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[crisised]

So this place is new and different. Which, considering the circles I run in back home, is kinda saying a lot.

Did you know the light in this cave gives off radiation similar, but not identical, to that of a yellow sun? I can't tell if it's tech I just haven't found yet or magic, but it feels really, really weird.

Just so I can brace myself--is everything here like that? Kinda like you're used to but just different enough that it makes your shoulder blades itch?

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[skelebro]

everyone likes jokes.
why should monsters be an exception?

[Should he, uh...clarify that he is one of said monsters?

That'd be the responsible thing to do. Therefore, he does not.]

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[crisised]

I guess it depends on what kind of jokes you're telling. Most monsters I can think of are more focused on, you know, terrible things than anything funny.

[ the clown from gotham being the one major exception, though kara doesn't think anything he does is even remotely in the vicinity of funny. ]

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[skelebro]

that's, uh, pretty rude.
considering you're speaking to one right now.

[Whoops!]

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[crisised]

Wait, what?

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[skelebro]

the name's sans.
sans the skeleton.

pleased to meet'cha.

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[crisised]

You're a skeleton? No muscles or organs or anything like that?

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[skelebro]

[The feed snaps on. Sitting in front of it is, indeed, a skeleton clad in a blue jacket and t-shirt, parked there in the flesh. Or, uh...everything except the flesh, to be more specific.

He waves.]

'Sup?

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[crisised]

[ she turns on video in return and looks... shocked. and curious. ]

How are you alive? Are you alive?

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[skelebro]

[Pretty par for the course. And her questions are, uh...also par for the course.]

Yep. Monsters, they're made of magic where I come from.

[So yeah, he's, uh...well, he ain't alive back home, but here? Plenty living.]

[crisised]

That's amazing!

[ she takes a breath and then--we're off. ]

Do you still have to eat? Sleep? Do you have organs and muscles hidden away somewhere or could someone theoretically stick their hand in your ribcage and you wouldn't feel it? How do you move?

[skelebro]

[Boy, she just hit all the bullet points of "Most Common Questions Asked To The Skeleton." Good thing he don't rightly mind much. He ticks off the answers one by one.]

Yep. Yep. Nope, just bones. And, uh, magic.

That's gonna be your answer most of the time.

[~Magic~]

[crisised]

So if I ask how you digest things, 'magic' is gonna be the answer, huh?

[ that is so sad. ]

[skelebro]

Mostly I just don't have to. Monster food is made of magic - turns into energy right after you eat it.

[The nice thing about monster food - instant video game healing magic!]

[crisised]

That's awfully convenient.

[skelebro]

Or just - "inventive."

[But, you know, take your pick.]