[02] [Video]

[lilredsorceress]

[The communicator shakes around and is set down on top of something. A shot is seen of Imoen's dusty, well-worn boots, and the apartment. It seems the broken glass she spoke of earlier was cleaned up]

Okay... I hope this works right! I can't believe people can see simul-

[Imoen pauses in mid-sentence for a few seconds]

acrums of me on this thing!

[Imoen sits down and grins, waving. Her hand is wrapped up in bloodstained cloth...]

Hi! Thanks to everyone who helped me out when I kinda h-

[Imoen pauses in mid-sentence for a few seconds]

ad that little breakdown back there. But people explained things to me, and everything's going alright. Nobody told me their names or anything, so I can't thank you all on-

[Imoen pauses in mid-sentence for a few seconds]

your own, but thanks!

So, I've learned more about where I am and what exa-

[Imoen pauses in mid-sentence for a few seconds]

ctly is going on here, thanks to the people who talked to me on the funny box I'm talking to now. It's kinda f-

[Imoen pauses in mid-sentence for a few seconds]

unny that so many people are having problems trying to get water and food! I gue-

[Imoen pauses in mid-sentence for a few seconds]

ss on "Earth" you guys have fountains everywhere and shops never run out of food, but where I come from, not everyone is that rich.

[She takes a deep breath and continues]

On account of everyone bei-

[Imoen pauses in mid-sentence for a few seconds]

ng all squishy and used to the easy life, I'll help you guys out. People dying in the streets of hunger and thirst is somethin' I only wanna see during open war, and n-

[Imoen pauses in mid-sentence for a few seconds]

ot even then. So, if you guys are willing, here's how I can help.

I can teach you how to make rain barrels, and you got-

[Imoen pauses in mid-sentence for a few seconds]

ta learn to cover them up, so bugs and other stuff doesn't get on it. Plus, since food is sparse, and there aren't any shops here, I'll teach those of you willing how to hunt what we-

[Imoen pauses in mid-sentence for a few seconds]

can, and how to salt meat. I can make jerky, but that's about it. I really can't do anything more. I've had to do this stuff tons of times. I- I'm sorry I can't do more. I wish I knew how to smo-

[Imoen pauses in mid-sentence for a few seconds]

ke meat so it'd last even longer and taste better and...

[She sighs]

But that's what I know how to do. Proper rain barrels. And salted meat. We just gotta find meat that hasn't gone green, or hunt for it, and salt and things. And for the rain-

[Imoen pauses in mid-sentence for a few seconds]

barrels, just some big enough containers and some nails and a hammer and cloth. If we can find it.

So if anyone's willing to learn this stuff, um, you can talk to me over my funny box! Or try to send me a simulacrum, like I'm doing now! I wa-

[Imoen pauses in mid-sentence for a few seconds]

nna see!

So, bye!

[She reaches for it with that cloth-wrapped, bloodstained hand, and fiddles with it. VIDEO END.]