seasaltkey | Video 001

[A screen pops up and at first nothing is seen, though the noise of something rubbing against the screen is plainly heard. There's a muffled voice before whatever was rubbing against it was pulled away. There's now a blond haired boy on the screen, a blue bird with cloud like wings on his shoulder.]

Doesn't look like the fall broke it, Sky... Huh? It's on?

[The boy stood straighter and looked around.]

I guess we can send a message this way.

[He looks down at the screen again as his little friend chirps.]

If anyone can hear this, can you tell me what's going on? This lady said she was my mom, and there was this old guy who gave me a red and white ball and talked about Pokémon. Is that what Sky is? She just looks like a bird with clouds for wings.

[Sky objects to this and chirps shrilly into her trainer's ears. This causes the boy to drop the device, which promptly lands on the grass. Now there's just a view of the sky and muffled grumbling.]

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From:

seasaltkey

The Seven Mysteries of Twilight Town.

From:

friendyousohard

Okay... what were these mysteries, and what were you trying to find out about them?

From:

seasaltkey

Hmm... I guess they were more wonders than mysteries.

[He's thinking about what they did again. This place sure kept your mind busy. He's counting them off on his fingers.]

There was the spooky steps, the friend from beyond the wall, the moans from the tunnel, the doppelganger, the animated bag, the ghost train, and the lonely girl!

From:

friendyousohard

[Well, those all sound mostly like urban legends to her.]

Let me rephrase the question. What were the mysteries about?

From:

seasaltkey

Oh.

[They aren't that fancy.]

The spooky steps was just Rai counting wrong. Supposedly there was more steps going down than up. The friend from beyond the wall was just a ball bouncing against the wall in the back, not someone throwing it. The moans in the tunnel weren't a ghost, just Vivi training.

[He's clearly not telling her everything.]

The doppelganger wound up being the reflection in the waterfall instead of an actual copy of the person. The animated bag was a dog trapped in a bag instead of a ghost! The ghost train isn't real, and the lonely girl was a curtain moving in the wind.

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friendyousohard

Ahhh, I see. So, let me see if I've got this straight. You heard about these seven mysteries, made a guess about each of them, went out to investigate them, and recorded what you found to match it up against your guesses?

From:

seasaltkey

I didn't even know about the mysteries till my friends mentioned them. They told me what everyone had said about them, and we went to investigate.

From:

friendyousohard

... You're a bit more of a follower than a leader, aren't you?

From:

seasaltkey

Nah. I'm the one who investigated them all while my friends were only asking around.

From:

friendyousohard

[She decides not to point out that they were still the ones who decided to go out and look into them in the first place.]

And how did you investigate them exactly? It sounds like they were looking for eyewitness stories.

From:

seasaltkey

I guess they were. Pence told me where everything was. So I went to those places to check it out.

[Where he was attacked by several things, had to play rodeo with a bag, and get pelted by balls. The usual stuff.]

From:

friendyousohard

Did he tell you to do that or was it your own idea?

From:

seasaltkey

No... my friends wanted me to ask around, too. I thought it'd be quicker to just check those places out.

From:

friendyousohard

Showing initiative. That's good!

[A little notch on her respect meter.]

What would you have done if one of the mysteries was something you couldn't examine on your own? In a place you couldn't get to, for example?

From:

seasaltkey

I can actually jump pretty high, so that wasn't a problem for me. And having a Key-

[Almost said too much. Unless she knows about Keyblades.]

-to the gate helped me get into the mansion before I came here.

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friendyousohard

[Ah, so he didn't actually run into any challenges he couldn't overcome there. That would explain a lot of his attitude.]

I was referring to it in a more theoretical sense, but now I have to confess that I'm quite curious as to how you managed to get a key to a mansion.

From:

seasaltkey

[This is the part where he's going to take his time to answer. Twilight had way too many questions, and it was starting to make him feel a bit uncomfortable. Why did she want to know all of this?]

I always had it?

From:

friendyousohard

[Well that's hardly believable, and Twilight's raising an eyebrow here, but she recognizes an evasive answer when she sees it. There's something he's not telling her, and she doesn't know what. Maybe she'll have to talk to Riku or Sora about this another time.

For now, though...]

I see. But we've gotten a bit off-topic. This was meant to be about your investigative skills. I think I'm getting a good idea of what you can do. You've got a good head for finding answers on your own and getting directly into things, but not so much for supplementary research. Do you read often?

[If he's anything like Sora, the answer isn't just "no", it's "reading, what's that?"}

From:

seasaltkey

[Why is she asking him about reading?]

Not really. I can read, but that's not what I wanna do during summer vacation. I am gonna read the trainer's manual when I travel! It's got a lot of info, right?

From:

friendyousohard

Yeah, that's more or less what I expected you'd say.

[He sounds so very similar to Sora in so many ways... but Sora'd have mentioned a brother. Must be another coincidence.]

Well, all told, I'm going to be direct with you. I don't really think you're liable to find anything that hasn't already been found in this world unless something brand new opens up to us. I certainly can't stop you from looking, but I don't want you to get your hopes up.

[And the reason for all her questioning comes into focus.]

From:

seasaltkey

[If they were closer in age right now, they'd be practically twins. In a weird sort of Kingdom Hearts way.]

I want to find my own answers. Not just have someone tell me what they know. Even is it takes a really long time.

[He's stubborn like that.]

From:

friendyousohard

What you want to do and what's possible may not overlap as much as you'd like. But like I said, I certainly can't stop you and I don't intend to try. On the contrary, if you need my help you can always call me. I just... I know how disappointing it can be to pursue an answer for something that you just don't have the resources to explain. I wouldn't wish that experience on anyone.

[The Pinkie Sense debacle still haunts her.]