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[ The video shook a little before finally landing on his face. Well, the profile of his face. Seth had turned it on without realizing then stepped away. He glanced back, catching something moving in his peripheral.

Shit.

[ A look of illumination graced his features and he stopped his approach to turn off the feed. Seth cleared his throat, his expression more accepting of their surrounding circumstance than his frustrated focus of seconds ago. What could he say? He was glad to have a speaking voice again. Might as well put it to use. ]

If there's somethin' that getting sucked from one mess to another's taught me, it's that nothin' lasts forever. All this shit's temporary... I couldn't talk soon after ending up here. My better half couldn't hear. And some of you got acquainted with the pain in the ass who lives with us, Leo. --Who by the way, can't exactly help what he is and didn't fuckin' ask to be made but still lives buy a code. But I digress...

[ Seth sat back after the brief introduction of sorts. ]

I'm Seth. Seth Gecko. You've already met Leo on here. As my Bonnie once called him, 'a walkin'-talkin' after shave commercial' who sang for you. Margo hasn't graced you all with an appearance yet but that's probably thanks to the roller coaster we've been through since arriving. She'll no doubt talk about magic when she does. Me? Well, I'm just a run of the mill guy from Kansas City. No powers, though not too bad with a piece.

[ He leaned forward and pulled out a gun tucked at the small of his back, brought it to view then returned it. ]

So if I haven't bored you all to hell yet, maybe some of who's left can enlighten me on what life's been like here? It seems the breaking up into islands is something new. Before ending up here, the three of us were at a place in France--or at least, it seemed French--that nobody could make a sound or chance gettin' torn apart by monsters.

Anybody sharin' insight about life here, you've earned yourself some manual labor. Or anythin' else I can come up with.

[ He offered an expectant look at the end. Not quite a smile, but a signature move when trying to get something without the means to obtain it otherwise. ]

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[Oh, video replies, Caedra hates you so. It's simpler to just write out a message and be done with it. But she also hates the limitations of the writing capabilities the tool has, and she's certainly learned in her years that many people can't resist a pretty face.

So she switches on the feed to reply, with an easy smile and a little wave.]

Nice to meet you, Seth. I'm Caedra. I've been here for a few months, so I suppose I may know a few things by now that could help you out? I can't say I pay a lot of attention to some of what happens here, but I'm happy to try to answer questions!

I do have a request, though. That 'piece' - that's a gun, isn't it? I don't know much about them. Do you think you could teach me to shoot one?

[That style of weaponry is so foreign to her and there's a certain odd elegance to it. She's curious. And it wouldn't hurt to have another skill in her arsenal, especially should her magic be stripped away further by their captors.]

[Congrats, Seth, you mentioned Leo, so now you have Michael's attention. So he has roommates. One of which has a gun, and the other of which probably knows how to cast spells. Good to know.]

What all do you want to know?
Most of the time we just kind of hang out and keep busy.
And then once or twice a month the gods do something to us.
Sometimes it's fine but other times it, uh, really sucks.
Like the last one, that was pretty bad.
About once a month more people show up, and they usually come with monsters.
And like, an assortment of random stuff? We got beanie babies one time.

[The beanie babies are of course incredibly relevant and exactly what Seth was asking about.]

Once a month, the gods do weird shit to us, like the whole deaf thing. Their goal is to provoke an emotion. They feed on our emotions. Usually, they only do it once a month and it lasts about a week, so it sucks. But it's doable.

What you might not have heard about is the Null. They're a race of mechanical beings who hate all emotion and have the goal of getting rid of it. They'd also like to kill the gods. Personally, I don't think we've seen the last of them, so you might wanna save your ammo.

Gecko, huh? Do you have a brother named Richie? Wears glasses, thinks he's smarter than everyone else?

[ she sounds a little annoyed but in truth she misses her frenemy. ]

When I first arrived in Hadriel, we were confined to caverns. We lived in the cool, damp dark and encountered many monsters. Then, thanks to our gods, we were transferred to a land that was perpetually hot and bright.

(Now...islands. And water. Sansa is amazed at this change.)

I have never heard of Kansas or France.

[He... does speak a lot, although there's a bit to it that is more jibberish than anything else to her. The latter is something she can answer though.]

Kansas City, huh. Name's Carolina, and it was a desert area when I first arrived. Some areas had been built up although others had been destroyed in events before my time. Apparently in caves below the surface before that.

[Which, Carolina didn't actually mind the more barren landscape. Easier to get around, anyway, especially as her armour was back at their residence.]

Aside from the whole island event, it was fairly quiet over all. Creatures each time people arrived. A Null made an appearance.

The clinic would prefer you'd avoid getting eaten, shot, maimed....and preferably you won't eat, shoot, maim anyone else.

[Nate doesn't really frequent the network, so when he actually does he rarely expects to see a familiar face - even if it's not really the one who he might have anticipated. After multiple conversations with Richie and an event that manifested the guy's older brother as some kind of ghost, yeah, Nate would be hard-pressed not to remember.

Let me guess. You're the safe cracker, and he's the guy with the plans.

They had plenty of relatable material to draw from.]

Seth Gecko? [Nate is smart enough to privatize the video, anyway. Now that he knows how to.] I knew your brother.

Some of us will answer questions for free. [But, depending on where he is, she might have him go help Pell in the garden.]

[Lance has been watching the other conversations, as he usually does, so he's a little late to reply. But since the others have most of the main topic covered, he can mention something else--]

You might want to be careful with using your gun; getting more bullets can be kind of challenging here.

[So don't use too many on shooting lessons with the demon, basically. Less because he's super concerned about Caedra knowing how to use a gun, and more because Seth might need the ammo later. Lance knows from experience how much it sucks to be used to using a gun as your primary means of defense, especially somewhere as dangerous as Hadriel, and then be unable to use it due to lack of bullets.]

( For all the time that's passed - even more for Kate, since she was taken home for three years - it's still, it always will be a strange experience to hear familiar names. To see familiar faces.

Things that feel like a lifetime ago, like they happened to another person, still sting. Richie was a strange one, but he'd been okay. Someone she could understand pretty well.

She never expected to hear his brother on the network. )

You're not the first lot brought from other places like this.

( Since everyone else has the city itself covered, Kate's more concerned about the notes of coming here from another place. Bianca had mentioned another place, a barge of some sort, but this is the first time Kate's heard this particular story. )

What kind of monsters?

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