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[keep_smiling]

Hello everyone! If we haven't met, my name is Elmer. I've been here for a few weeks now, I suppose. It's good to meet you all! This place is pretty interesting, to say the least, and everyone I've met has been very fascinating. It's nice to meet so many people from places so different from my own. ＼(＾O＾)／

I have a question, though! I'm looking for a man named Victor Talbot. He was here not too long ago and now I've lost track of him completely. Typical for him, really, but in this closed-off city, I feel like it'd be harder to just disappear like that. Maybe you've seen him? Dark hair, glasses, cool sideburns, yells a lot. Let me know if you see him. Or if you're reading this, Victor, say hi already! (ノ ゜Д゜)ノ

While I have your attention, why not tell me a little about yourself? Let's break the ice this way: tell me one thing that makes you smile, no matter what. What's guaranteed to cheer you up? (・w・)

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[keep_smiling]

That's true. So cooking is important. The problem is we're a bit lacking in ingredients here. I suppose I could make some simple things. Some people hate cooking, so just the fact that it's already done for them would make them happy, no matter what the dish is. :D

[muscovy]

As long as the dish doesn't kill them.

[Nodding. It's true, some people are unfit for life and don't know how to prepare food. Or rich.

...] Do you live alone now?

[keep_smiling]

I do. I guess the upside to that is that I have plenty of space to stretch out now. Now if there were only things around here to fill this place up with. Finally all the room for that video game collection I've always wanted, and not a game store within sight. ┐('～`；)┌

[muscovy]

You can ask one of the gods for those games, yes?

[...]

What is a video game?

[keep_smiling]

Can I? Do gods just grant wishes like genies?

Oh it's like a game you'd play on your phone or a console, on a TV? I'd show you mine but the batteries in my GBA all died, so I'm afraid I'm out of luck there.

[muscovy]

No, you have to do something for them in return. But I think you can get almost anything from them, if you can describe it well.

[...

No, he cannot picture what that might look like at all.]

So you can play alone?

[keep_smiling]

I suppose that makes sense. A sacrifice, maybe? Or perhaps I can just do more cleaning and painting. They gave me some strange things in return for that.

Right! There are two-player games too, but we'd need a console and two controllers for that. And a television. And some games. Basically a lot of things we sadly do not have.

[muscovy]

I think you should just ask the god that you want something from what they want, that way you won't do something unnecessarily.

...What do you do in those games?

[keep_smiling]

Good thinking. I hadn't asked for anything in return for that stuff, so I guess it didn't really matter what I had gotten!

Depends, there are a lot of kinds. Puzzle games, action games, horror games, role-playing games... those ones are my favorites. Anything with a good story!

/abuses and mangles history by fudging places and times THIS IS HETALIA WE HAVE GOOGLE IN WW2

[muscovy]

If they don't know that you are doing it for them, they can't know it and give you anything in return for it, yes?

[...Nope, he still can't imagine anything hearing that. The words are translated, but beyond that...]

So they tell stories with you? [But then how are they games...] Like participating in a passion play?

but Hetalia is totally know for its incredible historical accuracy

[keep_smiling]

More like fantasy or sci-fi stories with a character you name and control. Like there might be multiple paths you can choose, or responses to pick from, and it will all affect the story in some way and the ending you get.

OBVIOUSLY it's textbook quality

[muscovy]

What is fantasy and sci-fi?

[Every explanation that Elmer provides just raises more questions, really...]

[keep_smiling]

Right! Have I ever asked you where and when you're from, by the way?

Those are genres. Fantasy - think like fairy tales. Fantastical creatures and people and places. Magic and stuff. Sci fi is sort of the same, but futuristic, sometimes set in space or on different planets, and super fancy technology instead of magic. Get it?

[muscovy]

...But there aren't very many fairies in space.

I'm from the East originally. Of Europe. But I don't know when exactly. It never seemed important before coming here, yes?

[And when it got important the systems of counting years were often different than the one that most people from Earth seem to use.]