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victory_road2017-10-30 10:00 am
queen_stabbity) wrote in victory_road2017-10-30 10:00 am
Video One - An Introduction
[The screen turns on to reveal a new face - a teenage girl with unnaturally red hair, unusually green eyes and a huge smattering of freckles. She's got the device set up so she doesn't need to hold it letting her sit on the ground and fiddle with a pokeball looking like she's trying to open it. After all there's a seam so it should be able to open, right?]
You know, I realized I was going to get kidnapped by fairies at some point. I mean, it just seems to be a thing that happens in my family. I was just hopping it'd be kinda cooler. Like my mum and aunts got turned into swans by this fairy lord from Rus when I was little and told they couldn't be returned permanently into human shape until they married his sons. And before I was born my eldest cousin got kidnapped by a fairy who fell in love with him.
[She speaks with a very Irish accent - straight from County Cork for those who knows those sort of things.]
This is just kinda... weird. I mean the music is... different. Never heard of something like that happening in fairy before. Or really anywhere else real. I mean it happens in video games and movies all the time but not real life.
If anyone could point me in the direction of the nearest portal or gateway back to the mortal ... [Getting the ball finally open she cuts off as a murkrow appears and then she gets completely distracted by this.]
OH! Hello! Who are you?
[Pause as she listens to the bird croak something.]
You don't have a name? Well...hmm... how about... Princess She Who Devours the Darkness in People's Souls? I kinda like that one. And I can call you Pickles for short!
[This clearly makes sense to her and the newly dubbed Princess She Who Devours the Darkness in People's Souls or Pickles agrees with her.]
It's very nice to meet you. I think I saw a bandanna in this bag I was given, I could probably make you a bow tie out of it. It's rather silly, I mean I can't seem to find a knife anywhere and I can't find that house either. How am I supposed to survive in the woods without weapons?
I suppose I could make a spear from some branches. There are plenty of rocks around.
[... Yeah, she's completely forgotten that she was talking to the great unknown out there...]
You know, I realized I was going to get kidnapped by fairies at some point. I mean, it just seems to be a thing that happens in my family. I was just hopping it'd be kinda cooler. Like my mum and aunts got turned into swans by this fairy lord from Rus when I was little and told they couldn't be returned permanently into human shape until they married his sons. And before I was born my eldest cousin got kidnapped by a fairy who fell in love with him.
[She speaks with a very Irish accent - straight from County Cork for those who knows those sort of things.]
This is just kinda... weird. I mean the music is... different. Never heard of something like that happening in fairy before. Or really anywhere else real. I mean it happens in video games and movies all the time but not real life.
If anyone could point me in the direction of the nearest portal or gateway back to the mortal ... [Getting the ball finally open she cuts off as a murkrow appears and then she gets completely distracted by this.]
OH! Hello! Who are you?
[Pause as she listens to the bird croak something.]
You don't have a name? Well...hmm... how about... Princess She Who Devours the Darkness in People's Souls? I kinda like that one. And I can call you Pickles for short!
[This clearly makes sense to her and the newly dubbed Princess She Who Devours the Darkness in People's Souls or Pickles agrees with her.]
It's very nice to meet you. I think I saw a bandanna in this bag I was given, I could probably make you a bow tie out of it. It's rather silly, I mean I can't seem to find a knife anywhere and I can't find that house either. How am I supposed to survive in the woods without weapons?
I suppose I could make a spear from some branches. There are plenty of rocks around.
[... Yeah, she's completely forgotten that she was talking to the great unknown out there...]
Re: [Video]
Maybe. But even so, knives are almost necessary to survive properly in the woods. Lots of things need to be cut. Knives, flint and steel, rope...
Oh, I know animals can be dangerous! That's why they have sharp and pointy bits. I used kittens as weapons when I was little and there's a whole murder of crows and ravens at the Hall at home and they're dangerous when they're pissed. I once saw one claw someone's eyes out. And another broke someone's neck.
[There's a bit of a blank look and then a shrug.]
Maybe. But I'd rather have something to hold onto just in case Pickles is incapacitated. It never hurts to have backup.
[Video]
Hey, no arguments here.
Just wanted to make sure you knew to be careful-- I've had, like, so much stuff confiscated by annoyed cops in this place.
[Though by the gal's description, it sounds kind of like she was the R-rated version of an animal-whispering Disney princess back home or something, so you know what, she's probably gonna do just fine in this place.]
Re: [Video]
[Tapping her chin thoughtfully, she nodded.]
I can do that.
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Next piece of advice: don't eat the big colorful berries.
Other than that? Just learn as you go.
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Are they poisonous?
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[Heather can proudly say that she read the guidebook right off the bat and stayed the fuck away from them... but can also say that she heard veritable horror stories from the people who didn't.]
At the very least, not something you ever wanna subject yourself to when you're on the road, in the middle of nowhere, and don't have any toilet paper.