamster]

[Gundham just gives his phone an incredulous look.]

The connection is fine. I was hoping there was some hidden meaning to your words I was simply unaware of. Rabbits cannot speak. Claiming to be one is... odd to say the least.

[hopticulture]

No, no hidden meaning, I'm just a rabbit.

[it really isn't special or odd.]

Where I come from we speak, and walk on two legs and don't walk around naked. I know here things are different.

[casaposa]

[Look, he's not worried or anything because if this guy gets mauled by a magical Winnie the pooh, that's on him.]

I'd like to see you work with my own two eyes then. Where are you?

[disasdeer]

So like...deer fanboys or fangirls?

[ k. humans were weird already. mista has not helped their case. ]

Humans are strange.

[gundhamster]

And what is the point of hiding such a thing away? Would it not be for the betterment of all if it were accessible to those without the talent to use it innately?

[gundhamster]

[The way Gundham squints at his phone it wouldn't be too out of character for it to burst into flames. He's having a very hard time wrapping his mind around such an idea.]

...such things would run counter to all known natural laws however...

[gundhamster]

If you are truly that curious, I will educate you some other time. For now, however, multiple people disturbing habitats would only cause unnecessary antagonism to those calling the forest home.

[phoenixwiz]

Sadly, that’s not how it works in my world. And there is another issue of blood purity, it is really complicated.

The ministry in charge of the magical affairs in my world was plagued with problems I just can’t discuss right now, but to make it short, corrupt government officials ruined it.

[disasdeer]

I'm not claiming anything. I am a deer. Fine, fine.

[ Switches to video. ]

Does that help?

[disasdeer]

[ Everything Gundham is describing is kind of... creepy? Yeah. Creepy is the word he's searching for because breeding animals is odd when you are one. He'll try to understand this. ]

That's a club activity?

[ Interesting. ]

Why hamsters, though? They're pretty...uh, tiny. I mean, it sounds safer than wolves.

[ This is all weird, give him a moment. ]

[gundhamster]

[As the switch to video is made, Gundham's eyes can be seen going wide for half a moment before the camera kinda goes nuts as the phone tumbles from his hand and into the grass. A moment later he picks it up looking... shaken, but a bit more calm.]

I... this should not be possible and yet...

[gundhamster]

Blood purity...

[Gundham makes a disgusted sound and spits. Something he's very familiar with, considering his reaction.]

Those that trouble themselves with such things are simple weaklings, clinging to imagined purity so as to keep others from usurping the power they themselves stole.

I apologize for the state of your government...

[Given how skeptical of the whole thing surrounding Avalon he still is, he starts to wonder if somehow he's connected to the corrupt government.]