victory_road | FILE 1 | [network/action for New Bark Town] adjusting to a new UI

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[Frisk frowns into the camera, sitting a ways away from Elm's lab with their backpack in their lap and a worried looking Skiddo hovering over their shoulder. They chew on their lip and look back in the direction of Mom's house before finally speaking up.]

Does anyone know where Mount Ebott is? I...I think I'm lost.

Mom? If you're here, I'm by a lab right now...I made a new friend! His name's Buddy, lemme show you--

[The feed swings around, and now you all have a...very close up view of the Skiddo's face. It sneezes on the lens.]

He's really nice! I think you'll like him, too. He doesn't say a whole lot, though.

Um, okay, bye!

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[Frisk shuts off the feed, and slumps forward over their backpack, the cheerful facade falling away into worry. Buddy bleats and nudges their cheek, but Frisk doesn't respond outside of reaching up a hand to pet the Pokemon.]

[This is really bad. Nothing like this has ever happened before...it doesn't feel like a RESET, but Frisk can't think of anything else that would pull them away like this. And on top of that...]

[Again, Frisk closes their eyes and turns their mental focus inward, reaching and reaching and trying...but they're alone. Nobody came.]

[Frisk sniffles, and buries their face in their arms.]

...I wanna go home...

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[Frisk shakes their head, eyebrows furrowing up with concern.]

No...I never heard'a that place b'fore.

Oh... [Well, no sense in asking if it's from any other region, right?]

Then I-I'm really sorry... I don't think that mountain is anywhere around here. B-but, that doesn't mean you should give up on looking for your mom! [Heavens know what Rakka wouldn't do to have her mother here right now.]

If you tell me what she looks like, I can help you look for her?

[They look discouraged at first, but Rakka's encouragement puts the wind back in their sails. Yeah! They just have to stay Determined!]

Mmm! Um, she's real tall, an' she's got red eyes an' got a purple dress on, an' her fur is really soft.

Okay, got it. Tall, purple dress, red eyes... fur?

[Well, the encouragement worked! And staying determined is very much in Rakka's life goals, but then there's the often overwhelming sense of "???" that pops up very rudely, every so often.]

Your mom... really looks like that?

Mm-hmm! She's a boss monster.

[Sorry, Rakka, but this kid is way, way too used to things that are weird even for their world.]

A-a monster? [Okay. Well. Rakka's used to some pretty weird things too, honestly. Her life revolved around weird things even before her arrival in this world.]

...W-well, uh, if she still looks like a boss monster, then it will probably be really easy to find her! [a hopeful twinge in her voice fades a bit.] Or she might be a Human now...

Human? Why would she change t' a human?

[That's not even possible, is it?]

Well, you see...

[Oh cripes. Just why does she get to be the one that explains things like this? Okay. Just breathe, Rakka. A Haibane should be ready for this.]

It's just, uh, what happens here. If you weren't a human before you showed up, then you turn into one now.

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