[Walkabout] Check in

[notadisappointment]

... so I guess some of us didn't go to the Grid after all. Instead we're stuck in how many meters of snow? Well, I'm not complaining too much.

Apparently, we're in a country called Finland and it's the year 2006. They've just won... the Eurovision? Whatever that is? And we're at a pretty famous ski resort! I wonder if we were just awarded a vacation or if there's something else going on... well, I'm at least gonna do a lot of winter sports while here.

If anyone needs help with how to snowboard, I'm your man!

So who all do we have here? I'm Yosuke if someone doesn't know.

Comments

[youandyoualone]

Given that I haven't been allowed to keep it in any infiltrations so far, mayhap names such as mine are another one of those things that seems only to exist in Terre d'Ange, such as proper instruction in Namaah's arts. [Don't ask. Just... don't ask. Because he'll explain and then it will get very embarrassing.]

I might enjoy such a thing. What does the board look like? Is it like a sledge?

[notadisappointment]

[He will ... refrain from asking for now. Instead, to the subject he knows.

He's moved to a place with snowboard rentals and shows an image through the network.]

These, my friend, are snowboards.

[youandyoualone]

[You can't really squint through a psychic connection, but believe me, he would if he could.]

I do not think I would fit on one. Unless... are we to ride them standing up?

[notadisappointment]

That's exactly how you ride them. See this spot here... you place your feet here and strap yourself on the board. That way you won't slide of the board as you slide down.

[youandyoualone]

Ah. Just possibly tip over and break my neck. Do they have more shallow inclines to practice on first?

[notadisappointment]

That's why you learn how to fall first, so you don't break anything when you actually do. But yeah, there are practice slopes.

[youandyoualone]

I do actually know how to fall. [Spy training.] I have found a pamphlet describing the house of Santa Claus? This picture of the man looks very like the Ghost of Christmas Present, only more human.

[notadisappointment]

Yeah, they do look a bit the same, huh?

Well, Santa Claus is a man who brings children presents every year on Christmas. Or that's what they tell kids when they're young.

[youandyoualone]

Does that meant that he does not?

[notadisappointment]

No, I meant that he doesn't really exist. I mean, the actual real life Santa Claus. There are plenty of fakers, like the one here, who bring presents in the spirit.

[starshaper]

W A I T!!

WHO SAID THAT HE DOESN'T EXIST AT ALL???!!! HE MIGHT BE REAL IN SOME WORLDS!!

[notadisappointment]

Not every story character is a real deal in all of the worlds, Usagi-chan. I don't want to imagine some of the worlds' I've heard about.

[Teletuppies. Ugh.]

[starshaper]

Then imagine a fun world with real Santa Claus in it and roll with it!

[notadisappointment]

I don't want to be the kid who believes in Santa.

[starshaper]

THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING A KID OR OLDER WHO BELIEVES IN PEOPLE LIKE THAT!!!

[youandyoualone]

But you cannot know for certain that this Santa does not exist in one of the myriad worlds, even if he does not in either of ours or in this one.

[starshaper]

Thank you! My point exactly!! ♥

[notadisappointment]

Of course I can't be sure, but I choose to believe he's not.

[Some Next Jaunt: Santa Claus' little helpers for real.]

[likescats]

ON MY WORLD HE IS CALLED THE HOGFATHER. AND I CAN ASSURE YOU, HE IS QUITE REAL.

[youandyoualone]

Ah. 'Tis a pity, that.

[notadisappointment]

I don't really like the idea of a fat guy in a white beard breaking into my house to leave me presents. Good intentions, but you could have knocked.

[youandyoualone]

... you did not say he sneaks into one's house.

[notadisappointment]

Whoops. Well, he does. Drops down from a chimney, leaves presents, eats cookies and milk and leaves.

Granted, usually people leave him the cookies and the milk, but that's not the point.

[dino_zarf]

Everything else is real. Santa's gotta be.

[She actually only has a vague conception of Santa, but she has a very strong conception of everything existing.]

[notadisappointment]

[OH CRAP HE FORGOT THE BABY!]

U-Uh, yeah. When you look at it like that... yeah, he likely is!