(a few hours into the Jaunt, open broadcast)

[protect_and_serve]

[Joscelin's voice, sent across the network, is warm, dry, composed - instilled with enough confidence, he hopes, to reassure the new and uncertain.]

A calm beginning makes for a welcome change. We should still start sharing what we know. Who's with us, and who is missing? Who is infiltrating? What do we know about this world?

If this is your first Jaunt - and there were many new faces in Liminal Space - ask for assistance, and we'll give it.

I'll begin. This is Joscelin Verreuil. We're on the coast of an island, somewhere between Alba and Terre D'Ange- England and France, I think, locally. Magic of some sort appears to be open and commonplace. I can't make sense of their calendar, but we're in or just after the Twentieth Century, as.... Christians... reckon time. This is a port where foreigners are common and unremarked. I have clothes that fit the era, and in my pockets were ten five-pound notes. The Trumps don't mean for us to be spotted immediately, or starve, but I can't guess more than that.

Comments

[summerorange]

Natsumi Hikari; pleasure to be working with all of you in this world. I can certainly pass as an Empowered - Kivaara can easily pass as a partner spirit, since she allows me to transform.

To be honest...this does remind me of some of the worlds that my friends and I have passed thru before we joined this group. Humans and other races living side-by-side, with heroes to protect all who are not evil...

And yet, I can't help but wonder as to why this world needs so many heroes. Does anyone know who are the common enemies yet? Any rumors of a secret organization of evil?

[taiyny]

No rumors beyond illegal vigilantes that I've overheard, but that doesn't mean they're not out there. In my experience, secret organizations of evil tend to stay that way until they're forced out into the open.

[summerorange]

That might be true here...but I've experienced the opposite in some other worlds as well.

[taiyny]

Then they're not very good at being a secret villainous organization.

[summerorange]

It's more like they weren't bothering to hide their existence - either because their fights with their foes are too public not to, or they've already taken over that particular world.

[taiyny]

Like I said, they're not very good at being secret, then.

[summerorange]

Probably...

Anyway, any idea as to where to start looking? Kivaara, my partner, thinks that we should start checking the missing persons list, but...

[But that would indicate kidnappings and/or secret killings. And considering that they just got here, it could either be the wrong trail, or going too hard on the right one too soon.]