Doll: text

[hollowbutnotempty]

((....with hovertext, because this is Doll typing, and... well, that's reason enough.))

evry1 stay owt of the fog place. its v v ez to get lost if you dont hav trayesto n som shados r v v v meen :(

my othir friends arnt heer to help n idk trayesto eethir, sory

so dont go in, ok? plz?

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[Text]

[forgotten_vows]

[Thanks to their little magical adventure together, Victor immediately recognizes Doll's unique method of typing even without having to check the name attached. He types back, partially to see if Doll will understand his more-proper spelling. He didn't get much of a chance to gauge Doll's ability to read before.]

I was just about to ask you if perhaps this new district was part of your world coming to visit. I have no plans to go into it, if that helps ease your mind.

((His mun's plans may be different, of course.))

[Text]

[hollowbutnotempty]

[It takes a moment before Doll replies back again, but whether that's due to the time spent figuring out some of Victor's words, or just Doll's slow typing, is anyone's guess.]

ease?

idk how the fog got heer but I think so

v ez to do things ther n saw a shado but it ran away

bad things ther alredy :(

I hope the fake House didnt come too, evrybudy mit get lost ther n I dont know trayesto yet.

[Text]

[forgotten_vows]

Make you feel better.

And I don't know either -- it seems absolutely mad to me. But then, a lot of what happens here seems absolutely mad to me.

Oh dear -- I'm sorry to hear that. Hopefully most of the residents will steer clear.

I've still got my book, so -- that's something?

[Text]

[hollowbutnotempty]

y!

did you find a travil spell in it yet?or somthing to keep you safe if a bad shado gets meen?

idk if those shados r stuck in the fog. I wasn't

[Text]

[forgotten_vows]

Well, there's "Go Wither You Will," which apparently can transport you anywhere you wish to be so long as you know the exact name of said place. . .requires a bird egg, though. There's also a simple shield spell that might help.

Hopefully they are. I don't think anyone would much appreciate them wandering all over the place. Particularly here in Astralfield -- we have enough trouble with the stray dreams. (I think you're an exception, given that you were pulled here like the rest of us. I assume you were, anyway.)

[Text]

[hollowbutnotempty]

bird egg why? idgi.

can you mak a shield if you just want to?

n i think so? went to bed with othir friends n woke up heer insted with lotsa pillows evrywhere

[Text]

[forgotten_vows]

Apparently almost all magic requires that you sacrifice or otherwise use some sort of physical element. Which I suppose makes sense -- the spell I saw to travel between the Land of the Dead and the Land of the Living used an egg as well. "Protection" is exempt from that, though -- you just have to hold up your hands and concentrate. Unfortunately, you can't do anything else lest the shield fall, but it's still better than nothing.

That sounds about what happened to me. I was sitting in my room preparing to sketch something, and suddenly I blacked out and found myself outside the blue castle.

[Text]

[8urn3d0u7]

H3H33H3H3H4

G01NG 4NY WY45

L0L

[Text]

[hollowbutnotempty]

????

what dos that meen?

ur going???

[It seems the horrendous spelling is genuine, not a deliberate quirk in Doll's typing. Mun would apologize, but finds it too amusing. :)]

[Text]

[8urn3d0u7]

[It is quite amusing, especially to Mituna.]

YUP
G0N4 533 50M3 4W350ME 5H17

83C4U53 Y0L0

[Text]

[hollowbutnotempty]

[And Doll squints at it enough that the text blurs a little, and is... funny enough, easier to read, then.

A little, anyway.]

no dont its bad n ur going to get lost :(

n i dont no how to do trayesto :(

whats yolo meen??

[Text]

[8urn3d0u7]

17 M34N5


1 D0N7 KN0W

WH475 7R4Y3570

[Text] ....Mituna, you're making Doll's icon stay like that on purpose, aren't you. XD

[hollowbutnotempty]

so you want to go in bcaus you dont know???

idgi

trayesto is somthing my friends do in the fog world to get us al owt n back to where we got in from.

[Text] Just as planned...

[8urn3d0u7]

WH47

N000111

1 D0N7 KN0W WH47 Y0L0 M34N5

1M G01NG 1N 83C4U53 17 L00K5 4W350M3

0H 50UND5 C00L

[Text/Anonymous?]

[never_go_back]

[Kodachi isn't entirely certain how to respond to the scenario- But running around in fog doesn't seem like her idea of fun at all anyway. On the other hand, she can't resist the idea of tempting someone else.]

...

[Despite it being aggravating to 'translate' what she's reading, she can at least tell the tell one of them is interested.]

Yo. I have heard that there is what some call 'fat loot' deep in the fog. That would certainly explain why they do not wish us to go, dog.

[Text]

[hollowbutnotempty]

fat loot???

its fat shados n ther not nice!!!

n ez to get lost!!!!!

((LOL.))

[Text]

[never_go_back]

[Oops. Kodachi must have done something incorrect because that most certainly was not the response she was expecting and she only gets more confused. At least the last line she can understand.]

I shall keep that in mind, dude. Are we stuck with it forever?

[Text]

[hollowbutnotempty]

idk i hop it gos away soon :(

its not a nice plase

[Voice]

[cupcakes_cupcakes]

"Hello! Is this Victor’s friend? I hear you’re having a party! I love parties so he invited me along! Hope that's OK! Did you want me to bring my party cannon? Or are you all good for decorating?"

[Voice...? well, there's text!]

[hollowbutnotempty]

[It isn't as though the pink pony couldn't hear what was going on, on the other end of the line. But that amounted to mostly soft cloth-y noises, and the soft little fwump of pillows as something light dropped onto them, smushing them against each other and rustling the fabric. She wasn't getting a reply by voice, as no such sounds come across -- even the sounds of breathing, for that matter -- for what probably seemed like years, but was more like a minute, just long enough to make her wonder if someone had actually answered after all... and then she got a text message.]

y this is Doll :)

Your the pink poni?

whats a partee kanin?

[Now if only the hovertext was IC and not just OOC for mun reasons Doll could spell....]

[Voice to Text - Because Pinkie Can't Text With Hooves!]

[cupcakes_cupcakes]

[It takes a while for a reply to come because...that text's really hard to decipher! But Pinkie finally gets it.]

"Yep! That's me! Great to...er...read you?

Doll, that's an interesting name. I'm Pinkie Pie!

And a party cannon is the fastest and best way to set up a party!"

[text! ...to start with.]

[hollowbutnotempty]

[Doll hasn't yet turned off the audio part of the call, so unless she has, it's technically still going... not that she'd hear anything more than she had before.]

o i c

bring it to?

my friends namd me Doll bc i was a pupit

but then they fixt me n im a doll now n i dont need strings

[There was a slight little pause -- and then the offer for a video feed. If she wants to accept it, she'll see Doll -- as the name implies, a doll. Plastic, too pale and near-white to be human skin, and too lacking in detail, with no nostrils or even a mouth in its smooth face. No eyes, either; the plastic was cut away, as a mask's would be, and two glowing yellow irises hung there in the shadows within the head, the eye holes curved softly into a friendly smile. Unruly hair fell down to frame the face, a muted purple that could stand to be brushed, giving the other a childish sort of look. Doll's smile widened a little, and it lifted one thin hand to give her a wave.

No wonder she was getting replies in text; Doll couldn't speak.]

[Video...Voice...Text Whatever!]

[cupcakes_cupcakes]

[Well, Pinkie would be lying if she said she wasn't shocked by Doll’s appearance.

But! Pinkie has seen many bizarre creatures from mustachioed sea serpents, to minotaurs, to insect-like horses with holes in their bodies, to Discord who rather defies desctiption.

Plus Doll is smiling! So Pinkie smiles right back.]

"I see! So the name fits you. Most of the po- er people I've met here don't. Although I hope Victor ends up victorious."

[The guy certainty deserved it!]

"So! Are you having this party for a reason? Or just because?"

[All the things!]

[hollowbutnotempty]

[Doll held up a hand, with two fingers raised from it -- the second reason there, just because -- and turned the phone so she could see the "bed" there in the back of the room as Doll got up from it, a giant pillowcase made of sheets with their edges sewn together, filled with... who knew what. Due to the shape of the lumps and how it fluffed back up once Doll's meager weight was no longer on it, it was probably just a bunch of really soft pillows.

Beside it lay another makeshift bed, a bunch of giant pink heart-shaped pillows, the kind filled with micro-sized styrofoam balls, all squooshy and fun to sink into, gathered up under some blankets. Each of the beds had another pillow at the head, and another blanket on top, though the first bed's blanket had been disturbed and an orange-and-white plush cat was curled up in it.

And the cat's tail curled; it was definitely a plush with embroidered eyes and everything... but it was animate. And it seemed to have a collar on it, too.

Doll sat back down on the bed to type to her again.]

lotsa pillos n 2 beds so wantid a sleepovir n he askt n i sed i didn't meet you yet so we shud hav a partee

party?

n thers mor pillos so we can mak anothir bed :)

n i got snacks n ice cream n its in a cewlir

culir?

[Doll looked puzzled about that word, and easily enough shrugged off the attempt to figure out how it was spelled, opting instead to simply point the phone's camera at the cooler sitting in another corner of the room. It was more of a mini-fridge, if mini-fridges were ever quite that tiny, only about the size of a microwave. It looked as though it was probably something from Crystalden, judging by its space-age-ish sort of aesthetic, and the cord from it led up outside the sheet-curtained window of Doll's plush little house, to disappear to who knew where.]

that :)

in 2 days, y?

[And then Doll did something else on the phone... and Pinkie would get the two photos Doll had sent Victor just a little while ago, of the front of Doll's plush house and the street sign near it, for the purpose of giving her directions.]

[All the things!]

[cupcakes_cupcakes]

"Ooo that looks so comfy!" [Pinkie gives a rather gleeful bounce at the sight.]

"And ohmigosh! I have a pet too! Gummy? Gummeeee, come out!"

[Finally after a moment or two a small green toothless alligator appears at the bottom of the screen and two purple eyes blink slowly.]

"Can he come too? He's great fun at parties."