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[cyanide]

Absolutely stunning.

She was in awe. To think that all of this was but a virtual reality, something to trick her senses into believing that what she saw and heard and breathed was irrevocably real was impossible to wrap her head around. Cyanide had played many games, that much was true. From RPGs to shooters to fighters to racers but -- nothing could hold a candle to what she experienced with the renown Digimon Online.

It was almost too much to take in. A technological marvel? She could believe it.

When it came to choosing a partner? That had been a little unexpected. It wasn't as if she were keen on reading manuals or anything of the like when it came to games so this...was something new. Then again, it was almost like playing Pokemon all over again with the way this was starting out. Except Pokemon didn't really talk back with coherent human speech. Pretty startling.

"So... DoKune-or-another, right?"

The query was received with instant warmth, the worm-like Digimon wiggling slightly in response and waggling her antennae enthusiastically. It was close to weird, seeing how something that was basically just a lump of digital coding, an AI, could react with such...emotion. It held her in a vice of awe. "DoKunemon, you mean!" it chirruped brightly, undeterred that its tamer couldn't even remember it's name. She really didn't seem to mind too much.

A chuckle. "Oh uhm, okay. Can't promise I'll remember it..." Well, that wouldn't do her any good. Maybe it was possible to nickname them? Was it even probable? Might as well ask it. Couldn't hurt. "Hey, uh, DoKunemon? Is it alright if I give ya a nickname or somethin'?"

"Oooh, a nickname!" Antennae quivering, looking as if she were about to do backflips, the DoKunemon nodded enthusiastically. "Yes, I'd love one!" Talk about quirky and energetic. For a fleeting moment, Cyanide was disappointed. She wanted a tough partner, one that was intimidating to greet. One that would come out on top no matter the circumstances. With this Digimon's outgoing personality - or so it apparently seemed - that didn't set with her as it should. But at the same time...she couldn't help but feel appealed by it.

Even so, she needed a good nickname. Something suitable. Squinting at her, she snapped her fingers. "That's it! 'Nox'. Nox for Noxious. How's that sound to ya?"

The girl took the Digimon's squeak of eagerness as a yes. Involuntarily, a smile took her face by storm. It felt as though she hadn't truly smiled in years.

Feeling great, about ready to truly delve into the world of Digimon Online, she rested her hands on her hips and took a quick look around here. Asuka City, her starting point. The place where she'd look back on after all her progression throughout the game and recall how she first got her Digimon and braved a new MMORPG world.

"All riiight! Now uhm...where to."

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[mewt]

Mewt had to remind himself to breath almost every two seconds. After his initial astounding discovery of this world (a voice! he had a voice in this place!) he wondered if he would be able to continue without being booted from the game again. It was nice to know he was protected should he feel something too extreme, but with how excited he was about being able to speak he wasn't sure he'd be able to keep himself in check. Beyond just speaking, it was nice to have a companion right at the beginning.

"O-Oh it was... Salamon. Wasn't it?" the young man forced himself to focus on his new partner, the Digital Monster. As unbelievable as the world was, the Digimon themselves were the part Mewt couldn't quite get over. Data could not even begin to describe the amazing creatures. In fact Mewt was so fascinated with the Digimon that he didn't realize he spoke in a horrifically faltering way.

Instead of answering Mewt his Digimon stalked about his legs and brushed her head against him like a cat... But she looked so much like a dog. Mewt gave it a moment, awkwardly. He was extremely baffled and desperately wanted to understand this game a little more though, so he pressed with a nervous, "Uhm... Salamon?"

Rather abruptly the little creature tore away from Mewt and began to buzz through the crowd. "C'mooooon I'll tell you stuff when you catch me!" Salamon shouted playfully as she zagged through the surprising number of players loitering about.

There were a few long moments wherein Mewt was completely and hopelessly dumbfounded. His expression turned quizzical very slowly and then it hit him- Salamon was escaping! "D-does it not... like me?" Mewt breathed as his feet shuffled into action. To others he must have looked like a fool, but the young man shuffled and slid through people, peeked over and under them in the hopes of catching a glimpse of that devious little Digimon of his.

It didn't take him long to bump into someone and he instantly flushed. Curse this realistic game, he must have looked like a tomato. "I-I... I-I'm so sorry," Mewt sputtered, quickly withdrawing a little. The short glimpse he caught of the girl's face, who he had so gracefully bumped into, made him feel all the more embarrassed.

Only after that did Salamon pad out from it's little hiding place with a big smile on it's face. "You lose."

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[cyanide]

That really was something to idly think about. Where to go. Her experience with Digimon Online with little to nothing, so what she knew was limited. Virtual reality? Check. Digital monsters that acted as your sole companion? Check number two. And...that was really all it amounted to.

It was kind of frustrating in that sense. So did it really matter where she ran off to next? Was there any kind of linear path that was meant to be taken, or at least some sort of guideline? Of course, there was the interface to divulge in, to see if there would be anything of use to her queries but...

Sigh. Effort.

She was the kind to take it in stride anyway. There was no point in consulting the game's options! There was Nox anyway, and her own intuition and common sense. That's all she would need. With that, she could--

"Oof!" Squawking indignantly, raising her fists and frowning and looking generally displeased and unimpressed, Cyanide looked for the offender and found him spluttering. Kinda looked scrawny to her. Couldn't even seem to talk right!

Huffing, the girl crossed her arms and glowered right back at him, pausing her glare to momentarily take stock of his Salamon before returning to him. Nox merely twitched her antennae and stayed surprisingly silent, observing the newcomers. Heck, she wished there was eyes or something discernible on her companion, even if it wasn't on her head. It was disconcerting.

Either way: "Hey, what was that for, anyway? You blind or somethin'? This was her chance to try out a different persona. To be someone a bit different and deviate from the norm she was accustomed to personally. She viewed it as her test. It was something that didn't take too long to derail, though. "Y-you should watch where you're going!" she continued with a splutter, all in a tizzy.

"Maybe he didn't quite mean it," the DoKunemon finally chipped in with her customary chirrup, wagging her antennae at the stranger. All Cyanide could do was huff once more in response.

"Yeah right!"

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[mewt]

It was only just the start and Mewt already felt like he had made a hopeless fool of himself. If he was a bit stronger of a person he might blame that little Salamon, but her innocent little face made him even more tongue-tied than he already was. All Mewt could really do about the situation was try to calm his red face and brace himself for whatever the girl had to say to her.

And he was right to try to prepare, because the instant he heard her 'oof' and caught the sight of her fists it took all of his will-power to keep his whimper at least somewhat quiet. There couldn't have possibly been a worse way to make a first impression in Mewt's mind. Actually maybe he shouldn't think that, because knowing his luck he'd find a way and accomplish it flawlessly during his next first encounter.

Mewt wanted so badly to answer her questioning, her gruff addressing of him strongly, but he knew better by now. Speaking was a new thing to him, so it was only natural he was... well... pathetic at it so far. "It... wasn't for a-a-anything," the young man winced at himself, already flustered with his shortcomings, "Didn't mean to bump in- I-I'm sorry!"

"Hey, don't be mean to my partner," Salamon suddenly pipped up. Her tiny little body strode confidently by, coming to a stop in front of the shaking and stuttering Mewt. A look of shear determination ruled the face of that Digimon as she continued, "I don't know him very well yet, but he was willing to play a game with me right away so he's obviously not a bad guy."

The look of confusion that crossed Mewt's face wasn't something he could control. What the Salamon was doing didn't make any sense to the young man, yet he was thankful. Even if she didn't like him too terribly much she was at least willing to defend him and that brought a certain amount of comfort.

[cyanide]

This was ridiculous! Not even a full half hour into the game, and she was already being ran into and stammered at. It was enough to have her eyes roll in exasperation, in complete disbelief at her bunch of luck. Leave it to her to manage this kind of encounter so soon and so abruptly at that. However, she was not too keen to place the blame on her. Clearly he was at fault! He bumped into her first, so it was logical to think that he should be where the accusatory fingers pointed.

She wasn't quite sold on his stammered "sorry", really. She wasn't quite sold on anything about him. If anything, it served to irk her further and she stomped a foot in frustration, about ready to give him yet another piece of her mind when his Digimon partner not only strode up in front of him but spoke up to defend him so stoutly and confidently.

The girl managed to falter for a second, the words dying on her tongue as soon as they had begun to fester. Wow, getting the petite dog-looking Digimon to speak for him? How mundane. "I can be whatever I want," she childishly muttered, averting her gaze from the pair.

When she refused to speak for a good minute or so, Nox spoke for her without preamble. "Please don't mind my tamer," she squeaked softly, "I bet she doesn't mean it! She's just a little bit overwhelmed is all, I'm sure!"

Bewildered, she gazed down at the small green-and-purple worm. Nox still confounded her, and probably would manage that feat for a while to come. Whatever, she thought angrily to herself. What the freak ever.

But now that her DoKunemon had spoken up like that to defend her in turn, it would be rather crude of her to take that and curb stomp it so harshly. Sighing, running her fingers through her hair, she mustered a hurried "sorry then" under her breath.

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[mewt]

Embarrassed. So so embarrassed. Mewt ran a slightly trembling hand through his hair and he forced a weak smile on his face. This was a game, and in a game you could control how you came across to others. Couldn't you? Mewt didn't feel like he could now. Or maybe he should just say he couldn't and get it over with.

This girl was giving him the weirdest anxiety. Even with Salamon acting as some kind of tiny white knight he still didn't want to make any enemies. At least he could have waited a week before getting someone to dislike him so much. Mewt then realized what her username was an almost laughed to himself. Cyanide? That wasn't a friend-inspiring kind of name that you picked when you wanted to get close to people.

When her partnered Digimon began to speak, Mewt started to scold himself. Without even really thinking about it he had judged the girl based on her username and that wasn't the kind of treatment he wanted to encourage. If there was a way it would have been nice to defuse the situation even more. If the little worm Digimon could work on it then he could as well. Though it made him nervous, Mewt supposed he should have explained why he was such a stuttering mess. A wary eye glanced down to Salamon and he wondered what she was thinking and what she would think once she got to know him better.

"It... must be frustrating. Listening to me s-speak, I mean," Mewt started slowly, but with more conscious effort than before. The blue-haired man found the courage to start talking about it, but not the courage needed to look the girl in the face. "I-In the real world, I'm a mute. It's... h-hard enough to believe I can speak at all here, b-but it's so faltering and c-clumsy." Something akin to a pathetic laugh escaped his lips and he forced that weak little smile again.

"Sorry for bumping into y-you. I'm... Mewt."

Salamon, who had decided to remain silent while her partner started to talk, looked up with expressive eyes and frowned. She couldn't seem to summon any words, but she looked back to the pair she had caused her Tamer to run into and uttered, "I'm sorry I caused him to bump into you."

[cyanide]

Why did he have to come along, anyway? For some reason, he was making it extremely difficult to keep up the tough girl act, a charade she had been certain would have been manageable even for her. Maybe it was because he wasn't being belligerent in the slightest, instead crumpling and stuttering and presenting little aggressiveness. If he had been more responsive on the hostile front, the rough charade could have equaled laughably easy to maintain. Not with this boy, though. It was inching toward impossible.

That aggravated her more than she could say. Nox seemed to sense that irritation though, she mused. The small green worm Digimon was almost quivering, and bumped its purple beak against her calf as if she were trying to pacify her. In a sense, it kind of worked. Looked like her Digimon pal was going to act as her personal pacifier. And maybe she would need it.

That, however, was a begrudged thought.

Although, once the other user began to explain - with a fair amount of pausing and stuttering, she idly thought in a guilty bout of vexation - a bit of shame coloured her face with slight red and she rubbed the back of her head. Aw, great. Way to make her feel terrible. And what a way to completely annihilate her sense of snarkiness and a belligerent attitude.

"Oh... I didn't realize that." Shifting her weight uncomfortably, resisting an urge to kick everything in visible sight, she continued. "That kinda explains things, huh? I'm uhm, really sorry then. Guess I didn't mean to come off like sucha jerk. And it's okay," she added to not only the player, but Salamon as well.

Abashed, unsure of what else to do or say, she gestured to her DoKunemon in a way that said it was her last and only option. "So uh, this is--"

"DoKunemon!" the tiny worm chirped, waggling her sharp purple 'hands'. "Or I mean, Nox!" the DoKunemon corrected herself.

Stifling a laugh, Cyanide returned her attention to Mewt and Salamon. "Uhm, would you happen to be a new player, too?"

[mewt]

Instantly the look on her face made Mewt feel like he did something wrong all over again. He would have been extremely hard pressed to realize it was any kind of guilt and first reactions would have had him bumbling to say some more apologies if he could have managed to get them out. By perhaps divine grace though, Mewt didn't manage to get a single word out before she started to speak.

A different kind of flush overtook his face and he smiled awkwardly. This was one of the most peculiar things that had happened to Mewt, and not just in the game. He realized it was the first time in a long time someone was looking at him and not with some kind of contempt or full-blown irritation... Or at least he didn't think she was. It was very much possible she was hiding it, but there wouldn't have been any point in saying sorry the way she did if she really just wanted the encounter to be over.

Dokunemon... Mewt looked down to the little worm Digimon and smiled a little. In response to it's introduction of itself Salamon uttered, "And I'm Salamon! ... Oh but I don't have a nickname. Mewt?"

"N-Nickname?" The young man repeated, a little dumbfounded. It had never crossed his mind that his partner would want some kind of a nickname, but it made sense. If there were different species of Digimon then there would be others just like Salamon- she probably would prefer some kind of second name with that being the case. After all, it wasn't like humans just called each other human and all cats cat! "Oh! How about... Ritz?" Mewt drew the name from the game where he got his namesake.

Salamon perked up and nodded, "Ritz it is! I'm Ritz!"

Feeling a little more at ease, and maybe even a little more confident, Mewt turned his full attention back to Cyanide. "This is a-actually my first time logging in, so yeah. I'm Mewt b-by the way."

[cyanide]

It was only at this point that she had begun to realize this was the first time in a long while that she really interacted with someone else. Even if it was simply through an online game, it had to count for something - if the fact that it was a virtual reality didn't make it so, she didn't know what would.

It was a bit strange, now that she thought about it. It wasn't as if she were keen to seek out the company of others, having preference of her own solitude than being with a group of friends. Friends could be superficial, anyway. They could backstab you at any given time. Pretending was easy: Being genuine a chore. That line of thinking often had her keep out of the social way. And honestly, it didn't bother her so much.

She figured that this should feel weirder. Somehow, it didn't. Maybe it was because he appeared to be such a softy, or a pushover, or a mute in real life's game, or something along those lines. But whatever it was that somehow led to comfort, even minimal, she wasn't going to question it any time soon. She'd probably forget all about it in a few more heart's beats, really.

"Ritz is a cute name," the DoKunemon squeaked before she could get a word in edgewise. A nod of agreement would suffice then, and that's what she gave.

...Gee, how did she know. "I thought you might be a new player. Just a hitch," the girl intoned, cracking her knuckles carelessly at his introduction. "Yeah yeah, Mewt. Guess it's a cute name. Probably figured my user is Cyanide by now too, huh?"

Half-mindedly, she patted her Digimon partner's head and off-handedly added, "You wouldn't happen to know where we go next, do ya? Or think we just venture off on our own, do whatever we like?" It wasn't like she was expecting him to know the answers. Oh no, there was no way he'd know for sure! He was a new player just like her. Then again, if he continued to be nothing like her, he could have read up on Digimon Online and done some research. That'd be nerdy. But not something she'd put past him just yet.

Regardless, it couldn't hurt too terribly much to ask.

[mewt]

"I like it, yeah!" Salamon happily mumbled the name to herself and started walking about in circles. The Digimon seemed completely content in ignoring everyone else for the time to mull over her new name, but then she seemed to realize something and stopped. With a weird seriousness she looked over to the DoKunemon and said, "Nox is a good name too, you know." And then just as quickly as she had turned serious she went back to prancing in a circle to mumble her name to herself.

Mewt glanced down to the Digimon and stared at her quizzically. She certainly was a perplexing thing, he thought with a slight frown. The young man's attention was only drawn from his partner when Cyanide began to talk again. "U-Uh yeah," Mewt muttered softly when she 'introduced' herself as well. His gaze dropped a little and he twiddled his thumbs.

The question oddly enough took Mewt off guard. For some reason he looked at Cyanide and thought she wasn't the type to ask for help or anything quite like that. "Well... um you c-could do whatever you like in this game, basically. I-I know most will explore the city to figure out wh-where helpful things like the inn, shops, and pub are before leaving t-to train," Mewt started, trying to remember everything he read about before entering the game.

"There is a g-gym here as well where you can train your Digimon i-if you're not ready to train them against wild Digimon," he recited, as if from a book. In truth it was from a book, which was something like a fast track guide to starting the game. "I'm n-not sure what I'd want to do first myself..."

[cyanide]

His Salamon was certainly...peculiar the girl couldn't help but think, watching the dog-like Digimon prance in its circles, too entranced in its own little world. Nox certainly hadn't gotten off her rocker when she gave it a nickname, albeit being a bit excitable for a while. That wasn't the same thing though, and she wasn't acting strange like Mewt's Digi-pal.

It almost startled her when the Salamon abruptly became serious to give a compliment to her partner's name, only to resume her circular pacing, as if the momentary pause was naught but a glitch in her subtle world. "You think so?" the DoKunemon said, more to herself than the other Digimon - after all, she most likely hadn't heard the soft musing from the digital green worm.

"Yeah, of course it is!" Cyanide declared with a mini fist pump. Nox merely responded with her trademark wiggling of antennae, seemingly quite pleased with how it had all turned out in the end. Shouldn't have mattered. There was no need for confirmation that her nickname was good to begin with! This the girl was certain of.

But ah, back to Mewt. Of course, she was not surprised in the least that he actually had some information to give her. He was useful in that regard. Perhaps it hadn't been too awful a predicament, him bumping into her. Maybe he could help her out, even if she wouldn't really classify it as "helping". More like a backup plan. Something like that - yeah. That would have to do for now.

"For some reason, I had a nagging feeling you'd know about the city here," she replied. Grateful for the information? Definitely. Showcase that gratitude in an obvious way? Never. "Ah, whatever. Always good to know."

Though he seemed to be in the same boat as her. What did she want to do first herself? Explore the city a little more? Or forego that to dash off into the next zone and throw herself bodily against what could come? She kind of liked that idea more. But she also liked the idea of a crutch, a backup plan. And Mewt blindly provided that, whether or not he realized it as she did. He could be invaluable. So what if he had some speech impediment in-game? It wasn't a big deal! Couldn't last forever, either. Just had to get used to the whole speech thing was all. He'd get in a jiffy or another.

Tapping her chin, humming in thought, she furrowed her brow. Y'know, Nox and I don't really know what the heck to do either."

"It's true!" she chirruped, stretched out what Cyanide assumed what could be considered a neck out toward Mewt. "Oh, hey! What if we partnered up and stuff? Four heads are better than two!"

Drat. Did her DoKunemon have to get ahead of herself like that? Refraining from a sigh, she forced a smile anyway. She was right in a sense. More brainpower. More brawn, too. "That's something of a proposition, eh? Whattaya say?"

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[mewt]

No, there really was no way of understanding what was going on in the mind of his Digimon partner. Actually... Mewt considered that thought for a few long moments. Did Digimon even have human-like thought processes? It would only make sense for the AI of a Digimon to be based around a human mind, and they did come across at least somewhat human from what the young man could tell, but he wasn't sure if they... had to do much thinking. A thoughtful little frown settled on his lips as he watched Ritz do her rounds.

Mewt's eyes then traveled from his swirling Digimon to Nox. The DoKunemon was different still from his Salamon, but there was no reason that they had to be the same. If every Digimon was exactly the same as the next then it would be unlikely everyone would want to play the game, or party up, because some people wouldn't enjoy the same thing someone else might. That brought up another question to Mewt which was of course were Digimon partners programmed to like the company of their Tamer? If friction could fly between a person and their partner it might make this game far more interesting...

In the midst of his pondering he realized Cyanide was being a little barbed again. The word barbed actually might not have been the most accurate to describe it, Mewt thought. Aloof very well might have been the better applicable word. "A-Ah yeah, i-it's good to k-know," Mewt stuttered worse than usual, which he quickly blamed on nerves. A slight red hue tinted his face once more and he averted his gaze a bit. All the boy could do was nod when Cyanide said she and Nox weren't sure what to do either.

Then Nox blurted something out, surely with more excitement than Cyanide would have. Still burdened by his blush, Mewt looked to the girl with a slight surprise. What did he say to that? Great question, actually... "T-That sounds good to me," Mewt nodded. According to the instructions of the game though... there was a few things that you could do in the social aspect that might apply here. "Uh, I-I think I can invite you to form a p-party, and if you w-want we could put each other in o-our address books? T-That we don't have to do though." Feeling a little more embarrassed again he quickly just sent the invitation to form a party.

"You should do that!" Ritz barked, "I bet Mewt could use a ffrrrrieeeend." The Digimon seemed to be done mumbling to itself and instead started jumping up and down in front of Cyanide.

Mewt wanted to say something for a moment about Ritz calming down, or not embarrassing him like that, but he held his tongue. It was hard to sound authoritative when you were tripping over nearly every word you could form. "Ritz..." He sighed a little.

Without shame she looked back to him and grinned big.

Well, so much for that.

[cyanide]

She didn't fully understand why Nox appeared to like Mewt so much. Was it because of that frailty that he radiated, if only for his stuttering and near incoherence when he tried to string together a structure of words without completely tumbling over them? Or was it that she was merely too amicable for her own good? Whatever the case might have been, it was slowly gnawing at her, and not all too pleasantly. The more the minutes went on by, the more she had to come to terms with the fact that her Digimon partner was far from the kind of badass digital monster she had been envisioning - not just in looks, but in personality.

It was disappointing. To an extent. Despite being unfortunately disenchanted from tenacity by no will of her own, there was a bit of enamoured feeling for the excitable worm. Her demeanour was rather infectious. Curse that.

Then there was Mewt's partner, more perplexing than her own new found pile of binary code pal. The heck was that Salamon thinking? ...Or not thinking?

Not her problem.

It was getting easier, blatantly ignoring his stammering than it had been right off the bat. Soon enough, she'd be able to tune it out completely, if they ended up playing together as much as she was tentative to predict. Like she had thought: A good crutch. A good back up. If things somehow got sour? There would be this innocent-looking, prone to stammering boy to provide aid if needed. However, she wondered how reliable he'd end up if she'd ever have the need to depend on him.

Like that would ever happen!

Anywho, looked like he was in. "Fantastic, then." Nodding affirmation, she considered the prospects further. Form a party, huh? That might be a good next step. Did that mean like...sharing experience from whatever enemy baddies they brought down? She had not a clue. Cyanide would think so. But even if that was the case, they could bring down more together, and faster. Shit she was thinking too heavily about this. Way too much effort for her taste.

"A positive sure to the party, and uhm..." Add each other to their address books? Now, that was a different story. Subtly, she frowned, chewing her lip in thought - and it was immediately derailed the moment Salamon barked her own opinion and began bouncing so exuberantly in front of her. Nox joined suit pretty damn fast herself.

"That's a fabulousss idea!" Wiggling her purple stinger, those antennae flapping as they were apt to do, she craned her head to her partner. "You could use a friend, too. Besides me," the worm tacked on in a second's thought.

No way to wriggle out of this one obviously. The girl shrugged as though she didn't care which direction this went.

"Personally, don't care. Guess it's up to you." Her gaze went from Salamon to Mewt, an eyebrow quirked.

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[mewt]

Ahhh, Mewt kind of wished he knew what it was that was going through Cyanide's mind. Even in the real world, outside of all this data and excitement, Mewt had a rather difficult time understanding others. The few in his life that understood at least some of his sign language were not exactly 'talkative' with him, as much sense as that made, so there wasn't much time for understanding people after all was said and done.

When he mentioned the address book thing, the young man sort of internally cringed at himself. It felt too forward of him to even mention it when he sent her the request for the party, but Mewt wanted to put himself out there more now that he had a voice to use. In that moment it didn't take a genius to see Cyanide's reluctance at the matter. Ritz though, and then Nox, began to speak up on the matter. Wow, that was kind of embarrassing too.

That seemingly perpetual red flush colored his face when Cyanide said it was up to him and Mewt laughed a little bit to himself. "W-Well I'll add you to my address book a-at least. You can u-use my book knowledge of the game whenever y-you need, okay?" Mewt said with a slight smile on his lips. That was all he could really offer to anyone, it seemed.

If she wanted to keep into contact with him after this encounter that would just be entirely up to her, and he wasn't going to fret about it. Hopefully.

Oh hell, who was he kidding? Of course he was gonna do some fretting about it. Nerves always seemed to get the best of Mewt where it concerned... well... everything, basically. "Want to start w-walking and see the city?" He forced himself to ask that in attempts of ignoring his overactive mind. It would be helpful for them to understand the city a little better since it was basically home base for now. "Until we get stronger t-this will be the place we go to for everything. T-There are some other cities though w-we should be able to reach with some t-training." Mewt had read quite a bit about the game before he decided to enter it for the first time today, but that must have been pretty apparent.

"That's probably not a bad idea," Ritz added simply. For the moment it seemed like the Digimon was calm.

Who knew how long that would last though, Mewt thought as he eyed the little pup.

[cyanide]

Hm, well, it couldn't be a bad thing to add him to her address book, could it? Considering he was expressing some useful knowledge about the game, even if basic by far, it could prove advantageous to her down the road. As much as she would loathe to admit it, she had no qualms with accepting him as a friend, even if online. Heck, she was relieved. Knowing that there was someone to fall back on was a new experience after all, not something she was used to. She'd be damned if it wasn't weird.

Looking thoughtfully at Ritz and Nox, she eventually nodded to herself. "Right then. I'll add you to mine, too. That way I can contact you more easily, yeah? 'Cause yeah, I could use that game knowledge of yours." Pretty much decided, then. And her DoKunemon looked particularly pleased and approving of said decision, too. That's all she really cared about - her new partner's opinion. Everyone else could shove it.

Only after he was immediately added to her friend's list was Cyanide able to return the other's smile with a hesitant one of her own. Coming along a more rude and unpleasant player could have been more fun, but by now she wasn't complaining. Could always be worse.

"That sounds like a great idea," Nox agreed in a heartbeat. The little worm inched happily in a circle, apparently glad that they were finally getting somewhere.

"Well..." Why not? "Okay. Since Nox looks like she's more than okay with this, I am, too. It'll be a mini-adventure. With less excitement," the girl added. She couldn't say she was looking forward to it. Sounded boring as all hell. But what he said made sense. It was a good idea to familiarize themselves with the city: Like he said, it would be their go-to until they got stronger and more knowledgeable. Their home base.

Cracking her knuckles, gesturing to her DoKunemon, she sized up her surroundings and marched in what she figured could be the direction for some kind of marketplace. "C'mon you slowpokes, we're not gonna be able to scout this city if you dilly dally like that!"

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