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Audio | @Summoner

[ninjainviolet]

[ Have a female voice answer you. ]

Hello to you.

[ A pause. ]

And trust me, there are more people here.

@captainstudmuffin; audio

[mightypirate]

Whoa, you can change your voice?

Coooool...

[ninjainviolet]

Uhhh, not really. Unless I'm sick. This is my real voice.

[ A moment. ]

Wait! Do you think I'm the tablet talking to you?!

[mightypirate]

Erm.

Yes.

Aren't you?

[ninjainviolet]

[ Oh... ]

No. I'm not. My name's Sheena. Sheena Fujibayashi.

I'm talking to you from a whole other building.

[mightypirate]

What?

[ninjainviolet]

[ Whoops. ]

Sorry.

The little machine in your hand is called a "tablet". It lets the people here talk to each other over some distance.

We can even see each other by using what's called "video". Although, there might be some static--some distortions of the picture.

[mightypirate]

Neat.

[He thinks he's starting to understand this a little bit but boy did most of that fly over his head.]

So I'm talking to you now and your name is uh...

What was it again?

[ninjainviolet]

[ She hopes he understands because that's really all she knows about using the thing to talk to others. ]

Yes, you're talking to me now--not the tablet.

[ She chuckles. ]

Sheena Fujibayashi. And yours?

[mightypirate]

Guybrush Threepwood.

[Said with the audible pride of someone who is convinced everyone knows his name.]

[ninjainviolet]

[ Sorry, but she's never heard of you, Guywood. ]

Nice to meet you, Guywood.

Do you mind if I ask you a question?

[ A question she has a feeling she knows the answer to. ]

[mightypirate]

Threepwood.

[Why does nobody get that right?]

Sure. Shoot.

[ninjainviolet]

[ Oh dear. She should know better, considering people have the same problem with her name. ]

I am so sorry!

Guybrush Threepwood.

[ She says it slowly, making sure she gets it right. ]

Umm, why "studmuffin"?

[mightypirate]

Oh, that.

Because I'm the stud that busted up the Ghost Pirate LeChuck.

[ninjainviolet]

Ah, I see.

[ ...

Except for the pirate part, she had expected that answer. At least he's not asking for "hunnies". ]

Ghost Pirate LeChuck? An actual ghost, or someone pretending to be one?

[mightypirate]

Actual ghost.

Actual creep, too. You really haven't heard this story?

[ninjainviolet]

Really?

And, uh, no. No I haven't heard the story.

[ Different planets and all. ]

[mightypirate]

Geeze.

I really need to tell you about it sometime, then.

[ninjainviolet]

Why not now?

Or is it a pretty long one?

[mightypirate]

It's a long one.

But a good one. Epic even!

[ninjainviolet]

Long, good, and epic...

Now I'm really curious.

[ She truly is. Sheena's always interested in stories from other worlds. ]

What if I promise to tell you a story from my world?

[mightypirate]

Hey, that sounds fair!

[But, really, he just wants to tell his LeChuck Blowing Up Story again.]

[ninjainviolet]

Okay! You first.

[ He can't see it, but Sheena's getting comfortable, sitting on the floor with a blanket over her.

Fire away, Guybrush! ]

[mightypirate]

[And he tells a story about himself washing up on shore on a strange island. Everyone there immediately knows he's a mighty pirate and the resident governess falls madly in love with him then is kidnapped by LeChuck.

Bravely, Guybrush goes to her rescue on Monkey Island where he dodges cannibals and goes to Hell. But LeChuck has already dragged her back to the previous island for a wedding! So Guybrush chases the undead hellbeast down and blows him up with "voodoo root".

He tells the story with great enthusiasm, making voices where appropriate. Some of the story, like the part where he slays a giant dragon, sound made up.]

[ninjainviolet]

[ He doesn't reckon with his audience...

An audience with a few questions. ]

What's "voodoo root"? And did you really go into Hell? You're alive, how could you do that?

[ Yes, she's taken the story seriously--despite the way it's told. Or that it may sound exaggerated to some. Especially one part... ]

You took on a dragon by yourself? It took several of us to do something like that back home.

[ Yep, she's being sincere because that's the world she's from. ]