i. [Accidental Video]

[leaporfall]

[Video cuts in abruptly, as though someone has hit the button by accident. The faintly muffled, distant quality of Marian's voice only enhances this impression - as does the fact that, for the moment, the camera is angled down so that it catches the ground and half of a travel-worn boot.]...really have time for a detour to the Deep Roads. Or

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[endtheblight]

[He's still figuring his out also, mind the crappy video.]

He's a quick one. Disappeared on me too.

...did you say Deep Roads?

[Video]

[leaporfall]

[She pulls back, eyes widening in surprise.]

Well, that answers that.

I did say Deep Roads, yes. Is that so surprising?

[Video]

[endtheblight]

Just a little refreshing to hear. Kind of does remind you of them, doesn't it?

[Video]

[leaporfall]

There's a bit less glowing than I recall, but very much so, yes.

I take it to mean this isn't, then?

[Audio]

[godlessblossom]

[A young girl's voice carries through] They are communication devices, actually, made to help those of us brought here to keep in contact with one another. You have the video recording function turned on.

[Video]

[leaporfall]

Are there many people brought here? And so spread out they need these - scrying tablets to keep in contact?

[Have a concerned face.

And then, after a moment's pause,]

I'm sorry, what is - "video"?

[Audio->Video]

[godlessblossom]

The video function means that we can see everything you are doing right now to a certain extent. The audio function is what I am doing, where you can hear my voice but not see me. [She turns the video on and the screen displays her sitting in a very bare room with a doll in her lap. She inclines her head as a greeting but does not smile] Now you should be able to see me because I have the video on. If you press some of the buttons on the screen you can learn what causes which function. I must admit I am still learning myself.

[She takes a breath]

Now for the easy part, I suppose. You are currently in the underworld and we have been brought here from various places in order to be pawns in a game between two deities. I am not sure the exact number of us down here but the underworld continues to expand.

[Video]

[leaporfall]

Interesting. So you can control the manner in which you communicate?

[She tips her head to one side to eye the device from a new angle, but doesn't actually experiment further yet.]

Expanding spaces and deities...that certainly sounds like a Fade creature's game.

[Video]

[adeptible]

[Starwind can attest, it does get easier to use the more you actually use it.]

It is difficult to say what it is. I can only say what it does.

[Video]

[leaporfall]

[Have a curious look.]

I'm discovering that myself. I have to say, I'd be more comfortable with it if I knew how it was doing it.

Or how to make sure it stopped.

[Video]

[adeptible]

Others may know. I do not.

[Video]

[leaporfall]

Too bad. Thank you anyway.

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[doesnotbrood]

Hawke. [Finally, a familiar face in all this craziness...or so he thinks.] Are you still where you were left?

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[leaporfall]

Fenris?

[She seems, oddly, more surprised to see him than the strangers she'd been speaking to.

Possibly because "Fenris" and "strange magical scrying thing" do not fit together in her head.]

I'm near the river still, yes. What is this place?

||Video;||

[doesnotbrood]

A land of the dead, I've been told. Who's remains debatable. I'll come for you.

[He's decided it's some sort of enchanted device, like an enchantment on a sword or a piece of armor. That's acceptable.]

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[leaporfall]

I don't remember dying. Or any tales of the dead being trapped underground.

[She frowns, then nods slightly.]

I'll be waiting for you.

[Video;]

[chasindlegend]

Ah, finally one who is not...slow. The Ferryman will not return.

[Video;]

[leaporfall]

Is he... [There is a brief pause, and a hint of uncertainty in her voice. How do you assign gender to a skeleton, anyways?] Bound to that one task, then?

[Video;]

[chasindlegend]

I am not certain, though it does seem that way.

[Video;]

[leaporfall]

Necromancy. Wonderful.

[She scrubs a hand across her face.]

Controlled by the - ah - gods, I presume? Are there many like it?