UN: ecraig; Video

[fiddlestick]

WHO: Elliot Craig
WHERE: Network
WHEN: February 27th
WHAT: Video
WARNINGS: None!

[This video opens up to a redheaded guy in what looks like a pretty tiny apartment kitchen. Anyone who attends Kaisou High School will likely recognize him as the music teacher]

Erm...is this some kind of phishing or crypto scam? Because you're really wasting you're time if it is, I'm broke. If you need proof, I can show you my cupboard of ramen and eggs.

[He sighs, muttering to himself anxiously]

I really don't need this right now...

Comments

[fiddlestick]

Not particularly no. [he sighs]

Guys who are into crypto say they care about art, but they only really seem to care about how much money it makes them. I can't say I care for that.

[thaumewturge]

Understandably, though I wonder what art has to do with a money system... Oh, do they try to buy and sell art, somehow?

[fiddlestick]

Yeah, except it's not their artwork to sell. They just steal it and then try to sell it off.

My ex-boyfriend got some of his art stolen by those guys. It's been a pain for him to deal with.

[thaumewturge]

Oh. That sort of...thief. My condolences to your former partner.

["Boyfriend" and similar terms, at least, she figured out extremely quickly.]

Well, you can be assured that this "app" isn't either of those things. It is simply an app that, according to those from this world, just appears on the phones of locals when Zodiac decides they should have it.

[fiddlestick]

Thanks.

[He'll leave that line of topic very well alone. The less said about his ex the better honestly]

Zodiac? Whose that?

[thaumewturge]

You would be better off asking someone who knows them for more than the people currently putting myself and others up in free apartments for the time being. I understand they're not particularly well-liked, or at least not trusted, by the ones from this world who know of them.

[Or the isekais who've been here a while but.]

[fiddlestick]

-- Free apartments?!

[SORRY AND HE'S PAYING RENT ON HIS TINY STUDIO HERE???]

[thaumewturge]

Yes, but I believe it's only for those who aren't from here. They're not especially large, but they are free provided we do some work for them.

[fiddlestick]

[Oh wow that sounds....


Extremely sketchy!!! Elliot will ask very carefully]

What...kind of work are we talking about?

[thaumewturge]

At the moment, I believe it is mostly just "go into the Spirit Realm when they ask".

[fiddlestick]

And the "Spirit Realm" is...?

[STILL SOUNDS SHADY]

[thaumewturge]

[Blink blink.]

I...would think that would be rather self-explanatory?

[fiddlestick]

I'm sorry, but it's not.

Could you please explain it to me like I'm five?

[thaumewturge]

Well, going by what I've been able to gather in my few weeks here, it is a realm that runs parallel to this one that is full of magic and other such things. Ah, here, one moment--

[And Rhel will stand (that is a tail, Elliot) and go to get her Litwick from where it's napping in the little nest she made for it, just in case it starts dripping wax.]

Here. I found this little one in the Spirit Realm when I arrived here this month.

1/2

[fiddlestick]

A realm that's full of magic....?

[mmmkay, this is definitely sounding like a LARP deal, but Rean insisted otherwise and so did that other guy, so he'll try to take in stride. And by stride, he means take another sip of that beer he got while talking to Ghaleon while Rita gets up to retrieve something-- ]

[fiddlestick]

[Annnd proceeding to do an actual spittake when she bring a LIVING CANDLESTICK]

That's a---

[Oh, it's moving. It has eyes and it's moving.]

W-What the Heck?!

[thaumewturge]

[Oh dear. That may have been too much.

Well. It proves her point?]

I'm hardly the only one with such a creature. Are you alright?

[fiddlestick]

[Well after the initial shock, he realizes how embarrassing this is. With a blush, he'll reach over to grab a napkin and wipe this up. ]

Ah, sorry! I'm fine! It just caught me by surprise.

...Is that really a real creature?

[thaumewturge]

Oh, yes. Here.

[She just sort of tickles the Litwick and it starts to giggle.]

Ate all of my strawberries, as well.

[fiddlestick]

W-Wow...

[He watches this play out. It'd be cute if it wasn't so bizarre and Elliot felt like he might be going insane]

I'm not sure how a wax candle would eat strawberries, but we're probably long past things making logical sense now.

[thaumewturge]

Oh, she isn't wax. I'm not sure what she is, but it certainly isn't wax.

[A beat.]

Or at least, not any wax I'm familiar with. Her flame never goes out and she never melts, nor does she feel like wax, so I doubt she's wax.

[fiddlestick]

[ Yep. There we go. No logical sense]

...I'm just not going to question it right now, for my own sanity. Living candlestick that likes strawberries, alright. That's a thing now.

[thaumewturge]

[Rhel carefully sets her Litwick down on the floor with an apologetic smile.]

My apologies. Everyone I've spoken to since arriving seems to have some idea of what all of this...nonsense is. I am assuming this is all very, very new for you?

[fiddlestick]

[Did they huh? Was he really that out of the loop?]

Eheh....yeah, very new. The closest thing I ever did to the occult was use a Ouija board once at party.

[thaumewturge]

A what board?