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

[coordination]

Seriously.

I was one of that number.

[locumstudentesquire]

[He's running over his dismal recollection of missions that took place before his time, trying to figure out which one is most likely... Or to determine if Yzak is just pulling his leg for some reason, though that seems less likely.]

To what end?

[coordination]

Giva.

The simplest way to describe it was a world that had a form of reincarnation attached to its lifestyle, and a "heaven" and "hell" like option for that interim. The team was split between both of those places for the duration of the mission.

Wings were essentially the essence of one's soul and its ability to reincarnate given a physical form. When the mission reached its climax, many of us were thrown onto a battlefield with those features on full display.

[locumstudentesquire]

You were thrown onto a battlefield?

[He needs to re-read that mission file, apparently.]

[coordination]

That's right.

It was already something inevitable. Nothing caused by our presence there. If anything, our being there helped ensure things didn't really get ugly when they came to a head.