Adventure 01 | Video

[italktofish]

[Arthur has spent a bit of time exploring this network, and he's been getting ever more excited over everything, because holy cow, this looks cool, and screw consequences, I have something exciting to play with. So he'll open up a video feed using his webcam. He is grinning broadly, waving merrily, and looking like a kid on Christmas morning.]

HELLO, EVERYONE!

[He'll turn to address the goldfish sitting in a bowl on the table next to him, even going through the trouble to adjust the webcam so the fish is in the shot along with him.]

See, Slippy? I TOLD you it would work! OUTRAGEOUS!

[And then he laughs. It's not a crazy man laugh, but man, this guy is certainly in a good mood.]

Comments

[video; ipad]

[amberhearted]

Hey, man! Hey, Slippy! Welcome to the... uh, the network? God, what are we even calling this thing?

[video; ipad]

[italktofish]

[YES he actually contacted someone on this crazy thing.]

Thanks for the welcome, chum! Come on, Slippy, tell the nice man hello!

[He'll stare at the fish for a moment, and the fish will actually wave a flipper at Alexander.]

I don't know, is it?

[video4eva]

[amberhearted]

[ WHAT. ]

Did your fish get a number, too?!

[ what next, bugs? protozoans? BACTERIA? ]

[Video || Cat food tray]

[sacrifice_everything]

[Here she goes wandering through the network and- ooh, fish! Fish looks yummy.

Have a happy cat chattering and pawing at the screen. She wants fish.]

[Video]

[italktofish]

[It doesn't take much for Arthur to figure out what the cat wants...not that he even seems at all fazed by encountering a cat on this network.]

Hey, now, kitty, you can't eat Slippy! Why, he's not even in the room with you!

[He looks down at the fish, staring at it as he speaks.]

Steady, old chum, the cat can't get you.

[The fish appears to be reassured by this.]

[Video]

[sacrifice_everything]

[She chatters more insistently. No, that is a bad answer, she wants fish now!]

Voice

[reckless_fire]

Does your fish talk too? [Because after the horse and the cats, he wouldn't be at all surprised]

[Video]

[italktofish]

[There's a proud grin.]

He talks to me! All the fish at the store did, really, but this little guy had the most personality out of any of them!

Voice

[reckless_fire]

[Chuckles]

Just checking, man. The idea of a fish with a number was just a little trippy for me.

Can you talk to anything besides fish--like other animals, or something?
[And because the guy seems so proud of the fish thing]--uh...not that there's anything wrong with fish, or anything. Just...y'know, curious.

video {iphone}

[ursoreckless]

[say hello to a blue-eyed Japanese guy]

Welcome to the secret number club. You seem pretty happy about it.

[Permavideo]

[italktofish]

Why wouldn't I be happy about it? It's EXCITING!

[His sheer volume seems to startle the goldfish. He'll look over at it.]

Sorry, there, old chum.

[ursoreckless]

Everyone says it would be fun and then people start losing their limbs.

( text )

[handcuff]

... You are talking to a goldfish.

[ says a person who enjoys talking to a bird. pot, meet kettle. ]

[Permavideo, because that's how he rolls]

[italktofish]

What's wrong with talking to a goldfish when the goldfish can talk back?

[handcuff]

Are their memories really as short as they say?
It wouldn't make for very good conversation like that.

[gentlebrother]

[Wait.

Wait a...





OH GOD NO.]

....Arty?

[italktofish]

[Arthur's face lights up when he recognizes Lucas. It's one of the kids on his bus!]

Lucas! What are you doing here?

[He turns to the goldfish.]

Say hello to Lucas, Slippy!

[And the fish, who has no idea what's going on because it's just a normal goldfish, waves as instructed.]

video;

[hollowleg]

[Shiro is sitting on his couch, quirking a brow at his iPad because his parents spoil the shit out of him. There's a flame-point siamese cat asleep on the back of the couch behind him]

You sure are... uh... excited. Is that a goldfish?

[The word "fish" wakes the cat up and he jumps down on Shiro's shoulder to paw at the screen] Soba! Get off!

video;

[italktofish]

Why wouldn't I be excited? Things are getting INTERESTING!

[Man, what IS it with all these cats wanting to eat poor Slippy? The goldfish doesn't care.]

Atta boy, old chum, don't let the cat get to you.

[And the fish seems to relax, even if it seemed nonchalant before. It listens to Arthur, after all.]

[ audio; cellphone ]

[stupidshinji]

[ Are you seriously talking to fish. ]

Are you seriously talking to fish.

[ DUDE. ARE YOU SERIOUSLY. ]

[Video]

[italktofish]

Of COURSE I'm talking to fish!

[SERIOUSLY.]

Now that they all talk back to me, why wouldn't I?

video

[testsonseashells]

[Mordin looks incredibly exicted. ]

Goldfish is sapient? Fascinating. Received number? Didn't realize could apply to marine life - changes a great deal.

video

[italktofish]

Well, I don't know that I'd call him...sapi-whatsit, and he didn't get a number, but I did! And ever since then, I've been able to talk to fish!

[handwritten]

[wastingtime]

Hello to you too. Is that your friend?

[HE'S SPOKEN WITH A PONY HE WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF THE FISH COULD TALK OKAY]

[Video]

[italktofish]

He's my friend, all right! Say hello to the nice man, Slippy!

[Well, the fish talks to Arthur. Just not anyone else. The fish will also obediently wave around a fin in an approximation of a human wave when Arthur tells him to say hello.]