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...

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video | un: fashonti

[thaumewturge]

[Hi, Elliot. Please enjoy the actual catperson on your screen, with her ears twitching in curiosity because. Uh.]

Fishing? Crypto?

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[fiddlestick]

[ ..... nani da frick]

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[fiddlestick]

[Ok Elliot, don't react. Maybe it's just a vtuber situation! And that's why she's got cat ears! He thought those were usually animated but why wouldn't there be a CGI one? Yeah!!]

Y-Yeah, have you not heard of those before?

un: why; text

[missingache]

It's neither of those.

Just an app we can't get rid of. A lot of us have tried to yeet this thing off our phones.

[thaumewturge]

Oh, no, we don't have either of those things where I'm from.

[Poor, poor Elliot.]

Well, we do have fishing, Limsa and...quite a lot of places would be in trouble if we didn't, but I am assuming you don't mean fishing for actual, edible fish?

[fiddlestick]

You don't...? Huh.

[Limsa? Never heard of that, but not like he knows every town on earth so he doesn't think much of it.

That or she's larping. Whatever.]

Oh, no, sorry- I meant phishing - P-H-I-S-H. It's when they do stuff to try to get your private information.

video;

[fiddlestick]

An app we can't get rid of?

Well that's worrying....

[thaumewturge]

[Rhel is just. Obviously confused for a moment before she reaches for a pen and a journal and writes something down. She'll have to look this up later because that sounds confusing as all hells. "Private information"? Like what, exactly?]

An interesting spelling, but I suppose it helps to keep people confusing the scam for actual, proper fishing. If you've read the words, anyroad. Crypto? As in crypts?

video | un: deadpeopletea

[four_quarts]

[Elliot actually isn't the only one in the kitchen at the moment, though he's likely questioning why someone appears to be making bread in full cosplay makeup.]

I've never heard of those particular kinds of scams, so I can't say it isn't that for certain. What I do know is that it's at least useful for meeting fellow people in... strange circumstances, shall we call it.

[fiddlestick]

Eheh, yeah that might be why! I don't know much about either kind of fishing, so I can't say for sure.

[How does one fish? he has no idea]

No, not crypts. Crypto is.. [He pauses, trying to figure out] A-Actually I don't know what it is really. I think it's some kind of money system?

[thaumewturge]

But not one you particularly care for? Going by how you spoke of it.

[fiddlestick]

[he sure is. Between this and the cat girl he is REALLY wondering what the hecky heck is going on]

Strange circumstances...? Like....?

[Oh god this is some deep fandom thing he stumbled upon isn't it. He knew watching that video essay on homestuck was a MISTAKE]

[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.

un: rschwarzer;

[motiv8]

[This person... Rean can't shake the feeling of familiarity.

It's been several years since he last spoke with the person he's thinking of, but the things that he doesn't recognize from the person he's seeing are things he could explain with time. And with a username like that... it'd have to be a pretty big coincidence if this guy wasn't the same one he remembers, right?

...It's worth a shot.]

...Elliot? Is that you?

[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]

[He looks surprised and confused. Someone knows him? And from the video feed- he looks normal unlike the others! And more so, he looks familiar. Plus with that name...

It clicks, at last.]

No way....

Rean? Is that you?

[motiv8]

[At the confirmation, Rean lights up, a grin spreading across his face.]

Yes! Oh, wow, what are the odds of running into each other like this, huh? It's been forever!

[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]

[Holy crap it really is Rean! This is crazy...]

Yeah, no kidding! I expect to run into you on this! What are you doing here? What is this app?

[Between the weirdly cosplayed looking guy and the cat girl, he's starting to suspect its some weird deep fandom thing. Though, Rean was always pretty nerdy so maybe....]

[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.

[four_quarts]

...There's no way to explain this without sounding insane, so I'll be blunt. This whole business? [He indicates the purple scaling on his face and right arm, twitching his ears to emphasize the point.] Not makeup. People who aren't human exist, and for whatever reason, you can perceive us and all manner of other things now.

[He goes back so kneading the bread dough.]

I'm sorry say, but your life is about to get weirder from here on out.