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Welcome to Norfinbury. The time is E̛̬̞͖͖̫R҉͖̯̬R̼̻͉̰͎̳̙O̩͓͔̫͇͈̯R and the date is E̛̬̞͖͖̫R҉͖̯̬R̼̻͉̰͎̳̙O̩͓͔̫͇͈̯R. This network has been provided for your use. Please interact politely with everyone else on this network.

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@lazybones91, day 63

[bonefriend]

[ Sans does a bit of research and reads through the helpfully-provided materials before giving this network thing a shot. this place, this situation is... new, obviously. but it's good to be prepared, right? he's got to keep a cool head. ]

heya guys, looks like i'm another newbie here. i'd say nice to meet you all, only i doubt anyone's happy to be here. so, uh, i guess there goes the icebreaker.

i'll get to the point. my name's sans. i'm a skeleton. seems like most of you are humans. hey, that's cool, i don't have anything against humans. some of my friends are humans. [ ... maybe just one. ] but i've been hearing a few things about monsters in this town so i'd just like to say... well, if you come across a skeleton, don't panic. i'd hate to be given the cold shoulder here.

@starspangledhero; text

[fifty]

like LITERALLY a skeleton? just bones?

[America spoke to the old Sans once, but since the skeleton thing didn't come up, he's entirely forgotten that in favor of the idea of a living skeleton.]

[bonefriend]

i'm pretty much skin and bones.

just, you know, without the skin and all bones.

[fifty]

how are you typing?
and not being a pile of bones on the floor?
you're not right

[Maybe he's using the speech-to-text function! Wait, that only causes more questions.]

[bonefriend]

magic. [ ... it's canon, serious. ]

really. c'mon, there's no need to be rude, right? i'm using my phalanges, same as you, i'm guessing. what difference does a little skin make?

[fifty]

[...Magic. Well, America has seen weirder here. Maybe. He guesses.]

well I was thinking more muscles & tendons & stuff but I guess the monsters here don't need those either
the non-talking attacking-people-monsters I mean not you

[There. Much more polite. Maybe.]

[bonefriend]

[ IT'S... an improvement! ]

don't have any of those, sorry to say. guess i have a tendoncy to pull myself together without 'em just fine.

but i'd be interested in knowing more about these other monsters.

@determination; video

[despiteeverything]

[SCREW TEXT they're going straight to video for this one. Not that they don't default to video most of the time anyway but shhhhhh.]

You're back!

voice

[bonefriend]

[ oh hey, it's frisk! Sans... switches to voice. he might be looking for video, who knows. vidchat is probably still a bit new in the underground so w/e. ]

Heya, kid. What's up with you?

And, uh, what do you mean by back?

video

[despiteeverything]

[Frisk tilts their head ever so slightly to the side, puzzled.]

You... were here before, right? Enoch said so. He remembered all the jokes you made.

[Actually they'd had half a mind to take him to task for that (not very aggressively, probably in the form of a of pout at worst) because this was the first time they'd gotten to talk to him, even though he'd been there longer than them. Or was he? Some recent conversations they've seen and had are making them hesitate. Not to mention... no, don't think about that.

They're still really glad he's here though.]

[bonefriend]

[ was he here before?? he's pretty sure he would've made a note of spending a timeline in a place like this, which looks and sounds like just about the most anomalous you could get.

bar one, anyway. ]

Wow, that's... that's pretty nice of him. [ sweats... yeah, he definitely needs to investigate this. ] Mind, uh, refreshing my memory on this Enoch person?

[despiteeverything]

Um...

[That's actually a good question. They don't even know if Sans met Enoch in person last time or not. Because that was happening for a lot of people so far - they've seen them a lot on the network, but face-to-face? Not so much.]

He's really nice? He gave me a hat when we first met. And he was helping Quark and me but he wanted to stay with his friend, so it's just us now.

[Oh right!]

He wants to try to help the monsters here too.

[Which in Frisk's opinion, is a vast improvement from the others who keep telling them to have nothing to do with the monsters here.]

[bonefriend]

Really? Sounds like a real stand-up guy. [ hopefully, anyway. but wanting to help monsters definitely scores a few points, as far as he's concerned. ]

I gotta say, I wasn't planning on being kidnapped when we got to the surface. How long have you been here, Frisk? This 'Quark' another buddy of yours?

@CmdrShepard; video

[gtfoourgalaxy]

[Everything else being - well - what it is, Shepard thinks about it for a moment, and decides to take the skeleton thing in stride. If this guy is delusional on that level, there isn't much she can do except work with it.]

Welcome to Norfinbury, Sans. My name's Shepard. Can't say I've met a skeleton before, but I've got no bone to pick with it.

[Why yes, she noticed your puns, and she is a Communicator.]

You doing all right with the temperature, or does your species also have a problem with it?

[bonefriend]

[ omg, bone puns. yeah he likes this stranger already. ]

heh, glad to hear it. i'd hate to have people rattled unnecessarily.

and i can deal with the cold. reminds me of home, though this place is definitely more abandoned and falling apart.

[gtfoourgalaxy]

Don't worry about it. I got friends of too many different species to be boneheaded about meeting one more.

[IT CONTINUES. Though his answer makes her look rather more serious.]

You come from anywhere like this? Does the name Norfinbury mean anything to you?

1/2

[bonefriend]

no, i'm afraid i'm just as new and lost here as the rest of you were. the climate is similar, but this place chills me right to the marrow.

i guess the sky's nice, though.

[bonefriend]

anyway, i'm glad you're being openminded about the different species thing. i appreciate it, bud. [ honestly, humans are the dangerous ones where he's concerned. ]

[gtfoourgalaxy]

No problem. You look around, tell me if we can afford to be picky about who we work with around here.

[She's smiling, though. It's not just pragmatism speaking. This is genuinely who she is.

(She may also be relishing the opportunity to be a punning dork. So sad, Shepard.)]

Yeah. I know what you mean. Wind goes right through you... but seriously. There should be a coat there, and a pack with some rations, if you need them. I'm assuming they're tailored to your biology, haven't heard of that going wrong for anyone before. You look at Captain Rogers' guide yet? From what I heard about the monsters, no one's going to mistake you for one.

[bonefriend]

[ pun-bud senses tingling...?! ]

the wind isn't the only thing that'd normally go through me. i don't think i can process human food, but i'm getting the feeling things might've changed. [ he experimentally samples a bit of the rations. hm... one hypothesis tentatively confirmed. ] seems like it for now. pretty considerate of our captors to give us a starter kit, huh? look at this generosity. i'll try not to let it get under my skin.

text; @himiko

[tofu_idol]

...You're doing that on purpose, aren't you?

[She's spent long enough around Teddie and his bear puns to know that much.]

[bonefriend]

doing what? [ so innocent!! ]

[tofu_idol]

u know XACTLY wht I mean (;¬_¬)

[bonefriend]

'fraid i'm drawing a blank here. throw me a bone.

[tofu_idol]

do u ever actually NOT pun?