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Is this thing recordi- Oh.

[Nate isn't really that good at introductions nor is he any good at handling the SmartPhone capabilities of his new communications, but he's been trying, and as he once overheard a fancy guy quote at a black market auction: to try is to live.

(At the time he'd been checking the lot list and privately drawing conclusions about why Jack Rackham was given an inlaid cross, when a man four feet away started telling a story about how his shitty French was insulted by a crêpe vendor and he paid some thugs to rough him up later. Rich people, right? The worst.)

What started out as blurry footage of worn boots turns into slightly-more-focused footage of Nate's face. He looks well enough, if windswept, though it is evident he is somewhere far from ground level if the small buildings behind him are any indication.]

For those of you who haven't met me yet, I'm Nathan Drake.

[Flawless introduction. Short and sweet.]

Just gonna throw a general question out there: is there a more...comprehensive version of the city map outside that mural? Does anyone go into the caves to try and get the lay of the land in detail? And, uh, follow-up: how opposed would anyone be to me updating that stuff?

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[So did Mello, actually - for a few years, at least. The institution that took him in after that followed a different sort of idol. But that experience, along with his childhood traumas before, to say nothing of what he saw his world become under Kira's reign of terror, was enough to solidify in his mind that it was more likely than not that there was no all-powerful, all-seeing God, and if there was, He probably just didn't give a damn. But that's a story for another time, and not on an open channel.]

If you learn anything of note from Tranquility, I'd be interested to hear it.

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[Less reticent about sharing information - primarily because it's not like he's uncovering a lost city over here -Nate would rather know what the Hell is going on than sit around with his thumb up his ass.]

Yeah, and- let me know if you think of anything else.