video;

[luckysmile]

[ The video starts in the dark. As luck would have it, Sawako had just gotten a diary to keep as a present from her father and just as she'd opened it to write in it, the power had miraculously gone out in the house.

This means, of course, that the video starts with Sawako leaning over the diary, so her long black hair obscures the view of her face properly. The community seems to be the only light beaming up onto her face, making it look rather dramatic against her pale skin and after she realized she was being recorded, the most rigid, creepy smile pulled to her face. ]

G-Greetings.

[ Maybe she really can talk to the spirits of the dead now like everyone always says... Otherwise, how could her book be glowing like this and making her look perhaps, a little more like Sadako than normal. ]

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[papillio_tempestatis]

[After the zombie thing, yeah, perhaps Butterfly's a little more ready to believe in ghost stories than usual. And maybe she jumps a little when she sees that in her book.

But a little tremor in that voice... and the fact that the first word was "greetings"... calms her down a little.]

Ah, h-hello. I, er, I assume you're a new member?

[luckysmile]

Mem..ber?

[ Suffice it to say, most people have just gotten scared, meaning Sawako has had no luck in actually understanding.. anything yet.. ]

[papillio_tempestatis]

I'm sorry, people are... a bit jumpy recently.

Welcome to DramaDramaDuck. It's... sort of a... [muttering in something vaguely like badly butchered Chinese, to the effect of "what was the word?"] ... social network. That's it.

[luckysmile]

Don't worry about it, I'm used to it.

[ Sawako actually sounds reassuring about that, not depressed just.. glad to make sure that there's no misunderstanding there. ]

Social network..?

[papillio_tempestatis]

Did I use the wrong phrase? It's not really a concept we have on my - er, where I come from.

[Best to work up to that particular bombshell.]

We mostly just call it the community.

[luckysmile]

N-No! It's not your fault!

[ This person needs to understand that Sawako will take full responsibility for any problems, no matter what they are. ]

I've never been a part of a social network before.

[papillio_tempestatis]

I doubt this is something they normally do, but this one has a bad habit of recording at inopportune moments. Or taking over computers. Or books - mine mostly lives in a journal.

Also, you'll find that people here are... unusual.

[luckysmile]

Dad didn't just get me something strange then..?

[ She thought that it was just that he got it from some kind of weird store to help on her quest to fulfill peoples' expectations of being some kind of horror movie creature... ]

Unusual?

[papillio_tempestatis]

Probably not intentionally. The community tends to choose who it... adopts as members.

People from, ah, other places. I doubt you've ever heard of the Agatean Empire, for instance.

[luckysmile]

[ Sawako take a couple of moments to think. The closest she can come up with to that is the Aegean Sea, which would be the area where the Byzantine Empire was but... that's definitely not the same as Agatean. ]

I've never heard of it.

[papillio_tempestatis]

That's because, well... it's on another world. The community connects between... I think the phrase is parallel dimensions.