Video | welcome, hallo, buenos días, ohayō, etc, etc! | UN: Newt

[groupiedrifter]

[Newt comes shuffling into view on the screen, holding a cup of coffee in his hand with a bag of what seems to be Sour Patch Kids harrowingly hanging out from beneath the pinky finger of the very same hand. Disheveled but more than happy to provide his services after dragging himself out of bed, he taps his knuckle on the chalkboard beside him — one that used to be Hermann Gottlieb's, may he rest in peace (in a not dead way — may he rest in peace on a beach or something while wholly alive and thriving).]

Noticed an influx of new and kinda-new faces over the last few days or weeks or whatever.

So here's my handy dandy welcome board! Recently updated, to keep with the times.

Read it over and get a feel for how this place goes; I'm gonna finish off this coffee before I take any questions.

[As he takes the world's most obnoxious-sounding sip and burns his tongue, here's the board in question:]



[And then, after a bit of time, he turns the board over to the other side:]



[No worries, current crew, if you can't get one of those introduction papers in person!

Because he's attached them in file format, too.]



[And in case you wanted a text format copy:

Name:
Age:
Birthday:
Favorite color:
Favorite food:
Favorite subject:
Favorite toy:
Favorite animal:
Favorite candy:
Favorite activity:
Favorite place:
Favorite book:
Favorite TV show:
Favorite movie:
I am good at:
I want to learn:
Least favorite subject:
Place I want to go:
If I could make one wish, it would be:
If I could have one superpower, it would be:
This is what I want my teacher to know about me:

(Have at it — threadjacking is encouraged).]

Comments

oops un: geraniums

[rootlessly]

[well,]

I'm often traveling, myself, so I'm not often in my own bed
But I still enjoy naps where I can get them!

[deferences]

[prepare for nerd time, lillium.]

Cultivation is the process of improving health, increasing longevity, and growing powerful, which is accomplished by cultivating qi and training in martial and mystical arts.

So, cultivators are people who follow these principles.

[deferences]

[only learned from the best, obviously!]

Because if we start early, we have all day for lessons, of course! But you do have a point; you'll need time to come up with something... so, what about the day after tomorrow?

[edraith]

[ there's a delighted edge to her voice, sparkling, when she knows she is speaking to her friend. she has now learned to weed out the words she does not recognise — like this mamacita — and focus on his message. ]

Nay, I should hope such dire circumstances may never again give reason for me to raise my voice. Should you agree to accompany me, my many-formed hound friend, I will be happy to sing whenever.

[edraith]

Nay, hardly so, compared to many in my home. But here, yes, it would seem that most here have the lifespan given to Men, brief like a candle.

[edraith]

I should like that, very much. It delights me to find someone else so inclined — I used to sing duets with my mother, but it has been long now that we last have raised our voices together in harmony.

[edraith]

Is it? Perhaps so, for darkness is the natural balance to light. And yet, what I speak of is darkness not natural, but that what lives in all creatures who serve the Dark Lord.

[edraith]

I realise how strange it must sound, but for me, it is the truth, though I have ever been a poor student. My mother has the gift of foresight, you see.

[edraith]

I can, yes. It is something my mother can do, and the power lies in my blood.

[locumstudentesquire]

You have no idea how much it gladdens me to hear that. Considering what a wretched time he had in London, he was well due a turnaround in fortune.

[Though Susato HAD hinted he'd kind of gone and gotten a big head after his first novel was published... Ryunosuke hasn't had to deal with him though, so he can go on telling himself it can't actually be THAT bad.]

[greenpower]

How about this? Most people are ASSHOLES.

[ravkas]

chickens, yes. when i was younger i did have a bad habit of chasing them around my good friend's farm. it seemed extremely entertaining at the time, not so much now.
are there any animals you like more than others?

[eyeronically]

( interesting... )

what do you mean by mystical arts?

[eyeronically]

oh, it's like an innate thing already.

( BUMMER )

so, how come you don't know how to if you have the power to? do you have to, like, activate it?

[essenceofdeadlybeasts]

You bet. Hell Stew is my number one song on karaoke. I've had the top score at my usual bar for several months in a row.

[rootlessly]

[...you've got him there, Ivy.]

Ahaha, I wouldn't say most, but I suppose that's a matter of opinion.

People can be assholes and still care, though.

[Ask him about certain priests he may have gotten to know.]

[locumstudentesquire]

Oh! Am I to guess then, that you're from Japan as well...?

[greenpower]

...

Okay.

I'll give you that. Sometimes people are assholes but not, like, assholes.

[locumstudentesquire]

Wait, seriously?

[locumstudentesquire]

...Alright, that... Makes a LITTLE more sense...

[Sort of. He'll admit. RELUCTANTLY.]

I've had the immense displeasure of experiencing first hand that there are civilizations out there in the universe which are advanced enough to create engines so powerful, they can launch a tin capsule full of unfortunate passengers from the surface of a planet into the cold void of space. So. I suppose it's not entirely unbelievable... That one could also make an engine fast enough to keep a hunk of properly angled metal suspended in the air.

LMAO GOD I've been there before

[locumstudentesquire]

Ostriches... And worms...?

Do you mean to tell me that you don't even have cats or dogs where you come from?

[Or is he just. Extremely sheltered??? Maybe??]

[coordination]

Seriously.

I was one of that number.

Text; un: belova

[laviny]

Oh, I could recommend some movies about a Tsar Nikolai, all right.

[Yelena, no.]

[windsongs]

[ After a comically long pause-- ]

ah
good advice!

[ Sizhui why would you ever... Okay, maybe she should ask something a bit less... whatever that was. ]

and these missions I've heard about. what about them?
anything I should know?

[windsongs]

it's got my brain a little scrambled tbh

[ And so it begins. ]