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[badbutsadboy]

Display Name: Just Hunter
Profile Photo: Pic
Notes: cw: car accident; he's gonna get hit by a car but be ok

[Hunter was hoping not to be here this long. After being brought here and taking some time to deal with...emotional stuff, and poking around at the technology, he was hoping to see a portal randomly open up and his friends pouring through it, saying "We finally found you!" But so far, they haven't shown up and he doesn't know how long it'll be until he finds his way back to him. Time to try to get to know people here.]

[He knows how to livestream. He hasn't done it much, other than maybe livestreaming Flapjack being adorable to the flyer derby team. He couldn't exactly run around the castle filming himself. But this time he films himself.]

[To human eyes, he likely looks mostly human. Facial scars like this aren't particularly common on teenagers, but it's not that unusual and his other features are pretty typical. But his eyes are a magenta color humans would need costume contacts for, and his ears are long and pointy. He doesn't bother hiding them.]

[He looks tired, thanks to the perpetual bags under his eyes. That's what happens when your job has one day off a year, and then even when you quit, you have to dramatically fight to save the world.]

[He's not sure how to introduce himself.]

Uh. Hi. I'm Hunter? Wait, that's not a question. Why am I saying it like it's a question?

[Realizing he probably should've kept that bit of doubt non-verbal, he raises his chin to try to look more dignified. It's strange, transitioning from being an authority figure - the right hand of the ultimate authority in his world - to...just himself.]

[(Who is himself anyway?)]

[When he says it again there is just a touch of loftiness to it, like he's someone used to previously doing a lot of dramatic entrances.]

My name's Hunter. I'm a witch, from a place called the Boiling Isles. [There are a few chirps. He points the camera subtly to the right to reveal a bird, a cardinal just chilling on his shoulder.] And this is Flapjack.

[He directs the camera back at his face.]

This isn't my first time in the human realm but I didn't get to spend much time in the other version of it I was stuck in before I was brought here. This seems like... a different version.

So, I guess, until I can get back to that version, I want to learn about this place. [He lights up a little bit.]I've heard stories about the Human realm since I was little, but they were from someone who originally came to the Demon Realm centuries ago.

[He points his phone camera up at the buildings. The camera angle makes it look like he might be straying a liiiittle too far into the street.]

So, my first question: hooow do they make buildings so big? We have magic back home and we don't even -

[There is a sudden screech of tires and the phone goes flying as Hunter takes a dive. The bird fortunately doesn't take a dive with him, instinctually taking to the air. The phone lands so it's resting against the tire of a nearby car, still recording. He can be seen face down in the street and starts pushing himself up with a groan, the bird twittering in a panic as it dives down to him and flutters around cheeping at him in distress.]

I'm fine. I'm fine.

[He's a little banged up but he mostly just got sideswiped and knocked down so it's mostly some scrapes and a buttload of bruises. His hip will be black and blue and purple for a while if he doesn't get healing from somewhere, but nothing's broken.]

[The car is a cab, which can be seen slowing briefly, as if the driver is checking through the rear view to see if he's alive. When he starts moving...the cab starts to move again.]

They're just leaving?! Hey! Get back here, human!

[Even in his world, which is a little more rough and tumble, hit and runs (with carts, mind you, not cars) aren't exactly kosher, especially to someone like him, who used to maintain law and order. He hasn't entirely lost the guard mindset he had in the past and it's not lost on him that if they're willing to just drive off (!!!) they might do this to someone else.]

[So even though he straight up just got hit by a car, he can be seen running after the car in an incredibly efficient-looking sprint, like the goddamn T-1000, and jumping on the trunk and then on the roof like a spider monkey. He pounds on the roof furiously to get the driver to stop. This, of course, just freaks the cabbie out and they go faster, forcing Hunter to fall off during a sudden turn. This time he's ready for it, though, and he tucks and rolls, popping out of the roll to his feet at the end.][The adrenaline haze doesn't last forever, though, and he's limping slightly by the time he makes his way back. The bird lands on his shoulder and preens his hair with anxious concern. With one hand, he pets the bird comfortingly, and the other picks up his lost phone. When his face comes back into closer view, a small scrape is visible on his chin.]

Who does that?! Drives a cart...thing, whatever it is, that fast through a town street?!

[Someone's clearly from a society that's has infinitely more walkable infrastructure. Streets have markets! People walk on them!]

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@JustAGothamGirl | video

[qualityfriend]

[Wincing]

First time in a city?

[badbutsadboy]

What gave it away?

[It's very self-aware. Even he's with it enough to catch that his fantasy world duds look pretty different from the clothes here, nor do most people seem to be sporting a woodland creature (or at least a being that looks like one) as an accessory-slash-companion.]

[(It'd be even worse if he was still rocking the cloak he used to wear.)]

[He knows he should shop for human clothes to fit in more, which is what he was planning to do on his little trip, alongside sight-seeing.]

My world has a lot of towns and settlements much smaller than cities like this. We used to have large cities but they were destroyed during the Savage Ages and everyone spread out a little more after.

[There's a slight wince at that when he thinks about why the cities were destroyed, and the painful way he found out his "uncle" was responsible, but he paves over it and moves on.]

Where's the nearest place I might be able to buy supplies from what passes for this world's healing coven? And how does the special card money thing work? They said we could buy things with them. That it was just like paying with snails.

[qualityfriend]

...I think you might need an in-person guide. Where are you? Near the hotel?

[badbutsadboy]

[He looks around and opens his mouth. Shuts it. Opens it again.]

I don't actually know where I am. I was banking on just wandering around and looking for things, then flying back since it's a pretty big building.

[He goes over to squint at a road sign.]

It looks like I'm near the intersection of two roads. 10th ave and Phila -

Phila -

...okay, there's no way I'm going to be able to pronounce that right.[He directs his phone to show the other road name is Philadelphia Street.]

[He tries his best. It comes out sounding like:]

Phyladelphia?

[Close.]

Video | Display Name: JasonTodd

[robintohood]

[Well that was alarming to watch]

Hunter! Hey, are you sure you're okay?

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[badbutsadboy]

I'm fine. Trust me, I've dealt with worse. I can tell if something's broken or not.

[A very real hazard when you're in witches' duels with, you know, normal witches. With powers, When you don't have any. All of them deeply competitive because of wanting to pass their Coven Scout training.]

It only sideswiped me and knocked me down.

This girl I'm also talking to said she's going to be a guide so I can get supplies from this world's healing coven...thing. Whatever you call it here.

[robintohood]

Depends on what you need. Hospitals are for serious injuries and illnesses. Urgent care centers are for stuff you want to get looked over on the same day but not bad enough for a hospital. Pharmacies would sell first-aid supplies and where you get medication.

[badbutsadboy]

I'll ask her about the last one. I'm used to patching myself up, I just need something to do it with.

[Because asking for help growing up had always been the absolute last resort. He'd always had to fight hard to prove himself, not just to Belos but to everyone that thought he was half-a-witch.]

I'll be back later.

[He seems...concerned. For some reason. So he can let him know he's okay.]

[demigoth]

[ Watching this stream is a journey for Nico, who is only getting the hang of these streams himself.

Human with a difference? Could be good, like a satyr, could be bad, like an empousa. He doesn't look any witches Nico's ever met, but you know who talks about the human realm or the mortal realm or the Demon Realm? Addressing people as "human"? Usually not mortals.

This is why demigods don't use cellphones. They don't just attract monsters; they're full of them. The device might not be drawing monsters to Nico physically, but he's already found someone bragging about their dead friend escaping the Underworld and now... whatever this is.

... he does grudgingly start to pull for the witch boy, though, who doesn't understand cars and modern traffic laws and, oh, Nico feels that in his bones. ]

The cart-things are vehicles. That one was a car. The bigger blockier ones are trucks and SUVs, and all of them are going to do at least 30 kilometers an hour in a city. Do you know how to use a crosswalk?

[badbutsadboy]

Question: What's a kilometer? Is that a measurement for distance?

[Per hour might mean it measures how many units of distance can be traveled per hour. They don't usually have much need to clock that for most things back home but it's not a tough leap in logic.]

[demigoth]

Yeah, it's about... 2 miles, I think? No - the other way around. It's about half a mile. More people use kilometers than miles, if you don't count America, and I don't know what they'd use in the Demon Realm.

[ The Underworld is on Greek measurements, naturally. ]

Do you want it in stadia?

[badbutsadboy]

We use feet and miles. If that's also a human thing...

Some things have made that make a lot more sense recently.

[It's strange, realizing he's gone to the place - or a similar place, at least - that Belos sprang from.]

[That, in a sense, he may have as well, if the person whose face he carries had been another human from Belos' human life.]

What places used miles for measurement about 3 to 4 hundred years ago? Did this America place use them? [A pause.] Are we on America now?

text; @Sephiroth

[unkindled_madness]

I would advise more careful awareness and observation of your surroundings.

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[badbutsadboy]

That'S gReat. AdVicE. I waS goinG 2 go arOUnD Blinfold.ed froM now o n.

[He is still extremely bad at phone typing, and it doesn't help that he refuses to ever take off his gloves.]

[unkindled_madness]

You may also consider a typing class.

display name: Otto Octavius | text > video

[doctopoda]

Buildings like that usually have special load-bearing steel frames, with a -

[This engineering talk immediately stops when the whole. Car thing starts to happen. He swaps to video, the better to have an immediate conversation.]

What on earth was that? Are you alright?

Re: display name: Otto Octavius | text > video

[badbutsadboy]

I am not dead.

[ He says it like it's a perk. ]

Be right back, though.

[The pause was for a quick trip led by a guide to a pharmacy and patching himself up with someone else's instruction. The scrape on his chin has a little band aid when he messages Otto again. It's got some kind of ninja turtle-esque heroes on it. Hunter doesn't really see them as cartoonish, though, they pass as perfectly respectable demons back home.]

So apparently the street has a second street for pedestrians next to it on both sides?

[doctopoda]

Yes. That's the sidewalk.

[God he doesn't know you and he is already feeling so much stress about this]

You're meant to walk on that, and only cross the street at designated crosswalks. When the signal there says you can. [Not that he's never jaywalked, that's just what you do in New York, but let's at least try to impart traffic safety.]

@TachibanaHibiki | video

[determinationtofist]

AAH!! Are you alright!??

[ That's an alarming thing to watch, that's for sure. Both the part where Hunter gets hit by a car and the part where he leaps onto the car and... well... everything else. ]

Re: @TachibanaHibiki | video

[badbutsadboy]

I'm okay. Uh, be back in a bit, someone's helping me with healing supply stuff.

[When he gets back online he's bandaged up, including with a cartoon band aid on his chin.]

I've been learning lots of valuable things about city infrastructure.

[determinationtofist]

A-Aahh... that's good...

[ She breathes a sigh of relief. Thank goodness, right? ]

Your world sounds pretty crazy... and I guess there aren't any big roads or cars there, huh?

[somepig]

The answer is everyone with a driver's license.

That guy should get his revoked though.

[badbutsadboy]

What's a driver's license?

[somepig]

It's a little card used to tell people you have the proper training to drive a car.

It's kinda necessary because while they won't do it in a city, there's a lot of places outside cities where cars are allowed to go over 60 miles an hour.

You stand in the middle of a road there and you won't just get a few scrapes.

audio - @knightflynn

[thelaw]

Are you all right? Do you require healing?