the girl from the spaceship

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WHO: Five and anyone!
WHERE: The network
WHEN: Now-ish I guess?
WHAT: Introduction and a question about socks
WARNINGS: None expected

[A video feed of a green-haired girl, short even for her age of 16 years, sitting on the floor of her Libra apartment, in a pile of mismatched socks.

But she'll get to that in a second, first:]

So, I guess this is where I'm staying for now since I can't find a way to get back to the Raza or contact my friends from there. Hi? I'm Five. [Yeah there's a story behind a name that weird.

She gives a little wave to the camera.]

This pile of socks showed up in my apartment and I currently live alone so I really don't know where they came from and I'm wondering if anyone is missing any socks? There are some pretty cool ones here. Like this one looks like a black cat and is pretty cute, [She holds it up with a small smile.] I think I'd be sad if I were the one who lost it. Oh there's some holidays ones as well...? But none of them match!

[She pauses, wondering how to end this, and gives a shrug before picking up her phone from the floor so now only her face is shown.]

Yeah, so just let me know if you want your sock back?

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video, un: WitchDagger

[begaydocrimes]

[Hey, it's a black cat!]

I see you were hit up by sock ghosts! They're probably the reason you've got so many unknown socks in your apartment!

[That's Mae's reasoning for the missing socks. Ghosts did it.]

video, un: RazaFive

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[She thinks she remembers noticing Mae around on the network while she's been lurking but it's still a bit of a surprise seeing a talking cat. Cute!! But unexpected.]

Ghosts? Is there any evidence of that or anything? Because I think I'd probably suspect aliens before ghosts, um, just from personal experience.

Then again, in this place Ghosts and Spirits may be more likely, just from what I've been reading... Like, there are psychics and stuff, so.

[A pause, and she holds up the black cat sock again, smiling.]

Think this is a sign?

video, un: WitchDagger

[begaydocrimes]

I mean I don't know if you can ever prove there's ghosts? But I'm confident they exist. Aliens are possible too I guess.

And yeah, there's psychics here so there could be ghosts too! Sock ghosts! Ghosts cursed to live their afterlives by slightly inconveniencing others by moving around their socks!

[Mae looks closer at the sock.]

It's like a little meeeeee! If I was more cat-cat, and not person-cat.

video, un: RazaFive

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I think that would be a pretty lonely existence. Makes me feel sorry for them... Unless they like the mischief, I guess.

[She shrugs, then grins.]

Yeah, it does! [Headtilt.] Um, I've actually never met a person-cat before. Are there a lot of person-animals here?

[begaydocrimes]

They might be really into it! Maybe there's some sock ghosts who like doing their socky things.

I think I'm the only person-cat here! Back home there's lots of person-animals - there's no humans around? Not that I know of anyway!

[brightspot]

There might be! That's a good point.

Oh. Well, maybe more person-animals will show up some time? Hopefully you don't mind being around a bunch of humans until then. I think it's really cool that you're a person-cat.

[begaydocrimes]

Aww thanks! You guys are pretty all right. I think we can get along.

video; un: Litania

[chatterboxing]

I'm Lita, an' I gotta say that chances are pretty good that nobody here's actually missin' any socks?

I mean, stuff just...kind of appearing is something that kinda just happens around here, and I wound up with a big ol' pile of 'em myself a li'l while back. Like, they just showed up in my closet completely outta nowhere one day, an' it was all the same deal, none of 'em matched or anything.

video; un: RazaFive

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I guess that would be the reason why a TV appeared too. But I just thought maybe that was like a welcoming gift from Libra or something.

[A pause as she has a think. Hmm...]

Do you still have the socks?

[chatterboxing]

[After visibly poking at her phone for a moment:] Nah, not anymore. I've been sorta regularly posting 'bout the stuff I end up finding, and when I mentioned the sock pile, one o' the other people 'round here offered to come by an' take them off my hands cuz I didn't need 'em.

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Aw. I was kinda hoping to see if any of them matched up. Just out of curiosity though, so no big loss. I guess if these don't actually belong to anyone, then it would be okay for me to just wear them. They're kind of neat.

What other stuff have you found? If you don't mind me asking.

still video but also text for a moment

[chatterboxing]

Hang on just a sec— [She starts poking at her phone again for a moment, copying some text out of the notes she's been keeping, editing some parts of it and then cutting out bits that aren't particularly relevant here, and posts it:]

 - blue earrings
 - ring
 - rubber duck
 - nailbat
 - mp3 player
 - model car
 - three-headed furby
 - deck of cards
 - cowboy hat
 - unicorn, except furby
 - little yarn guy
 - weird plushie
 - frying pan

All o' that stuff's from over like the past four months.

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[Five squints a little at her phone as she reads through the list, clearly scrolling through it.

She tilts her head slightly in question.]

What's a furby?

video: UN: trienemybest

[droptheious]

Hey, I'm Varian.

[Look, he knows someone who legitimately prefers to go by "Angry", Five isn't that weird as names go. The feed opens up to...well, it's not a pile of socks anymore, it used to be. What's now on the screen is a row of socks, all lined up, none of which have a pair at all.]

Oh, you got a sock pile too, huh? None of mine match, either. Like, not a single one. Maybe we've got some pairs amongst the piles that match up? I don't know, maybe there's some sock thief who's dumped random piles of socks everywhere. I'm getting to the point where I'd believe anything when it comes to this place.

video: UN: RazaFive

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I was actually wondering that too, when I heard there were other piles of socks out there. Do you think we should try and find a pair that match? Or... Maybe that's what someone wants us to do, as like their weird idea of a joke?

[She gives a little shrug, like, even if it's a joke, it seems entirely harmless so she doesn't really mind, so much as she's just confused and curious.]

[droptheious]

Maybe it's some really convoluted way to get people to meet? I don't know, I haven't been here long, but that sort of nonsense sounds exactly the sort of thing Zodiac would do.

[They probably DO think it's funny.]

But yeah, sure! Seeing if anything matches up is a good idea. Logically there has to be some that match, right?

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Yeah I don't know much about them yet, but they gave me an apartment so I guess that's something.

I'd think that there would be! It seems like a lot of socks to there not to be any matching ones. Although, I wouldn't mind keeping some of these for myself, matching or not. They're kind of neat.

[droptheious]

Yeah, I'm suspicious of them, but we have a free home because of them so I guess that's...something. Did you see the Black Order when they were around? They really don't like them and that's gotta come from somewhere. I guess it's a case of keeping our eyes open.

[He's not sure what to do if Zodiac does step out of line. He guesses they'll jump that hurdle when they get to it. ]

Yeah, I like some of mine, too. What room are you? I can come over and we can...uh. See what matches.

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No, I hadn't heard of them before. Are they like a rival corporation or something?

[Look she comes from a future where big corporations pretty much own the galaxy and fight against one another all the time, of course this is her first thought.]

Yeah, let me double check...[She brings her phone with her to check the number outside her door.] 523.

Video; un: Koromaru

[whatsamada]

Hello, I'm Ken and if there are any ones with a dogs, let me know. I doubt that those socks belong to anyone since I know I get random things sometimes.

[That being said, he turns the phone to show a random pair of hoof shoes]

video; un: RazaFive

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Oh... Those... Don't look comfortable?

I'll let you know if I find any with dogs! So far I haven't been able to find a matching pair though so it may just be a single sock?

[whatsamada]

If that's the case, maybe you can find another use for them? I have seen people make dolls out of socks.

[He said while giving a shrug.]

It seems like a waste to not use them.

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I was actually thinking they were kinda cool and I might wear them if they don't belong to anybody. It doesn't really bother me if they don't match.

[Her outfit is usually all mixed patterns anyway, so. She's also had no qualms before about wearing clothes she just found.]

[whatsamada]

Is that so? You're more daring than I am! I don't think I would be able to wear anything mismatched out in public.

[Said the only person to wear his school uniform properly compared to his teammates.]

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If you like how it looks, why not wear it? Most people are too busy with their own lives to even really care about what your wearing. Or, at least in my experience.