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.]

[frosty_mind]

Hello.

My name is Emma Frost, and I've been here for ... just over a month, actually.

You were brought here into a different reality by a power called the Core. If it sends you back, you will return to the time and place you left from.

This place is called Siren's Port. There's a lot to say about it, but things you need to know immediately are that monsters come out after dark and that people who appear out of nowhere are given a month's free rent at what is called the Starter Apartments.

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[runebladeknight]

[She takes a moment to digest that. The second person to tell her she's been drawn into another world rather than having spent a great deal of time comatose.] Thank you.

This "Core" . . . is it technology? Magic? Some combination of the two? And is there no way back besides its whim?

[The news of the monsters doesn't appear to faze her at all.] Starter Apartments. I suppose I should look into that once I'm released from here.

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[frosty_mind]

The Core is a combination of magic and technology which is not well-understood. It is commonly believed to be damaged, and that damage related to the Darkness and the monsters. No one has found a way to go more than a short distance from the island, let alone return home, apart from having it apparently-randomly decide to send you.

I urge you to be paranoid about the Darkness and its monsters until you have learned more about them. It's not just the monsters - the nature of reality changes slightly and everything unprotected becomes decayed at sunset and recovers at sunrise.

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[runebladeknight]

[That's . . . a very strange-sounding magic. Something to be watchful of.] I'm not currently in any state to go traipsing around in such a situation anyway.

[hisoldgirl]

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[runebladeknight]

[She just . . . stares blankly for a moment. What nonsense is all this?]

... Does something like that happen often?

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[hisoldgirl]

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[runebladeknight]

[Well, that's okay. Making Celes wrack her brain lets her forget about being depressed or angry about not knowing what's happened to her friends.]

[... Right. Okay.] In any event, it seems that I'm the one who's been displaced. I don't know about any of the others.

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[athermercy]

Hello, Celes, right? I'm Elaine. I don't think that pertinent information you were going to get will be of any use here, sorry.

You're in Siren's Port -- Seems like it's 2011 here.

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[runebladeknight]

Then I suppose I was fortunate to miss it. [As fortunate as you can be to basically hit the ground from a great height and be knocked out cold, that is.] I would have hated to have my time wasted in such fashion.

So I've come to learn. And that this is an entirely different world than my own.

[athermercy]

Yes, that's right. This place is like a pocket universe, but more unique in its function.

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[runebladeknight]

I've heard this place likened to a prison for the empowered.

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[bornfromdeath]

From the looks of it, you might want to go to the newcomer clinic, but it'll have to wait until morning now.

[The sounds of music in the background are muffled and his words are quiet, although relaxed.]

There's no telling how long you've been unconscious without knowing when you came here from - and even that's not exactly going to help since time flows oddly here.

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[runebladeknight]

I'm already in a hospital. I woke up here, in fact.

[A dismissive sigh as she realizes her muttering got recorded.] The time is irrelevant, now that I know I'm in another world entirely.

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[bornfromdeath]

You... woke up in hospital?

[That was an interesting discrepancy.]

Hm, I wonder if one of the greeters brought you there.

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[runebladeknight]

I can only assume so.