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[This is becoming a rather tiring tradition, but only in the sense that the Trumps keep making it necessary. Naoki's not one to leave people hurting if he can do something about it.]

All right, who else needs a mercury poisoning antidote?

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Dungeons?

I will be sure to point him your way, should he arrived. In the meantime, it seems an additional pre-emptive declaration of my deepest appreciation is in order, just in case. One would hope there would be fewer poisonings, druggings, and attempts at alchemical mind control here than at home, but it's already shaping up to be another similarity. A distressing one, I might add.

[That's both fishing for affirmation that Naoki could counter all of those things, and a round-about way of saying he'll be the first to ask for cures should any of those things happen.]

When people come back from disappearing for a while, it's usually in a dungeon. Sometimes it just happens without the actual disappearing.

So our wonderful hosts throw people in dungeons from time to time? Surely they mean it as an edifying experience and not something more sinister.

[The sarcasm is strong with this one.]

Whether the Trumps mean it as anything in particular, or are even the ones doing it, I couldn't say. What I can say is they're rarely fun for the person stuck in one.

I have a feeling the image of a dark hole with manacles is falling short of what they actually are, considering what you mentioned earlier. So how can a dungeon end up with someone yelling at themselves? Or rather, what has my lack of experience left me bereft of when trying to grasp the concept?

The dungeons I'm used to back home, not to mention many of them here, don't have manacles so much as twist your subconscious against you. The worst of it leads to all the crap you've been repressing taking physical form and haranguing you until you admit it's part of you.

And if you don't - and I've never seen anyone not deny it first - it goes berserk and tries to kill you.

That does sound... messy. A dreadful challenge, as well. I wouldn't want to have my own subconscious arraying all its power against me. I suppose the reward of new powers makes the ordeal easier to swallow, but then again, are they worth it?

Is there any pattern to people ending up in them?

I think it was worthwhile. But I also wasn't actively seeking it out and wouldn't wish that hell on anyone, especially not with how badly it can go wrong.

At home we were dealing with a serial kidnapping case. Here... a handful of people usually disappear after any given jaunt, and some of them resurface anywhere from hours later to months or even years. Others just don't come back.

One could say we're also dealing with serial kidnappings, really. Although developing the powers to get yourselves free, pardon me if I've assumed too much there, is quite the accomplishment.

Hm, do any of those who disappear report anything about how they do? Should we find them again, of course.

It wouldn't have been possible without backup.

...that's a good question, actually. If they have, I haven't been around for it.

Then I'm glad you had such skilled backup!

Something to look into for the future, then, although I'm personally not sure where to start asking.

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