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

[groupiedrifter]

Yeah, uhhh.
Yeah.
When you go home, you don't remember this place. Safety measure to avoid collapsing timelines or something? I guess. That, or the orbs are assholes and just do that to be petty because people cut the deal short.
But yeah, anyway, we were pretty good buddies.
Teammates, pals, whatever you wanna call it.
It's how I know you're a really good guy.

[Even after the precursors attempted to kill Peter... more than once... he had been there to support him and all that. But the last thing he wants to do is dump that kind of closeness on someone who is technically probably not the same Peter — timeline divergence and trillions of branching universes, right?

So he quickly adds:]

But it's ok to have a fresh slate, y'know?
I don't want you to think you gotta be my friend or anything.
It's just really cool to see you again.

[zune]

according to everything i've heard about these orb things so far, that kinda checks out i guess

[ it's hard to get too worked up over it otherwise, especially because he doesn't remember any of it.

so: fresh slate. just like newt says. ]

well for what it's worth you seem like a pretty cool guy too, i mean this whole post is happening right now

that counts for something, right?

and you're a guy who likes good music and has a real-life gibson, and you're willing to let me play on it, man, of course i wanna be friends

[groupiedrifter]

Yeah, they suck.
It's possible we can remember in some way, maybe??? ??? Citation needed??
But I dunno. Viv's a better source for anything orb-related than little ol' me.
And for the record, I AM a cool dude. I'm a 100% certified awesome guy.
Only awesome guys and cool dudes have rare guitars from music superstars.

So don't drag your feet getting here to learn how to rock properly!

[Read: he's a doofus and a dork and not as cool as he says.

But that's one of his many charms, you see.]

wrap here?

[zune]

yeah i may have a few questions for her, honestly

stuff about my memories and stuff about candy, you know the important stuff

but okay

you're right

i'm heading over right now 'cause i gotta see this guitar

and then they played sweet sweet guitar riffs

[groupiedrifter]

Absolutely, Viv's the best to go to for anything.
She's super friendly, you'll love her.
But that's for later! Right now, guitar time. See ya soon, spaceman.