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[bladed_rose]

[There's a lot of commotion as she's trying to figure out this blasted piece of technology. Then, the video feed clicks on to her-- a very beautiful, but very annoyed-looking Italian woman. The camera is having trouble focusing on her for long though, because she doesn't realize it's taking a video of her. So all you viewers out there will get the

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[Video]

[zerosuitjill]

[Jill's seen better days -- she's utterly exhausted and it shows, but her voice and demeanor are level all the same.]

Easy -- if you don't remember dying, you're probably all right.

[Video]

[bladed_rose]

[Fiora lifts the device in her hand and looks to the voice (and now, moving picture) coming from it. Her expression is a little surprised at first, and she feels silly talking back to it.]

Why? Is it normal to remember your death?

[Video]

[zerosuitjill]

So I'm told. [It's said half to herself.]

This place is called the Underworld. I'm still not sure if it's the genuine article, but people alive and dead get brought here from all kinds of different places. I know it sounds crazy, but... Well, the ferryman was a hint.

[Video]

[bladed_rose]

Then it is a very good replication, if it isn't. [She chuckles.] I was told stories as a child about the river Styx, and the ferryman... and I believed them to be just that-- a story. I suppose I should take that back now.

[Video]

[inforapound]

Unless you hope to make everyone watching you ill, you might want to hold that infernal thing a little more still.

[Video]

[bladed_rose]

Mi dispiace. It is not every day that I speak to someone inside of a... a... what is this?

[Video]

[inforapound]

Judging by your dress and accent, something that won't be invented for quite a while.

[There's a pause, as though he's considering leaving it just at that, before he continues as though on a whim.]

It's a communication device. It allows us to speak across great distances. There should be a little glass bubble just above the screen; that's capturing your image.

[Video]

[bladed_rose]

[A frown. She doesn't know whether or not to be offended by that first comment.]

Ah, I see... [She pokes at said glass bubble. How strange.]

Maybe you can provide me with an explanation, then. What is this place?

Video.

[wutaiwarhero]

You have arrived in a place known as the Underworld.

As for your state of being, that is undecided. I am Sephiroth.

Video.

[bladed_rose]

The "Underworld." [She repeats that slowly... and adds a thoughtful pause.] Che? Is this hell?

Video.

[wutaiwarhero]

So I have been told.

Video.

[bladed_rose]

[Well, she can't argue that she belongs in heaven.]

I see. Is it possible to tell if I am alive or dead?

[Video;]

[suaveleather]

[Zevran appears on screen, smirking.]

Ah, a beautiful newcomer. Your death is most assuredly a possibility. You are in the underworld after all.

[Video;]

[bladed_rose]

[She blinks at the man with the strange-shaped ears.]

A possibility? [Aw, man. You made her a little sad now.] Then it could be that he has... [Her hand touches her lips, and she shakes her head.] But I do not remember dying.

[Video;]

[suaveleather]

I said it was a possibility, not that it was completely true. Many of us are alive here.

[Video;]

[bladed_rose]

Che? How can one be alive when one is in such a place as this?

[endtheblight]

Probably not. You're in the Underworld. Trapped here with the rest of us.

[bladed_rose]

So I've heard. [Have a bemused chuckle.] Is there more you can tell me?

[endtheblight]

Well... I wasn't sure how much of the "Welcome Speech" you've already been given. Where should I start?

[bladed_rose]

[She smiles.]

I've heard about the gods and their war. I have also come to find out that I am, in fact, still alive... and that there also seems to be people getting wounded from dreams? I haven't been told of much else besides.