First Pull - Video

[giftedistheterm]

[The wave comes through revealing a pale looking man, perhaps a little bit paler than should be healthy in fact. Simon is still feeling some lingering effects of being yanked into Siren's Port and hasn't had much time to settle after being rushed from the Darkness outside to the safety of the nearest building. There's a window in the background

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[Video]

[gaveherwings]

[Well, it looks like the corporate propaganda overwhelmed a good deal of the greeter's information.

Daedalus isn't immediately recognizable by profession (for once), seated on the floor in a modern-minimalist apartment, the few spare items of which are being packed into moving boxes. It looks like he was in the middle of stacking a very modest collection of books, titles out of sight from this angle.]

Where should we start?

[Video]

[giftedistheterm]

[Has a bit of a wry smile on when he answers, noting the moving boxes. Well, Simon doesn't mind being someone's distraction so long as the information he gets is useful.]

These all talk about the wonderful job opportunities to be had for newcomers like myself with 'SERO slash AGI' with plenty of opportunity for advancement and all that, but I wasn't able to get a lot of specifics.

I'd like a job in medicine, if that's possible. But I can't imagine they just hand out stethoscopes to anyone who walks in the door and claims to be a doctor...

[Then, adding on.]

My name is Simon, by the way. Simon Tam. And thank you for taking the time to answer.

Re: [Video]

[gaveherwings]

Ah, well...yes.

Still, some of us were fortunate enough to arrive with some form of licensed identification and fellow citizens to back up our claims.

Needless to say, you've found the right person to get your foot in the door. I'm Daedalus Yumeno, one of the doctors at the Newcomer Center Clinic. I'm also in residency at Skye Medical Center, at least until they can bear to call anyone foreign and younger than most of the interns a tenured Attending.

But let's see if I can point you in the right direction...I'll try to be fair.

What have you heard so far, about the hospitals?

[giftedistheterm]

Well then it's very nice to meet you, Dr. Yumeno. That's a little bit of good luck, at least.

[Rubs the back of his neck, quietly grateful for something more practical to focus on rather than the whole being abducted with no immediate way home problem.]

And so far I've heard nothing really beyond some names and locations mentioned in the pamphlets. [Glances off camera for a moment to where he'd put them.] ...though I'm afraid I don't have my license with me.

[cowboy_newsie]

Practical advice like what, specifically?

[giftedistheterm]

Where the best dim sum restaurants are, what else?

[Rubs the bridge of his nose, growing slightly less sarcastic.]

We're obviously expected to settle down for the long haul until this 'core' is repaired, so...what's the job market like? How many hoops are new arrivals like us expected to jump through in order to get a job? That sort of thing would be a good place to start.

[cowboy_newsie]

Not much. You'll want to get a job workin' for a fellow Newcomer, because that'll give you less grief. But you look normal enough, so you could pass for a person who lives here-- look, here's a tip, don't let anybody who ain't a Newcomer know you're one. They don't like us.

[giftedistheterm]

Thank you? I can try, at least. Do the 'natives' not have access to this network? That would make it a fairly simple affair to determine who's new and who isn't.

[text]

[limitedrun]

Everything wants to kill you.

[Griffin is in a troll mood this evening. As he usually is when the new crop of abductees show up.]

Video;

[giftedistheterm]

[Sticks to video so Griffin can see his 'No kidding.' face.]

I suppose that counts as practical.

[text]

[limitedrun]

[Sticks to text because... well, if he's honest, because he's also watching TV. He's replying during the commercial breaks like a champ.]

You think I'm kidding? The monsters want to eat you. The natives want you gone. SERO wants your body on their lab table so they can slice it open.

Wait. AGI doesn't want to kill you. They want you as one of their sex toys. Other than that, everything wants you dead.

Video;

[giftedistheterm]

[That...does a good job of sobering him up. The monsters he can catch glimpses of out the window and he has no trouble hearing them elsewhere in the city...]

...technically speaking I think the natives would be satisfied with us all going home more than they would want us dead, making two exceptions to your very enlightening blanket statement.

[The tips on SERO and AGI are definitely given some careful thought before being filed away.]

voice.

[payingthepiper]

Well... They have admittedly had nearly two years of practice in getting ready for newcomers. It is rather impressive. [if only the brochures wouldn't probably contradict each other about the companies.]

But, ah - what sort of practical information are you looking for, sir?

Voice;

[giftedistheterm]

Is that how long this has been going on? People being abducted like this? The information I was given hasn't been very clear on that...

Also, my name is Simon if you'd rather call me that than 'sir'.

Voice;

[payingthepiper]

For the recent wave, it's been two years. But there was another group that arrived a few decades ago from a Core malfunction; still, we're the first from other dimensions.

-- Sorry. Mr. Simon. It's nice to meet you - my name's Allen Walker.

[giftedistheterm]

Tam, Simon Tam...and likewise, Mr. Walker.

[There's a rustling sound, Simon rubbing at his temple and trying to be less awkward as he gets back to the point.]

Right. And this talk about repairing the core...is any of that actually happening or is it just bluster? From what else I've heard about SERO I have to wonder.

[voice]

[atrumcanis]

Canada is your nightmare-world.

We don't have much imagination, do we, dear boy.

[voice]

[giftedistheterm]

You have looked outside lately, haven't you? I understand it's not supposed to be as bad during the day, but right now that isn't saying much.

[voice]

[atrumcanis]

Looked outside at what.

[A beat for comedic effect.]

Oh, that, the rottiness and the monsters with the massive teeth, and--yeah, you hardly notice it after a time, it's like background noise.

[giftedistheterm]

[Ha ha.]

Of course, how silly of me. Well in that case I suppose Canada isn't all that bad if what I was taught in history class is true.