[ video ]

[soldiershin]

[ When the NV flickers on, the image presented is fuzzy at best. But with enough squinting, it becomes clear that the video is showing the interior of a standard apartment room for newcomers. After some rustling of movement from the left, the video is finally raised upward to display the face of a (young?) boy in slightly better quality - ]Fellow

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[voice]

[mentis_reae]

By Terra you mean Earth, correct?

[video]

[soldiershin]

The third planet of the Sol System, yes.

[voice forever]

[mentis_reae]

As per the information we have been given, this is that selfsame planet indeed.

[video forever]

[soldiershin]

Information that we have been given? Have you ever been given information that may have made you think otherwise?

Re: [video forever]

[mentis_reae]

I have not, but nor have I been provided with absolute proof. We have been informed that we're now on an island located off the coast of Canada; while this place offers evidence climatologically and zoologically consistent with this assertion, no one is able to leave the island to confirm it.

[soldiershin]

Due to the Pull, correct? The Greeter was not too specific regarding this matter, but she gave me the impression that a machine of sort was behind it.

Is this true?

[mentis_reae]

Again, there is no evidence to support this. They say so, but there has been no confirmation. Personally, I doubt it.

[soldiershin]

Why is that?

[mentis_reae]

Because of the patterns of who was brought here. People have been pulled here in clusters - those who come from the same world as others are almost always acquainted. It belies the randomness of the selection which they claim.

[soldiershin]

But who - or what - claims this? The machine, or the people? The Greeter that I had met was not lying.

[mentis_reae]

[A slight, slightly confused pause.] The people claim as much. The machine is not precisely prone to speaking.

[soldiershin]

Machines do not need to communicate with the people to obey its programming. It could be that even the locals are unaware.

[mentis_reae]

Well. In any case. This was communicated by the people here.

[soldiershin]

Yes, and if these people are not lying, they may simply be victims. As we are.

[mentis_reae]

Define "these people." Do you speak of the Greeters, or are you speaking in a broader sense?

[soldiershin]

The Greeter, for now. But I wanted to speak to others here a little later.