001; video/action for Odin

[deputychief]

[Itsuki's face appears on the bracelet with a bright smile and otherwise completely unrevealing features. Everything about his message seems prepared and smooth. He's sitting in the hall of Odin House.]

Good evening, everyone. My name is Itsuki Koizumi and it would seem that, like, I assume, everyone on this network, I'm a recently arrived traveler. I look forward to getting to know everyone here; it seems like a decidedly fascinating place.

While, like other arrivals, I would love to speak to anyone who has theories, information, or experiences dealing with the nature of this place, I have a more specific question for those of you who were here rather earlier than the rest. While examining the bracelet's records, I saw that a post, a link to which I've attached, was made at one point by a friend of mine. If you spoke to him, would you mind contacting me?

Again, thank you all, and my apologies for bothering you.

[And he closes the feed.]

Comments

Video

[a_most_debonair_corsair]

I'm not really much of a scientist, myself. I leave theories to people who specialize in making them. All I can care about is what I see right in front of me.

[deputychief]

Theories are always based on, at bottom, what we see in front of us.

video

[selfestheim]

If you're looking for him, the bracelet has a contact list with all the people here. You should be able to get in contact with him that way.

video

[deputychief]

He appears to be no longer here. I would like to speak to those who have spoken to him before, that's all.

video

[selfestheim]

Oh... then I can't really help on that end. Sorry.

video

[deputychief]

That's not a problem. I'm afraid you didn't introduce yourself, however?

video

[selfestheim]

Oh, my bad—I'm Hope. Hope Estheim.

video

[deputychief]

It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Estheim. Have you been here long?

video

[selfestheim]

[...wow, being addressed as "Mr. Estheim" is weird.] Er... just call me Hope. It's fine with me, really.

And I've been here for a couple of weeks now. Does... that count as long?

video

[deputychief]

Hmm. Very well, Mr. Hope.

I don't think it counts as the longest; but it counts as rather long in terms of a trip that you presumably were neither expecting nor desiring, from which your home is, also presumably, inaccessible.

video

[selfestheim]

[...okay, fine, he'll just roll with it.]

Yeah, pretty much. Plus, I know people who have been stuck here for a longer than a month.

video

[deputychief]

It seems the posts on the network don't go back much farther than two months, however.

video

[selfestheim]

... Do you think people could have been here for longer, just... without being able to use the network?

video

[deputychief]

It certainly seems like a possibility, doesn't it? Certainly the gods claim to have been. Why not others?

video

[selfestheim]

Yeah... but at the same time, it'd be kind of weird for people not to speak up about it.