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[hotbloodedpower]

[The camera of the necklace is flopping in all directions as a pair of hands are working on getting a feed. Grumbling can be heard from the recipient as a redhead comes into view, looking particularly put out from the way everything seems to be going.]

This on? Oh good, it's on. And this is why I don't have a phone...

So uh... [She rubs her head a little.] I guess I'm new here, recently claimed yadda yadda. I'm Akane Hino, and by dang I'm giving up my last name. I'm in Cabin 9 and I just want to ask something:

Is there any normal sports stuff here? I'm looking for volleyballs in particular cause I can't get rusty with my gameplay.

As for everything else, I think I've caught up on the whole being a demi-god thing. Though I guess from how my life has been for a while this is kind of weird even for me.

So uh yeah, I guess if you want to talk just lemme know. Otherwise I'm going to be wandering the camp for a while.

[With that, Akane switches off the signal after some more fumbling. If you want to meet her, she is also wandering around the area looking rather lost and kind of put out, her hands stuck into the pockets of her jeans and looking a touch sullen in her orange half-blood t-shirt. Intercept her maybe?]

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[hotbloodedpower]

I went there in my own world. With my friends, on a world tour actually.

[tick tick tick DING.]

Wait you said Space Pirate. And it was 18something? How does that work?

[little_lost_lizard]

Oh, that sounds nice. That would be when you went to Paris, too?

Ah, yes. My world has a... different history. British aether-ships have been expanding the Empire throughout the worlds of the sun for most of the nineteenth century. I think we may have different laws of physics, too - Mars isn't inhabited in your world, is it?

[hotbloodedpower]

Yeah it was. It was really nice to be honest!

Oooh that explains it. That's actually kind of weird but then again I think there's a lot of neat -- Mars is inhabited? Nope, not my world.

[little_lost_lizard]

Things can be... interesting between worlds, I think. But yes, Mars is inhabited. So are a lot of asteroids and most of Jupiter's moons. Some of my best friends are from Io and Ganymede.

If it's any consolation, I had about the same reaction when I found out America was a country in this world.

[She had it faster, but she's not going to actually say that.]

[hotbloodedpower]

That's really incredible to be honest. I'm kind of jealous!

Aaaaah... well I guess different things in different worlds.

[The entire Smile team is so slow on the uptake it's hilarious.]

[little_lost_lizard]

Mm, I like them. Nipper is the sweetest person you'll ever meet - he just also happens to be a giant crab.

I suppose so. It may have something to do with not having aether-ships in this world - so it wasn't as hard for the colonists to rebel.

[hotbloodedpower]

A giant... crab? He sounds like quite the guy.

I guess space travel would probably change everything.

[little_lost_lizard]

Oh, yes. He looks quite fearsome, but he's a sweetheart, really.

I don't know about "everything", but then I don't know what this world was like in the nineteenth century.

[hotbloodedpower]

Ah okay then.

Mmm that's a good point.

[little_lost_lizard]

I'm sorry, I've been rambling on about my world a lot, haven't I?

[hotbloodedpower]

No no, it's fine. I'm just a little overwhelmed to be honest.

[little_lost_lizard]

Well, I suppose I'm glad to help with that, if you want. I haven't been here more than a week or so, to be honest, but if I can answer any questions I'd be happy to.

[hotbloodedpower]

Well I suppose I have to ask what was with the sign that showed up over my head. I heard it was a 'claiming' thing and some guy with a Help in his name was my dad.

[Still kind of sour about that. She loved her family back home.]

[little_lost_lizard]

"Help"? What sign was it, exactly?

But yes. That's, ah, your divine parent acknowledging you as their child. Presumably it will happen to all of us sooner or later, though sometimes sooner than others. I still haven't been claimed yet.

[hotbloodedpower]

Uh... skull and crossbones?

FFF well the thing is... I can't pronounce it. Told you I was bad at English. You can totally tell how stilted mine is.

[little_lost_lizard]

I don't know, you seem decent enough to me.

Really a skull and crossbones? Maybe Hades... I don't think there's a pirate god.

[hotbloodedpower]

Well, I didn't get a good look at it or anything else but I tried to head over to my old cabin and found me moved to this place with a bunch of machinery.

[little_lost_lizard]

Oh! Hephaestus. The god of artifice and fire.

[hotbloodedpower]

Heee... heffffis... how do you pronounce that?!

... I get fire. I do fire really well.

[little_lost_lizard]

Heh-fest-us. The middle part is like in "festival".

That might be why, then. I'm still trying to think who exactly my parent might be, but there's no problem with being in Cabin 11 in the meantime, apart from it being a bit crowded here.

[hotbloodedpower]

Oh no, I'm so bad with English you have no idea. [She'll table trying to pronounce it later.]

Hm. So basically I have an instinctive creativity with fire then?

[little_lost_lizard]

I'm sorry, I don't know Japanese so I'm not sure what might help. Does it not have eff sounds in it?

Probably. I expect you're good with machines, too - you might be now even if you weren't before.

[hotbloodedpower]

Yeah but it's more like "fu" than "ef".

... good with machines. Ha ha. No. Not me. Well, maybe. I'm terrible with machines.

[little_lost_lizard]

Maybe try thinking of the sound as starting the next syllable instead?

Oh, dear. Maybe you'll get better. Or perhaps you're just meant to be good at breaking them.

[hotbloodedpower]

I'll try. It's a miracle I'm actually speaking semi-correct English right now.

Hmm maybe? I mean, I've never had a use for them.