001 || Day || Video

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[Balthazar is good with a lot of things, but technology isn't one of them. When the video comes up, it's showing an extreme close-up of his mouth and chin. When Bal realizes that he has the little thing turned on, he pulls it back to a more comfortable distance. He's in the bedroom he arrived in, his mask abandoned on the bed.A dream city. It's a

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[itaidakimasu]

{Yako sighs, tugging at her own mask}

Try reading this first.

{Sending PromGuide.doc}

[menageablank]

It comes with a manual?

[itaidakimasu]

It's more like an introduction to Promenade. Somebody had the time, and it's pretty useful when new people trickle in.

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And if someone just wanted the cliffnotes, love?

[Read: He's too lazy to peruse it. But Bal is being just so darn charming that it doesn't come across as lazy at all. Right?]

[itaidakimasu]

{She laughes slightly}

Those are pretty much the bare bones of it. Broken down even more...

Something like dream world, silent nights, telepathy, mandatory daytime masks, reversible deaths, magic monarchs, Unnatural breakouts, multiple worlds, Places of Solace, amd no known escape.

{Kind of cheeky, really, but it's his fault for being lazy}

[menageablank]

[Give him a moment to let all of that soak in.]

Don't suppose there's a "Why us?" in there somewhere, hm?

[itaidakimasu]

Sorry, no.

[menageablank]

It's never that easy, is it? Fair enough.

You, dear, are the most helpful person I've heard from yet. [He's laying on the charm so thick you could gag on it.] Is there anything else a wayward traveler ought to know?

[itaidakimasu]

{She raises her eyebrows, a little bemused. He's taking this in stride fairly easily.}

As long as it isn't a person, large building, or weapon of mass destruction you can create pretty much whatever you'd like here.

[menageablank]

[Well that's boring. Bal can already do that. Hell, he doesn't even have the limitations. (At least, he doesn't realize it yet.) But hang on--]

Really? And that's true for everyone?

[itaidakimasu]

Everyone except the King and Queen, I think.