Embarrassing? Pshh, please. Who do you think you're talking to here?
[Yeah no, there's plenty of that. And Rose will totally tell him if he asks.]
Well let's see then...I arrived here on January 16th, the same day as Aradia. Or well...the first iteration of her, anyway, obviously not the one who just got here a little while ago. [Just the first of many times that Jake will undoubtedly hear this come up.]
Anyway! The two of us traveled to Cherrygrove together to meet up with half of our friends because the two of us were a little late to the party. Nearly everyone was already here, either in Cherrygrove or Violet. We were there for...a little over a week I think. [He pauses, trying to think back.] Yeah, because Rose showed up the following weekend so we had to wait for her so she didn't get stuck traveling to Violet all by herself. But yeah, so at some point, Eridan tried to leave and head to Violet on his own but just managed to get himself lost instead. So Gamzee and I had to go on a rescue mission. We got attacked by HootHoots. For the record, those things can be damn vicious when they want to be. We managed to drag his half-frozen ass back to Cherrygrove without anybody catching hypothermia or being pecked to death though. For the record though, not the same Eridan who is here now. Not the same Gamzee, for that matter. [A beat.] He's another one of the trolls, if you haven't met him.
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[Yeah no, there's plenty of that. And Rose will totally tell him if he asks.]
Well let's see then...I arrived here on January 16th, the same day as Aradia. Or well...the first iteration of her, anyway, obviously not the one who just got here a little while ago. [Just the first of many times that Jake will undoubtedly hear this come up.]
Anyway! The two of us traveled to Cherrygrove together to meet up with half of our friends because the two of us were a little late to the party. Nearly everyone was already here, either in Cherrygrove or Violet. We were there for...a little over a week I think. [He pauses, trying to think back.] Yeah, because Rose showed up the following weekend so we had to wait for her so she didn't get stuck traveling to Violet all by herself. But yeah, so at some point, Eridan tried to leave and head to Violet on his own but just managed to get himself lost instead. So Gamzee and I had to go on a rescue mission. We got attacked by HootHoots. For the record, those things can be damn vicious when they want to be. We managed to drag his half-frozen ass back to Cherrygrove without anybody catching hypothermia or being pecked to death though. For the record though, not the same Eridan who is here now. Not the same Gamzee, for that matter. [A beat.] He's another one of the trolls, if you haven't met him.