006 [Video]

[thechoiceisyours]

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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[thechoiceisyours]

Probably a good idea, yeah. I was talking to um, a few people here who were planning like, a centralized source of info on the all the monsters that are here so you might want to talk to them? It was Sam and Ciri.

[kickingand]

[ ... snort. ]

Course it was Sam.

[thechoiceisyours]

Do you know him already?

[Connect the dots for Chris here so he can become aware of the dynamic Winchester duo.]

[kickingand]

[ Don't you mean Dastardly Dynamic Duo. ]

Only just his entire life. He's my kid brother.

[thechoiceisyours]

[There's lots of terrible and appropriate adjectives for them lbr.]

Oh, that's awesome.

[He doesn't have any siblings of his own, but he knows how important they can be and so it's probably really nice that Sam and Dean are here together.]

So yeah, that might make it uh, easy to coordinate on the monster encyclopedia then.

[kickingand]

[ this is p much true. ]

You thinking we should put something together? [ But that sounds like so much work whine whine and he doesn't want to have to do writing....

But he can do field research. ] Some sorta local monster watching brochure?

[thechoiceisyours]

Yeah, I think it'll be um... Really useful, because otherwise like... I mean, when the wendigo thing happened, it was only me and Sam--my friend Sam, not your brother Sam--that knew the signs and how to fight them and whatever and also weren't turning into them ourselves. But if other people had the information in advance, maybe um... Maybe things would've gone better, or maybe some people wouldn't have turned to begin with.

[And more simply if someone runs into a monster in the caves or after a new wave of arrivals or during an event, if they know what it is and how to kill it in advance they might have a better chance of surviving.]

[kickingand]

[ But man, he's finding it s hard to believe that they're the first people to think of this. ]

And you're sure no one's done it yet? I mean, people've here long enough, I would'a thought that somebody'd have gotten on that already.

[thechoiceisyours]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure. I think um... I think people are usually just busy like, staying alive or dealing with whatever event is going on or just happened.

[He knows everyone at his house as usually only just recovered from whatever awful thing happened that month by the time the next one occurs.]

[kickingand]

[ Sigh. So this is gonna be on him then. Or them.

Okay. ]

Yeah, alright- maybe we'll see what we can put together. Try to keep everyone in the know. I don't know how much it'd help, or how much time we've even got to work on it, but people should know what they're dealin' with.

[thechoiceisyours]

Okay, yeah, definitely. At my place we're um, working on kind of like, a general arrival info thing too? So the whole monster guide can kind of be combined with it, probably.

[And hopefully everyone having the same information, even if they've just arrived, will help cut down on the risks to all the people here.]

[kickingand]

Sounds like a plan to me. Even if people don't wanna read it, at least we'll know they're being handed the keys to the kingdom.