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[kyrannical]

[Phone]

Good morning. I know many of you are new in town, and may not be familiar with much of the technology here. If you aren't, please be careful when you leave the house; there are 'cars' [the quote around the word is audible] on the streets, and they can be very harmful in the event of a collision. Any healing abilities you may have back home are unfortunately gone, so please make sure you watch out for yourself, as much as that's possible in this town.

[The worst part is that he sounds completely earnest.]

[Action-- used car lot]

[There is a reason he's decided that he's a car expert, and that's because he's finally getting the hang of his job-- not the lying or anything like that, but at least how to talk about them and how to make them move.]

[He's showing off a car now, actually! And he drives it like a 16-year-old who just passed the written part of the test and has never actually been behind the wheel, but that doesn't stop him from getting out and patting the car like he just did something impressive.]

As you can see, it's a very--

[and then a spark jumps from his hand to the car and suddenly the whole thing is crackling with lightning]

...Ah.

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Phone

[jumpsinline]

Cars are reaaally dangerous! [ Someone learned this the hard way. ]

Re: Phone

[kyrannical]

They are. [and he nods along seriously on his end of the phone] I hope people can be more careful.

[jumpsinline]

They need to be! They're eeeeverywhere. [ She sounds equally serious, if a bit slow on the uptake. ] It really hurts to get hit by one, too.

[kyrannical]

That happened to... someone I know, unfortunately. [He doesn't want to name names, because it was his idiot son that got hit] It can be very difficult if you're not familiar with them.

[bye_to_yer_head]

... You think there's a load 'f people who don't know what cars are?

[jumpsinline]

[ Yoshika really only referenced the pain because that would be something other people understood. She, herself, feels none. ] I've never seen them before coming to Maaayfield.

They're fast and don't play fair.

Did that someone die, too?

[kyrannical]

It's very likely, with so many people from different worlds.

[kyrannical]

Neither have I. It takes a little while, getting caught up on everything, doesn't it?

He did, unfortunately. Thankfully, people don't stay dead here, but it's still distressing.

[bye_to_yer_head]

Guess that's true. I met someone so far in th' future they didn't know what a bow an' arrows were.

phone

[cutesy]

There aren't many bad drivers in Mayfield! I mean, the roads are always paved and everyone always stops at the stop signs! Why are you telling everyone to be careful of the cars, and not like, the really ugly clothing. [ She KNOWS bad drivers. There's no Rosalind signs of driving anywhere. ]

[kyrannical]

Ah...

Conversely, I know what bow and arrows are, and yet in my world technology such as cars and electronics are relics of the past.

It's interesting, how different everything is.

[kyrannical]

I don't know many people who have died from the clothing.

...Though I would not be surprised if someone had.

[cutesy]

Well, yeah. If you don't have good looking clothing, everyone mkaes fun of you and soon you start to hate yourself and then you're dead! On the inside! [ A VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM... ]

That and sometimes you're allergic to the fabric and you just die from the reaction.

[kyrannical]

...That does sound serious. [he says it after a second, trying to be polite] Perhaps you should, ah, warn others of this as well.

[jumpsinline]

They are really really baaad about how they revive people, too. Lady Seiga would do a much better job. It took a week for me to walk straight again! [ And she had enough trouble with that at first, anyhow. ]

[kyrannical]

People are capable of reviving the dead in your world?

[jumpsinline]

Of course! I'm a jiang shi, so I'm proof of that!

—or I would be if it wasn't for this duuumb town.

[kyrannical]

I'm afraid I don't know what that is.

[jumpsinline]

People here say that makes me a zombie.

...Made. Maaade. [ Someone dislikes the past tense of this. ]

[kyrannical]

I see.

[and he picks up on that, so after a second there's a slightly awkward]

...I'm sorry.

Action

[thenewnancydrew]

... Wow. Impressive.

[kyrannical]

It's... not supposed to do that.

[awkwardly clears throat]

[thenewnancydrew]

Not much of a car girl, but yeah, I kind of figured.

[kyrannical]

I can... assure you that it will not do that for most people, if it helps.

...I think.

[jumpsinline]

Why? [ Yoshika does not compute sympathetic apologies. ] Did you do it? [ Because he didn't sound like he was very well adjusted, much less some kind of huge manipulative force behind all of their captures.

Or maybe Yoshika just had a moment of dumb and asks lots of questions. There are certainly a surplus of question marks in her possession. ]