caughtinanetwork | Video; Questions

[As pleased as Sola was all throughout the RPG curse, cutting weeds and fighting monsters and just generally being in his element, he seems much more sombre when he appears on the network in the early hours of Monday morning. He's sitting on a couch, a small blue instrument in his hands. It seems he can't sleep.]

I thought the curse would help me forget about it, but...

[He turns the ocarina over in his hands, not looking at the camera.]

...what happens if you died on your world and then you get sent back there from here?

[He knows too many where this is the case, and if the tightening of his fingers around the object in his hands is any indication, it's something that weighs on him a great deal.]

And, um, Zelda? If you see this, I'm really sorry I couldn't make a wish.

[He tried very hard, but he just couldn't make it.

Unable to think of much more to say, Sola simply sits and turns the ocarina over in his hands, either waiting for an answer or simply unwilling to turn off the video.]

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[He just got called out for being mean to a kid-in-adult's body about death in a public conversation. No way is he going to come out with a name after that. Still, he'll keep the conversation itself going.]

someone who used to be here huh.

lucky me. now theres no chance of hilarious mixups.

YEAH. HIS NAME WAS DAVE.

[Well.]

of the amazing strider family im guessing.

yeah. he sure is gone.

YES, THAT'S HIM. DO YOU KNOW HIM?

i know him.

ARE YOU ONE OF HIS FRIENDS? IF SO, I'M SORRY YOU MISSED HIM. I'M SURE HE WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE SEEN YOU.

nobody said i missed him. i saw him just the other week man.

OH, THAT'S GOOD TO HEAR! HE TALKED ABOUT HIS FRIENDS A LOT, I'M GLAD YOU TWO DIDN'T MISS EACH OTHER.

DO YOU KNOW WHO IS TAKING CARE OF HIS CHOCOBO NOW? OR DOES HE NEED A NEW HOME?

[Oh damn Dave had a Chocobo.]

i dunno. im not the best person to ask.

little miss harley might know. you know. jade. or davesprite.

[A chocobo that he almost named Bro, even.]

OKAY, I'LL ASK AROUND. GAME ALMOST WENT FERAL ONCE, I WOULDN'T WANT IT TO HAPPEN AGAIN.

[And here Bro is, naming his robot puppy Barkbeast. It should be obvious which of the Strider brothers is a bigger sap.]

im gonna guess you wont have too much trouble finding a new home for it.

i mean. who wouldnt want a chocobo right?

YOU'D BE SURPRISED. WE HAD AN OVERABUNDANCE OF CHOCOBOS AWHILE BACK, AND MOST PEOPLE WHO WANT ONE ALREADY HAVE ONE.

NO MATTER. IF NO ONE ELSE IS INTERESTED, I'LL KEEP HIM.

ok.

good luck with that.

THANKS.

[And now that awkward moment when they seem to have run out of things to talk about.]

I'M GOING TO GET GOING NOW, ALL RIGHT? GOOD LUCK TO YOU, MYSTERY TEXTER, AND PERHAPS I'LL SEE YOU SOMEWHERE ELSE AROUND THE BUBBLE.

perhaps you will.

id say the odds are there. i hang with trolls sometimes.

[Well, just with Summoner, really. And Darkleer a few times. The Disciple once. But it counts.]

NOW WHOEVER SAID THAT I WAS A TROLL?

colored text. weird typing quirk. your names like a title.

i can put two and two together. 95% sure youre a troll.

ill slap my words on a sandwich and eat 'm if im wrong.

ALL RIGHT, YOU GOT ME, I'M A TROLL.

THAT WAS WELL REASONED. ALMOST MAKES ME THINK YOU'RE FROM THE SAME UNIVERSE AS THE KIDS.

pretty sure anyone with basic deduction skills can figure that one out.

but yeah. same universe is a thing.

NOT IF THEY'RE NEW TO THE BUBBLE.

AH, I SEE. THAT DOESN'T NARROW THINGS DOWN AS MUCH AS I'D LIKE.

[But Bro's not- ... Well, all right, he supposes he's sort of new. A lot's happened in the past two months, but it was still only two months. Maybe he's got ace deduction skills after all.]

you want more info. you can hunt for it yourself.

itll be like a quest.

[Not so much ace deduction skills as simply observant.]

CONSIDER YOURSELF QUESTED, THEN.

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