driftfleet | text; get this child out of his comfort zone

Who: Kazuto Kirigaya and [insert your name here]
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: Today / Sept 4

[Waking up in unfamiliar surroundings is not new for Kazuto, but in the past it's been quite a different experience. It's not an MMO this time, which is what catches him off guard the most. He can tell immediately, even with a simple glance around- the world is too real, too detailed. (Just in case, he tests a few menu-summoning gestures, but no dice.)

Waking up in a hospital-eque area makes him think that something went wrong with his last MMO dive, but that isn't right. He clearly remembers being safe and healthy the night before- they'd checked him out at the hospital before he'd gone to Sinon's. So... what? A kidnapping? Some kind of experiment? Something about this place doesn't feel right, and there's information slowly filtering into his head that doesn't make much sense.

And then he goes and looks out a window. Yikes.

He spends some time wandering, quietly observing, though there isn't really anyone to observe- computers, broadcasts, machines, yes, but people? The place is pretty deserted. It's eerie and uncomfortable, and he gets totally lost before long. Finally, though, he puts to use the knowledge of the broadcast system that is inexplicably in his head now, typing out a message.]

Is anyone out there available to answer some questions? I don't understand what's happened to me.

[Yep, that sure is a message. Which... is probably gibberish to anyone who doesn't read Japanese. Someone should probably let him know about the auto-translate not working on text.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Though I read it easy, most may not. The magitek at hand will change the words you speak into intentions heard by all.

Magitek?

[That's not a term he's familiar with, but... he kinda gets the gist of her words. Like an auto-translate function? That's- amazing. And really cool.]

Perhaps "technology" would be a word better used.

Okay, that makes sense. So it translates it, but only if I speak it. That's incredible.

Indeed so. There are many strange and wondrous creations in this fleet.

So I'm discovering.

[It's pretty jarring so far. Honestly, it's still hard to believe this isn't one of his video games.]

Does that tech have anything to do with why all of this seems kind of familiar to me? Like I know it already?

Yes, hence why the answers you should already know. But it is wise to ask again, for strange knowledge should be questioned.

Yeah, that's what I figured, too. It would be a huge problem if I assumed something that wasn't actually true just because it came to mind.

In truth, I cannot be certain of my own knowledge. I have been here few moons, and garnered little enough. But what I learn, I intend to share with all.

Makes sense. If we're all in this together, there's no sense in hiding information.

[He wishes more people thought like that back in SAO.]

[ She fiddles to turn it from text to video. It's well enough to know his words, but learning his face would be better for them to meet again.

Marhi's small, but her hands are callused with battle. Even in face she's only partially human, her heterochromia pupils are blown unnaturally wide, a cat-in-the-dark glance, and her skin obviously grey-blue. Her ears are pricked forward in interest. ]

We are both of one mind.

[oh

wow

That sure is a cat lady. He'd been told there were a few of them hanging around, so his surprise is at least short-lived and more subtle than the first time around, thank goodness. Even so, his eyes are wide as he responds.]

Ah- yeah, sounds like it. That's comforting.

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