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

[tochnyy]

i don't know who that is or where that is

looks like we're from different world
we didn't have anything like the station where i am from either
so if you have an questions, i can help speed up the learning process

[buckkeep]

( well. fitz likes someone who's blunt. )

Where do you get water
for washing?
And a comb.

[tochnyy]

there are showers.

the water comes from a faucet, from inside the walls and can run hot or cold [ don't ask him where it comes from beyond that!!! ]

combs, clothes, and everything else can be found in the supply drop room. what can be found there belongs to whoever finds it first.

[buckkeep]

Like a rain shower?

( ok....weird.... )

That's all I need to know. Thank you.
What was your name?

[tochnyy]

i don't know what that is

i'm malyen
or mal

[buckkeep]

You don't know what rain is?

I'm Tom.

[tochnyy]

i know what rain is!
just not a rain shower

you mentioned that in your answers

[buckkeep]

( he wonders if this is the same kind of fun the fool has, when poking fun at all the dumb things he says. )

As in, a shower of rain.

So I did.
Have you a family name?

[tochnyy]

oh

yes. like that...

it's oretsev.

[buckkeep]

Very interesting invention, then.

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

[tochnyy]

it's the best invention of all time
hot water any time you wish

does that matter?
old enough to have served many years as a soldiers
and fallen for my home [ not for his country, no, but for his home and heart. ]

[buckkeep]

I didn't even think about that. ( fitz that's literally what he said it does 😔 ) It almost seems too good to be true.

I did not mean to offend. ( at least now he's pretty sure he's a youngster, all hot temper and quick to the punch. highly critical, as if fitz is not the same way in his big, big age. ) It's a customary bit of politeness where I'm from, but if you find it in poor taste, pay it no mind.
What do you mean, fallen?

[tochnyy]

that's what i had thought
now i wish we had it back home

you didn't
time works strangely here
i'm either 24 or 25?

and what it usually means
having died

[buckkeep]

( a boy, then. not as young as fitz was the first time he died — not as old as fitz is now, twenty years living in a body that no longer fits him exactly right. he wants to ask are you witted?, but fitz has sense enough when he's making one too many leaps in judgement. if he is, he'll find out soon enough. if he's a piebald, he'll likely soon be dead again, from no affront to fitz but his disgusting beliefs.

still, you don't just kill men because they claim they've risen from the dead. fitz thinks of the fool, and something old, vast, and tender aches. )

And yet, you speak. Odd trait for a corpse. Are you somehow reanimated?

[tochnyy]

Apparently I'm acquainted with a really powerful healer. [ nina zenik was full of surprises but she'd managed to bring him back.

mal hadn't been planning on a second chance, or an after, but he's grateful to her for it now. ]