[video ]Just a normal dude being normal doot doot

[toolatetochangethename]

 [Okay, so, Wonderland.  Got it.  Cassie loved that book, especially the creepy stuff. His little girl, right there! 

[Nothing too creepy yet, but, hey: he dropped acid in college: he's so ready.  

[ No one knows who he is, and there are precisely ZERO Baskin-Robbins here (you bet your ass he checked) so his secret is safe. So this is his big chance, time to make a fresh start. Right. He's got this.  Eye of the tiger. Be the change. He's sure there's a cliche for it. 

[The point is, maybe this is a good thing. No, it is a good thing. He's got this. ] 

So. Uh. Hi. [He managed a cheezy smile and car salesman's hand wave.] 

I'm Scott....[Aaaand his mind goes blank.  How do people do this?  And why is the first thing that comes to mind 'and I'm totally not an ex-con'? 

[It's not that hard, Scott. Just, you know, sound normal. Whatever you do, don't sound suspicious or like you're trying to hide anything. Because what do you have to hide, right? hahahahahhhhhhhhhhhhh.] 

...and I'm completely normal. [NAILED. IT.]

Comments

[henrydaniel]

Hey, look man, in all seriousness, no judgment. Most everyone here has some kind of background that doesn't matter. We were all brought here, just like you.

[toolatetochangethename]

Yeah, that's what they say, isn't it? Pay your debt to society and it's all over, right?

[Lies. All lies. As he learned the hard way.]

[henrydaniel]

It's what I've heard. Everyone here has a past, so in that regard, no one's really gonna pay that much attention to whatever might be going on with you on a personal level.

[toolatetochangethename]

Yeah, until they figure that what's going on with you they can latch onto so they don't have to think about what's wrong with them.

[ Jim Paxton made magnifying Scott's many flaws to be a pretty engrossing side-hustle. ]

[henrydaniel]

...Huh. Okay.

[ Is this guy just...paranoid? ]

I think you might be setting yourself up for having a harder time here than necessary, but I guess everyone has to sort of...find their own way. It's hard to trust anyone at their word when you've just been magically kidnapped, I get it.

[toolatetochangethename]

[ Paranoid or just smacked around by reality a bit. ]

It's hard to trust people when half the people who respond to your intro act like you're a vampire zombie robot or something.

[henrydaniel]

We've kind of seen it all. All the different ways people intro themselves. I mean, I've been here four years and in that time someone's set the library on fire, flooded a room with nacho cheese, and knocked somebody out, so. People have freaked out, clammed up, cried. We get all the weird. No one tries to hide it, really. So, you know, someone apparently trying to convince us they're normal? Comes across as the weird thing.