The Network: May, Arrivals from Distant Lands

[faileas]

The Network: May, Arrivals from Distant Lands

The Watches Everyone who arrives in an unorthodox way and eventually shows up at the Coven for 'orientation', will receive a strange, watch-like device compliments of the Coven and Parliament. Miss Nessie or one of the welcome wagon crew will give characters a run-down of how to use the various functions and they are encouraged to test them out for themselves. It would be good for them to get in touch with their fellow Mirrorbound, of course! Fourth wall characters will not be able to make their own posts in the communities, so they may use this post to make "network posts" of their own by top-leveling. The log post is right over here. Fourth Wall characters can comment on posts made by others in both aefenglom and middaeg until June 1st. Current players: Please specify in your posts if you do NOT want fourth wall characters replying!

Comments

[omnicrafter]

My name is Irhya. And yes, we definitely did meet. A very nice skeleton, that one.

I assume you are also a very nice skeleton?

[spaghettimonster]

NATURALLY! YOU DON'T GET TO BE THE COOLEST SKELETON,
WITHOUT BEING PRETTY NICE.

BUT... I'M AFRAID I DON'T RECOGNIZE YOUR NAME EITHER.

IF I'M HERE LONG ENOUGH...
MAYBE I'LL FIGURE OUT A SUPER SECRET ADVANCED MEMORY MAGIC,
AND REMEMBER THINGS I NEVER KNEW I KNEW.

[Partly for friendship's sake, of course. But partly because, if the message from the other early welcome is any indication, there might be some terrible skeletons in his closet he needs to learn about - before someone else goes digging them up.]

[omnicrafter]

The coolest, huh? Are there other skeletons you have to compete against, I wonder?

Don't worry about it, though. I don't know what mechanism causes people to remember or forget their time here, but I'm sure it's not your fault. Unless you asked to have your memory erased... but that seems unlikely.

[spaghettimonster]

YEAH, THAT SOUNDS SUPER UNLIKELY.
NOBODY LIKES FEELING UNFORGETTABLE!
PAPYRUS WOULDN'T INFLICT THAT ON ANYBODY ON PURPOSE.
...

BUT THAT ASIDE,
DON'T TELL ME THERE'S NO OTHER SKELETONS HERE.
IS THAT REALLY WHY PEOPLE WERE STARING ON THE BOAT??

[omnicrafter]

Not that I know of. Is that good or bad, you think?

[spaghettimonster]

OH, IT'S PROBABLY GOOD.
THAT MUCH EASIER TO BE OUTSTANDING, WHEN I STAND OUT SO MUCH!!!

[Just as long as the jokes about crime are actually jokes, and also he doesn't have any enemies he's unaware of. Maybe he should spend a few hours reading back through this network's history...]

[omnicrafter]

Haha... forgive me for saying this out of the blue, but you know, it's easy to tell you and Mettaton are friends. That's the kind of thing he'd say, too. There are also, incidentally, no other robots that I know of here.

I suppose that's not to say there will never be more, however. You must not be the only skeleton in your world, right?

[spaghettimonster]

OH MY GOD?? WHAT A TREMENDOUS COMPLIMENT!!!
I REMIND IRHYA OF METTATON...
I'LL REMEMBER THAT FOREVER.
OR. AS LONG AS I REMEMBER ANY OF THIS.

[He'll try to remember it forever, and that's the important thing. But apparently he won't remember whenever he goes home, so he won't be able to brag about it to Sans... Oh well.]

BUT NO, OF COURSE I'M NOT THE ONLY SKELETON.
COOLEST, BUT NOT ALONE.
BACK HOME, MY BROTHER SANS IS ALWAYS AROUND SOMEWHERE.

[omnicrafter]

Wow... I'd heard Mettaton was famous in his home world, but I didn't realize he was that big a deal. You're a fan?

And you have a brother, huh? Interesting. So skeletons really are just their own entities in your world rather than the living dead. You mentioned something like that the last time you were here, I think...

[spaghettimonster]

OF COURSE I AM, HE'S MY FAVORITE CELEBRITY.
METTATON, THE STAR OF THE UNDERGROUND! THE BIGGEST MONSTER IN TV!!

[His own interviews and claims to fame are something, to be sure, especially in his (somewhat managed) responsibilities as ambassador. But Mettaton has years of experience in televised theatrics, a dazzling panache, and those legs.]

BUT YES. LIVING DEAD AREN'T EVEN A THING IN MY WORLD.
HEARING THAT THEY ARE HERE. AND IN SO MANY OTHERS...
I'M ALMOST GLAD I'LL FORGET THAT WHEN I GO HOME.

[omnicrafter]

Ooh... Well, he is pretty well-liked here, too, as far as I can tell.

You're fortunate. But it's surely a stretch to think everything from your world can be so pleasant, though... right?

[spaghettimonster]

WELL, YOU'RE NOT WRONG ABOUT THAT.
METTATON'S WELL-LIKED-NESS OR THE UNPLEASANT THINGS FROM HOME.
THERE'S BEEN PROBLEMS.
WAR... CENTURIES OF CAPTIVITY... A LITTLE BIT OF MURDER.

BUT THERE AREN'T ANY UNDEAD SKELETONS!
EXCEPT MAYBE MY BROTHER.
SHAMBLING AROUND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, MAKING A MESS OF THE KITCHEN...
ANY OTHER LIVING DEAD, ARE A LOT MORE POLITE THAN THE ONES HERE.

[And, key to his prior claim, they aren't skeletons. That makes a big difference, probably.]