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[multivitamins]

[ Someone is doing their best to not look upset, stiff upper lip right? It's not working all that well. Eddie should be happy he survived through the invasion and all, but there's more pressing things on his mind right now.]

My friend Bill is missing. He's a bit taller than me, looks smart and talks with a stutter. Has anyone seen or heard from him?

[ No one has explained the concept of people going home yet, so the idea the friend he looks up to has just vanished is unfathomable.]

If anyone sees him please tell him he's an asshole and I'm going to kill him for this.

Comments

[hellosirs]

When's the last time you saw your friend? If they haven't been sent back home - that happens sometimes - I might be able to track them down.

[multivitamins]

A short while ago. It's like he's just vanished into thin air.

Wait, people can get sent home?

[hellosirs]

Yeah, it happens sometimes. Usually, if their name isn't on the contact list on your phone, that's a good indication that they've gone back.

[multivitamins]

I really hope he got to go home and didn't get eaten by a stray Null. Though I don't know what contact list you're talking about, we don't have these things back home so I didn't know there was one...

[hellosirs]

Oh! You have to tap on the network symbol, then on the symbol that looks like a couple of little heads. We don't have phones where I'm from either, we have stones of farspeech.

[multivitamins]

Thanks! I didn't know any of this and I feel like I've been here forever. Though uh, stones of farspeech? What's that about?

[hellosirs]

Oh, um... they're sort of like these things, but they're magically enchanted rocks? And you just talk into them, you can't type or see the other person on a little screen.

[multivitamins]

[ What even?

Rocks? That are like these phones?

So many questions.]

Like uh, shaped like seashells? Or just rock rocks?

[hellosirs]

Rock-rocks.

Umm...

Magic ones.