I.1 - IX.6 [video]

[trephaestos]

[comes over the network delayed, all at once. Signature stamps read out the timeline.]

[ Day 1, broadcast 1, accidental video: ]

[The term was reserved for this arrival. Anatole has never been given one more literally scorched

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Video.

[onequarter]

[ Blonde. Female. Armour concealed by the heavy cloak. Face as inscrutable as ever. ]

You require a physician.

Video.

[trephaestos]

I got that memo, thanks.

[catches himself. Sits with clasped hands and compressed lips a moment, then says more civilly,]

I have. Yes. I've been receiving care. [leans forward into the forge's camera to show his newly healed skin] I've learned that these forges sometimes have a time delay. You may have seen images of me from… earlier in the week.

Video.

[onequarter]

Yes, I believe so. It was concerning.

[ A little less tension in her shoulders now that it's been established he's being treated. She doesn't even blink at the fresh pink skin. ]

Then I suppose without an emergency, I will simply welcome you to Anatole.

Video. - Private to Clare

[trephaestos]

[learned from Near about privacy settings; fumbles to change it on this communication]

Will you… I've been shown files, but… in your own words, could you tell me what that means? "Anatole"? Being welcomed to it?

[will momentarily assume that those who contact him over the device (a) are "real", (b) are random (within the parameters of those owning these devices) and (c) are not part of an elaborate trick-only because there seems no reasonable or worthwhile unreasonable motivation for it. So when not knowing whom to believe, a random sampling, from random strangers, to look for consistencies, is a starting place.]

Video. / Private.

[onequarter]

Anatole is the name of the surface city. Dismas is the name of the city built beneath it, underground, which is where I currently am. However as we're short on medical assistance, it seems likely you are aboveground, at the Clinic.

I welcome a lot of people. Not all of them stay. Not all of them listen when I explain the situation.

[ A shrug; as if she couldn't care less, either way. ]

The Door you came from pulls people from their homes and worlds and leaves them- [ starts to say "scorched", amends to: ] Stranded.

We live in this city because everywhere else is blanketed by poisonous Mist.

The introductory documents you've probably already been linked are somewhat dated and a little colloquial, but entirely true.

Video. Private.

[trephaestos]

[his face shows neither belief nor dis-. It doesn't matter which to still mean it, if said a bit flatly,]

Thank you for the corroboration.

Video. Private.

[onequarter]

You're welcome.