1st Spare - What Will I Do Without the Internet?

[reconstructs]

[Action; 5722 Cunningham Lane]

[There's a moment of shock when she wakes up, but realizing there's no immediate danger, the sensation passes. In any case, this is a strange situation.

Examining her room and area, she can't find any of her possessions. Was she kidnapped? This doesn't even seem like Japan though... and at such an important time too.

Oh, well.

In any case, Nico is wandering around the house calmly scoping the place out, though her quick movement belie some of her concern with the situation]

Hello? Anyone here?

[Phone]

[The first thing heard is a rather bored monotone voice of a young girl:]

Ah, oh no, what a frightening witch's barrier I seem to have fallen into.

Just kidding. It's pretty obvious this is something else... so who else is here? I don't really think I'm special enough to warrant kidnapping just me, so are the rest of you girls here? This is certainly an unexpected twist.

...I can't believe I'm using a phone with an actual dial on it.

[Action; Around Town]

[There's a young teenage girl being harassed by a pair of drone boys around her age. The reason? Rather than a dress, she's wearing shorts and a hat that clearly got swiped from some drone boy's closet. While the drones call her a tomboy and childish insults for not dressing like a girl, she just stares off with a bored look on her face.]

...you're really kind of annoying, huh?

Comments

[kingofshadows]

I'm from Unova. There are certain similarities between my world and those from which the majority of humans seem to hail - but yes. Pokemon would be the one noticeable difference.

[wizardoftheweek]

You're being dodgy.

[reconstructs]

Huh, weird thing. So like, a parallel universe sort of deal, is it?

[reconstructs]

Is there a reason you want to know about witches?

[imoutos]

.. Ah.. I talked to them o-over these phones, so.. I couldn't see their hats, sorry. [ she even sounds genuinely sorry for it, go fgure. ]

But they didn't sound like bad people.. I think..

[reconstructs]

Well, hat's are optional, I guess.

That's good. You should probably avoid the bad witches, even if they are the human kind.

[imoutos]

S.. since they'll do bad things, right? Like turning people into frogs..

[wizardoftheweek]

I'm a magician. Any magical knowledge, particularly from worlds not my own, is something I seek.

[burdenbearing]

Not really. Like I said, they act like robots and say the same things over and over, act like the weird animals in this town are normal dogs even when they talk--it's like living in a bad video game or something.

[cullscuttlefish]

Yep. I have since I got here. I think I'm lucky - there are some awful people here, and I'm glad I don't have to live with any of them.

[There's a small laugh.]

I don't know...it's pretty violent stuff.

...second time?

[reconstructs]

Or worse. You can never tell, with witches.

[reconstructs]

You couldn't just go live in one of the other houses if there were bad people in this one?

[A nod] If you don't like to talk about it, then you don't have to.

Mm, yeah. Bey-yan was the first. He's a lot cuter, but that's only because he looks like a small furry animal.

[reconstructs]

A magician, huh...? I'm guessing you don't mean the kind that pull rabbits out of hats, do you?

[reconstructs]

NPCs, huh? I wonder what kind of game that makes this.

[kingofshadows]

Not exactly. A separate universe altogether.

Two instances of Earth would be more along the lines of what you're looking for - and there are several dozen of those.

[reconstructs]

What a mess. Sounds like some kind of indiscriminate cross-over.

[wizardoftheweek]

Of course not.

[reconstructs]

So you do real magic? That's pretty impressive. How did you learn to do that?

[imoutos]

W-what kind of things could they do that are worse than turning people into frogs..?

[cullscuttlefish]

Nope. You can only stay away from home for two nights at a time, if you try a third, you get droned. Droning is like --

[Feferi heads to the closest window, waiting for a drone to pass by. She points, after a minute.]

Anyone that's cheery to the point of being eerie about it. Too cheerful, insists on really old-fashioned roles for men and women even though that's definitely not true, generally creepy as shell.

[She shakes her head.]

Seeing everyone you care about hanging, covered in blood, or dying in other ways. Seeing yourself die over and over in increasingly horrible ways. Things like that.

Bey-yan? Sounds cute...

[wizardoftheweek]

You're dodging the topic again.

[reconstructs]

Well...

Maybe turn them into spiders?

[imoutos]

W-.. wah! That's even scarier, everyone squishes those..

[reconstructs]

Brainwashed people, huh? Creepy stuff.

Sound like you had a pretty tough life.

He's very cute. Just be careful of his teeth; they're sharp. I wonder if he'll show up here...

[reconstructs]

You're a sharp one, huh? [She doesn't sound too bothered by it though]

Well, to begin with, the kind of witches I know probably aren't the kind you think of. They're more like monsters than magicians.