01 – Video (backdated a little, to the start of the month)

[unit31]

[ Labrys' first attempt at a video uhhhh doesn't go great. In fact, it's hard to tell it's even a video of Labrys at all, because all that's really visible of her is her eye and part of her hair falling into her face. In fact, she doesn't seem to realize that she's recording right away. Then it abruptly cuts off.

A few minutes later, a second video pops up with a fairly embarrassed looking Labrys on camera. Going by the angle and the slight jitter of the frame, it looks like she's holding the communicator up as she paces through Havenwell so she can double dip on exploring and putting a message out to anyone who might see it. It's also more obvious from this angle that while her face might look human enough, her body looks a little more like the native residents of this world. Hm! ]

Oh – hey, looks like this is workin' now. Second time's the charm, I guess...

[ She gives the camera a nervous grin. This is definitely pretty different from the last two times a lunatic thought kidnapping her was a good idea and while she's not loving it, at least no one seems to be in immediate danger. ]

Uh... man, I don't even know where to start, really. Guess I should just go with my name, huh. I'm Labrys... and I guess this is me just makin' sure I'm the only one wrapped up in this. If any of you guys – Yu-kun and your pals or Mitsuru-san and them... heck, I'd take Sho-kun at this point... if any of you guys are here, hurry and drop me a line, yeah? We've gotta stick together. And if you ain't here... I guess I'm just talkin' to myself!

[ She laughs, but there's no real mirth to it and she quickly lapses into an uncomfortable silence. ]

For everybody else... I've got a question, kinda. Are any of you folks not... used to all this huggin' and touchin' stuff? [ She goes a little red, even as she says it. ] It's kinda new to me. I ain't really sure how I'm s'pposed to get used to it.

Comments

[unit31]

That's really kinda crazy. [ It sounds like she's trying to be chill but her voice is a little shaky. ] I figure if you bring people her for somethin', you're gonna want 'em to stay, right? Why send 'em home so quick, or bounce 'em around like that?

[hedgehogsdilemma]

[Yeah, putting it like that, it does sound even worse.]

I feel like it's not anything they're doing on purpose, since you really would want to keep people around for as long as they're helping, right? I can't imagine that everyone who's left is being that unhelpful, either.

[unit31]

You figure maybe they can only keep folks here for so long before they just go home anyways? Or maybe it's a numbers thing. Maybe they can only have so many people here at once before they gotta start lettin' a couple go home.

[ She huffs out a sigh. ]

But I guess people've been talkin' about this kinda thing since way before I got here. If they ain't figured it out yet, I'm probably not gonna come up with anythin'.

[hedgehogsdilemma]

I mean, no one's gonna figure it out if nobody asks those kinds of questions.

[Doesn't mean they will figure it out, it feels like the kind of thing that probably doesn't have an easy answer, but no one trying probably won't yield results either.]

You might be able to ask the robots in the temples for information, however helpful they might be.