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

[dispassioned]

[Well, Asians do tend to be lactose intolerant, but.]

Just science.

[She's getting good at trolling though.]

text.

[shadysided]

Gee, thanks. I'm a master artist where I'm from.
People flock from all over to look at my work.

[The playful sarcasm is strong with this teen.]

... I do have a habit of stubbornness, though.
Which is a very hard habit to kick.

[oiorpata]

Should I deny it three times first or ??

[ well she laughed, so. ]

That's just a problem you need to consider with any kind of survey. I'm being educational.

[dispassioned]

The 1990s? Really?

[He's trying to decide if this is insulting or not.]

[zune]

man i don't know

my teachers pretty much had sticks up their butts


but it worked all right

i fell right into that sweet sweet sour gummy trap

[buckkeep]

Very interesting invention, then.

Mal Oretsev. Good, strong name.
How many years have you?

[zune]

we gotta take notes???

[ is undoing his regret really worth this ]

ah, jeez

this was not mentioned in the dream

[buckkeep]

Have you? I've seen more caution for the worse, than intrigue for the better.

[buckkeep]

Unfortunately, my creative talents start and end with calligraphy, friend. When I was a boy I was made to draw the images of various herbs and plants as scribe work, but never a person, let alone myself.

[tochnyy]

uh... so he's like a killer tree?

pick your poison.

there's alcohol in the kitchens, i can help you find it [ he can be friendly after dropping all that on the man's shoulders. ]

i couldn't tell you too much about when he was from.

you'd remember if it were you. probably.

i spent some time back home recently and i remember everything before from i left here.

[homeostatic]

It's unfamiliar to me. But that doesn't mean it can't be procured for you here, or recreated. Did you bring any with you?

text | un: iris

[inventure]

[ WATCH OUT, NERD ALERT, actual artist™ iris black decided to go hard with a watercolor self-portrait what a loser ]

Name: iris
Age: 18
Birthday: dec 21
Favorite color: blue wait green NO BLACK no i think it's blue
Favorite food: hot sauce
Favorite subject: applied physics
Favorite toy: my old wolf plushie
Favorite animal: wolves? i guess
Favorite candy: the sour yellow balls in that jar in the kitchen
Favorite activity: drawing
Favorite place: outside
Favorite book: demiflora atlas: the ultimate guide to demifloras (3rd ed!) by wiz terria
Favorite TV show: i haven't seen any :/
Favorite movie: the only one i've seen is the one from the last movie night :\
I am good at: art!
I want to learn: how to fly a plane
Least favorite subject: gym :p
Place I want to go: more outsides
If I could make one wish, it would be: uhhhhhh secret haha
If I could have one superpower, it would be: i like the one i have
This is what I want my teacher to know about me: i could've made a better painting if i had more time

[buckkeep]

No, it
well, it's complicated. ( and made more complicated thanks to fitz's generally paranoid nature. ) I only need it in rare instances. I shouldn't need it at all, really.

Have you experience treating seizures? Sudden fits a person might have, with uncontrollable bodily shakes.

[groupiedrifter]

1000% worked.

And I'm not one of those kinds of teachers, those kind suck ass.
I used to teach MIT classes back in my late teens and 20's and it was a ton of fun. Always had a bigass jar of candy! Everyone loves getting Toostie(TM) Fruit Chews thrown at their heads.

Education is useless if people aren't interested in what they're learning anyway.

[zune]

when he's provoked or someone's being a real a-hole yeah

otherwise he's actually pretty friendly

[ and for a time, adorable as hell too. ah, he still is, who is he kidding? once you raise a twig as your own ... ]

guess all the time bullshit isn't really restricted to one part of the universe, huh?

and sorry, your name was mal?

[ if his un is anything to go by ... ]

[buckkeep]

( oh wow just like his daughter he's an absentee father for <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 )

You shouldn't kick it. That is — being stubborn is good. Builds backbone.
Did you not want to answer the rest of the questions?

[peasant]

i'll be sure not to feed you any ice cream, in that case.

[zune]

wow you guys get rewards for doing stuff??

this is the commander and the ai of this station right?


oh man i am definitely coming by to take a look at it

you'd seriously let me touch it?

[singlelogbridge]

I won't pretend things can't be extraordinarily difficult here at times, but in my experience that's merely the result of living life rather than our particular mission...even if the types of difficulties are certainly different, I'll give you that.

But there is beauty too. I've seen worlds built on the ocean floor and machines designed for every kind of need a person could ever have and then some. I've been in a ship that travels the stars. And I've met people here who are wondrous too.

So don't let anyone worry you too much.

[singlelogbridge]

on second thought, please never grow a beard

[zune]

i mean i pretty much stopped going to school after like grade 3

you'd think that was the peak time to bribe kids with candy

i know i would have paid more attention if i had a tootsie pop thrown at me for getting an answer right

[singlelogbridge]

[That gets a laugh out of him. He's about to deny it before he pauses, remembering that he isn't the only one on the station who favors red and black.]

Sure, why not. Who doesn't want a fish in their colors?

[singlelogbridge]

Thanks, I'll look forward to it. You can just send me a message whenever you have them.

[dispassioned]

Looking out for me, are you?

Or do you just want the ice cream to yourself?

[peasant]

my intentions are strictly benevolent
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