GAME ONE - voice;

[endlesswitch]

[ On the NV, the feed starts out quietly. Slowly but surely, quiet chuckling is heard, until it turns into loud cackling, followed by applause ]

How nice, how nice! So, this is where the Golden Witch is to be summoned...? Siren’s Port, is it? A unique name, and one that I am already fond of. And yet, just how much shall this world have to hide from the reisdents that have been taken into this world...? Shall it become more dangerous than I have heard of -- enough to make those taken to this game perish before this game can truly begin? A game cannot start unless all the pieces are on the board, riiiight? And such is the case for those who are newly summoned to this world

…. Ah, but that will not do. Not in the slightest! No, if I seek entertainment, I want to observe the pieces chosen to come here myself, see? … For those who are fortunate to have a chance to hear from the Golden Witch-- Come, tell me!

Just what is this darkness that I have heard so much about? … If it is merely a name for a time when those monsters that I have witnessed lurk within the shadows of the night... How tame, how tame. For a witch that has lived for over 1,000 years, confronting such things are mere child’s play to me!

Comments

[athermercy]

Just keep a low profile and they won't bother you. Good luck.

[endlesswitch]

... I have little need for luck. As said, I shall be fine--but, I will accept those words of yours.

Your name?

[athermercy]

It's Elaine. Nice to meet you.

[endlesswitch]

Elaine. ... You may call me Beatrice.

Tell me more of this world.

[athermercy]

It's like a Nexus -- Soft place between Creations.

Are you familiar with that term, Beatrice?

[endlesswitch]

You ask such a thing to a new bird within this cage.

[athermercy]

It isn't really a label used here -- It's more of a thing we use back home.

[endlesswitch]

It appears that we are from another fragment altogether-- indeed, I am unfamiliar with that term.

[athermercy]

That's what I thought.

[endlesswitch]

Then, explain yourself and the terms you speak of.

[athermercy]

Soft places are spots where the rigid rules of Creations are relaxed. They are in the Void, outside of all things.

Sometimes people from different Cosmos converge in these places. This one just happens to be a little bigger and aggressive than your usual one. Is it clearer?

[endlesswitch]

Hm... It is unique, but I see, I see. ... In other words, things such as this is a normallcy for you, and yet at the same time, it is not.

[athermercy]

It is something I'm aware it existed even before coming to this place.

[endlesswitch]

... Fufufufu. It seems that our "truth" of this place differs quite a bit from one another.

[athermercy]

How would you call it?

[endlesswitch]

It is simple. .... Everything can be explained by magic.

[athermercy]

Absolutely everything?

[endlesswitch]

That is what I said, is it not?

[athermercy]

Who made the first magic practicer?

[endlesswitch]

Such things are not "made".

[athermercy]

Then how do you explain the universe? Was it made by magic?

[endlesswitch]

Would you prefer to explain it by scientific means?

[athermercy]

I'm not a scientist. I want to hear your theory.

[endlesswitch]

Mine is as you have questioned.

[athermercy]

Magic, right? Doesn't magic need someone to perform it?