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First Viking Assault - [Video]

[When the camera turns on, it’s upside down, and shows a lovely pair of fur lined brown boots sitting on the ground, folded beneath a red leather skirt covered in…are those spikes? They certainly look like spikes. The camera shakes a few times, and then violently shifts to the left as though someone smacked it. And then there is a sigh.]

This can’t be right.

[The voice is female, and frustrated, and after a moment the camera moves wildly again, as it lifts up into the air, showing an image from above of a blonde teenager sitting on the grass somewhere, leaning her back against a tree, and there is a green pokemon curled up on the ground next to her chewing intently on what might be a rock. She looks like she’s about to throw the pokegear away, even make a little growl of frustration, but she happens to glance up at the last second and see that the screen is actually doing something.]

[She brings it back down, frowning at it (still upside down) as she taps the screen with her thumb a few times and finally turns it the right side over. After a few more seconds of poking and prodding, and a few more of pushing her Pokemon out of the way when it becomes a bit too curious about what’s on the shiny machine, she slumps down where she’s sitting and just stares at the screen.]

Okay. That guy. That professor said I can use this to talk to people. Other people, I mean, besides…everyone in this town…people who also woke up in a weird house with a little creature following them around, I mean.

[Some of her anger might be showing through there.]

So, hello. Hi. Whatever. I’m Astrid. I need- [She cuts off as the Axew suddenly pokes his head back into view again, and there’s more shuffling as she pushes him back off-screen.] Sit. Stay. Right there. Good boy.

Anyway. Other than some stuff that didn’t make any sense, all I know is I’ve got this guy following me around and something about training and collecting and…look, it doesn’t matter. I just need to know where Stormfly, my dragon, is…and my axe…and how to get home.

In that order. Thanks.

[Some more fumbling and after about fifteen seconds of a lovely shot of the palm of her hand, Astrid manages to turn the device off.]

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[Oh, hello, there. Nice, ah...outfit, Astrid. Have a rather neat and well-kempt teenager smiling pleasantly back at you on your screen — or just wonder where his voice is coming from, depending.]

In that order? I'd imagine it's something to the effect of, "still at home", "still at home", and "if any of us were aware of that, I highly doubt we would still be here to answer this question for you", really.

[It does take Astrid a few moments to figure out someone is actually answering her back. By then the little device is on the ground in the grass nearby, and she picks it up and peers at it for a few moments before she sees the...tiny person...on it. Now, rationally, she knew how this worked because the Professor had explained it. And from Hiccup she knew that things could look like one thing, and do something else.]

[But there's a huge difference between being told something will let people talk to you, and actually seeing it. So for several moments she just stares at the man on the screen as if she's trying to figure out what sort of magic stuck him in there. She even turns the little device around a few times as if checking to see if he's somehow standing behind it. And then she sighs and rubs at her forehead.]

...Right. I thought that might be it, about going home, it didn't make sense if people stayed here but could and...whatever. I couldn't just not ask.

[WHOA HELLO video vertigo. He actually had to look away from his own screen for a little while, since the feed was still on while she was turning the device all around like that — and he has no desire to get motion-sick while he's sitting stationary in his own living room.]

I'd also suggest you keep the jostling of your device to a minimum — that won't make you many friends, jerking it around like that.

[He adjusts his glasses, then goes on.]

I'll warn you, a message like this is almost certain to guarantee you a great deal of friendly people turning up to give you advice about your new circumstances. That said, it might be most prudent to start by concerning yourself with how to use your Gear. At the moment, you should be seeing me on the screen. A little above that, there ought to be what looks like a small glass circle with a red light nearby. Do you see something like that?

[She narrows her eyes at that piece of 'advice'...but she does stop waving the machine around, at least. For the moment, anyway.]

None of them are going to know how to get home either, are they. [She asks this in that tone of voice that indicates she can pretty much guess the answer. And then she appears to be looking for what he's telling her to look for, and after a few moments of searching she nods.]

Yes. The little light is bright red. What does it mean?

As I said, if any of us knew, I doubt we'd still be here.

[He remarks, very patiently, which has less to do with the fact that she's obviously new and more because he's sometimes just a vaguely condescending asshole beneath his otherwise courteous exterior.]

That means your camera is activated. That is, just as you can see me right now, I can also see you on my end — you have blonde hair and are wearing brown boots and a red skirt, for example. If that light were off, the camera would be deactivated, and I wouldn't be able to see you.

What I'm able to see depends on what you point the glass circle at. Right now, it's pointing at you — hence, I see you. Thus, when you shake the device around like you're in the middle of a storm at sea, it tends to make the rest of us watching it rather nauseous.

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