Live from 1943 - Video

[lightning_strike]

What in the world is this?

[Perrine pokes the screen a couple of times, frowning at it.] This isn't the radar. This is well beyond anything I've seen before...

[Reading more, she seemed to be twisting dials and poking things. The exterior is a very dated room, someone might recognize as being from 1944 in a military base. Still, she keeps fiddling with the machine and trying to get it to work.]

Why is it showing me this thing about ducks? What is this? [And she pokes it again a few times.]

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[makewayforroze]

Welcome to the community. You must be new.

[Will ease her into this.]

[miraclefighter]

Mii. We're a ducky community, nice to meet you newest recruit!

[lightning_strike]

Yeep! The radar is talking to me!

... wait, wait that's silly. I must be imagining things...

[lightning_strike]

A... ducky community? [The surrealness of this situation was starting to get to Perrine.]

How is it that you are showing up on the radar?

[oceanicbutterfly]

...haven't I seen you before?

[makewayforroze]

I'm talking to you through it but I'm a real person.

My name is Roze. It's nice to meet you.

[lightning_strike]

Er... hello. [This was getting weird.]

I'm Perrine H Cloistermann. A pleasure then.

[lightning_strike]

I hmm... [Weird she got the funny feeling she might have seen Karen before too.] Quite possibly...

[makewayforroze]

Has anyone told you very much about the community?

[lightning_strike]

Nothing comes to mind. I can't say I've actually seen something like this before.

[makewayforroze]

I don't think many of us had, when we first came here.

I'll do my best to explain but it will probably sound very weird. Most of the people you meet here will be from different worlds.

[lightning_strike]

Different worlds like... aliens or...?

[unknownrival]

I've heard of it showing up on books, but a radar is new.

Still, welcome.

[lightning_strike]

If it showed up in a book, I'd be more inclined to be surprised about it. At least this is electronic.

And who might you be? [Said with a little haughtiness but this IS Perrine after all.]

[unknownrival]

Issei Ryudo. I'm a monk in charge of Ryudoji Temple, in Fuyuki City, Japan.

[lightning_strike]

...? Japan? Where is that?

[In her world, it's known as the Fuso Empire.]

[unknownrival]

It's a country made up of islands, in Asia. On Earth.

[lightning_strike]

Oh, the Fuso Empire. Why didn't you say so in the first place?

[unknownrival]

Well, it's called Japan where I'm from.

[lightning_strike]

Mmm. It hasn't been going by that name for my world for ages. Not since the first World War.

[unknownrival]

If I may ask, how did that war turn out?

[lightning_strike]

Shorted. Monster attack ended it prematurely.

[unknownrival]

It didn't turn out that way here. Maybe that's why.

[lightning_strike]

That might do it. Our world has a history of witches repelling monster attacks. Recently, it's been aliens though, Neuroi.

[unknownrival]

Whatever they are, I'm glad someone's able to stop them.