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[pyrolock]

Um...hi.

...No, wait, hold on a second. This is so awkward. Hello, um, imPorts. My name is Olive. Olive Silverlock. ...And I feel like I'm introducing myself as the new kid in front of my whole class, so this is about as much fun for me as it is for you.

[She pauses, what sounds like a breath being taken slightly audible from the recording.]

So! Yeah. New kid in town. In the world. You know I feel like I heard stories about this kind of thing happening, but it only really happened to the "superheroes" from where I live. Honestly it's so weird and I feel a little bit...guilty, I guess.

Not that this place doesn't seem great, but I'm not...interested in this hero stuff. Seems like such a big deal around here and it just weirds me out. [She pauses again, contemplating for a moment what more to say. Then she remembers something.] My friend though - Maps - would be in love with this place. If she was here I mean. If she was then she'd probably be screaming in my ear right now about getting to be a real life superhero, and going on team missions and stuff like that. I bet she'd get powers that would help her...I dunno, raid dungeons or solve puzzles? She plays a lot of roleplaying games like that sort.

[Are dungeons even a thing here? She has no clue. The town she got placed in seems like a rough area in particular, but no more rough than what she's used to seeing in Gotham City.]

...Well, okay, this is a disaster so I'm going to stop talking now and try to be a normal person.

[Hah. Normal. She wishes to be more normal.]

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[pyrolock]

Yeah, I understand. [She doesn't want to be here that long. The thought alone unnerves her, visibly so on her expression tightening up to become stoney.] We don't need to talk about it - I'm guessing you probably don't want to, right?

[Olive certainly doesn't want to discuss it and wrack her fears up even more.]

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[glowsferatu]

Not especially, unless you'd rather I did. [ Her lips crack in a smile. ] But it makes for a rather grim welcome, I think. Not that some don't mind the grim, but that's nothing to take for granted.

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[pyrolock]

I don't mind grim, but if you don't want to then I wouldn't make you. [She only did just meet this woman. Ah, alien. Alien woman. It wouldn't be polite to ask for something so personal.] I think it's more honest than people saying that everything will be alright and nothing bad happens here. Though it doesn't seem like I'm getting much of that thankfully.

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[glowsferatu]

I don't want to misrepresent it, either. It certainly won't be constant trial and turmoil. If you aren't the sort of person for whom a bad day is largely default, most of yours here probably won't be, either. It's not the sort of thing we sympathize for one having to be afflicted with on principle.

I suppose how dramatic a difference this world will be to yours will depend on how dramatic your home was. For some of us, it can even be a respite. But either way, there will be difficult times ahead, and people you should best avoid. It's only a matter of when they'll cross your path.