♖ 001; voice

[elementally]

[Deep breath.]
Uh... h-- hello?

Um. Hi. I'm-- my name is Hope Estheim. [He swallows, and there's a bit of a pause.]

Someone told me that people arriving from other worlds really isn't that strange here. You-- uh, you probably get questions like this a lot, but... I'm looking for some friends. They're pretty [and for a second he sounds amused]

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text... sorry >.>

[onetoignite]

Isn't Hope a girl's name?

text; lmfaooo sob ;;

[elementally]

[-___-]

No.

text; dhjks that icon

[onetoignite]

I think it is, mate. It's all right though, you're among friends here.

But not your friends. Haven't seen them.

text; fjhkfd it's one of my favourites

[elementally]

[-_________-] O-- okay. [Not going to argue about this. Stupid name.]

Right. Thanks... for your help, I guess.

text; it's clearly the BEST FACE

[onetoignite]

No trouble. Sit tight, though, sometimes the Door likes to bring us in in groups. Might see someone familiar soon.

Of course some of us have to wait a bit longer than others.

text; greatest OF ALL TIME

[elementally]

It's possible though-- that they'll get here. [He sounds cheered by that.]

Waiting isn't a problem. I can handle it.

text; superbest face, none can beat it

[onetoignite]

Living up to your name, eh? Yeah it's possible, but the flip side is you might see someone you won't want to run into. That happens a lot too.

Anyway, I'm Matt. Resident Forge-repairer and robot-builder.

text; I should make it his default :|a

[elementally]

Ha-- mm, yeah, I guess. [And then he sounds more serious. People he doesn't want to run into are definitely more likely, if you think about numbers.] Okay. Thanks for the warning.

Forge-repair-- those are these, uh, devices? [He's thinking.] Do you... build a lot of robots?

[He kind of likes robots. Not that it always ends well, of course.]

text; ...do it. do it right now!

[onetoignite]

This place comes with a fair number of warnings, but if you've read the documents you're probably familiar with them by now. Lazy fucker needs to update it, though.

Right, that's the Forge. Don't shake it. And I take commissions, so I'll build whatever anyone needs. Everyone got pretty excited by Salty when he came out so there's a few bots with my name on them out there.

text; DONE also sometimes i apparently forget that text means he wouldn't be pausing over words, sob

[elementally]

Yeah. 'Stay away from the mist,' and everything.

[And Hope hasn't been shaking it, but his grip on it become a little more careful. Don't drop it, Hope!] I won't.
What does Salty do?

text; \o/ and it's cool we can MAKE PRETEND~

[onetoignite]

Stay away from everything, more like. Even the muffins can be dangerous.

He does anything I want. Recon, clean up, security... had him hauling zombie corpses a while back, actually. Took forever to clean the gunk out of his feet, but it was a hell of a lot better than dragging them out by hand.

text; )o) WHAT A MAGICAL PLACE THIS IS~

[elementally]

Muffins? [... He just saw that advertisement from Dawn and Al, earlier. .__. ] Extra precautions all around, then.

Oh, wow. [But zombie corpses? That sounds pretty gross.] Is that what you do in your home world, make robots?

text; if i could make a picture of a unicorn now I WOULD

[onetoignite]

It's not bad if you're already paranoid.

Right, I wish. They're new. Haven't got any complaints though, at least it keeps things interesting.

Where are you from, anyway? Earth?

text; do you have a license for said unicorn? :|

[elementally]

One way of being prepared for anything. [Hah. Yeah, he's feeling really thrown.]

That's good. I don't really know what I'm going to do here, yet. [Just a little while ago he probably would've figured that going to school was what he did.]

Not Earth. I'm from Palumpolum. [A moment before he continues typing--] on Cocoon.

text; ... :| gdi i knew that would bite me in the ass

[onetoignite]

Trust me, I've seen it work.

You'll find something. There's plenty for us Scorched to do without the natives giving us shit for it, despite what you might hear.

Right.

Cocoon's a new one.

text; ufufu

[elementally]

I guess I'll just have to wait and see what happens.

How about Pulse? Gran Pulse?