[Video]

[littlestraydoll]

[The video comes on to reveal the ruins in the northern mountains, the ones that everyone agrees are haunted. And apparently they are?? After all, the camera's following what looks like a possessed toy. A doll made of knitted yarn is climbing around the broken rocks and remnants of walls. Did a comm drone get lost and find its way clear out there somehow? Surely it doesn't belong to the toy. The Guardians only give comm drones to new arrivals brought by the Miasma . . . right?]

[The little doll loses its footing as bits of rock and dirt slip away from under its stumpy legs. It yelps, little knitted tubes for fingers scrabbling to find purchase in a crack between stones. It pauses, seemingly to make sure it indeed has caught itself, then huffs softly and half-turns toward the drone. Its "eyes" are a pair of mismatched buttons, the left one bright green and noticeably larger than the red one on its right.]

A little help would be nice, friend.

[The voice, sounding like a little boy, presumably comes from the doll, even though its mouth - a gash through the knitting crudely sewn across in such a way as to give it the appearance of ragged teeth - doesn't move.]

[The answering voice is one that every viewer will recognize, since all comm drones sound the same. Think SIRI.]

Understood: help. Starting community video to request help.

Correction: community video already in progress. Proceed to request help.

[The doll's head tilts as if in confusion, and shifts faintly for an instant as if glancing at the camera itself, then shakes its head and turns to continue climbing, sounding resigned as it talks to itself.]

Dumb drone. Not as if there's anyone else around. Oh well . . .



((ooc: By the way, permissions post HERE for its "intuitive learning" ability. =3))

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[Video] "SPOOOOOOOKY wave-y fingers" at Drift 8D

[littlestraydoll]

I see.

I can help. I was created to protect and to help people. I helped Danielle find Sam, and even his sister Kim that he didn't know was still alive. I made sure they could escape the demons that were after them. And now I'm here. Maybe you're the one I'm here to help this time.

[The doll's not wholly sure of that. It's not feeling a particular draw to Drift specifically, not like it did to Danielle. Then again, it wasn't delivered in a crate to Drift's doorstep like it was Danielle's. Actually . . . it wasn't delivered to anyone here. But it must be here for SOME reason. ...right?]

[Video] too spooky

[happyclappyhippydrippy]

[Drift just waves his hands at the camera in that NO ITS FINE sort of way because goddamn]

No no no, I'm sure that's not the case at all. I mean, I'm fine.

[littlestraydoll]

You're sure? Okay.

[If that's a note of disappointment you hear in the thing's voice, Drift, don't take it personally. It's just feeling kind of really lost itself right now, not knowing who it's supposed to be here to serve, or why it's here at all.]

[happyclappyhippydrippy]

Ah, yeah. Pretty sure. Sorry.

[Sorry doll you're just a little creepy.]

Well, anyway, you already know my name. What should I call you?

[littlestraydoll]

[The little golem looks like it might have been about to answer, but then it just kind of goes still . . . and then is thinking. It shifts uncertainly.]

I . . . I don't know. I've never been asked that before. If I have a name, I don't know it. I don't think Kim ever named me.

[happyclappyhippydrippy]

Ahhh.

[aw that's actually kind of sad]

Maybe that's something we can work on? Is there anything you'd like to be called?

[littlestraydoll]

[The little doll is silent for a long moment. This is territory in which it has no experience . . . and nothing is intuitively coming to it the way important information or needed knowledge usually does.]

I think . . . maybe I don't need one? People have names. I'm . . . I'm a guide, and a form of defense. I'm . . . not a . . . person . . . ?

[The words come out slowly, hesitantly. It's as if the doll is sounding them out, feeling them for verity as it speaks them. It's not sure the statement is true . . . but it can't tell if it's false either.]

[happyclappyhippydrippy]

In my experience, people come in all shapes and sizes, and they're created in tons of different ways, sometimes for specific reasons.

[It's all good little dude, you don't have to figure the PERSON thing out right away.]

[littlestraydoll]

Yes! That's like me. I was created for a specific reason. I was created by Kim Hunt from all the good energies in her home after her parents were killed and her older brother Sam was taken. I was meant to protect Sam when the time came. And I did. Kim sent me to Sam's wife Danielle, and together Danielle and I found and saved Sam, and Kim. But the demons weren't going to let any of them leave. I stayed behind to make sure they could. And . . . they did.

[The doll didn't KNOW know that for sure . . . but it felt right. It could sense the verity of that statement. Danielle, Sam, and Kim escaped. They were safe now.]

[The doll shrugged.]

I've fulfilled my purpose. I . . . really don't know what I'm doing here, now. I thought sure the demons' fire would destroy me, even as I defeated them.

[happyclappyhippydrippy]

[Little doll guy your world sounds positively nutty]

Things like that tend to happen here. I know people who were killed back home, but they're perfectly fine here. We've all been given the opportunity to start fresh.