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So uh... Hey everyone. Again.

[He could probably get a better opening line, but whatever. Moving on.]

I know like, a bunch of people just arrived so... Welcome, I guess. We're still working on the newbie's guide to waking up in a cave-city run by gods, but until then like, if you have any questions I can try and help? Also uh, it's probably safe at this point and we're just being paranoid, but you may want to avoid eating any meat products you find here. For reasons.

[MOVING ON.]

Also uh, sort of related, but I was thinking that maybe before next month we should really... Plan some way to help out? I mean, people just sort of show up and half the time there's monsters too, and... Maybe some sort of organized thing for helping the new people not get like, eaten or whatever would be a good idea.

[This is not exactly his area of expertise, so if other people want to take charge on this he's more than happy to let them, but otherwise he'll try and figure something out. It really seems like something important to get established.]

In uh, a rare moment of good news though, the whole coffee thing worked out. So if you want coffee there's some at Delight's bar now, though you'll have to like... Be kind of patient with me and the others being possibly terrible baristas. Still kind of getting the hang of the whole thing.

[But surely coffee itself is well worth any less-than-practiced customer service; they're at least pretty good at making coffee, including somewhat elaborate drinks, and as far as Chris is aware they're all trying. That's what counts, right?

Right?]

I think that's about it, except for that like... If anyone's curious, the handheld games from the arena this month are just normal games. I thought maybe they'd be some sort of weird alien-versions of them, but I guess not; I took one apart and it was all the expected stuff inside it.

That said I'm totally betting I can beat anyone's high scores.

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Yeah, but I'll take weird over bad. Or confusing, like with Fear where he's really nice when you talk to him and then goes and does something super awful five minutes later.

Fear? Nice? Next you'll be telling me nugs fly.

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I have no idea what a nug is but I can guess what that expression means, so.

But yeah, he's pretty nice when you talk to him as long as you're not a jerk. It's really weird.

They're hairless rabbit-pigs that live, well. Everywhere, but primarily in the Deep Roads below the surface of the earth.

I prefer not to talk to him at all. I'm not sure I'd be able to hold my temper.

Huh. So you have those, and rabbits and pigs?

[Since he described them in those terms.]

Yeah that's probably a good idea. I try to keep my conversations with him pretty short.

Yes. I take it you do not?

Yeah, no. Rabbit and pigs are totally separate thing and I mean, there are probably some animals you could sort of describe as looking like them both, but nothing called nugs.

I suppose you don't have nuggalopes then either, do you?

[ he is being completely serious. nuggalopes. ]

What, is that a cross between a nug and an antelope?

[His mind went straight to jackalopes here.]

It's a nug large enough to use as a mount or a pack animal. I think most of them have horns as well.

Huh. Definitely don't have those.

It's kind of cool to hear about animals from other people's worlds instead of horrifying monsters, though.

It is.

What sorts of creatures are common in your world? Perhaps you have some that aren't around in Thedas.

There's a ridiculous amount of animals in my world, but some common ones are I guess birds, cats, dogs, mice, horses, deer, snakes, cows... I could list a bunch more off the top of my head.

We've all those as well. Do you have druffalo? They're about as common as cows and horses back home.

Uh, no. We have buffalo, but they're pretty rare.

I wonder if they're related. What do they look like?

They're big and kind of like hunchbacked cows? I never thought about describing one before.

[It's more difficult than he thought.]

[ that sounds familiar... ]

Do they have brown, shaggy fur? Horns?

[Perfect, awesome.]

Yeah, that sounds like them. I guess we've both got them then?

It seems so, even if we know them by different names.

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