video, backdated to dusk;

[malodorous]

[ So he's not exactly a cinematographer. Pretty far from it, actually, so congratulations! You're looking at an unsteady landscape: a great, overgrown clearing with a dilapidated barn a little ways in the distance, surrounded by woods that stretch off into the rolling distance. There's the noise of summer insects and boot-heavy footsteps.

Then the shakiness of the camera stops for a moment, and the image swings around to focus on the man holding it. Kristoff, for a moment, looks about as satisfied as most people will ever see him. He then seems to change his mind about filming himself, wrinkles his nose, and instead focuses the image over his shoulder. Coming idly up the path behind him is Sven the reindeer, perhaps looking a bit hulking and ominous in the fading light.

The rest of the feed for this post consists of alternating takes of Sven and the landscape. You're welcome. Kristoff is sure to make his point, however! ]

So, uh. I was kinda introduced to the concept of 'the grid.' I mean, I had to try and look it up, but-- Yeah.

Anyway, I... I'm not from around here, or around this time, and I never lived in a real house, I guess, before I got here, and... Well. My point is that I don't need the grid, and I don't think anybody else should, either.

So, hypothetically, if I didn't want to give ghost tours any more, and instead decided to teach people how to not die without electricity and pre-packaged meals, is there anybody here who would actually understand the value of that sort of thing? I mean... Would anybody go for that?

Because, seriously, the next time there's zombies or massive disease outbreaks or governmental strife or whatever, getting the heck outta dodge is a viable option if you know how to pull it off.

Just saying.

Comments

voice;

[desequilibre]

My apologies, Monsieur, but what is the grid?

[ The rest sounds quite reasonable to Athos. He hates his apartment with its bright lights and metal fixtures and strange devices. He'd quite happily up and move to the woods if he could. ]

voice;

[malodorous]

Oh. It's like, uh... [ He mostly has his mind around the concept, but explaining it to somebody else is another thing altogether. ] How every city here is all lighted up and everything's electric, and everybody's kind of connected through the TV and phones and computers. That sort of thing.

voice;

[desequilibre]

[ TVs and computers are to be avoided at all costs. He only uses his phone so he can communicate with the world at large. ]

So it is a web of energy? [ Good, it's not witchcraft. ] You don't enjoy it then? This electricity.

voice;

[malodorous]

Eh. It's useful sometimes, but it's also... Gratuitous might be a good word for it.

voice;

[desequilibre]

It seems that is the word for many things, here.

[illuminescent]

But.

Those are quite sensible things. Do most people not know them?

[malodorous]

You've met the people here, right?

[illuminescent]

Yes, but I've not spoken to them on matters like that one.

[malodorous]

Oh. Well, then. Yeah. I think a lot of people here would be kinda lost without things like electricity and grocery stores.

[illuminescent]

It makes little sense to me. I am only a passable tracker, but I would quite like to learn better, if you know that skill.

video

[mousquetaire]

[ D'Artagnan isn't sure the people here could actually live without electricity. They seem to use it all the time. ]

If they don't, they ought to.

Where did you live before you got here?

video

[malodorous]

Arendelle, more or less, which isn't a place in this world.

There's a place sort of like it, apparently, but I've never been.

[mousquetaire]

And they don't live in houses there?

[ His eyebrow is raised, making him look judgmental. He shrugs, though. ]

I'm just curious. I'm from Paris. I've never heard of Arendelle.

[malodorous]

Most people do, people in the towns and stuff. I generally don't.

Arendelle's up north. The country Elsa visited here was Norway. Does that sound familiar?

[mousquetaire]

Yes, of course. The Kingdom of Norway. I've never been there, nor know of any who has, but I've heard of it.

[ Who hasn't? the Vikings had come from there. ]

Are you a sailor, then, spending your time on ships?

Video

[knifecollecting]

[She's interested in why he never lived somewhere normal and the lessons, honestly, but she'll start with the most pressing question.]

Where did you live?

Video

[malodorous]

In Arendelle. In the mountains.

Video

[knifecollecting]

I've never heard of it. Where is it?

Video

[malodorous]

I don't think anybody's heard of it except us.

It's apparently kinda like... Norway? Across the ocean and way up north. Another person from my world visited. I've never seen it.

Video

[knifecollecting]

Okay. [That's interesting enough. She'll take the answer for now.]

What can you teach people?

[glitterateur]

There's totally a market for that! I see advertisements for those people all the time at home. [They've made the west coast their home.]

Did getting your reindeer to help with the tours not make it any better?

[malodorous]

It helped a little, I guess. It's still not what we'd like to do all the time.

So, yeah. We'll try this. Hopefully the people here have a similar attitude to your folks at home.

[glitterateur]

I bet they do! Things are different here, like, a lot different in the history department. But people act mostly the same.

[malodorous]

I feel like I'm probably not the best judge, either way, but I'll take your word for it.

How about you? Need any outdoor survival skills?

[glitterateur]

Like fishing and stuff? I could probably use those, but my Grunkle gets really funny about us learning that kind of stuff without him. It ruins the bonding I guess?

--do you know how to stave off tiny monster attacks? Does that count?