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Who: Nightingale, and you!
Broadcast: Video, fleetwide
Action: Bishop, if you need her
When: Now

[When the video starts, Nightingale can be seen, a large wooden staff leaned up on the wall next to her.]

I've been here for a few months now. Nearly half a year, even. And in that time, I've noticed that there's a ton of different worlds represented here, and most of them have different forms of magic. I'm a mage myself, so I find it pretty interesting.

So, I'd like to hear about all the forms of magic represented here. Especially if it's possible for you to teach it, or at least the basic principles and rules behind it. I'm trying to research if principles from one form can be applied to other forms from other worlds. Maybe combining magics from other worlds that aren't supposed to interact could be our way out of here.

[She levitates her staff from the wall to her hand, where it promptly vanishes- No point in discussing all of this magic without a demonstration, right?]

On a different note, I'm still working on a guide for new arrivals here. If anyone is willing to help give information that isn't contained in the guide I have, it would be a big help. Thanks.

[The feed ends there, but the video has a file attached to it that opens up to her introduction guide.]

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[A guide, huh. Well, that's useful. Better have an in-depth look at that.]

Oh! That guide explains so much, it's really helpful, thank you!! I'm sure it'll be perfect for other new people, too...

[She's a bit surprised when a reply comes in through text, but she switches to acommodate regardless.]

No problem. That's the goal, after all. Being new in this place sucks, so the new ones need all the help they can get.

[Let's be real, it's probably for the sake of emoji. This is how Suzie spends her time lately: all text, max emoji, final destination.]

Mm, it really does...being on the Marsiva, especially when you have friends on the other ships and can't get off to see them — it's really a struggle to deal with!

Yeah. And no team to help you get adjusted. You're just sort of at the mercy of whoever decides to reply, or not. I figure if my guide gets spread around enough, people can start sending it to the new people as they show up. Give everyone some starting ground to work with, keep things grounded.

I think it does that very well! I learned a lot, and I'm not even on the big ship anymore.

I'm glad to hear it. (=^･^=) I'm Nightingale, by the way. I don't think I've met you yet.

I'm Suzie! My friends who were already here are Caesar and Jojo, on the Tourist and the Caprine. (≧∇≦*)

Oh, those two. (Φ∇Φ) You're from their home?

Yup! I think a lot of people here know them so it's much easier to just mention it. We lived in the same place for a while!!

I see. That must have been rough. You have my sympathy.

Ummm...I'm not sure what you mean, haha...

If you lived with them, that means you're from that Earth place, right? That place sounds hard to deal with. (ㅇㅅㅇ )

[Of course, that isn't even close to what she actually meant. But she doesn't know Suzie well enough to continue attempting burns on those two.]

Mmmm...I guess it is a little bit, sometimes? But it's the only thing I ever knew, before space!! （ʃƪ＾3＾)

And some things are much better there than here, like the food. But sometimes it was hard too. I was born just a few years after the biggest war that ever happened in history.

The food's better on literally any other place. Hell, the last interdimensional shithole I was in had decent food, at least. ... A war?

Yes. Papa and Mama said things turned much worse for everyone after the war. So many people died, and then the inflation came and many people were jobless. Everyone struggled very much, and no one won any victories because of it, no matter what the leaders might have promised.

[the reply is a bit slow as Nightingale has to take a moment for internal screaming. why do all of her conversations turn heavy as fuck. SHE JUST WANTED TO MAKE FUN OF JOJOS, WHY THIS.]

I didn't know about that. I'm sorry. It's over now, you said?

Yes. Some people think there might be another coming, but I hope not...

But that's in Venezia, not here.

Can't someone just take out the ones responsible for stirring up war?

Mm, I don't really know all that much about politics, honestly!! Just what I used to overhear sometimes in little bits and pieces.

... I guess that makes sense. Well, the good thing about these places is that, if your world is too dangerous to go back to, it's possible you can go somewhere else instead.

...You can??? I didn't know that!!

So I've heard. It was a big topic of discussion at the last place I was at. There were a few people who had dimensional travel abilities on their own anyway. But it's basic logic. If they have the power to drag us here and return us to our home worlds, why couldn't they just return you to someone else's?

Well...what if you were in the middle of something before you were dragged here, though? Maybe that would mean you'd have to go back, because you couldn't just disappear from it.

Is it important enough to go back to impending war for?

...It could be.

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