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Ian Recker, starfighter supreme and recent savior of Earth, walks into the Nexus through an airlock door. He is obviously plagued by dark thoughts. His eyes are glued to the floor, and he barely notices the Nexus sign before he almost runs into it. Once he does, however, it's a whole other ball game. He glances around wildly, shocked to find
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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERECKER!!! <3333333 YOU WIN ABOUT A MILLION INTERNETS HOMGHOMGHOMG I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE ON EARTH WHO LIKED THAT GAME!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE <33333333333333333333 *cough* I kinda suck at it though and got distracted by other shiny things so I'm still not very far along. I don't care about spoilers as a rule, but I'm not surprised to hear it ends on a sad note. D: Poor guy.))
Io, meanwhile, has a fairly similar reaction to the mun there. She doesn't hear anything past "Ian Recker" and instantly dives headfirst into fangirl mode.
"EEEEEE RECKER!!" Y halo thar, flying tackle glomp! Well, maybe it'll cheer him up a bit, anyway.
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"Huh?" Recker turns around just in time to take a flying tackle glomp to the face. Right now, all it does is scare him. "Ouch! Who are you?! How do you know my name?"
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Io is now pretty firmly attached to his middle and emitting a slew of hearts. Incidentally, it's interesting to note that while her contact feels physical enough, it feels like she weighs nothing at all.
"Heeeeeee! I'm Io. You're awesome." Blink. Cough. She takes a moment to shove aside the fangirlism and be a bit more coherent. This does not include detaching herself, however.
"First time in the Nexus? All worlds meet here. In mine, you're a video game character. In an awesome game. I won't say more than that because you might not have done everything in it yet." Nodnod. She's noticed his lack of awesome alien symbiote and, while disappointed by it, is thrilled to think it may mean seeing him later after he gets it!
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Recker does note this, but doesn't know how to respond to it. He busies himself trying to pry Io off.
"Uh...Hi. I'm Lieutenant Ian Recker of the Allied Earth Federation. ...Thanks?" Push push push. "...Can you let go of me?"
"Yeah. I just sort of wound up here after I left the launch bay." Wait, what was that? They made a video game about him? "Hey, that's pretty cool! Are you from the future?"
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"Well, no. Considering that the game's set in what would be a fictional future of my own time. I more mean... it's an alternate dimension thing. A lot of worlds from video games, TV shows, books, etc. in my world seem to be actual alternate dimensions from what I've seen here." She nods.
"You get used to it. Well, you get used to it until you get LOLed or run into an alternate version of yourself, I guess. Then you have to get used to that too." She grins.
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"...Ok, the alternate version I think I get, like if there's another Earth like mine, but what's a LOL?" Recker can't do much more but keep a puzzled look on his face. It was proving to be an exciting first day.
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"An LOL is usually random, hard to avoid even if you take the precautions of not eating anything here, not accepting random items from anything, and are capable of avoiding random clouds of suspicious gas, and it can do just about anything to you."
"Gender switching, body switching, turning into critters, turning into a kid, and various alterations to one's personality I hear are the most common sort of thing, but I've also heard there's been a lot weirder ones than that. The good news is that they wear off on their own, and most of 'em are pretty harmless if awkward and occasionally a bit traumatizing." She grins as if it's all one big amusement park to her, which... it pretty much is.
"Wish I'd run into more LOLs myself... got turned into a panther once and that was pretty fun."
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