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[cursedarrows]

[There is a pause. Silence as the channel runs, spinning faint static through emptiness. It's followed by a quiet, drawn breath –- as though the person on the other side of the connection steadies himself before speaking.]

Hello.

I'd like to know more about this place. Lady Unohana helped me greatly, but . . . just by looking at the walls near the diamond, reading through what is written here, I have the feeling this place is more complex than just a few words.

What do you think is most important to know about this place? Nothing in particular. Just . . . anything you have learned, from the large to the small.

[Faintly wry,] I take it that gold is not the currency in this land either.

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[showbizpanache]

I'm afraid it's not something that can really be sat down and talked about in one sitting. It's-- Well, prejudice exists everywhere, in all forms. It doesn't mean we're at war.

[inthejunk]

[In fact, he happens to be a greeter.]

A little more than I'd like, yeah.

[cursedarrows]

There seem to be some advocating for it.

[video]

[electricitytrick]

Hah, you're telling me! Limiting doesn't even begin to describe it, sometimes. Although it's more likely that we just don't come from the same place at all. Everyone in Thedas should have at least heard of Ferelden.

[video]

[faustianism]

I happen to run a little pawnshop that's off the beaten path. [Chuckles.] So I can't say my help was entirely altruistic.

audio;

[reginagloriae]

Huh. The most important is to stay inside before the sirens and don't leave until the morning.

[video]

[cursedarrows]

[There is some pause. Ashitaka's gaze shifts sideways from the screen as though considering.]

If you will give me directions, I will come.

[video]

[cursedarrows]

Neither of the names are familiar to me.

[A slight smile.] It's possible that we are not. But somehow I am glad that there are people from other worlds like my own here.

[video]

[cursedarrows]

[Ashitaka gives a bow, bending from the waist from his seated position.] Thank you . . . I greatly appreciate it.

As far as the water . . . it does not need to be a beach. I simply may need access to clean water.

[The kind out of the tap does not seem to be working.]

[cursedarrows]

[This explains it.]

Is there anything in particular I should watch for?

Video

[cursedarrows]

I can't always promise that, unfortunately.

Should I be wary of anything in particular?

audio;

[reginagloriae]

There're monsters in the Darkness.

Video

[cursedarrows]

Yes. Though some monsters are worse than others.

Video

[reginagloriae]

I'd rather stay away from all of them.

Video

[cursedarrows]

[She's switched to video. He blinks.]

Ah-- . . .

[video]

[theshortestbird]

No problem. Here, hold on, the apartment is in sector 9, I'll send you the address. [He texts it over.]

We have some water bottles? We have a good filter system, since the darkness taints it at night, so we store water in the fridge after cleaning it.

Video lmao that was an accident oocly

[reginagloriae]

Huh?

[She looks confused.]

Ahh! I'm sorry. I pressed the option with my elbow.

[Wherever the "option" was. Her parchment-shaped device is confusing.]

Video -- Aw, I'm disappointed. ;)

[cursedarrows]

[He's not paying attention to this.]

Your hair . . . it's remarkable.

[video]

[faustianism]

Part of the place is being renovated, so we are in between names for the shop. But we are in sector four, at the crossroads before you get to sector three.

[He sends him the address.] The street is fairly easy to find, but the shop is a little out of the way.

Video -- lol it's ok

[reginagloriae]

[She gasps and looks mildly terrified. Her hair...

Yes, her hair is unusual home and she must look like a freak to a normal Japanese citizen. She has forgotten this with all the people who claim to be of her country and have the similar outrageous features but she's not able to forget.]

I-I'm sorry. It shouldn't be this way!

[She doesn't know why it changed.]

Video

[cursedarrows]

[Another blink -- apparently he has startled her, even alarmed her, though he can't imagine why.]

. . . It is beautiful.

[inthejunk]

Monsters and decay, mostly.

Video sob this is so backdated I wasn't feeling well

[reginagloriae]

W...What?

[Huh? She touched her hair almost absently.]

...Thank you.

Video -- It's fine . . . I've been hiatusing.

[cursedarrows]

I hope I did not offend you?

[video]

[cursedarrows]

[Somehow he doesn't want to ask about what a "filter" and a "fridge" are at the moment . . . he'll take Tim's word for it.]

Thank you. I don't want to infringe on your hospitality any more than necessary, so I will come when the month ends.

[A pause.]

I am Ashitaka.