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[unabatedly]

Back into the fray again, I suppose--

[Neria's voice echoes across the network, wry. She sighs.]

Welcome, new Travelers. I trust you can hear me. Wherever you are in Liminal Space, if you should require aid, you need only speak up or call out to the other Travelers around you. Though we're all strangers, I assure you that we're here to help.

[Which is your standard welcome, by all accounts. But she has a specific reason for requesting people's attentions this time.]

You might notice the portals that are leading out of Liminal Space. I would advise you be cautious until you've listened to what I have to say.

We are in the middle of an excursion into another world, something we do here very frequently. We have been tasked with aiding the realm of Dolorosa, a kingdom fraught with trouble. There is a missing queen and knights abound, with dragons and murderous barons. [She chuckles briefly.] I know it may sound fantastical and strange, but this is a reality you will be facing very shortly. I would caution you to ask your fellow Travelers, the other Veterans, about Dolorosa and how you can prepare, what you can expect, before moving on.

Rest assured, we will do all we can to help you.

I have but one request of all of you gathered here: should you find any herbs or anything of use, please collect them and bring them to me. I am one of the few here capable of healing injuries and my stock is low, a very dangerous thing considering what has transpired recently. [Her tone sounds almost bitter, colored with bemusement.] I would be highly grateful if you could bring me whatever you can. I cannot pay you, but it will certainly come in handy should you be injured along the way.

Oh, and do try to be inconspicuous. I've found that spouting inane babble about portals and other worlds tends to lead to trouble and a possible stay in a cell.


[Veteran Lock;]

We've spent a month in this place. What have we learned, and what's our next goal?

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[Veteran Lock]

[notinthecards]

The queen is still here somewhere. In a place nobody expects, bu ready to resume the throne, if we can find it and her.

And if you think the party up in Stonegard was bad, chere, it won't hold a candle to the one about to be held in Westgard.

[hakodate]

Are we talking past experience about the portal thing, or is this recent?

[Alternately, "wait, did you do that here?"]


[veteran lock]

I've picked up some interesting things in Flamegard, but I'm not sure how it ties into the rest. Or if it does at all. Dragons weren't always such a problem, shit got worse about twenty years ago - so it doesn't match up to the queen's disappearance.

Perry gives Flamegard six years before the kingdom's overrun, tops. Worst case scenario is that it could happen at any time.

Not sure where to go from here, though. I don't know how to fit this into the investigation overall. Might be I should be looking into things elsewhere, but leaving something unfinished here leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

[morbirdinterest]

[This voice is one of the new ones, deep and on the older side. It sounds like it would belong to a man in his mid-thirties at least, possibly a little older.]

Thank you for the summary. Other than running afoul of the aforementioned dragons and barons, are there any other dangers to be wary of?

[Veteran Lock]

[inexecution]

I don't know that I have much to add. The mood in Westguard isn't good, the Baron was the only one holding things together around here.

I hope Stoneguard is getting what he wanted, because all he seems to have done is completely destabilized part of the country. [And if that 'sounds' rather bitter, well. He was probably going to have nightmares about people firing crossbow bolts at him for awhile.]

[moredakka]

Neria-san!

[omg she thought you were an Infiltrator she thought you'd vanished off she was kind of freaked out]

Are you okay? Are you an Investigator now? Did you d-die?!

[amadine]

Damn. There goes my grand plan to tell everyone I actually wandered in here out of a confectioner's nightmare.

What would you consider "of use"?

[tealeafs]

I don't know if there'll be anything to find here, but I'll keep an eye out. [ She does have some knowledge of herbs and stuff like that, even if it's just a little bit.. but she's picked a few things up from her father along the way. The problem is more that the area around Flamegard is.. well, pretty much scarred. Good luck finding life there, let alone herbs.

.. that part about the cell though.. ]

You didn't get into trouble, did you..?

[homemademolotov]

You don't want to give us a list of what might be helpful to you? I can identify plants, but I can't read your mind.

[tailforbrains]

Uh. Kinda too late for that... I'm already down here on the other side. Sorry about that.

[She doesn't sound very sorry. She sounds, really, more excitedly curious than anything else, though the "crazy" bit she shrugs off without a blink.]

But hey, dragons and queens and whatever, those're fine, I've got those back home. The part that's really weird, though? People don't even notice the tail. Because, you know, I have one. Is that supposed to happen?