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

[rehandle]

Beat you to it

[ There are certain people you meet, spend an extremely intense but relatively short burst of time saving the universe with, and fully expect to never see again. Peter Quill and the Guardians are space people. That's just what they are. Peter started out on Earth, sure, but that doesn't necessarily mean he'd be back there again any time soon, and so on balance the chances of them bumping into each other (all things being equal and Stephen never having to go into space ever again in all his life - joke's on him on that one) were low enough that he's very much never considered what he might say to him if they did.

Now here they both are in the space between multiverses, and you know what? Sure. If there was anywhere he was going to run into a Guardian again other than Earth, in hindsight this is a fairly predictable convergence spot for it. ]

Hello Quill. Been a while. How's the galaxy?

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[zune]

galaxy's good ... yeah ... we're, you know, figuring shit out after everything that happened

oh hey we just moved into a new planet so there's that

[ smalltalk = not his forte

This is also a little weird — but in a good way! Turns out Peter finds himself actually genuinely glad to hear from another familiar face, especially after what they'd all gone through together ...

Hard to believe the last time he ever thought he'd see any of the Avengering types (aside from Thor) was Tony Stark's funeral. ]

but man! how are you? how are things back on terra?

uh

earth?

[rehandle]

Oh yeah? Congrats. Do people often move planets like houses out there?

[ Space... ]

Much the same [ With the figuring shit out and the everything that's happened. Here we have a prized example of somebody else who's the king of smalltalk. ] Well enough that I'm not rushing back.

[ Which means they're at the very least not dealing with any present large-scale emergencies. It's the best he can really say. Regrouping surprisingly well in the wake of unfathomable tragedy doesn't have much of a ring.

On which charming note... ]

Welcome aboard. This is pretty much what you can expect of station downtime, but we'll be off again before long.

[zune]

you know, that's a good question

[ and probably depends on whether you've got access to a ship and a reason to completely pick up and move to another planet all together. ]

guess because we needed a place to call hq and the collector offered us a pretty decent price considering the state of that place, it all kinda worked out

if you're uh ever in space again you're welcome to visit us on knowhere

[ just so he knows. ]

and thanks doc

so you've been doing this for a while?

[rehandle]

You bought a planet?

[ Quill?? ]

Called Knowhere. Nice, actually
Thanks

[ He strongly hopes to never have cause to take him up on that offer, kind as it is that he made it. ]

A few months, give or take a few more. [ It's Complicated. ] Not long compared to some of the others, long enough to know the ropes. Have you taken the tour?

[zune]

i know, right??

[ what. a. flex.

it's just too bad it came at a real cost (and we're not talking monetary.) ]

so that rules you out of that original seven, huh? [ judging by newt's presentation; though he's curious now to know who the other six are.

two years. ] and if wandering around on arrival counts, then sure

but nothing official

[rehandle]

I'll let the welcome committee know to pick their feet up

[ He doesn't know who's on the welcome committee, if there is in fact a welcome committee, and he won't be telling anyone shit. ]

It's not complex, the map covers it, but if you need the run through I can make some time

Otherwise I'll leave you to settle in

[ There'll be plenty of time to catch up, if in fact there's anything to really catch up on. Let him have a little fun with the mess the crew's making of this post in the meantime. ]