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[majorlyugh]

[The video feed cuts in Major, sitting in a park of some kind. The lightning indicates that it's sometime in the mid to late afternoon. Ambient noise of birds,
wind, insects buzzing, and people chattering can be overheard. The man in the video glances around and then shifts, holding the communicator out at arm's length at about face height.

He offers a friendly sort of smiled - more a lopsided tug of the lips and uses his other hand to give a right-to-left wave of his hand before letting it fall somewhere out of frame.]

Uh, hey. [He pauses to think.] So, I've been here a couple days now. The place isn't so bad, overall, though - I mean, aside from the fact that I'm in some .. alternative universe from what I'm used to? - I have to wonder why all of the cities these teleporter things can go to are on the East Coast. What happened to the West Coast? I'm .. sort of curious what Parallel Dimension Seattle looks like. I wonder if it's still full of Starbucks and hipsters.

[He opens his mouth like he's going to start saying something, thinks better of it, then decides to go for it, anyway.] I don't suppose anyone's seen a British guy of Indian descent walking around? Beard? [He makes a "C" with his hand that he holds near his chin, in case .. anyone doesn't know what a beard is or where it goes.] Sarcastic? Funny? Or if not him, then - maybe a short white girl with really, really pale skin and white hair that comes down to here? [He points to his chin.] I haven't been able to find them anywhere, so I'm beginning to think they .. didn't end up here. For whatever reason. If anyone's seen either of them, I'd appreciate the help.

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video

[deadsmizing]

[A very, very pale girl with platinum-blonde, almost white hair is giving him such an eyebrow raise right now.]

No, I can't say I've seen anyone fitting those descriptions lately.

[video]

[majorlyugh]

[Oh.

Well.

Unless she's a goth, which is all together possible (Major doesn't judge - not about that, anyway), he's found a fellow zombie.]

You .. uh. Huh. You're not the person I was looking for, though you fit the description pretty well.

[deadsmizing]

[She certainly has that look about her, doesn't she?]

Hm? Oh, yes, I guess I do, don't I?

[She also looks pretty amused with herself.]

[majorlyugh]

[How to go about breaching this topic .. delicately? Sensitively?]

So, uh. What sort of .. uh. Food .. is there to get around here? [Smooth, Major. Real smooth.]

[deadsmizing]

[Oh, boy. This whole conversation is going to be an exercise in eyebrow-raising, isn't it?]

All kinds, really. Not that I'm... much into partaking these... days.

video;

[bespin]

Can't say I've seen your friends. But there's always a chance they'll show up here. The Porter has pulled a lot of folks I know in.

[video]

[majorlyugh]

[Wait. Is that Lando? Like, Colt-45 Lando?

God, okay. Bw cool, Major. Be cool.]

GEE WHIZ. [Damn it. Let's try that again.] Is - uh, is there a pattern to who gets pulled or anything?

[bespin]

Not that I've noticed. From my galaxy alone, it's pulled in people from across the board, and the years.

[majorlyugh]

So no guarantee that anyone I know will somehow be magically pulled in?

video;

[cleptes]

Your friends could be in another city. Where are you right now?

[Bela is always on hand to help handsome strangers in distress!]

[video]

[majorlyugh]

I'm in a place called, uh. Maurtia Falls, I think.

[cleptes]

Oh, that's where I live. I've been here over two years now so I know it pretty well.

[majorlyugh]

Really? Huh. I'm not really used to the East Coast; I'm a West Coaster, born and bred. Anything I should know?

( video )

[ghoulking]

[ white hair and paleness sure goes around. At least he is not a girl, so he can't fit that description completely ]

You can look up your friends on the network listing. It has the names of the imPorts currently in this world. [ though, some imPorts prefer privacy so it might not be a complete list ]

Maybe you'll be lucky, but sometimes friends don't show up.

[video]

[majorlyugh]

[Another zombie, for sure.[

Hmm. All right, thanks. I'll have to check that out, see if they've made any kind of post.

[That's a little more disheartening.] Ever?

[video]

[ghoulking]

[ eeeeh- close but not really ]

The Porter decides who comes and goes, and not always helps. There is never a certainty if they will come. It can happen. [ or it might not ]

[video]

[majorlyugh]

.. Huh. So don't give up hope, but don't get them up too high, is what you're saying.

[d33tached]

[D33 could honestly care less about the status of the West Coast or where Major's friends are - after all, he can't exactly be of much help in regard to either of those things, being new himself. But there is something, at least, that stands out about this post.]

What is a "star buck"?

[majorlyugh]

.. you don't know what starbucks is? huh.

it's a popular coffee chain. started in seattle. sort of took over the world in some ways. they don't just sell coffee but that's mostly what they sell. their fraps are pretty rad.

Text btw - sorry

[d33tached]

I'm afraid I've never heard of such a place.

[Then again, he's never heard of a lot of things. Like "fraps", for example - or the word "rad".]

Is a "frap" a type of coffee as well?

[He's not even really sure why he's asking at this point - he had figured that whatever a "star buck" was would have been more interesting than a type of coffee, but he's already started the conversation, so he may as well continue learning.]

hahaha no worries!

[majorlyugh]

yeah it's like a milkshake type of drink. really popular with teenage girls on instagram, a photo-sharing app. gotta get those sunset photos with your frap in the foreground, yknow?

Video

[vidiocracy]

WRONG! It's the worst, and anybody who thinks it isn't sucks!

[Michael does have a pale complexion: like the sort of creature found under rocks or in mothers' basements. But Michael has black hair. And Michael is also currently about three feet tall, with the sort of voice you'd expect a teenage boy who has shrunk to three feet tall to have.]

[video]

[majorlyugh]

Did you just insult my home coast, man? Not cool bro, not cool.

[video]

[vidiocracy]

What? No. This whole alternate whatever! Turn. Up. Your hearing aid. Grandpa.

[video]

[majorlyugh]

Dude. That's rude. So rude.

How long've you been here?