merriment 16 ; video (before platform stop)

[blitzcheer]

Yo, anyone see the large item order we can pick now?

...

What's the biggest thing anyone can think of. Hey, gimme some ideas!

[ LET'S SEE WHAT THEY CAN GET?? PUT IN YOUR SUGGESTIONS, VOTE FOR WHAT YOU AGREE WITH.

Edit: Tidus will have on the video in view a whiteboard (since he's in the standard coach), with a list of choices.

- BOUNCY HOUSE/CASTLE
- POTTERY WHEEL?
- ARCADE MACHINE - Lethal Enforcers, NBA Jam
- YOU CAN'T VOTE FOR MY MOM
- BOMBCHOO BOWLING ALLEY

Enjoy his mess of a handwriting.

Edit 2: Also, very importantly: ] Hey! Everyone! Tell the train to let us buy carriages!

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[blitzcheer]

[ There are no wires with the VR games! Rejoice!! It's more like a wii remote! ]

Fun! [ Fun, Jingyi! Keep up with the conversation! ] Checking out the games in the games car, and you can even play them with other people - even most of the board games.

We can pick one or two first - have a go and see what you're good at and can get, [ and that whole 'what will happen to the controller' point, ] but a crowd's more fun! I bet you and your pals from the same kinda worlds would have a time.

[ A Time. ]

1/2

[consider8]

[Realization.]

Y-You--!!

2/2

[consider8]

[Continued realization as she transforms back into a kid now.]

You TRICKED ME?! YOU ARE THE WORST, TIDUS! A FIEND! A SCOUNDREL!! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME SOONER!!!

[blitzcheer]

[ Oh no, goodbye, octo-Eight...! But Tidus swings an arm around her shoulders, giving her a squeezing, wiggling hug as he moves his upper torso with his arm. ]

Hahahaha! Come onn, it was funny! You know you can't be mad at me! I'm your favouuurite.

[ What a good way to start platform day. ]

[jingyeets]

So you're saying you want Sizhui and Sizhui there?

( when one is well connected but has exactly one pal present, in duplicate. )

[flatteries]

[ Tidus's remark about the typing isn't too surprising. After all, Inigo has seen enough people use that function on the terminal for the feedback post by now to know that apparently it's a skill people have like it's a natural thing in quite a few worlds - of course they must have learned it back home.

But he's snapped out of thinking about that by Tidus's question. Inigo's eyes trail up to Tidus's face, seeing that teasing smile, and he gives a small, half-defeated smile in return. ]

I think Roland would prefer doing it.

[ After all, they know how much that guy gets carried away. Way too far away. ]

I think I will defer to the handwriting master and the typing master, and instead find some different speciality.

[blitzcheer]

Sure! First Sizhui and Newer Sizhui.

[ Their full names, thank you. ]

How about it?

[jingyeets]

( cue an eyeroll here, and: )

Lan Sizhui and Wen Sizhui.

( unlike the Hanguang-juns, they really do have different names. see! see! )

Sure, why not? Lan Sizhui probably already knows, but they can both enjoy the distraction.

( his younger pals, blessed be these teenagers, says the twenty-one year old. )

[consider8]

[Mrrr......!!!!]

[Actually. She can stay mad at you, Tidus. Not long after she has the arm draped around her does she shift back into a an octopus yet again, her tentacles clasping tightly to his front.]

[With a powerful burst of ink, she shoots off of him straight through the Transgate. Her voice echoing from within:]

MEANIE!!

[blitzcheer]

[ Weird names he has for them, but Tidus won't correct him. ]

I'll grab you later then, the three of you. Probably'll be busy after we leave the platform - I think I got a lot already from the shop.

[ Then again, most of it is probably magazines and sweets.......... ]

[blitzcheer]

Why don't you write a guide?

[ Do things ever spontaneously come out of your mouth. It does for Tidus. ]

A leaflet. A letter. [ Yes, a letter! ] For people who come from worlds without technology, and letting them know - well, what you know? What it's been like for you. That it's okay if things are confusing, and what they are.

[blitzcheer]

[ That kind of love-mad doesn't count, okay! He knows she still likes him!

Though, that's less what he's immediately thinking at the gush of ink that blows into him, splattering his clothing, and even managing to hit some of his face. Tidus is left dripping, wide-eyed, staring at the portal of Eight's escape.

......but he can't even be mad, chuckling for real now, tickled, even with the ink soaking into his clothes. ]

[blitzcheer]

Oh, yeah! [ Okay, this is getting cooler and cooler. ] And I guess the bombchus don't have to explode...unless they can fit back together. A fake explosion.

If you knock into something, game over! Get around the obstacles to win! You could play it with friends!

[ Amazing. Bumpercar bombchus. ]

[jingyeets]

( take a shrug from Jingyi, who looks nonplussed. )

Sure, whenever. Give a heads up and I can check in with Lan Sizhui to make sure he's up for it first, though he should be.

( ty for the reminder he's going to have his Talk "tonight" with Dennis. )

Fair travels until then.

[blitzcheer]

[ He's nodding. ] This place is crazier than where I'm from... but that was a lot like me, too! Didn't know anything 'bout magic 'til a year ago. It was like that city we were just in - sans everyone having powers. Just us and a lot of machines.

[ And then, bam. Life changes for the rest of its existence. ]

But... was it like another snatching up case? That happens- elsewhere. A few others got dragged to somewhere else from their worlds, then they were here.

[flatteries]

Wha--

[ Please, Tidus. Watch what comes out of that mouth!

Because the idea of writing a guide, or anything in general that other people could read, is fine in theory. But in practice? Please, it might get him Perceived, which is the last thing Inigo would ever want. ]

I already catch pretty much everyone who's unused to technology on their first day here! [ Listen, he knows The Look, okay. The sheer amount of people he's seen staring at the washing machine.. It's a true mood for Inigo. ] I explain it to all of them already using my mouth words!

[blitzcheer]

What about your fancy writing words too? [ Hah, see! He can say 'words' too!! ] Microwaves, the ICPs, whatever else is weird and different to you- [ Because Tidus can only guess those two on the fly. ] You'd be a pal in spirit!

It doesn't have to be like those paper guides that get handed out - just a small handy booklet in the library. [ He tips his head to a side. ]

I think it'd be neat.

[flatteries]

You think everything I do would be neat, apparently.

[ Especially when it involves putting a spotlight on him. Please, Tidus, can't the shy people just forever keep living in their own little corner? It's comfortable there!

.. there's a slight pause, and then Inigo adds: ] Other than eating your fat gummy worms, anyway.

CW uh...brief reference to planetary extinction? <n< let me know if I need to tweak CWs

[jan_ken_hacking]

[Kiyoiri's own nodding is quite quick, and in great agreement.] Yes, it was much like that. Magic is rare in our world- by sheer coincidence, we found ourselves within one of their organization buildings however.

[Related to that...] On that note, something of the opposite is more accurate... ...While we were inside the building, catastrophe made the world outside inaccessible. Everyone on the planet was 'incinerated from time'. The building was an 'ark' in this, but similarly, this left the ones inside as the only ones who could restore it.

[.........................] ...It is like that now at home, but worse, for different reasons. We can access the planet... ...but the planet is still 'gone'. All there is, is white sand. We aren't sure if we can restore it this time.

[agoodsoul]

[Wait- wait no this isn't what he meant. Also wait a second are you two actually a couple, what has he missed here.]

Uh-

[Catch him having no idea what to say.]

It can... get too warm?

[Is what he'll finally eek out, looking unsure.]

[weifinder]

( GREAT three months and counting what will the world be coming to next: four?! )

Ah, yes, the time before we learned of our dear abducting vessel's Lan bias. Are you now enlightened? The train certainly appears to be happy with present circumstances!

( He assumes, since it's been trading versions of himself and of Lan Zhan since... well, two weeks after he arrived. It's wild. )

[blitzcheer]

My favourite sweet, okay! [ Get the stink-eye for that, Inigo! Don't you start a fight right in the middle of the standard coach! ...again! ]

So what if I think it couldn't hurt? You get to stretch your talents, it's thinking outside the box! If you can't write it while you're writing, then throw the idea out, you know?

But you always get bummed out and feel like you're the only one who doesn't get things - but that's not true. So? It's like helping yourself. You're helping people in the future, and you're giving that side of you a voice.

[ ...apparently, Tidus's random thoughts have a lot of consideration behind them sometimes. ]

[blitzcheer]

[ Pffft, Tidus is definitely scoffing behind a hand here, at the expense of both of these guys. ]

See? It can get too warm! And it's like you're an octopus, with all those suction cups sticking to me...!

[ He's making creepy wiggly fingers. This, this is what Inigo is!! ]

Next you'll be asking me to carry you everywhere on my back!

[blitzcheer]

I don't know! How many family are there...? You don't all wear that ribbon, do you? I can't keep my head straight when it comes to who's family to who...

[ Please, he's a simple boy who hasn't read the novels, and he's more muttering by the end there in his confusion. ]

Better you guys than me. [ There, that much he can say confidently. ] I mean, if everyone here's really from different worlds, and someone's met me and in another place...

[ Ugh! He wrinkles his nose, waves a hand. ]

Don't want to think about it!

I THINK...that covers it lol

[blitzcheer]

[ ............that's a thing that apparently happened. Don't mind the baffled, confused look Tidus is wearing at 'incinerated from time'. And 'art'. And basically around that entire point. ]

Uh... but you restored it another time? [ .... ] How does something like that happen? Why?

[ And just one building gets left behind? what fate you have a lot of explaining to do ]