01. video, webcam.

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[ Good eve, Numbers Club. Say hello to a big pair of baby blues all up in the webcam's business for the two seconds it takes to scoot back and allow it to refocus.

A pocket-sized blonde sits on the other end! ]

Ah — ! You do work both ways! Thank goodness. I didn't think of this number for a long time, until I started to hear that awful buzzing noise just recently. I thought maybe it had an expiration date.

[ She lifts a hand to tuck some hair behind her ear and clears her throat. ]

A-anyway, hello, my name is Chloe... I've done what reading I can since I learned I could, um, connect. Things seem very... chaotic for everyone right now. [ Her look turns soft. Are you ready to be helped, are you. ] It's only natural to be wary, and I can't offer very much, but I want to help however I can! So please consider it. My family owns a little bit of property outside of Locke if anyone needs a place to stay where there aren't so many people. The buzzing is also quieter. I promise you wouldn't be imposing, but if you're worried about that, the upstairs of our barn has been renovated into a room since we had our new stables built. It's kept very clean. And I own a truck, if anyone needs help getting around.

[ SHE CAN TOO SEE OVER THE WHEEL WITHOUT A BOOSTER SEAT SHHHHHH SHOOSH just

getting that out of the way, okay.

There's a short pause as she chews on the inside of her cheek. ]

I have one more question! Since it seems like we can share memories among ourselves... does anyone have memories of flying? Or more precisely, being propelled through the air. It's — very unique.

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[ Gently gathers up all of your curtness and coddles it ]

oh! 'propelling' sounds very similar! maybe it was the same thing! :D

[ SHHH IT'S OKAY despite the... delay of the next message. but she really wants to know about this maneuver gear business!! ]

4'9"

...there's no height requirment, is there?

[ pls networker-senpai she gets this too often ]

1/3 sob

[shortspoken]

[ SWEET TITAN JESUS THAT'S NOT JUST "SHORTER THAN ELLIE" ]

2/3

[uokannie]

[ THAT'S SEVERAL INCHES SHORTER THXU BASED NETWORK LIFE IS FANTASTIC ]

text; 3/3

[shortspoken]

[ ok resuming lineface ]

No. No height requirement.
You just seemed a similar size to myself. I was wondering if my gear would fit you, but mine would be

[ Sigh~ ]

too big.

[ Which is bullshit since it's adjustable but SHUT UP SHE IS ALLOWED TO GLORY IN THIS OKAY ]

Anyway. If it seems familiar, then the word "titan" might mean something to you. It does to several of us.

[betroth]

that's alright. i'm a little used to it by now, i'm sure you can imagine.

[ A BEAMING STAINLESS SMILE GOES HERE

what she didn't mean it like that for all she knows you could be fifty feet tall hush baby. ]

titan... is that

a creature?

[shortspoken]

[ If she weren't still lost in her AHAHAHA TALLER THAN U afterglow, Ellie might have taken offense at the accidental implication that she's a teeny shortie. BUT WHO CARES SHE'S TALL SHE'S NOT THE SHORTEST she has to screencap this thread and save it for posterity or something ]

Titans are/were giants.
Some of them are also people.
Very tall. Human-eaters.
Ringing any bells?

[betroth]

[ ELLIE'S TEENY TINY DEET PILE ON THOSE TEENY TINIER THAN HER

just wait until

photographic evidence ]

oh nooo. i did get eaten. :( while flying through a big forest. a huge forest! is that what 'titans' do? i don't really understand how they're 'also people' though! it didn't seem very human. it had big shark teeth.

[shortspoken]

[ 'scuse Ellie while she prods at her own teeth a bit and tries to remember if her titanteeth were all sharky.

 

PROBABLY NOT

SHE'S COOL EREN IS STILL THE ONLY ONE ON THE "WHOA SON U DUN GOT EATEN BY ME" LIST

IT IS SAFE TO PROCEED ]

They're also people in the sense that some humans could turn into titans somehow.
There's at least one here. Though I shouldn't divulge other people's secrets, so I won't say who.

[ Oops does that sound suspicious ]

It's not me. Haha. I'm not a titan. :ヘ)

[ FLAWLESS COVER STORY ]

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[betroth]

[ oh my gosh ]

shapeshifters?! :o

[betroth]

[ SHE KNOWS ALL THESE WEIRD FREAKY CAMPFIRE STORIES IT'S LIKE THE MOTHMAN MEETS BIGFOOT MEETS CANNIBALISM oh no oh dear what do ]

then it's possible i could have known a person like that, right? that's why i wasn't afraid??

[ SHE'S PRETTY SURE NORMAL PEOPLE WOULD BE AFRAID OF A CANNIBALISTIC FLYING BIGFOOT SHARKMONSTER ]

FOUR I LIED

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[ ...a-ah maybe she's getting ahead of herself

BUT

ONE MORE THING ]

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...what a cute face. :>

[shortspoken]

I suppose you could have known one of the people who could transform. Do you remember anything about the titan except the teeth?
The only ones I know physical details of are an especially tall titan with no skin and a female one. Which isn't much to go on b

 

 

 

It's not cute. >:ヘ(

[ WHOOPS DERAILED COMPLETELY ]

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no you don't, it's very cute! i almost touched the screen!

[ buuuuu bu bu look at it it's so insulted ]

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[ OKAY CHLOE FOCUS stop fawning over the e-nosie, back to business. ]

neither of those sound familiar. can either of them fly? or leap? the titan i faced might have been in the air with me.

[shortspoken]

Not cute.
And it's possible they could leap. I can't imagine one flying, though...
None of the ones I've heard of had wings. And I doubt they made 3DMG big enough. Lol.

[betroth]

is so.

[ SHE IS A MATURE ADULT, THANK YOU ]

now that just sounds silly! but i don't know much about the gear yet either, do i? let me try again, before i get sidetracked.

the flying feeling was so fast and agile. there were moments of amazing speed, like i was sailing, and when i felt like i was going to descend, something pitched me right forward again. is that what it's like? 3dmg?

[shortspoken]

That sounds exactly right. Looks like you're one of us.
I have a list of the others. If you're interested. There are quite a few.

[ A slightly creepy list so she can stalk everyone's network activites like the socially maladjusted creeper she is, naturally ]

[betroth]

[ hey, that's love ]

that's so kind of you! are you sure they won't mind...? i've already been talking to alan!

[shortspoken]

I can't see anyone minding. If they do, tell them An Ellie told you to talk to them.
They'll be a lot more receptive then. Works every time.

[ And have a list of EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER MENTIONED GIANTS ON THE NETWORK HOLY CRAP. Which would be every Shingeki plus Walter. There are also brief descriptions of anyone she's seen on video or met in person, but since Ellie's the actual worst at this they're all pretty crap. Bertholdt is listed as "tall. Sweaty," for example. Alan just gets an all-caps "LOUD." ]

[betroth]

ellie, then. what a

[ ????? ?? ????? ? team dad? afros? dick jokes? oh wait she knows that one! ]

diverse list!

[shortspoken]

Oh, we're all about the diversity.
You're going to be our token shortie.

[ Not the shortest NOT THE SHORTEST ~*~*NOT THE SHORTEST*~*~ ]

[betroth]

[ ............................sh-shortie GOSH ]

as long as any network-warming gifts do not contain a stepping stool.

[shortspoken]

 

 

 

 

Considering the average sense of humor around here, I can't make any promises.

[betroth]

i was hoping it wouldn't be too much to ask. ah, well...

are you the token nosie, then? :D