[video]

[tower_bound]

[Okay, you can do this, Rapunzel, you can do this. Just follow the directions, it can't be hard. Well, maybe not the saying hello to people part, though successfully turning on the odd communication... thing... is proving to be quite the challenge.

In fact, it may or may not have taken her tripping over her own hair to hit the correct button; inattentive pacing isn't conductive to grace, but it seems to do the trick in terms of technological difficulties.

She sits up and takes a moment of looking quizzically at the device, turning it around, peering at the screen from every possible angle. Behind her are trees and grass; it should be pretty clear she's calling from somewhere in the park.

But is it on? What is it doing? Does she have to press anything else? She talks now, correct?]

Am... am I doing this right?

Hello?

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[freezespirited]

I guess they don't have phones where you come from.

[tower_bound]

You could say that.

[She sits up a little taller, turning the phone the right direction as she looks down at the screen.]

So that's what this thing is called. A phone. That's kind of a strange name, don't you think?

[freezespirited]

Is it? I think feet is a strange name.

[tower_bound]

[Okay, the produced a small giggle.]

I guess "feet" is stranger than "phone".

[thneed]

Hello, girl-with-way-too-much-hair-for-one-head.
You got it. Good job.

[tower_bound]

Yes, there's a lot of it.

[Ahaha haha haaaaaa. It's going to be great fun not having people walk on it once she gets back onto the streets; she's in the less-populated park for a reason.]

And thank you.

Um... I'm not sure if I'm allowed to ask, but the people in the white said everything isn't real. They weren't being serious, were they?

[thneed]

I'll say. Do you get frequent headaches? Does it get caught on things? -How would you keep it clean if it's dragging behind you on the floor? How come you don't braid it up or something?

[ how is there so much ]

You're welcome.
And you're allowed to ask whatever you want. Basically, they're a bunch of lunatics and you can ignore that. The 'not-being-real' part doesn't mean 'not-real' it just kind of means some people you probably won't run into right away read your biography that you didn't know you had.

[tower_bound]

[Oh boy, that's a lot to answer. Here goes nothing!]

Well, no, I don't get headaches, and yes, sometimes it does get caught, but I'm usually pretty careful. I keep it clean with lots of brushing and washing it, especially if I walk through too much dust -or now, dirt- but that didn't use to be much of an issue. And Mother never taught me how to braid it; she liked-- likes it down so she can brush it.

[Woah, woah, hold up.]

There are biographies here? As in books? Lots of them?

[totesadorbz]

Omg your hair is sooooooooo prettyyyyyyy

[tower_bound]

O-oh! Um, thank you! That's very kind of you to say.

[Assuming this lady doesn't try to steal it.]

[video]

[dontmindmepleasecontinue]

You appear to be doing admirably.

[Koizumi blinks once into his camera, then smiles at her reassuringly.] Hello to you as well, and welcome to New Moore. My name is Itasuki Koizumi. What's yours?

[Of course, he could have made a fair guess as to her name - it wasn't a hard inference to draw - but she seemed a little freaked out as it is, and understandably so. There was no need to further frighten her if he could avoid it.]

[video]

[tower_bound]

[Wise choice, young man.]

Thanks; I'm trying, but everything is just so... so different. I guess I'm not sure if I'm using this thing right.

[She laughs lightly, the sound revealing her nerves. At least she has just enough wits about her to remember her manners.]

Um, but it's really nice to meet you, Itasuki. I'm Rapunzel.

[video]// WHOOPS that's supposed to be 'Itsuki'. Not sure how the 'a' sneaked in there.

[dontmindmepleasecontinue]

Perfectly understandable - I was lucky enough to arrive from a world similar to this one, so it wasn't as hard to adjust.

You seem to be using the video function just fine, anyway! The other functions aren't too hard to figure out - though if you require assistance I would be more than happy to oblige.

[His smile becomes radiant, at least for a moment.] A pleasure to meet you as well, Rapunzel.

[video]// It happens! We'll just pretend Rapunzel mispronouned his name. Or something. >.>

[tower_bound]

Hm... I might be able to do it on my own then.

[She looks down at the keypad and other buttons; okay, even if it's not too different, it's still like reading some sort of foreign language.]

Or maybe a little bit of help might do me some good.

[ru_fi_oooh]

Doing what right?

[tower_bound]

Using this talking thing.

[She turns the phone over in her hands, as if that will help clarify.]

[ru_fi_oooh]

It's called a phone.

[He's proud of knowing that (because someone told him). Rather than turn his own phone, he cocks his head to the side, trying the follow the apparent motion.]

[tower_bound]

A phone... [She repeats the words, trying them on her tongue, and returns the phone to its proper position.]

Do you have these "phones" where you're from?

[maiditoutalive]

Yes, you've got it! There's not really many wrong ways to do it. What's up?

[tower_bound]

There aren't? But it looks so complicated...

[What's up? That's an idiom she hasn't heard before. Don't mind her actually looking upwards.]

Well, I see a few birds, and there are tree branches, the sky, and I think a cloud.

[maiditoutalive]

[Teach her to assume slang might be transuniversal.]

No storms, I take it?

[tower_bound]

No, none at all.

[She finally looks back down at the mobile.]

Is there supposed to be one?

[doublebladed]

Yup. We can hear you loud and clear. [He's sort of just staring at the massive amount of hair, don't mind him.]

[tower_bound]

[He's not the only one who has stared. At least Rapunzel was well aware from an early age that her hair wasn't "normal" at all.]

Oh, good. That's a relief.

[Okay, here goes nothing. Follow the instructions, Rapunzel.]

So... is it common for people to appear here? I know there's a pamphlet for a reason, but it seems a little... strange.

[doublebladed]

I've only been here for a couple of months, but from what I know it's not uncommon. The weird part is that all of you showed up so fast and without warning. Usually it's only a couple of people at a time.