[video, ID: "miles morales"] frank sinatra plays softly in the distance

[luckynumber42]

So, this is gonna sound kinda random, but. I've been wondering for a little while...what's New York like here? I just wanna know if it's anything like the New York from my world.

Actually, now that I think about it--how does the New York here compare to New York where you came from? If you've ever been there, I mean. 'Cause now I'm wondering about all the different versions of it we probably know.

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[luckynumber42]

Oh, sorry. Consider it dropped!

[well. He can't just leave it there now. He has to change the subject.]

....so, uh. Do you...do stuff for fun?

[WOW, WAY TO GO MILES, A+ TRANSITION, THAT'S NOT GONNA BE AWKWARD AT ALL]

[ursawhiner]

...Smooth.

[Dipper hesitates for a long moment before letting out a long breath.]

I sneeze kittens, okay!

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[luckynumber42]

Oh. Wow. There's actually a Stilt-Man.

What...what do they do?

[Please say something other than 'fights crime on stilts.']

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[notdaredevil]

Commits crimes on stilts.

[ Is that better or worse? ]

[shittybirthday]

pandemic infection. wiped out over sixty percent of the world's population. that don't count however many've been killed tryin to survive.

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[beautstrength]

I hadn't thought of that... I suppose there are certain places in Japan that others might not like, as well.

[ But it would have been fun to explore them... ]

[viced]

Hell, maybe not, but still -- how long was it after 9/11? Unless it was fifty years down the line, it was too soon.

The city can only take so much, you know? Those things are hard for her to come back from, and for the people? It's even harder. And in my experience, it sometimes feels like there's a crisis every day -- but I ah, I was the mayor of New York, where I came from.

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[notyourfathersosborn]

[There's no immediate response from Normie, as he's too busy switching his feed back to video, which he also makes private. Instead of his face, his New York State Drivers license from back home takes up the entire screen, his fingers carefully framing the card so as to not cover anything. His name reads "OSBORN, NORMAN H." His birthday reads 04-20--Thanks to questionable comics time, his year of birth might as well say "xx". More importantly, "UNDER 21" is stamped in large letters crawling up the side of his license picture (which, while thankfully isn't the worst license picture ever, is still an unflattering license picture). Oh, and he's also an organ donor.

After a few minutes he turns the video feed back off and removes the privacy filter, all without ever uttering a word.]

[selfequipped]

Most villains are thankfully very ... shortsighted.

[resipiscent]

The story goes that the world was full of light then, and there was no darkness. But people got jealous and wanted to keep the light to themselves, so the darkness was able to break the world apart.

[glitterateur]

Then... maybe it's an Australian term? I dunno my art teachers have always been really bad about answering questions.

[Because she has always had so many of them. So, so many.]

Anyway the point is you didn't miss much at the party! But New York looks cool.

[luckynumber42]

Oh. Wow, that's--sorry.

I mean, in general, not like for anything I did. I don't think I did anything, anyway. I meant for having to like, deal with stuff like this. Even if the big flood didn't happen to your New York I bet crazy stuff still happened too, right? Especially if your New York had superheroes and bad guys too.

[luckynumber42]

What?

I-I thought you were too embarrassed to talk about it!

[ursawhiner]

The conversation was getting painfully awkward, dude. This is easier.

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[luckynumber42]

That's it? Just a regular guy on stilts robbing banks?

[luckynumber42]

I guess that's true. They always go for stuff like robbing banks and beating up cops and flooding the city--really direct stuff.

[luckynumber42]

Oh. Okay. Wow. I guess that means you like New York better here, then, right? Everywhere else, too. I mean. I'm pretty sure there isn't an infection that's killed sixty percent of anywhere here.

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[luckynumber42]

Japan's nothing but islands, right? Does that mean all the islands hate each other like New York hates Staten Island?

[luckynumber42]

That's just a legend, right? That's not what really happened?

[luckynumber42]

Maybe you should throw a party in New York instead. With tons of aubergine and everything.

[glitterateur]

[She nods. Miles is so right! She would throw a great party, and he even mentioned the aubergine...

This crush was inevitable, really.]

...yeah! I will! Maybe even a fourth of July party or just a summer party or our birthday party....

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[luckynumber42]

[SQUINTS.

So if this Norman Osborn is only 21...maybe it's a younger version of the crazy evil one. From before he was crazy and evil and Goblin-y, Miles hopes. But around this guy, 'hope' is not enough. He needs to know for sure.]

Huh. Thanks, I guess.

Just wondering, though. Have you ever heard anything about like goblins in New York?

[Miles hopes that phrasing it so vaguely will mean less suspicion on who he is in case this guy really is the genuine psycho Osborn article. He just needs to know if he should have a full-blown freakout here, or if just the minor one he's having right now will be sufficient.]

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[maskedhumanity]

Well the military response did a lot more of the fire starting, but the zombies didn't help matters much.

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[bassriff]

... Sure, whatever. [LISA MY FRIEND I LOVE YOU DEARLY BUT SHE THINKS THAT'S STUPID]

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[notdaredevil]

They're hydraulic, and he keeps trying to one-up everyone with some kind of armor or scrounging off more successful criminal geniuses, but yes. He is a regular guy on stilts trying to get away with ludicrous and very public crimes.