[Network Video]

[fatedsacrifice]

The feed turns on and this little guy is seen. Noctis is sitting patiently, talking to it softly.

"It's ok, I won't hurt you."

Hesitantly the little creature comes up but takes a bite out of the Baconroom in his hand and the king is surprised. "You..can eat that?"

After a minute of seeing the creature not being harmed, Noct sets his pack down and goes to look at a sort of mushroom. He then takes a few pictures and then is satisfied so he goes back to his pack.

"Hey, where did you go?"

And that's when the pack falls over with the Gnoff inside, still nomming happily.

The king sighs. "I guess this means that you're having my lunch at this point."

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[crystalmaster]

Radley isn't sure what to make of the creature, but it seems harmless, so he smiles and watches.

"Hey," he chuckles. "It's been a while."

[Video]

[ashwantstobattle]

Ash doesn't usually pay much attention to the network-he's far too busy being a ten year old and getting into things but he has almost a sixth sense when it comes to animals.

"Hey! What's that?" He asks eagerly, something like stars shining in his eyes. "It looks so cool."

[audio]

[work_wife]

[Don't mind the only audio thing. She really doesn't know what she's doing. In fact, she hasn't figured out this is a call yet.]

Okay, this is probably the cutest tv show ever. Is it, like, a nature program?

[Video]

[fatedsacrifice]

Noctis turns at the sound of the young voice and nods with a smile.

"It's called a Gnoff, according to the info I found when I first encountered it."

He then gestured with his head at the creature who was eating his lunch in the tipped upside down pack.

"It seems pretty friendly."

[fatedsacrifice]

Now there's a voice he hasn't heard in awhile and Noctis nods.

"Hey, glad to see you're still around."

Calibrations just worry him.

[audio]

[fatedsacrifice]

[The king had to laugh slightly.]

It's not quite anything like that.

[crystalmaster]

"Same," Radley says. "What have you been up to? Did you get stuck in that Calibrations thing?"

[fatedsacrifice]

Noctis shook his head. "Nope. Second time something like that's happened and I haven't gotten caught up in it."

Or maybe it was the third, he wasn't trying to count.

"What about you?"

[crystalmaster]

"Really? I wasn't there either. Where have you been keeping yourself?"

[fatedsacrifice]

Noctis shrugged.

"Just trying to keep busy. Fishing and hunting mainly. Today was the first day I decided to try and do something useful other than those things."

[crystalmaster]

"Weird that we kept missing each other, but it's great to see you again now," Radley smiles.

[work_wife]

[Shit, did this video just respond to her?]

Uh, hello?

[fatedsacrifice]

"Thanks, it's good to see you too."

Noctis reached a hand up into his hair a little self consciously.

"You've been keeping busy at the diner, right?"

[fatedsacrifice]

[He paused a minute.]

I'm here.

[crystalmaster]

"Oh yeah, especially while almost everyone was gone," Radley said.

[fatedsacrifice]

"So you're just hiding out there." Noctis replied, with a slight laugh in his tone.

"Were there many people during that last event or was it more like a ghost town?"

[crystalmaster]

"Hmm. I guess you could put it that way, particularly in this heat."

He sighed. "Most people were stuck in Calibrations, as far as I know. I'm not sure how many weren't."

[work_wife]

Oh shit! There's someone there. You're there. Uh. Huh. We don't have things like this back home.

[fatedsacrifice]

Uh ya I'm here..

[Cue the confusion in his voice.]

Are you new here?

[fatedsacrifice]

He smiled. "Can't blame you for hiding out, with how hot it's been."

Noct nodded. "That whole thing is a pain in the ass."

Even if he did learn some things from it that he hadn't known.

[crystalmaster]

Radley nodded. "It's definitely hotter than it was last year. That rapidly forming mountain is something else." He was quite concerned about it.

"So you've been there in the past?" he asked.

[work_wife]

Oh yeah, very new. Like, just showed up. Well, not this minute, but recently?

[fatedsacrifice]

So you just got here.

[While he wasn't that warrior guy, he thought he should say something similar.]

Welcome to the weirdness then.

[fatedsacrifice]

Noctis sighed. "That's not great news."

Considering he wasn't one for the heat, unless it meant roasting while he was fishing. Then he barely had time to notice.

But then he shook his head. "I haven't had one of those things. I've been here for awhile and somehow keep missing them."

[crystalmaster]

"Yeah, it's not. Back home, something like that would mean something pretty nasty."

He chuckled at this. "Really. I wonder what the key is to missing them."