1st Rune (Video) -- Forward-dated to evening

[runebladeknight]

[The feed opens on a young blonde woman who looks a bit ragged and tired, and she has a bandage wrapped around her forehead. Her eyebrows are mildly furrowed as she tries to work out how to properly operate the device. She muses aloud to herself without realizing that she's successfully enabled the video function.] A mass communications network?

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[tinderfoot]

We-ell, if you really wanna know the reasons about how and why it all works, I'm the wrong guy to be telling you, but this here's a city called Siren's Port -- and the name's a lie, you can't leave by boat ... or anything else, for that matter -- and the year's 2011, if your home world even used the calendar that this place does. Mine didn't.

[A pause, as he waits for her to take that in.]

... You had friends with you too, huh?

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[runebladeknight]

2011? That doesn't sound right. [Wait -- what?] Home world?

[She looks away briefly at the question.] We'd just . . . [Dropped from the sky as the world ripped apart.] Gotten separated.

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[tinderfoot]

Yeah, this isn't the same world it is from wherever you come from. I should probably have started with that first. If you haven't seen your friends yet I doubt they're gonna come after you immediately, but just -- they're safe, okay? And don't listen to anyone who tells you otherwise.

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[runebladeknight]

... That's not necessarily true. [She'd like to believe it, but . . . You know. Falling from possibly a couple thousand feet in the sky and such. She's not that optimistic.]

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[tinderfoot]

Yeah, it is. Well, in any case they're most definitely not working in salt mines. So you don't have to worry.

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[runebladeknight]

[Her voice gets harder.] You don't know the situation. You can't just presume such things.

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[tinderfoot]

[And so does his, in return.]

Yeah? Well, you're the one who just came to this network not knowing anything at all, so if I were you? I'd really just listen to me!

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[runebladeknight]

You've no clue as to the situation when I left. It's not so simple as to be able to say for certain that anyone is safe.

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[tinderfoot]

Lemme ask you something. How much do you know about this world, now?

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[runebladeknight]

[Frowning coldly at you now. There's a reason she never had friends until recently. But she'll answer.]

I was drawn here by something that's some combination of technology and magic. If I get sent home, it's to the time and place that I left. During the night, monsters roam the streets and the city suffers some decay -- both vanish at dawn. That I've a month's free lodgings. [Emma has been very informative, thank you.]

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[tinderfoot]

It's the second point that you're not understanding, then! Glad we cleared that up.

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[runebladeknight]

I understand it just fine. What I don't know is if they were all right at the point from which I was drawn. I have perfectly valid reason to be doubtful of their safety.

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[tinderfoot]

What, did they die or something?

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[runebladeknight]

[The defensiveness fades at that, and she just looks melancholy now.] I don't know for certain. But it's highly likely.

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[tinderfoot]

Why's that?

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[runebladeknight]

[She sighs heavily, not really wanting to talk about it, but she'll give a generality, at least.] We were all falling from a great height. I probably wouldn't have survived myself had I not landed here instead.