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[lumberlady]

[Good morning, Lunatia. The video starts with a view of hooves, a too close view of a face... and then finally... a centaur? Who keeps looking off screen while she talks and never seems to actually focus on the lens correctly.]

Hello? Can everyone see me? Connor, am I doing this right? Okay? ... Okay.

[She clears her throat and dips into a bow, the camera bobbing along with her.]

Hello! This is Konoha... some of you maybe think my name is Shizu, but- It's Konoha! I'm from Echigo province, in Japan, if you know it... and I'll be in your care.

If you don't know me, which, I figure is most of you, this city must be even bigger than the capital I'm the... well in my world we say jinba but I'm the "centaur". I haven't seen anyone else like me so I think I can say "the"...

Anyway... what I wanted to ask was... if anyone had an recommendations for... shops? I've never really shopped before, and I haven't seen any locals quite like me, so if you know somewhere that does... I don't know, tailoring? Or a restaurant with really big seats or tall tables? Anything like that!

I'd appreciate it, so... thank you very much!

[Another bow, another bob of the camera... and a blurry flash of android helping her turn the dang thing off. Thanks, Connor.]

Comments

[lumberlady]

[here goes.........]

... dead?

[goban]

Every human dies eventually.

[lumberlady]

Well, yea, but...

How are you... Here...

[And aren't you like... an evil warlord who kills lots of people and drinks from skulls like all the stories????? Should she even be talking to you???]

[goban]

I wasn't dead before I came here. But just as we are from different worlds, so too are there different timelines. People are from all points in the histories of their worlds.

[lumberlady]

Gods, this is so confusing...

[She actually clutches her head a moment, trying to decide if she's crazy... Nope, still hasn't gone crazy...]

Con... gratulations, then?

[On... not being dead??????]

[goban]

[ oh my god ]

For what?

[lumberlady]

On being... alive?

[He can't like... raise an army or kill many people here, right???]

[goban]

[ nobunaga laughs at that ]

Thank you.

[lumberlady]

Have you... been here long... ?

[goban]

A little over a month, now. It's very different from home, but I like hearing about all the places people are from.

[lumberlady]

[She's wracking her brain over here for the stories about the Sixth Realm... Hell King... something something...

He liked foreign things maybe? She can't remember, it was all just biwa ballad stuff...]

That can be interesting, yeah... Some people come from worlds with all sorts of magic and technology...

[goban]

It's like nothing I could have imagined being real, and yet...

[ he's talking to a centaur over a magical video phone ]

[lumberlady]

... Same.

[she's talking to a dead warlord over a magical video phone]

[goban]

When you get your moonblessing, do you turn into a different animal?

[ he should probably not just ask people that, and yet ]

[lumberlady]

My coat changes color, that’s it.

[goban]

You're lucky, then.

[lumberlady]

... What happens to you?

[goban]

I become part koi.

[ it sucks ]

The first time, I was a dragon. That seems backwards, doesn't it?

[lumberlady]

That... does seem backwards.

[Does that mean he has to live in the water???]

[goban]

[ at least she gets it!! everyone knows koi swim up the waterfall to become dragons, we all know this to be true. ]

It's inconvenient, to say in the least.

[ yes he has to live in the water rip ]

[lumberlady]

[thats how it works!!!]

Do you get... scales and fins?

[goban]

My legs become a tail. Like a mermaid.

[lumberlady]

... that sounds really inconvenient, I’m sorry.

[goban]

No more inconvenient than being half-horse I suppose.

[ aside from the water thing...but hanging out with vietnam and exploring isn't all bad ]

[lumberlady]

I don’t really think of myself as “half” of anything, but... I guess.