♎ 1ST HANGING[TEXT/AUDIO/ACTION FOR NEW BARK TOWN] ♎

[searsblindly]

H(W DU U
WSUT
WAIT
I CNT
NP STP
HW DI I WORK THUS STPID THNG
WHY CNT I
OH HELL NO
WHRE IX TH#
MYBE UF I

[There's a lot of clunk sounds suddenly and a lot of angry muttering on the other end.]

THIS TASTES METALLIC AND GROSS AND NOT WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR. MAYBE MY TONGUE TURNED OFF? IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE? HOW DO THESE BUTTONS WORK? WHAT IS THIS THING? WHERE IS MY CANE?

WHERE AM I? [That mumbling has turned more into yelling and it sounds like she isn't even aware that its recording.] THIS WORLD SMELLS LIKE NOTHING. A WHOLE LOT OF NOTHING.

WHAT'S GOING ON?

[If you're in New Bark Town, you'll probably see a girl sitting on the ground with her Dratini. She's shaking her Gear like that will actually do something. Otherwise, she looks really upset right about now. She keeps patting the area around her whenever she tries to pet her Dratini. Honestly, she keeps missing that damn thing completely. How do function in real life?]

Comments

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[timelymaid]

I'll answer any questions you have, but...yes, pretty much! I'm still catching up.

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[searsblindly]

Ugh! Why can't anything ever be done in a linear fashion! It's like our lives are doomed to never just going in a straight line.

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[timelymaid]

Well, we weren't even born in a linear fashion if you think about it. But...I'm sort of used to it! I've never been able to do anything linearly. Being a time player sort of, you know, negates that option.

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[searsblindly]

Even my powers kept in a linear sense! At least I didn't make it difficult for myself like everyone else did when contacting the humans! It was funny for me though.

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[timelymaid]

Watching everyone else troll themselves by being non-linear, you mean?

[ YEAH. The time player on the troll side thought that entire mess was complete nonsense and said so, although she also...didn't get that involved, being a robot and dead. ]

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[searsblindly]

I think Karkat was the funnest considering he got so angry the entire time! It was pretty amusing!

[Mostly because she could tease them about it.]

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[timelymaid]

Well that's what he got for starting at the very end! I could have told him that would go poorly.

[ Because time player.

...Actually she did log her disapproval of the plan to start with, but yeah. ]

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[searsblindly]

Everyone could have told him, and he wouldn't have listened! Are we even surprised about this?

[The right answer is no. No one is surprised.]

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[timelymaid]

I think most of us did, but he didn't. And I'm not surprised, no! But I'm amused, for sure.

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[searsblindly]

He'll eventually learn. [They can hope.]

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[timelymaid]

Will he? [ Teasing, mostly. But... ] I think Karkat isn't so bad as he is, though.

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[searsblindly]

I just like picking on him, Aradia.

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[timelymaid]

You're probably the best at it! You are a master in the art of picking on Karkat.

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[searsblindly]

It's not my fault that most of our friends actually suck at trolling!

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[timelymaid]

Perhaps you should offer lessons!

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[searsblindly]

Some of them are hopeless cases, Aradia. I wouldn't want to get their hopes up.

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[timelymaid]

That's true...and those who aren't can generally troll pretty well already!

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[searsblindly]

Like you and I! Let's be honest! We are pretty high on the trolling echeladder.

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[timelymaid]

That's why we always did well in games! [ She won't front, she does troll people. ]

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[searsblindly]

If only the rest of us took a few pointers. They'd be just as successful as we have. [And maybe not dead. But that's a different story.]

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[timelymaid]

Well, maybe. It takes a certain amount of natural talent, too! [ She's mostly teasing. She died several times herself... ]

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[searsblindly]

I guess not everyone can be as talented as you and I! But they could at least try a little harder to reach our levels.

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[timelymaid]

Perhaps we should start giving them lessons.

By trolling them, of course.

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[searsblindly]

That is a perfect and wonderful idea, Aradia! But not yet. They might catch on if we do it so soon to this conversation. Perhaps in the future when they least expect us to do something.

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[timelymaid]

Yes! After they've forgotten about us discussing it in a public location.

You know, if any of them are still watching this.