discedo | ≈ first breath; voice

[Static starts across the voice feed, followed by some mumbling. It seems someone accidentally clicked it on while they were fiddling with the device.]

Dude, do you remember alchemizing these? I don't remember anything like this in my sylladex... Man, speaking of, where is my sylladex?

Why are you asking me? My sylladex launched my sword into the closest tree it could find. Do you know how much of a pain in the ass it was to yank it out with a broken foot? Thanks by the way. I really wanted my toes to get touchy with your hammer. You don't even know. I'm going to get some heinous infection all up in this shit and you're going to have to amputate my foot to save my life or something. Except I refuse, but then we'll get attacked by a swarm of who the fuck even knows and tragically take them down, going down with them. You'll weep over my bloodied corpse. Why Dave? How could you leave me? You were the only bro I could have ever had such a rad bromance with. Now I have nothing. Sweet delicious tears. [Yeah, Dave has no idea where he's going with this too.]

[There's a snort and laughter from the other voice, and even without seeing it's pretty obvious someone is rolling their eyes.]

That didn't even make sense, Dave! But I guess I am sorry that the princess got his foot broken by a hammer that is not even that heavy. Can you ever forgive me?

I take offense to that. How dare you not keep my fragile, maiden tendencies to heart. I have a very delicate complexion going on. But I'll forgive you because I love you. Seriously though, where the fuck are we? I'm two years too early to be wherever we're supposed to be. Fuck if I know. Everything is kind of vague and I think I stopped giving a shit or two since nearly being a victim of trashy novels involving foursomes.

[There's a rustle of fabric. Dave had plopped down next to John, even if you can't see it.] What are you doing?

I am trying to figure out how this thing works. And I am pretty sure I am three years too early to be at the new session. Jade said it would take that long and I just sent you guys that letter. And isn't it kinda weird that we are the only ones here?

[There's more rustling as John fiddles with the functions, turning the communicator over in his hand.] Whoa! I think this thing is on.

Oh my god. You didn't get to see Karkat freak out. It was like the most embarrassing thing. You literally nailed him in the face and he had some major mental breakdown and everything.

Oh shit really? Ok. That's cool I guess. Ask someone where we are. Also if they have a can opener.

Haha, oh man, really? That sounds like something worth seeing! Ok, ok, uhh... Hello? Can anyone hear us? [He's not going to ask your dumb question about the can opener, Dave.]

[ooc| john is in blue, dave is in red!]

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Uh.. I don't have a can opener, so would just saying where you guys are maybe be okay too..?

Can opener ordeal has been dealt with. Someone has kindly offered to let us use theirs. Crisis adverted. No doom or gloom because I had to open the can through more dangerous methods that might have gone nuclear. Everyone can breathe out a sigh of relief.

Captain Obvious as fuck has already said we're apparently in a park. I mean, I can't figure out how he deduced that. Quite the Sherlock. But we're near a graveyard. I assume it is, but I'm not exactly going to go find out personally.

Ah, I'm glad.. [ he seems to be taking part of it seriously, considering the sigh of relief. ]

And I don't know which city it is, but.. I can at least tell you you're on another planet. A-ah, please don't think I'm making this up, it's the truth, I promise..!

[The worst thing you can do is take Dave seriously.]

I totally believe you. I'm not even sarcastic. If I told you I was on a meteor, would you believe me? Because I was on a meteor.

[ it's okay, yukiteru's good at screwing himself over like this. ]

.. Of course. [ and it seems genuine. ] That's pretty strange though, I've never been in space.. but maybe it's normal in other worlds?

[Oh god, this guy.]

It's a really long story and it'll probably confuse you more than anything. Also, it would be extremely non linear if it came from me. Nothing I did was linear.

Lets just say that space isn't all that interesting. It's a lot of nothing. A whole shit ton of nothing.

Just like there isn't any air, right? [ he awkwardly laughs, apparently it's some sort of funny joke to him. ]

This place really does have a lot of people though from really different worlds..

Yeah...I guess. [Uh.]

I guess. I mean, is it really that surprising? [Seeing as he's kind of used to it, he forgets that not everyone else is.]

It should be surprising, right? Outside of this place it doesn't really happen often that people from different worlds come together, after all..

At least not in my world.

I guess. I mean, maybe if you caught me at the uncultured age of twelve, I would maybe think otherwise, but things have always kind of been weird.

[Trolls trying to troll him and whatever.] Honestly, this stuff is kind of like a breath of fresh air. Literally.

I guess it's a good thing if it's like a breath of fresh air, yeah-- [ he's about to smile awkwardly, but then he seems to think of something. ] .. oh, by the way.. my name is Yukiteru. Yukiteru Amano. Your name is.. Dave, that's what he called you, right?

[Oh damn. That's...gonna be a name he's gonna have to have trouble with.]

Is that a foreign name? I mean, what is it? It sounds like something I'd hear from an anime.

Yeah. Dave Strider. Nice to meet you.

It's Japanese. There's actually a lot of Japanese people here.. You'd be surprised. [ ... ] Dave sounds more.. western, right? Are you from America?

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That is ok! I think someone is going to let him use their can opener, and it wasn't really that important anyway.

Do you know if we are back on Earth?

No, this is Fortuna, a planet different from Ea--

.. wait a moment, are you saying you weren't on Earth before you came here?

Yeah! We were in this game called Sburb, and there were a lot of planets in it. But right before we showed up here I was on a ship traveling though uh, space, I guess? I am not really sure how to explain it. And Dave was on a meteor.

That sounds.. pretty weird. [ an awkward laugh. ]

But there are people from all kinds of strange worlds here, so I believe it. You're not in the game anymore at least, if that helps..?

We kind of weren't on the ship, I think. But we were heading to the new session to try to beat it there. It's kinda complicated. I feel bad because I left my friends behind on the ship when I showed up here.

It does sound pretty complicated..

Um, I think you don't have to worry about your friends though! I've heard that time stands still back home while you're stuck here.

Whoa, really? That seems kinda cool and right up Dave's alley! Do you know if there is a way to get home from here?

There isn't one yet so far, sorry to say.. Um, the scientists sometimes randomly send people back though, so you might get lucky and be one of the next to be picked for that..?

Huh... Well maybe we can find one or something! It kinda sucks that we have been kidnapped and it would be nice if everyone could go back, wouldn't it? Instead of just one or two lucky people.

.. Actually.. I wouldn't mind staying a little longer, you know? So it's fine if you take my 'spot', so to say..

You don't want to go home?

Not really. It's.. a long and complicated story [ and one he'd definitely prefer not to tell, judging from how quickly he's skipping over these sentences ] but to sum it up I'm a lot more glad to be here, yes.

This city isn't too bad, in the end..

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