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[freshtilapia]

Have you ever given yourself a new name?
Or maybe a nickname?
How did you choose it?
Does it have any meaning for you?

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[freshtilapia]

What name is it?

[wildsorcery]

It's Confidence. People usually call me Connie.

[freshtilapia]

And what would you prefer me to call you? You can call me Fish, by the way! You certainly can’t miss me if we ever cross paths in person!

[wildsorcery]

Connie is fine. I'm still working up to Confidence.

Why is your name Fish?

[freshtilapia]

A pleasure to meet you, Connie!

People at the taverns started calling me Fish because I was the only one around! And it just stuck, really. It’s very on the nose, but I like it. You’ll get it if you see me in person. Oh! Actually, here...

[ Fish sends Connie a picture of them they sent earlier in the morning to someone, it’s of them, showing off all their fishy features... as well as their very bare chest barely concealed by an emerald green dressing robe. Fish clearly has little shame. ]

[wildsorcery]

[ Fish why. At least it's text so he's not showing how reddish-brown his face just got. ]

I get it now, it's a fitting name. Are you some kind of merfolk?

[freshtilapia]

Yes, that’s right! I’m a merfolk! I traveled from a different continent though, so I think I’m the only one of my kind where I was before coming here.

[wildsorcery]

That's amazing, I've heard stories but I've never met a

does this count as 'meeting'????

[ Pause. ]

Are you from Faerûn?

[freshtilapia]

I consider this a meeting! Well... much better if we met in person though. I’ve heard tales of a Faerun, but I’m not from there. I’m originally from a continent called Zendikar. Then before coming here, I was swept off my feet by a sailor to the continent of Louen.

[wildsorcery]

Pleased to meet you, then! maybe we'll run into each other?

Zendikar isn't familiar to me. It seems like everyone that remind me of people from my world are all from different planes. It's strange..

[freshtilapia]

Hopefully we can, Connie! I'm hard to miss, so please don't hesitate to say hello if you see me!

If I remind you of your world, maybe you might remind me of mine as well? Can you describe yourself? Or send a picture!

[wildsorcery]

I'm not sure how, I just figured out how to make letters on it
This thing is amazing!

I'm a tiefling? I have horns and a tail. Kind of green rather than red, though.

[freshtilapia]

A tiefling!! You're the second one I've met in this place! I was adventuring with two before I came here as well!

[wildsorcery]

Really? I've met two so far, one kinda purple and one red

It's more than I've met in my life!!

[freshtilapia]

That must be so thrilling for you, to find other people just like you! If it's anything, I've never met a tiefling I've disliked in all my life.

[wildsorcery]

Really? I've never really met people who like us at all

It's kinda new

[freshtilapia]

People who dislike tieflings are missing out! They've always been amazing company to me!

[wildsorcery]

That's really nice. You're really nice.

You had tiefling friends at home, too?

[ Normally you wouldn't expect other strange races to have a problem with similarly strange ones, but all he's heard all his life is that tieflings are bad. ]

[freshtilapia]

[Unfortunately, Connie, Fish's definition of "friends" is... questionable.]

Thank you. You're very nice, yourself. ;)
Well, as I said, I was adventuring with two tieflings before I came here. They were brothers! The younger one was cute, but I was much closer to the older one. Before that, I knew a tiefling in the land settlement close to where my tribe was. He was amazing, too. Really amazing.

How old are you, by the way?

[wildsorcery]

Brothers can be tieflings?

[ That was news, and it is a strange feeling that he couldn't have been not the only one with a tail in his family.

Genetics, man. ]

It sounds like you've known a lot of them.

[ Maybe they were more common in Fish's world. (Or maybe they were just uncommon in Dreizehnwald.) ]

I'm nineteen.

[ Physically, at least. Connie needs to work on his social skills to catch up. ]

What about you?

[freshtilapia]

[Oh no he sounds like a sweet summer child. Fish will have to dial back on the innuendo from now on. Better keep all that tucked away for someone else keen to know about those kinds of adventures.]

Actually, they were the first pair of tiefling brothers I've ever met. The one from the settlement close to my home was a bit of an outcast, but kind of made a name for himself. I never got to know anything about his family. If three is a lot, then it is.

I'm twenty-one. We're a bit close in age, then.

[wildsorcery]

[ He's... very much a sweet summer child. Hopefully he'll get to autumn eventually - but for now he can probably do without the saucy things unless you want his face to explode, Fish.

Connie is vibrating with interest to know more about the tieflings Fish knew, but he's not about to dig too much in people's pasts. Instead he focuses on the world they're in, now. ]

It's pretty close! Have you been here long? Did you figure out how to use these things quickly?

[freshtilapia]

[Well, Fish does have a history of making people's faces explode too. Oops. Unfortunately, if Connie asked for more about the tieflings Fish knew, Fish only had intimate information to share, not a lot about how they lived and how society treated them, and so on. But that's what Fish's specialty is as a skank.]

I've just been here for about a month, I think. I figured out how to use these things pretty quickly. But I had some help, too! I found someone who's very good with all this and he taught me a lot.

[Fish does have to admit that their skankiness did get them places.]

[wildsorcery]

Hey now, that's valid too! Just... maybe not the information he needs at the moment. (Maybe later.)

That's what Mollymauk said as well. So you're also one of the first people that arrived.

[ If it gets you what you need, not even Captain Virgin over here is gonna judge how Fish gets their technology degree. ]

Do you think they would mind helping me too? Or maybe you can, if it's not too much trouble?

[freshtilapia]

Oh! So you've met Mollymauk already, have you? You're very lucky. He's very lovely, isn't he?
I haven't heard from Matt in a while, but the next time I get a hold of him, maybe I'll send him in your direction. But I wouldn't mind helping you out, too. Fair warning that I might not be the best teacher, though.