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[groupiedrifter]

Alright, let's not be total wallflowers at prom here, if we're going to be stuck together for the foreseeable future, I think it's only right that we (read: I) start getting to know all of my fellow space cadets. If we're ACTUALLY in space and this isn't some humongous simulation. You guys saw how easy it was for this place to manufacture a hyper-realistic simulation earlier, right? Yikes, big yikes.

But if we ARE in space and we're going to be traveling around, that's actually kind of AWESOME.

No offense to anyone who didn't want to actually be here of course, but you're nuts if you're not a LITTLE curious about the vast expanse of outer space. C'mon. OUTER SPACE! How incredible is that? And here I thought me coming face to face with aliens back home was INCREDIBLE, now we've got ACTUAL OUTER SPACE??? Pinch me I'm in a simulation. LOL.

Sorry I'm rambling, my name's Newt. Dr. Newton Geiszler, but but that sounds so much more boring and overcomplicated than 'Newt', so just stick with that. Worked as a xenobiologist on earth (is there multiple earths or what??? a lot of you are crazy unfamiliar with Kaiju, which is wild to me), helped giant robots fight aliens, the usual. Likes are rock music, playing instruments, tattoos, science and tech, dislikes are bossy pushovers who complain about those things.

Speaking of which, my really good pal from home's name is Hermann Gottlieb, and you should call him Herm to make him REALLY feel at home. :)

It's nice to meet you guys on the NEWTwork. ;P

... Actually—

[Suddenly, the text turns into audio, in which a higher voice with some focal fry bleeds in-]

—can I just abruptly switch to an audio function?

[A pause, and then an excitable:]

Holy shit, how awesome is that?! This is amazing; we've made some pretty monumental gains in technology back home, but we're still working on finessing the finer aspects of neuralogically connecting to networks like these for the general population. I'd love to take one of these apart sometime and see what makes them tick. Good to have an idea of what to expect, in case we need modifications or repairs done at any point.

Anyway. Uh. Hey!

... This whole voices-in-your-head thing can't be good for my train of thought, but geronimo, right?

[If anyone listens beyond that, they may catch the accidental thought-to-audio that follows:]

Wha — oh, dammit.

I sure hope this is the last nosebleed, because I would rather not worry about having accidental brain damage from drifting with aliens.

Comments

[vibing]

Huh. Those sound massive. Nah, the ones where I'm from can be as small as bunnies. They are bunnies. But really mean ones.

[ It's the one horse sized duck or dozens of duck sized horses question. They're both pretty bad, in their own ways. ]

I have no idea who Boris Karloff is, but if he looks like a monster, maybe he deserves it.

[groupiedrifter]

He was an actor in a lot of monster movies back in the day, so I think it works? I think he'd be into it. Probably. [If he didn't mind something that destroyed a lot of stuff to be named after him anyway.] And... I mean, we have bunnies, too. How mean are we talking here?

[vibing]

Uh huh. Dunno if I'd want a big monster named after me, no matter what I did in my life.

[ Yuri doesn't know what a movie is, but he'll just let it slide. He'll figure this stuff out eventually. ]

Pretty mean. Monsters where I'm from will attack just because you're there. The bunnies, too. They're not very hard to beat, but I got a nasty bite from one when I was starting out.

[groupiedrifter]

... Fair point. It's not the most glamorous thing to be named after.

Maybe a ship would be more preferable, but I feel like that's just a lot of jokes about you waiting to happen. So other than the bunnies, which sound totally scary, not to downplay your trauma - what else are we looking at here? I won't lie, I'm fascinated by the different monsters from different worlds concept.

[vibing]

Uh, sure. Sure, we got just about everything. Fought a really big dragonfly, once. That one nearly killed me. Lots of bird monsters out there, I hate those ones. Got some human-looking monsters, like real big statues that come to life and stuff like that.

[ He's sure bad at this, huh? ]

I dunno, man. I have this book of monsters back home, Estelle would keep track of them. I mostly just kill them.

[groupiedrifter]

[This honestly all sounds cool, in that mildly horrific way his own world does; on one hand, an amazing assortment of living creatures beyond one's wildest dream! On the other hand — plenty of ways to get murdered. There's no winning, huh?]

You ever run into nice monsters? Like, peaceful ones?