001 - video - is this thing on?

[64th]

[ Cash knows how these network type things work, so she is feeling pretty smart right about now. when the video comes on, you can see she's holding the phone at arms length. she fixes her hair first, and then smiles. ]

Well, if I've got one of these, I'm sure the rest of you do too. Assuming you didn't get eaten by a bear. [ ha ha? ]

I'm Cashmere. Who are you? Where are you?

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[closerift]

So, there isn't a chance that we might reach others? From our homes, I mean?

[ That's a disappointment, but not much of a surprise. ]

"Cell phones." [ Cecily thinks of a "cell," of the a small room or chamber, that is, and frowns. ] Hmm. I'm not sure I'll ever get used to this, though I can say it'll be helpful.

[64th]

I don't think so. There wasn't the last place I was, anyway. [ that was disappointing, and she's not about to get her hopes up now. why let them contact the outside world? ]

It's taken me a while to figured these kinds of things out. It's a good way to pass the time, I think. It's not like we have anything else to do.

[closerift]

"The last place?" That... wasn't your home, then?

[ Not from the tone the other woman is using, anyway. ]

Here, I should think we'll be spending the time trying to return. And fighting off these monsters, if there are to be more.

[ And there always are more. ]

[64th]

No, it was kind of like this. People from different worlds all dropped into the same place.

[ she frowns. Cashmere's not in a rush to go home. she just doesn't want to be here. ] We don't even know how we got here. It'll be hard to leave without figuring that out.

[closerift]

Really? But... not here, obviously. In another realm.

[ Interesting. Could it be the same gods behind each? Or different ones, but in a similar station?

There're too many possibilities and they've hardly been in Hadriel for long enough to figure any of it out. ]

That's true. If we all wake in the coliseum, could it be that the magic that's used to draw us here is centralized in there, somehow?

[64th]

Magic or advanced technology. [ she's not really sold on magic as a thing that exists if she can explain it away some how else. ]

I'd be willing to check it out, though.

[closerift]

As would I.

[ Finally, someone who seems to want to take action. There's almost a smile. ]

If you mean it, then we should act before they've decided to set more monsters down on us.

[64th]

[ she considers this a moment. ]

Yeah. Count me in.

[closerift]

We ought to take more time to learn what we can of this place, but... before too long. I suppose you can send me a message with this?

[ She indicates the device, so wildly foreign and unbelievable. ]