First Crash [Voice]

[albioreiii]

Hello everyone. For those I haven't gotten the chance to meet yet, I'm Ginji. I wanted to apologize for the trouble I've caused this past week, and to thank you all for looking after my sister and me. We're grateful for your help.

[A thoughtful pause, and what sounds like pages being flipped through.] So I've been wondering, are there any other

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[puppet_paladin]

I cannot take care of anything beyond simple repairs, but I'm a trained pilot. Would that serve your purpose?

[puppet_paladin]

People with a greater knowledge of technology and magic than ours. Their ships can not only travel in the sky, but between planets... However, they only approached us a few hundred years ago. That 'Dawn Age' of yours seems to be much older and longer than that.

[albioreiii]

That might be, but a great deal of the knowledge and technology of the time has been lost to us. Getting a hold of ancient records can be pretty tough, too.

[Even more than being on another world now, knowing that someone out there has achieved transportation between planets.] Can they really travel through outer space?

[puppet_paladin]

I suppose that's no surprise. Even under the best conditions, writing is quick to fade away, and even the strongest metals rust over the years.

They can. Their moon itself is a ship, in fact, though I've not had the chance to see its controls. Even one of their smaller ships can travel between that moon and the planet easily.

[albioreiii]

True. Though depending on the climate, some materials can be preserved for a long time. [It's still amazing what good shape some Dawn Age architecture is in, after centuries of apparent neglect.]

A moonship... I'd like to get a good look at one.

[puppet_paladin]

...The Battle Dome can replicate locations, if you can work the computer. I doubt it could copy the parts I've never seen, but the rest of it...

[albioreiii]

The Battle Dome...? [He sounds confused. He hasn't visited it yet.] Is that the coliseum here?

[puppet_paladin]

It's a building where you can create battle scenarios and play them out. You can choose your opponents, the location...

[albioreiii]

[Ginji's no fighter, that's for sure, but the technology behind the dome does sound pretty awesome.]

And you think it can be programmed to look like the aircraft you were talking about?

[puppet_paladin]

Parts of it, at least. Probably the monster-filled, crystalline parts, as they're the ones we visited.

[albioreiii]

[Oh.] But if it's a simulator of sorts, won't the monsters...

["Won't the monsters be a problem?"]

[puppet_paladin]

It might be possible to replace the usual monsters with goblins. Those are nearly harmless.

[Someone should tell him the monsters are now optional, really.]