✓ Memoir 1 // video

[hawkethat]

[Behold the exhausted but freshly-scrubbed face of one Garrett Hawke, come to introduce himself to the network with a very important question (to him).]

Has anyone heard of a village named Rhododendron? No one at the Medical Center has heard of it, but they suggested I try asking on the network.

It's where I'm from, and I'd like to go back, but I'm not sure where it is from here. So any information at all would be great.

[He hesitates very briefly, then flashes a charming smile.]

Thanks.



[OOC: This guy's hometown is so far off the map no one will have heard of it, and it's also been completely destroyed, but he doesn't know that yet so he's still asking around. Feel free to yank his chain or crush his dreams or just be brutally honest, it's all good! o/]

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[onetrackminds]

Are you hungry?

[incousinswithyou]

[sorry not sorry for crushing your hopes]

Perhaps you'll get the chance to visit once this is all sorted out.

[hah] How did you manage to get here in the first place?

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[hawkethat]

[He's about to say "no" but then his stomach betrays him by rumbling loudly and rudely.

Ugh, body, work with him, here...!]

...Starving.

[No point in trying to say otherwise, really.]

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[onetrackminds]

[he's a little amused by that]

I can get the two of you some food before taking you to the Outpost.

[hawkethat]

[Wow, rude!!]

I wouldn't mind that.

[The more he says it, the more ridiculous it sounds, but...!]

I was caught in a storm, wandered in the wilderness for a few weeks, then took a ride on a passing Charizard.

[incousinswithyou]

[you'll find out sooner or later, sheesh.

That actually gets her to pause for a second. What, really?]

If you elaborated a little more, you could probably write a book. [a fiction book] It certainly sounds interesting enough.

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[hawkethat]

[How embarrassing...]

Thank you. We'd both appreciate it.

[hawkethat]

[Fine. :<]

Even though I've mostly given up on it all being a really elaborate dream, I'm still half-hoping I might wake up.

[incousinswithyou]

[well, at least you realize how crazy that sounds]

Perhaps you can find the Charizard later and ask it where it picked you up. [they're pretty rare, so...]

[hawkethat]

Maybe. I don't know how close to home that would put me, but I guess it's something to keep in mind.

[incousinswithyou]

[one step is better than nothing, but it's hardly her problem.]

What will you do in the meantime, if nobody has heard of it?

[hawkethat]

At this point, I honestly have no idea. I'll have to figure something out.

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[albertstyle]

No. [Asch is a Sword of the Savior, this is what they do -- help people. When your fathers a judge you better at least uphold your duties as Unions make-shift police force.

He's is only doing his job, citizen.] Never heard of it. [He's looking rather annoyed but that's Asch's usually expression.] Are you lost? Because that would be the only valid reason I'd see in bothering every single person publicly like this.

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[onetrackminds]

I can't let you starve, now could I.

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[hawkethat]

[Lol, what? Carver, is that you--?]

I had thought that was implied when I said "I don't know how to get home from here."

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[albertstyle]

Ughhh! I realize that but just-- HOW? How could you be lost? [How are there people in the area that don't know of the City of Union?] The City of Union, it's a major settlement.

[Dealing with people, terrible..]

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[hawkethat]

[Urge to antagonize...rising...]

I don't know, because the world is a big place? I'd never heard of it before today.

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[albertstyle]

[Liar!]

Fine, for some reason, you don't know about one of the largest human settlements in the world. Now you're trying to get back to yours? [When you're lost, trace your steps.. or something. Asch never got to visit much outside the City of Union but his father has, his family owns maps so Asch likes to portend he's wordly.] You must be from pretty far out there, how did you even get here?

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[hawkethat]

[Are you going to be the kind of guy who gets irritated by the simple recitation of facts? Well, only one way to find out...!]

I was caught in a storm that did most of the work, wandered for a few weeks trying to find my way back, and flew here the rest of the way on a passing Charizard.

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[hawkethat]

I don't know. Some people might.

Not you, obviously. But. You know.

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[onetrackminds]

[he shrugs a bit.]

I'd been told up until recently that no one lived outside Union, so I'll admit I'm still curious. It isn't just because of what happened to you.

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[hawkethat]

And we had no idea there was such an enormous settlement out there. Out here. Wherever 'here' is.

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[onetrackminds]

That's why the rangers leave the city. So we can learn what's actually out there.

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[hawkethat]

[And then something occurs to him...]

...Although if one of them had found my village before now, I probably would have heard about it, since I live there.

[Commence sinking feeling in stomach]

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[onetrackminds]

[...well, he sure wasn't very good at turning the topic away from Thing That Make Garrett Sad. But maybe he needed to talk about it, to work something out.]

You can ask them if any of them saw the storm, though. It didn't pass over here, so that should give you a place to start, at least.