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[Coming on screen is someone who clearly doesn't know how to use a camera, frame a shot, or even speak into one. It's as if he hadn't used a camera phone before, which is accurate. Very accurate. He turns his ears back and squints at it. Oh. It is working. Okay.

The kid, with clear animal features, looks pretty beat up. His clothes are ragged and torn and looks like he hasn't had a good brush through his fur in a while, let alone a proper bath or shower. He doesn't seem to mind too much about that though.]

Hi. Uuh.

I don't know what's goin' on around here, not quite. Not too big a' deal though cos' for far as I can tell it ain't terribly dangerous around here. Better than what I heard about Paragon anyway. Shining city of hope or dreams or whatever, right? Is that the story around here? Cos that's the vibe I'm getting.

Seein' as how going home won't do me any good, any chance anyone'll help me find a place to stay around here? This place is wacky, but pretty mild compared to most alternate realities I've ever heard of. I mean c'mon, for every good reality there's a hundred that suck.

So yeah. Kid lookin' for a place. Not sure if I want... Definitely sure I don't want adult supervision. No thanks.

Oh yeah. Name's Shadow, if you're wonderin' what to call me.

Signing out. [Fumbling with the phone, and blip. It's over.]

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Don't worry, people are good here. You'll have help soon.

I hear there's this lady at the front desk in the building you see when you first transport... uh, I mean, she gives tips or something. Or answers questions? Never actually talked to her.

I don't know much about the city, honestly. But how long're you looking for a place to stay?

Any time so long as I don't have to go home.

Cool. Well.

Shadow, right? Sorry if you get this a lot, but are you a lion?

Yeah. Atleast you got it right on the first go.

Some idiots have mistook me for a dog or a giant rat before.

Stupid bastards.

Yeah, they sure sound like morons.

( never mind that scott's first guess was a little far off but. uh. )

But okay! A lion. So... carnivore, right? I figure you don't eat people because you're using a CALL device and that kind of makes you a more advanced lion. Or something.

Uh. Do you know how to clean? Like houses.

I started out human, since my being smart's a mystery or something.

Uuh, I don't like where that's going. Why would I wanna clean your house for you?

Dude, where I come from lions don't even know how to human-talk, much less type. It's super new to me.

And I'm just asking the standard roommate stuff, man. Do you cook, do you clean. Any allergies.

I mean I don't know the rules for inter-dimensional travel but if you can get to Tomorrow and maybe we have coffee or something and it turns out we're cool with each other then I could offer my couch for... however long you need to get back on your feet.

Oh, and my name's Scott. I'm all human.

text to speech. Fingers are too big for that.

I dunno. Maybe. I can cook but I don't gotta.

Dont know if I wanna be a roommate

You're an adult.

Oh shit. That's right. I AM an adult.

Okay. How about we just look for places 'round Tomorrow instead?

I'd offer the other cities but I don't know much about them except one. It's... jungle-like, but it probably sounds tacky if I took you there.

did you forget?

Okay i guess.

Jungle? I lived in one for two years. It would be fine if it werent knfested with evil

Being over 21 doesn't mean you actively remember being over 21, I'm just saying.

But your hometown-jungle was... infested with evil...?

yup

Arachnos and the circle of thorns and the mages of mu. All bad.

Also the whole island chain was formed over a sleeping kaiju monster from the bible or something.

I can see why you wanted to move out.

( not that scott actually understands the details of it, but. he'll give shadow the benefit of the doubt. )

So far I only know three cities you can get to with the transport button on your CALL device: the City of Tomorrow, which is crazy futuristic; the City of Adventure, which is the tacky jungle thing I mentioned earlier; and the City of Shadows, which... is probably even tackier, given your similar names, but it's not exactly the homiest place.

I don't know much about the rest, but experience tells me Tomorrow'd be the best one to move into. And it also sounds relatively less likely that there's a sleeping kaiju monster under it.

Are you moving here? Like, is your world crap too?

Uh--no. The couch I offered was in my actual place, ha. I don't know if your world is earth or what, but that's what mine's called.

The cost of living in Tomorrow is insane, dude.

Primal Earth

Oooh.

Okay.

I guess?

Do you know what cost of living is?

( that explains... a lot. scott takes a moment. )

Okay, so let's say you get a place, right? You can either pay a boatload of cash to own it for good, or pay less cash monthly to own it temporarily (which is rent).

Besides that, you have to pay for electricity and water and food. So technically you're going to need a lot of money to stay afloat.

And this is just the basic stuff, too.

Wanna rob a bank in my world?

haha

... well, that depends on how good or bad your government is.

Rogue Isles is ruled by a demigod evil overlord.

America is ruled by someone called the president and I think he's evil too.

[No social studies, ever. He has no idea how america works. All he knows is that it's false advertising. America the free? Bullshit.]

Well, when you put it that way.

Give me a second.

What do you know about the bank there? Schedules, security, all of that.

Gotta make this as airtight as possible.

Well not alot cos' I never thought I'd do it.

Last time I tried to rob a bank I had to do it cause I was told to.

Anyway it'd probably be better to rob a bank that isn't in Paragon City or in the Rogue isles. Although with my powers I think it'd be easy.

And the laws are like...

Nobody's gonna come after you if you don't get caught. Trouble is that most of em in either of those cities might or might not have power dampeners.

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