One! - Video

[yelloweyesdarksomething]

[It’s video, but it might as well be voice since the picture’s dark. Sometimes the glint of a pair of yellow eyes can be seen, especially when the Monster’s looking directly at the screen.


His voice is human, and young. He sounds worried and a little scared.]


Oh man, Xykon’s gonna be really mad when he notices I’m gone.


…Wherever I’m gone to anyway. Where is this place? It looks kinda like Azure City but less blue and less hobgoblins and not really like Azure City at all. I just remember popping in. Did I get tela-porked? I don’t remember doing that. Not that I can do stuff like that! I don’t know magic or anything!


OH! Is this where O-Chul went? I mean, I popped out and popped in here and O-Chul popped out so maybe he popped to this place. I hope so. Well, except this city place looks scary. If it’s scary maybe he should’ve popped somewhere else. [There’s a short pause as he considers this.]



Am I talking to myself or is this Sending? Hello?

Comments

[hellisforchildren]

No. A name.

[yelloweyesdarksomething]

Oh. I don't have one of those.

[hellisforchildren]

And nothing people typically call you?

[yelloweyesdarksomething]

People call me all sorts of things! "You", "You there", "You in the box", "Monster", "Creature", "IT!", "Moron", "Dummy", "Lazy", "guy in the dark", "monster in the darkness", "mysterious creature things in the shadows", "Minion", "Crybaby"...

[hellisforchildren]

...I don't think most of those are gonna work. Anything you'd like to be called?

[yelloweyesdarksomething]

Monster is okay, I guess? O-Chul called me "Monster-san".

[hellisforchildren]

Okay, Monster. So who was this O-Chul character?

[yelloweyesdarksomething]

O-Chul's my best friend in the whole world! He's a human paladin who was prisoner who had a tea party with me and is really determined and talked and listened to me and he punches sharks and stuff. He can do anything!

oh jeez that was the wrong icon

[hellisforchildren]

Well, I can see why he made such an impression on you.

Are you still at the Porter building? Figure if I'm going to show you the ropes, it might as well be sooner than later.

It's okay, I keep making typos and stuff.

[yelloweyesdarksomething]

The building I arrived in? I'm still here. [he got to the doors and couldn't decide if the city was scarier than the creepy building so he stayed put.]

[hellisforchildren]

In that case, I'll be there in a bit, I can show you where the MAC is and all that.

[ move to action? ]

[yelloweyesdarksomething]

Thanks, Mr. Alex! What's a MAC?

[[Sure!]]

[hellisforchildren]

The Metahuman Apartment Complex, it's where you'll be living for now.

I'll be there in a few minutes.

action! fifteen minutes later

[hellisforchildren]

[ Alex opens the door to the Porter building and glances around in the darkness. ]

Monster? You there?

It's Alex!

Re: action! fifteen minutes later

[yelloweyesdarksomething]

[Oh! There's a person there. The monster was getting increasingly nervous waiting for him.]

Hi Alex!

[He walks up to the door. He's still covered in darkness, but you can almost see a silhouette of someone if you squint.]

action

[hellisforchildren]

[ He just...stares. ]

Huh, guess you are a bit monstrous. We've got a bit of a walk ahead of us, so I hope that won't cause much trouble.

Re: action

[yelloweyesdarksomething]

Okay! I'm used to walking places. It'll be nice to finally leave this creepy building.

[he opens up a bright pink umbrella with little fanged white Hello Kittys on it out of habit.]

action

[hellisforchildren]

[ he has no idea what to make of the umbrella, but he'll roll with it ]

...Alright. Are you hungry? We can pick something up on the way, just don't expect any heroes to be on the menu.

Re: action

[yelloweyesdarksomething]

YES. I'll eat anything! Is there stew?

[[OOC: I'm getting pretty tired, do you want to wrap this up quickly or table it for later?]]

[hellisforchildren]

I was thinking of something a bit quicker, but I'm sure we could get some stew if that's what you want.

[ it might be out of a can though
and i'm fine with picking this up whenever we do! nothing says it's gotta all be done in one sitting ]

[yelloweyesdarksomething]

Hmm, I do like stew, but I am hungry now. Um, why don't you decide, Alex?

[hellisforchildren]

[ he waves Monster on to follow him as he starts walking down the street ]

There's a Chinese place a few blocks up, they do a good lo mein. We'll stop by there. On me, of course, since we still gotta show you how your tags work.

[yelloweyesdarksomething]

[The Monster follows behind him, looking curiously around.

He barely understood most of what Alex just said.]

Sure! Is a low-main delicious?

[hellisforchildren]

A bit greasy, but it does the job.

[ looking back at the large shadow with the umbrella following him, he thinks to himself for a moment ] Figure you'll need one with beef in it.

[yelloweyesdarksomething]

Beef is pretty tasty. Beef stew, beef tacos... they're all good.