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

text ↪ un: gamora

[godslain]

This is a human thing?

（ she's not, you know, against doing it. she's just baffled as to why anyone would bother. port of call for being whisked away somewhere new for her is just indiscriminate murder, of which this is not. ）

[wolfbrother]

[ That's an alarming question. ]

what else would it be?

[godslain]

Any one of the other millions of species in the galaxy.

[wolfbrother]

[ Sean feels a little abashed, as he should have thought of that sooner. It did make a weird sort of sense that there would be aliens in space, but he certainly hasn't seen any yet. Unless... he's talking to one right now? The thought is both cool and a little scary. ]

So you're not human? What are you? [ There's a pause, followed quickly by another message. ] Sorry, I hope that's not like. A crazy insensitive thing to ask, I've just never met a person who wasn't.

[godslain]

（ the answer mollifies her somewhat, and rather than being short with him she answers honestly: ）

I am Zehoberei.

text | un: m.cabrera

[naloxone]

I think it's more like a Newt thing.

[godslain]

What is a newt?

[naloxone]

The name of the man who started all this. He likes group activities.

[godslain]

（ scrolling back up. reading more carefully. scrolling back down actually because she truly Does Not Care, the very definition of 'tldr'. ）

He seems




enthusiastic.

text; un: mccoy

[homeostatic]

Not solely. Though a Tellarite might ask twenty questions just to start an argument.

[godslain]

I do not know this race, but I've certainly met people who would qualify on that alone.

[homeostatic]

There's always one in the quadrant.

( bones fits right in, lbr )

I assume you're from the same neck of the galactic woods as Quill?

[godslain]

（ ALARM BELLS. ）

Why do you say this?

text; un: romanoff

[deaddrop]

Not usually outside of second grade teachers.

[godslain]

The second grade of what?

[deaddrop]

Education. He's acting like someone who teaches young children.

[Which makes them the children, she supposes.]

[godslain]

Ah.

I am not a child. How do I inform him of this?

text

[groupiedrifter]

['Gamora'?????????? Oh shit, dude!]

Which part?

Giving a presentation while hungover, or mixing coffee with gummy candies?

[godslain]

The survey itself.

Many species' do things while hungover, and I cannot imagine that coffee and gummy candies go more poorly together than many of the things eaten in Knowhere.

[groupiedrifter]

Oh, right. Knowhere! Like where Peter's from.
What's it like? Lots of species you said, right? I'm so jealous.
Traveling around and cataloguing new species or cultures has been one of the best things that's ever happened ever to me ever.

[yes he wrote it that way on purpose.]

[godslain]

You mean with the Ximilia?

text ↪ un: gamora

[godslain]

（ some time later, she posts her own 'survey': ）



@newt — is this sufficient?

text, un: strange

[rehandle]

[ For the most part he's been trying not to go here, but the name Gamora can't help but catch his eye, and in the significantly better mood he's been in over the last few days the response just sort of

slips out ]

Wow. Insightful. I feel like I really know you now

[godslain]

（ oh are we being sarcastic? is that what we're doing today? ）

You can thank the lizard man for your newfound insights.

[rehandle]

[ The lizard man... she can stay. ]

I'll let that thanks go unspoken, but noted. As you were.