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[electromedic]

[It looks like somebody's posting an album of images to the network straight from their communicator. All of them have the same geotag, coming from De Chima, and they show different landmarks around the city: hospitals, statues, shopping centers, parks. Like somebody's trying to compile a "best of the best" of urban life... or just acting like a tourist and snapping whatever they think is interesting. All in all, the album has about 30 such images.

Accompanying the impromptu travelogue is some text, with the user ID reading "Mina":]

Hello, America, hello, Virginia, and hello, De Chima!! (ﾉ^∇^)ﾉ I suppose you could say this is my helloWorld()! Walking around the city and getting to see what this new world has in store was super fun.

Oh yeah, since I'm new, I may as well do some kind of introduction, right? I'm Mina, and I'm a hero of Earth!

Well, my Earth, because of the whole... multi-universe thing. Still have to wrap my head around that...(・_・ヾ Basically, there was an alien invasion, and I helped kick the aliens out and save my world. I was in the middle of going to their planet for a rescue mission, buuuuuuut the whole Porter thing grabbed me from space! And now I'm here.

While I'm here, though I'm going to be working as a medical office assistant (which is good because that was my old job at home) and going to school! I've never been to school before! That's going to be really, really exciting.

Anyway, I look forward to meeting everybody! Getting stuck on a new world is better with friends, right?

~Mina

[One last picture is attached to the end of the post: a selfie of the android in the middle of a park, flashing a peace sign at the camera and obviously smiling underneath her medical mask.]

Comments

permatext

[deadtective]

If you keep posting pictures to the network they'll take away your comm, you know.

[please stop, Mina. no one wants to see this many pictures of a city like De Chima.]

[electromedic]

What, really? Why? ;A;

[She's yet to grasp that this isn't really like your average Facebook-style network.]

[deadtective]

It's right there in the manual - what, did they forget to hand them out to people again? Fucking christ.

[and Hazel here can never resist turning poor innocent newbies on their heads with lies. alas.]

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[monge]

[Oh dear, it would appear someone has the wrong number. Better fix that before she sends anymore texts by accident. That would be embarrassing, especially for someone so new.]

I am sorry, I am not America. YOu have the wrong number, I am Komasan.

[The zuras are implied.]

[Text]

[electromedic]

[This one... this one takes some parsing.]

No no, I was addressing America (the nation) as a whole, in a sort of... general sense? Because I'm meeting the place for the first time?

permatext

[hypnotherapy]

Ah, such exuberance.

Despite what Hazel tells you, you won't get in trouble for posting a lot of pictures, but it's prudent not to. It's a lot of data to send.

[electromedic]

Okay. See, that answer makes a lot more sense than my tourist geotags somehow being hacked!

But thank you, I'll definitely keep that in mind.

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[hatefuldays]

[HI THERE. A hero of Earth who fights aliens? And is also a cute girl? And is also local and new? There's no way she can't reply to this.]

That's so cool, I can't believe I'm meeting so many cool people! ★.★

I'm *Hyun-ae, I also just arrived in De Chima! I'm not a superhero or anything, but I'm an AI, so maybe that's neat?

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[electromedic]

Hello, *Hyun-ae! [And hello fellow cool emoticon user!]

That's super neat, actually... I'm an AI too! (ﾉﾟ▽ﾟ)ﾉ What are the chances?

[ text ]

[enucleation]

You seem quite happy to be here. Most people aren't this excited when they arrive.

[ text ]

[electromedic]

Hey, it's not every day you get whisked away to another world. What's not to be excited about?

[Considering she's seen so many movies and cartoons about this sort of thing, she... may have some interesting preconceptions about what this "adventure" is going to be like.]

text; comm tag is "Tadashi"

[tadeadshi]

[Tadashi reads everything before responding to... anything, so.]

Welcome to America, then Mina.

If you need help getting around De Chima or need repairs, let me know. I'm an robotics engineer that works at Stark Tech there.

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[electromedic]

[Apparently, he's in the minority.]

Thank you, Tadashi!

Actually, I was probably going to go searching one out on my own, but... hey, if one comes to me, I'm not going to say no. I'm alright with light self-repairs, but if anything more severe happens, I'll definitely contact you.

[Text]

[tactile_telekinesis]

welcome to this worlds version of america! i guess.

hey mina, i'm kon if u need any help give a shout.

[Text]

[electromedic]

Nice to meet you, Kon!

"This world's version of America", huh? I should have expected there to be other America's in other worlds. I mean, I didn't have one, so this is the first America I've been to!

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[booyahh]

I promise you school is not as exciting as you're thinking.

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[electromedic]

It's not?! But I hear so many cool things about it from TV and the internet!

[Is she joking? It's hard to tell.]

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[mathemagier]

[Pinged by alien invasion]

What sort of alien invasion, if you don't mind my asking?

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[electromedic]

It was, uh... this warlord and his cronies from the Ragu Empire who just kinda decided that Earth was going to be theirs.

We showed 'em otherwise.

[mammal_robot]

[Peering at that last picture...]

Forgive a potentially insensitive question but are you a robot?

[electromedic]

How is that insensitive? [what are social, how do interaction]

I am, indeed, a robot. An android originally built for medical assistance, if you want to be exact.

[video]

[insatiableinappetite]

A medical assistant...would you have any disinfectant on you then?

[Yes, he seems to have glossed over the alien invasion stuff rather briskly.]

...that is to say, you seem to know your field.

[video]

[electromedic]

[Oh, her first video call! She seems fairly excited, at least in the way her eyes are widened. Her mouth is covered by an interestingly colored medical mask., which she speaks through.]

Yeah, I always carry disinfectants and antiseptic solutions. Can't do any medical procedures without proper sanitation, right?

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[justanotherlink]

You fought off an alien invasion?

[But she didn't look that much older than her..]

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[electromedic]

Yeah!!!

Well I mean, I didn't do it alone. Mostly what we did was fight off the head warlord, which sent all the other troops fleeing.