001 ☁ DAY 14 ☁ VIDEO

[dormition]

Hi.

[There's a young man with undeniably blue hair and a placid expression looking into the camera when it flickers on. The beach is in the background, and you can just make out a mess of footprints in the sand as if someone had been running around

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[truculentduet]

how about you explain more about this motherfucking ghost.
MINATO.
whatever the fuck your name is, you can call me gamzee.
BUT SERIOUSLY.
what's this shit about a motherfucking ghost all up in your grill and shit?

video forever

[dormition]

It looked like a drowned woman in a long dress. I held her off for a while, and when I started going inland she stayed by the ocean. I might be able to find her again if you're curious.

[Yes, Minato is perfectly willing to track down a murderous ghost for a perfect stranger's curiosity.]

Guess he'll video too.

[truculentduet]

[Switches to video but the feed shows a tree canopy above head instead of a person. Gamzee's laying on his back in the forest somewhere, hands behind his head as his phone sits next to him.]

Hmm. Held her off? Bitch trying to up and start something with ya, bro? Ghosts are a new motherfucking thing... But then again I pretty much just got my ass up and stuck here. You? [Ghosts? Really? Huh... He probably can't kill no motherfucking ghost but still, pretty neat.]

doesn't matter to me! /o/ video forever then

[dormition]

[Minato's starting to walk now; the video shakes and is probably getting more scenery than him, but since Gamzee apparently doesn't find a visual important, Minato isn't about to either.]

I think she wanted to drown me. [He doesn't sound upset about that.] I don't have a lot of experience with ghosts, though.

I just got here. I guess a company kidnapped us.

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[likethetragedy]

The community would have given us a nicer place to live.

voice;

[dormition]

I don't know. One time it brought a bunch of us to a haunted mansion and made us kill each other. [His speculative tone doesn't reveal how upsetting he found that little jaunt.]

So if it wasn't the community, what was it?

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[likethetragedy]

... I haven't seen that level of brutality yet. I got to go Disneyworld.

Some company supposedly. If it weren't for the fact I've been here longer than five days I'd still say it was the community.

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[dormition]

Did you like it there? [He sounds genuinely interested in the answer, and is secretly more than happy to let go of the previous topic.]

I've never seen a virus last longer than a week. There's a first time for everything, but... it probably is the company.

voice? or whatever you want idc

[femshep]

Don't start questions with 'are we sure'. Nobody's sure about anything, here.

Trust me, I tried.

voice is fine! |D and omg femShep, I was totally gonna tag you later but you beat me to it <3

[dormition]

I'm used to that.

Did you just get here?

voice -- f-for real? WELL SWEET. we were totally like THIS /weird brain-to-brain pointing gesture

[femshep]

Last night. Or... before the night, I guess you'd say.

You're on a nameless island in an unknown location, surrounded by mysterious spirits and vicious monsters. Our captors are unknown besides the company name, Kernos, and there's supposedly maybe a way out.

That's all you're going to get from anyone, and it'll probably come in a million little pieces from a half-dozen different people. So you're welcome, I just saved you two hours of your life.

voice -- YES TOTALLY I've only played ME1 but aaages ago I used to play Tali, lmfao

[dormition]

Oh. Thank you. [Minato wasn't actually going to ask about that, but it's nice to know, he guesses.]

Is there anything in particular I should know about the spirits and monsters? Weaknesses or invulnerabilities?

[video]

[sublimewind]

A ghost? I have yet to encounter any ghosts here. Where did you see it?

[video]

[dormition]

On the shore. It looked like a drowned woman... she tried to drag me in.

I don't think she wanted to leave the ocean.

[video]

[sublimewind]

Strange. Perhaps they are a new type of monster for this day cycle.

[video]

[dormition]

Do the monsters change a lot?

[Video;]

[ruineaxt]

[His brows crease for a moment, but then:]

Hey, Arisato. Good to see someone else from home.

[Video;]

[dormition]

[Blinking a couple times, nonplussed, and then he's smiling. It's a rare event.]

Sempai. I didn't think you'd be here. [And not dead, or, well, as close as it comes.]

[Video;]

[ruineaxt]

Can't say I did either. [It's... really, really hard to tell if that was a joke or just a statement.]

So what community're you going on about?

[Video;]

[dormition]

[That's exactly Minato's kind of humor, so his smile just lessens a little. He can't keep up that kind of emotion for long.]

It's an internet community that connects different realities. It probably doesn't exist here.