1st Bel [Action/Voice]

[ctrlaltdemons]

[Action]
Where am I..? -- ...OW!

[Well. This sucks.

And is quite painful too. I mean really, being strung to a tree by your underwear must be incredibly painful. Atsuro's just in luck, since that's exactly the predicament he's in right now! So you may find this loser rolling around in a trash can flailing around in a tree -- I mean.. this poor, confused new feather somewhere around the village, hanging from a tree and flailing around a bit while trying to get down.]

H-hey, can someone help me down...?! [WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON HERE.]

[Voice]
[Aaaand once that awful incident is through with, Atsuro will go ahead and tinker with his new fancy journal thing and throw up an entry! Just a tad too embarrassed to do it over video so.. Here, have some guy-who-is-literally-butthurt's voice.]

So uh.. has anyone else here arrived in really weird ways? [because really that was just awful.]

Comments

[voice]

[i_am_not_cute]

Nope, it's pretty shallow. I was just sitting in it, and the water came up to my neck, I think.

[voice]

[ctrlaltdemons]

Oh, in that case, I guess that's not too bad. It's a good thing that you woke up when you did though.

[I mean, shallow or not, it did go up to her neck. Had she ended up lying down... Aaaah.]

[voice]

[i_am_not_cute]

Actually, someone had to wake me up. Otherwise I definitely would've fallen underwater!

[voice]

[ctrlaltdemons]

[...That changes that then!] Oh jeez... At least someone found you, then. That probably would've ended badly otherwise.

[voice]

[i_am_not_cute]

Yeah, really. Why were you asking about things like that, though? Did you arrive here in a weird way, too?

[voice]

[ctrlaltdemons]

Uh... Yeah... I woke up hanging from a tree. [By his underwear.]

[voice]

[i_am_not_cute]

Ugh, that sounds really uncomfortable. [Understatement.] I knew someone who arrived here stuck inside a chimney.

[voice]

[ctrlaltdemons]

...A chimney? That must've been really uncomfortable... Whoever's deciding where to drop us off must really be enjoying themselves. [And are incredibly cruel. 8|]

[voice]

[i_am_not_cute]

Yeah, really. [They must be pretty bored, too. Probably competing in a "Who can humiliate the New Feathers the best?" contest or something.] I'm Pao-lin, by the way.

[voice]

[ctrlaltdemons]

[Definitely seems like that's the case..]

Yeah... Well, it's nice to meet you Pao-lin. My name's Atsuro.

[voice]

[i_am_not_cute]

It's nice to meet you too, Atsuro! Are you a New Feather? [She's assuming he is, since he asked about weird ways of dropping into Luceti, but better to double-check.]

[voice]

[ctrlaltdemons]

That's what you guys call the new people here, right? [He laughs.] But yeah, I am. Is it that obvious?

[He says that jokingly though, because yeah. HE STICKS OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB, DOESN'T HE?]

[voice]

[i_am_not_cute]

Well, I figured you must be, considering what you asked about. But I'm kind of new here, too -- I came in on the last New Feather cycle about two months ago.

[voice]

[ctrlaltdemons]

Oh, really? In that case, you're fairly new here too, aren't you? [A pause.] What do you think of Luceti so far? [He's been hearing mixed answers, so he's kinda curious as to what Pao-lin has to say.]

[voice]

[i_am_not_cute]

[Hmmm, good question.]

I like it! Even if I'm away from home and most of my friends, and even though really weird things happen here. And there's no internet, either...

[voice]

[ctrlaltdemons]

No internet at all? ...Man, that much sucks. [brb suicide. Siiigh.]

But if even with all of that you still like it here, I guess there must be some good things about this place.

[voice]

[i_am_not_cute]

Yep! For one thing, everything's free, like food and stuff. So I can eat as much as I want!

[voice]

[ctrlaltdemons]

Yeah, that part about it is definitely pretty awesome! Though it gets me kinda wondering how Luceti runs like that. I mean, people have jobs here, right? But it's not like they're getting paid for it or anything.

[voice]

[i_am_not_cute]

I heard people say that they do it because it gives them something to do in Luceti. I think it's nice that we're all helping each other out, though, even if we're not getting paid for it.

[voice]

[ctrlaltdemons]

I agree! It really is pretty nice of them to do that. And the same goes for all the other people I've met so far, since they've all been really helpful and all. There's a nice community here, isn't there?

[Except Spada. Spada's mean.]

[voice]

[i_am_not_cute]

Yep! I was really surprised. For being stuck here against our will, it's kind of a nice place to be stuck, you know? [Even without internet.]

[voice]

[ctrlaltdemons]

[sob internet] Guess so! Between the nice and helpful people and the fact that we're given whatever we need for free [besides internet. sob.], that's definitely a good way to look at it. And at least it's pretty spacious here, too.

[voice]

[i_am_not_cute]

Yep! Probably because there's only 300 or 400 people here, which is a lot less than where I come from. [Hooray for hailing from sort-of-Manhattan-twenty-minutes-into-the-future.]

[voice]

[ctrlaltdemons]

Oh, really? What's the population where you're from? [Just an estimate is cool.]

[voice]

[i_am_not_cute]

Umm...I'm not exactly sure, but I think it's something like two million people.