mallowhallow | Level 0001: [Video | Action in Crystalden]

[Video]

Well, looks like I finally got this damn thing turned on. Fancy as hell and all, but it could stand to have a better interface... and be made of something sturdier than see-through plastic. [He mumbles the next phrase:] Feels like I'm gonna break this thing.

Anyway, at first I thought this was some kind of dream or sick joke. Guess it's not, and I really shouldn't be surprised. Anyway, figured I'd introduce myself. Name's Adell, and I'm... [He hesitates, as though he was going to say something else, and then realizing that's irrelevant here.] ...new around here, I guess.

I'm currently in this Crystalden place... it's like something out of a cheesy sci-fi manga or something. Is this really where I'm supposed to live? I can't even find my apartment... [He sighs. At least it looked like there was a hell of a lot more freedom to move around here than in Luceti... He turns slightly away from the phone to look at the digital street sign he just passed, and the more diligent will notice something unusual on his back.] ...Pretty sure I'm going in circles.

Last thing, I guess. If the word "Luceti" means anything to anyone out there, I'd be interested in hearing from you.

[A risk to ask about it, perhaps, but worth a shot.]

[Action]

[Still wandering around Crystalden, the young demon is actually taken in by a number of sights, and even stops to linger in a highly advanced video arcade. That looked like fun, and he made a note to remember where it was. Afterward, he set out once more to find his new home. He can be encountered in person at any time along the way.]

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Um... okay, we'll try that.

[Adell types in apartment, clumsily typing things in and screwing it up at least twice. He hits the 'enter' button and waits for the results to pop up.

All multiple dozens of them.]

...Well. I guess that sorta helps?

[This face.]

H-how are we supposed to narrow it down? The name of the building? The room number? How close the each place is to the nearest library? Is there even a library here? W-what if the books are more of these phone things? How do they even organize them if they have no covers? I can't imagine it being easier than the libraries I'm already used to...

[Koa...Koa. You're getting distracted.]

Calm down, Koa. We can worry about books later. Besides, even if they don't have books here, one of the other districts should.

[Adell growls at his phone as he scrolls through the results, and then just reaches into his pocket and produces a key he was given. There's a number on it.... "1313," but little else to suggest its location.

Reluctantly, he typed in "1313" after "Apartment" and hit enter. Seemed like there was only one result this time.]

...Well, maybe that's it, then?

[Okay, now he was the one saying to calm down. That usually meant she needed to, well, calm down. Though it was kind of a normal occurrence, it was also a little embarrassing.]

There's...just one way to find out, isn't there? Which way is that from here?

[He messes with the selection somewhat, reading what he can make out of an address, then going back to the map app and trying to draw it up there. Helpfully, he gets it right after a minute or two, and the app draws a line between the arcade and the supposed location of the apartment.]

Looks like it's a few blocks that way. Guess we follow the line, then.

[He points off in the opposite direction where he came from. Good thing Koa's appearance had stopped him from wandering too far off in the wrong direction.]