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[sos_pilot]

Type: Video
Sender ID: perfpilot (della duck)
To: Public
Subject: SUP OTHER-WORLDER PEOPLE!!!
Warnings: N/A, will update if needed

[ At first, the Shellphone is RIGHT UP CLOSE TO HER FACE. After a few seconds, she pulls back, and makes a peace sign. Though she keeps the phone steady, she herself moves plenty, cheerful and popping! ]

Suh-weeeet! Super glad this place has the tech. Way too many worlds are stuck in the whole fantasy-medieval-ancient times shtick, and that gets old FAST. Not saying this place is perfect, the whole... ocean... vibe majorly sucks... but, gotta look on the bright side.

But that's way too long before I can say - hey! I'm Della Duck! Don't suppose any of you know my uncle Scrooge? Guess that'd make things too easy... but it's all good! Not my first rodeo! We defeat bad guys, get the magical treasure, have some meaningful journeys and discover the true treasure inside us all along, blah blah blah, home we go.

So, let's skip all the doom and gloom and get right to the learning, shall we? From the looks of things, I'm not the first visitor here, so drop that knowledge on me - what did you wish someone had told YOU on your first day here? What took you way too long to learn?

And, uh, let's see, what else... oh, let's play a game! Best way to make new friends! I got the perfect one too - Two Truths And A Lie! Tell me three things about yourself, one's a lie, and I gotta guess which. Play around! I'll go first!

I'm a mother of three!
I'm allergic to gold!
I'm an ace pilot with my own plane!

Okay, go!

((OOC: feel free to threadhop for the 2truths1lie game!))

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[octoblot]

[Oh hey, it's Della from the tattoo parlor. Normally, Azul doesn't play games like this, but he figures there's no harm in doing so this time if it means building up further rapport with someone he's already met here so far.]

I'm going to assume that the second one is the lie.

[Though, perhaps this is a little too easy for him given that Della already told him before this about her kids, and the third one was easy to guess as the truth based on her attire here.]

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[sos_pilot]

Bingo! Way to go, Double-AA! You must those same grades on your report card!

[ Hey there, tattoo bestie!!! ]

It's true, I've been around gold pretty much ever since childhood, what with my uncle being the richest duck in the world. I even had gold fillings in my teeth when I got cavities!

[ And, much to everyone's disgust, that's when she opens her beak and tries to finger her teeth to show him. ew. ]

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[octoblot]

[Ew. Azul cringes a little as he watches.]

It's alright, I believe you. You don't need to show me to prove it...

[sos_pilot]

[ Thankfully she finally stops, licking her beak afterward. ]

Now, your turn! C'mon, drop some knowledge on me!

[octoblot]

Very well. Let's see...

[Azul really has to think about it for a moment, because he doesn't want to give too much personal information about himself away out of the gate.]

I have a massive collection of coins back home, I've never seen a real dog before outside of pictures in books, and I never had my photo taken until after I left middle school.

[sos_pilot]

Hmmm.

[ Cue the jeopardy music as she debates each choice. ]

The first one is pretty plausible... but those other two are throwing me for a loop. But... I'm going with the last one! You youngin's are obsessed with selfies, right?

[octoblot]

You have picked the correct choice, though sadly not for the right reasons: I know a few classmates of mine who frequently take pictures of themselves to upload to Magicam, but I am not one of them.

[In fact, Azul despises getting his picture taken... but alas, the attempts he has made to try to destroy said photos, especially the ones from before his life in NRC, did not go as planned.]

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[tekhartha]

Della! It is good to see you! [She seems to have survived their first few days here!] I see that someone else has beaten me to an answer. A globetrotting treasure hunter! This lifestyle must be agreeing with you already.

[sos_pilot]

Oh, hey there, Zenny!

[ enjoy the new nickname! ]

And, uh, well, I'd be a little happier without all the... water. And ocean. And fish-stuff. I'm way better in the sky or on solid ground.

[tekhartha]

[.......... alright, he has to say it. He can't help it.]

Is that so? Most of the ducks in my world would be in their element here.

[Though, admittedly, she doesn't look much like any duck Zenyatta has ever seen.]

[sos_pilot]

I'll admit, I'm a bit of an odd duck out when it comes to my family about this particular subject. When we all went to Mervana, everyone wanted to see the mermaids.

I also wanted to see the mermaids... blasted to bits by torpedoes.

[tekhartha]

[hah! odd duck! this is why he likes you della]

That seems somewhat extreme. Were they dangerous?

[He's not sure what he should be picturing here. Beautiful women with waterfalls of hair and enchanting voices? Terrible serpents with claws like rakes and wicked fangs? Who are also ducks? So many questions!!!]

[sos_pilot]

No, they're were mostly just hippies. Their King was kinda dangerous, but that was mostly 'cause he went insane, and we managed to literally beat the sense back into him.

But they're gross, icky, part-fish hippies! All those awful scales, and the smell, and the slime, and just... bleck!

[ She looks ready to gag. Some people hate seafood... some people just hate the sea. ]

[catsgothistongue]

[Look at that. It's the duck he nearly scared the hell out of scalding himself in front of. Funnily enough, a game like this was played... almost half a year ago? Time really flies in this place... Much like Della, hm?]

You already told me you're a pilot, so I know that one's correct. Soooo... [Tap tap. Let him jog his own memory for a sec...] Gonna have to go with number two here. You brought up three adorable little boys, your words not mine, when we first met. Those have to be your kids. That, and it'd make treasure hunting a lot more challenging if the most common treasure'd make you break out in a rash.

[sos_pilot]

Ah, hoist by my own petard! I can't help but talk about my boys!

[ She mocks being upset, an arm over her head, sighing, before bursting into laughter. ]

You got me! Full marks, Ran-the-man! Now, your turn! Drop me some hot facts about yourself!

oop thought i put it, but video: un;catsgothistongue

[catsgothistongue]

[Yes! Please ignore his self-indulgent pump in the air. Ranma-2, Della-nada! She really gotta step up her game here, it'll get dull winning every time!]

I wouldn't have even guessed you're a mom the first time if ya' didn't mention it. Of three, no less.

[... Shoot, no wonder she looked so devastated when he said he didn't see any other ducks like her. Doubly so when he bungled his answer and got her hopes up, only to dash them. Great. Now he really feels bad about that! Ranma no baka! indeed.

Much of a mix bag the last game of truth or dare turned out for him, surely it can't go badly again, can it?]

Let's see here...

[He holds up a finger with each fact, true or false, he lists.]

I swam the sea of Japan to China as part of my training, I ate porridge that made my hair grow super long, and I've beaten the Yamato no Orochi in a fight.

[Della wanted hot facts, he's gonna deliver!]

[sos_pilot]

[ Honestly, that third thing sounds like a casual McDuck adventure. So she takes a moment to mull, lightly tapping her beak. ]

Hmmm... the first two are the ones giving me trouble. You seem pretty scrawny to swim that far, but porridge hair is just too weird... y'know what? Yeah, I'm going with porridge. What are you, Goldilocks?

[catsgothistongue]

[Scrawny?? Look who's talking with those noodle arms and toothpick legs! Ranma'll let this slight slide, since it's only ensuring his lie remain a secret. Needless to say, that's a big ol' smirk on the teen's face hearing Della's guess.]

BZZZZZZZT!

[Doing his best gameshow buzzer impression, he puts a finger down. Strike one.]

Wrong!~ Though it's more like Rapunzel than Goldilocks. I ate some rice porridge during my travels made out of a magic dragon's whisker. The whisker helps bald men with chrome domes by growing a full head of hair. But if someone who isn't bald eats it, then their hair keeps growing forever 'till it all falls out.

[So you know. A fun time.]

[sos_pilot]

[ ... boy, doesn't that raise ALL the questions? Even for all her adventuring, that's still pretty out there! She's rather impressed! ]

... So, you were that desperate to get the mop-top, huh?

[ She assumes he was a very sad, bald teenager. Why else eat it? ]

text; un: mwehehe

[mwehehe]

[No video here! She's a little too shy for that just yet with people she's unfamiliar with for the moment; not that it can't change, just give it time. ;)]

A mom of three, with that figure? Naaaaah. Gotta be the lie.

[A pause, though, because, she'll give her own truths, too.]

Hmm.

1. I'm a well-known hacker.
2. I can inhale curry like no one's business.
3. I hate curry.

[sos_pilot]

[ She'll meet text for text... but her own text/slang may, uh, be a bit behind the times... ]

awwww thank you! ;) but unfortunately YOU WRONG! LOL

i am legit a mom!!! three adorbs boys :) triplets!!!!

as 4 u lesse

those last two are like contradictory so one of them gotta be it

i say 3!!!! u+curry=4ever

[mwehehe]

[IT'S FINE, Futaba's from 2017 it's whatevs. Still a pretty cool... mom??? holy shit]

WHAT no way! Unless THAT was the lie and I was right?

I guess that was at least one easy truth, but what if I did two lies and a truth? >:)

[sos_pilot]

i would NEVER lie about my boys!!! huey dewey and louie ♥

and if you did 2 lies i'd say you weren't playing the game right but i'm choosing to believe in you!!!!

[mwehehe]

Well, you'd be right to believe me then!

Still can't believe it with you, but hey what do I know? I'm still wayyyyyy too young to be thinking about kids anyway. You sound like a good mom though.

[...she feels like she's heard those names before though, but eh, maybe they were similar instead. After all, a lot of things are possible, as she's seen in her time away from her home.]

[sos_pilot]

Thank you!!! Maybe ducks and humans just age differently??? I'm actually in my 30s!

i left my wallet behind in my world i think so trust me i would be one of those super obnoxious parents who shoves pictures of their kids in EEEEEEEVERYOOOOONE'S faces lol