1st Design | Video

[chesstotem]

[The video opens on a mass of brown hair. The person holding the device probably hasn't realized it's turned on yet, as the camera angle swoops around for a bit - catching sight of the surroundings, a momentary glimpse of a hand clenched tight around some small object, and then a pale face, with slightly worried brown eyes. Her voice, when she

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[kathreptis]

I think the general consensus is that this is not, in fact, a dream.

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[chesstotem]

Well, I guess that's good, insofar as my sanity is concerned.

Someone still owes me a plane ticket back to Paris.

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[kathreptis]

Well, that's where we run into problems. Good news: you can definitely make it to Paris. Bad news: this probably isn't your world.

...welcome to the City.

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[chesstotem]

So that's just what this place is called?

And I thought that thing was using hyperbole.

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[kathreptis]

Yeah. That's really it.

...they're either very arrogant, very uncreative, or both.

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[chesstotem]

So am I supposed to know why I've been brought here?

Because hero is not a word that would describe me.

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[kathreptis]

Well...that's the surface reason. But what you do here is ultimately up to you.

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[chesstotem]

So... someone in their infinite wisdom just decided to pull me from my own world and drop me here, and now I'm stuck here I can just... live my life in this new reality?

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[kathreptis]

It's a bit hard to believe, isn't it? But as far as I can tell, that's what's happened, barring some...complications.

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[chesstotem]

So my whole life just... poof. Fantastic.

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[kathreptis]

Hey, there's still hope. People go home all the time. Others stick around. You never know.

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[chesstotem]

Don't you just love uncertainty?

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[kathreptis]

My favorite kind is when I reach my hand into a box of chocolates and don't know whether I'm getting dark or caramel. The world-shifting kind is a bit harder to get used to.

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[chesstotem]

Maybe not quite as bad as submitting a design for review.

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[kathreptis]

Oh, what sort of designs?

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[chesstotem]

Oh, I'm an architect. Building designs.