002: [Video/Voice] - **Marked Important**

[ijudgecriminals]

[The feed switches on to reveal Light, looking down directly at the footage source, whilst the moving background(of which seems to be the outdoors) behind him as well as two sets of footsteps suggest that he is currently walking, with one other person with him.]

This is Ryuuga Asahi. Some of you might have contacted me previously on one of my posts.

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[metalicvirus]

[Hayden sounds tired, and annoyed. Being dead, then possessed, then recovering to find out certain morons fell in the well with their phone after he told them that trying that was pointless and infected the majority of the apartments will do that to a person.]

I'll be down there, if only to make sure the moron doesn't hurt anyone if he comes back to life. Idiot.

You're new, then. Name's Hayden Tenno. Sorry for the short temper, I've been... indisposed until now.

[Voice]

[ijudgecriminals]

Ah... You're the one...

Were you the one who came back to life just yesterday?

[Voice]

[metalicvirus]

[Though Light can't see it, Hayden is giving him a nasty look for reminding him about that. As far as he's concerned, this is getting buried like the fairytale incident. He doesn't want to talk about it.]

Yeah, and please don't bring the subject up again. I'm trying to forget that whole thing ever happened.

[Voice]

[ijudgecriminals]

I actually wanted to find out more about this, but alright.

Mr. Tenno, right? Pleased to meet you.

[Voice]

[metalicvirus]

Not much to find out. Got killed by the little darling, woke up and got told I spent the last 24 hours making a bloody fool of myself. End of story.

Same to you, or as pleased as I can be to meet yet another victim of this crazed place.

[If Light listens carefully, hemight hear and odd sound, like metal bars being drummed on wood on dragged across it.]

[Voice]

[ijudgecriminals]

[Oh yes, he hears it alright, but simply assumes that it might be a spirit of some kind making odd noises. Nothing to worry about, or so he thinks. It seems he has plenty more to find out about this place.]

Hm. Has this happened before, upon other people?

[Voice]

[metalicvirus]

[There's a muffled 'shit!' and a slightly louder thump of metal on wood and a few snarls about moronic ghosts that hide the stuff he needs before he responds again.]

The only person I know of that's had a similar experience before is Link, and he trashed the fourth floor. And then there's Mika, but I'm not going out there and asking the wolfgirl if she's possessed, zombiefied, or if she's merely lost her mind.

[Voice]

[ijudgecriminals]

[Oh ho, he won't be able to ignore it any further...]

Is everything alright over your side?

Wolfgirl? I do hope that's just a nickname.

[Voice]

[metalicvirus]

[There's confused silence for a moment, until Hayden realizes why Light's asking. Humor is thick in his tones when he responds.]

Just trying to dig something out from an inconvient place. You haven't seen some of the more... exotic of us?

And no, it's not. Mika has wolf ears and a tail, and quite impressive dentition.

[Voice]

[ijudgecriminals]

[It would be easy to sense Light's hesitation; he's starting to think he ought to expect to find beings from fantasy lands in this place.

Ah... No, the most 'exotic' person I've seen so far was a girl who could call upon vines to do her bidding.

[Voice]

[metalicvirus]

[Humor still laces Hayden's tones.]

That would be Saria, most likely. The Little One and Link come from the same world, I believe. Different races, but the same world. Mika's world appears to be 'normal' with the exception of hybrids like herself integrated into their society.

I, however, am fairly sure I'm unique even by my own world's standards.

[A 'Gotcha!', and the sound of metal dragging across the floor. Whatever was out of reach, Hayden's got a hold of now.]

[Voice]

[ijudgecriminals]

[Ignoring the humor, he merely answers as per normal. Certainly it isn't funny he's forced to face things he has never dealt with before, although this isn't all that strange, considering he has dealt with Shinigami(and manipulated them to his will, for that matter.)]

I see... May I ask, is your world by any chance called Earth?

[Voice]

[metalicvirus]

Yes, it is, but that name, or variants on it, seems to be common enough. Mika would probably say the same thing, as would Seth and no doubt yourself. One of our more transient guests awhile back stated that he'd come from a destroyed timeline on his own world.

[He's quiet for a second, probably thinking.]

I suspect if you could find a ghost from here that could talk coherently, they'd tell that whatever planet this hellhole is on is called Earth, or Terra, or Gaia. Many of us come from a place with the same name, but subtle differences. For example, I doubt there's a country called Lasria under Soviet control on your Earth.

[Voice]

[ijudgecriminals]

Lasria? You don't mean Russia, do you? I am, however, familiar with the Soviet Union.

I suspect there are people from worlds that are dramatically more contrasting to our own, such as that which Saria comes from; certainly there isn't anything similar to the 'magic' which they seem to be able to control, other than the fictional games and stories that might be accessible to us.

[Voice + Video]

[metalicvirus]

[His tone is pleasant, but slightly cutting.]

If I meant Russia, I would have said Russia. Though appearantly in your world the Soviet Union has already broken up. It's somewhat stalemated in mine, though it shouldn't be too many more years before the Russian love of revolution takes its course.

And I suppose you have games about this as well?

[With that, the video flickers on. Hayden's face is calm, detached, but he holds his right arm clearly into view. It might take Light's mind a minute or two to process what he sees. Metal covers the hand and arm as a skin, crinkled in the same places normal skin would be, and can be seen up to where Hayden's shirt covers him. There is something about it that makes it clear that it is actual 'flesh' and not some kind of extremely advanced robotic limb. Hayden waits calmly for Light's reply, not doing anything fancy, such as forming his glaive to see if he can get a sickened noise or two.]

[Voice]

[ijudgecriminals]

[Light responses almost immediately, the shock in his tone obvious for Hayden to hear.]

That...!!

[Clearly, no shock can ever be lasting on this God-aspirant, for his next statements were calm and measured.]

Yes, we do indeed have something similar in games, but of course not exactly identical.

... It is very obviously metallic, and yet strangely still alive... It could possibly be that the world you come from is merely the future of what my own world would become.