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[keyofelde]

WHO: Souta Suzukaze
WHERE: Network / Stardew Valley
WHEN: August 24
WHAT: Showing off his summer garden
WARNINGS: Probably nothing

[The video turns on just as Souta finishes carefully positioning the phone so it's leaning on something. Clearly outside, since the sky can be seen above him.]

Ah.

Hello, everyone! [He waves.] I know this month has been difficult, so I thought I'd share what I've been working on this summer.

[He stands up and off to the side so the camera can see behind him. Those who have been to Stardew Valley might recognize the farmland. Things have changed a bit. In this section is a small yet thriving garden, full of various summer plants. Melons, radish, cabbage, corn, tomatoes, a blueberry bush... There is also a separate section with various flowers, the sunflowers starting to tower over the rest. Plastic pink flamingos can be seen on the border of the patch.]

[The camera moves as Souta picks up the phone to bring it closer to the plants.]

Isn't this great? They've all grown wonderfully this season.

Anyway, there is more land available on the farm. So if you like gardening or just want a break from the city, the train station can take you here. Just look for the one outgoing for Stardew Valley.

Oh! And if you want one last summer beach trip, there's one here now.

[If anyone takes him up on the farm visit, they'll find him carefully picking out a melon for harvesting. Feel free to say hi!]

Comments

[keyofelde]

Your home came here with you? That's so nice!

[How great to have a literal piece of home in this strange city.]

Mm-hm. Family can make any place home.

[wedonttalkabout]

Eyup. I mean...not right away. I was in the apartments for the first month or so, and then it just appeared. Just like it had always been there.

[WHich a lot of the normies seemed to believe anyway.]

That's the more important thing, I think. Family.

[keyofelde]

Oh. Now that you mention it, a couple buildings on my school route weren't there when we first moved in. Yet no one seemed to notice.

[One might be Casita actually. It's in the same district.]

I think you have the right idea.

[wedonttalkabout]

See? Sometimes buildings just show up. Like that Denny's place my sister hates where it's always like...3am or something? That definitely wasn't always there.

[He doesn't get to go there really, Julieta would KILL him.]

[keyofelde]

There's a Denny's here? How nostalgic! I should stop by sometime.

[Souta had not visited Undertown yet. Perhaps not surprising, considering how new this more magical world seems to him. But he would love it.]

[wedonttalkabout]

It's nostalgic?

[Sorry, Souta, he's from 1950's Columbia, he has NO idea.]


Anyway, yeah it's ok. Just don't tell my sister I said that, 'cause she will literally kill me.

[keyofelde]

Yeah! Dad would sometimes take me out to dinner there after work, once I was old enough to stay up late.

[One could argue he hasn't quite reached that age yet, but you adjust when your only family works late hours.]

Okay. Though I don't think she'd kill you literally...

[Not over Denny's, right?]

[Souta might be showing his only child status.]

[wedonttalkabout]

Oh wow, so it's been...around for a while. Guess it knows what it's doing to stay in business then, huh?

[He considers this. ]

She can heal just about anything so she might make me ALMOST dead and then heal me so she can ALMOST kill me again.

[Souta you don't understand the FEAR. ]

[keyofelde]

As long as I've been alive, I believe.

[Which to be fair isn't a long time in the grand scheme, but not all restaurants could say the same.]

Denny's is admittedly a chain restaurant. So it might not be the best food around, but the familiarity is comfortable.

[He has clearly not been to Void Denny's.]

But she's your sister! Plus if she's a healer, she wouldn't really hurt you, would she?

[He does not know the FEAR. Oh summer child.]

[wedonttalkabout]

I guess I can get that. People like what they're used to, right?

[Oh this poor summer child.]

Ehhhhhhhh. [He waggles his palm.] Kinda depends on what she'd be mad about. She's less likely to murder me than Pepa is [oh, ow, he misses her] but it can be fifty-fifty sometimes. It's just a sibling thing.

[keyofelde]

They do.

[What. This can't be]

Really? It's normal to worry about siblings killing each other?!

[Souta is more than a little concerned.]