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Good afternoon. My name is Roy Greenhilt.

[Seven words -- no, no, he doesn't have to keep himself to the word limit of a Sending spell with this strange device, even though he's given to understand its transmission functions are most analogous to that spell.]

[Don't mind that brief pause. He's just going to be here acting like he knows what he's doing.]

As many of you are no doubt aware, there are numerous exploratory missions set out to benefit the quarantine and ensure the survival of its people. I am seeking others who would be willing to join a party dedicated to routinely undertaking these missions, as well as various other freelance opportunities that may present themselves. I'm an experienced adventurer and party leader, so I'd like to put those skills to use here for the betterment of the quarantine.

I generally prefer in-person interviews but I recognize we're all a bit busy adjusting to our new circumstances, particularly after the storms that just rolled through and a recent concern about attacks on the quarantine, so I'm willing to be flexible. My own duties aren't to be put aside on a whim either! [Roy offers a grin to the camera which is a little stale, the joke lame enough that it proves he's not quite comfortable with this whole thing.]

Please get in touch with me at your earliest convenience if you're interested in joining.

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Adventuring.

That makes one hell of a business card.

I'm starting to get the impression it's somewhat more common on my world than yours.

[Which is funny, because she'd been in such a hurry to sign up he'd believed she knows exactly what he means by it...]

[That's a word she's started hearing a lot lately. "World." And the term "my world" or "your world." There are a lot of implications there. Ones she's not entirely comfortable with.

For now, Fatima decides to just go with it.]

Guess so. Most of the good adventuring where I came from happened a long while back.

I occasionally get the impression that most adventuring exists to clean up the messes the previous generation of adventurers made in the course of cleaning up the messages THEY found. [Certainly Roy's own party would have had a far different path to take if they hadn't gotten tangled up with the Snarl and the Gates...]

Still, if you're willing to get a proper taste of it...

[She laughs a little. He talks just like Liam, complaining about Elders and neonates and any other Cainites who aren't in the Order.

She could get along with this guy. Provided she learns to speak his language, as it were.]

Oh, I'm in.

Just don't ask me what my "class" is.

[Roy is fairly cynical. Most people in his circumstances would be. He does appreciate that it's not a dealbreaker, though.]

Well, surely you're not implying that you have no class...

[He is also capable of a joke here and there, too, though!]

Oh, that's what most of my teachers told me.

[Fatima offers him a wry smile.]

But anyone who's seen my shoes would say otherwise.

As a long-time devotee of boots, I have no grounds to judge any person by their footwear.

[Roy says this with the highest of minds, one hand lifted like he's downright vowing not to infer or imply a thing.]

Unless you go dungeon-crawling in high-heels. Then I might.

Most of the dungeons in my world kind of require six-inch heels. But I promise, any footwear I wear is footwear I can wear.

[She grins.]

A woman's weight on a single stiletto heel is equal to the pressure of an elephant, after all. You never know when that'll come in handy.

Oh yes, more than enough pressure to trigger traps and get stuck in stone crevasses and crumbled floors. [Roy's perfectly willing to play along with the good humor.] And though I'll grant I wouldn't want to be kicked by one, I'm willing to bet a triceratops charge is worse.

I more meant the kicking part.

But like I said, don't worry yourself about my footwear. I know what I'm doing.

Never meant to imply otherwise. [Still smiling, he nonetheless means that entirely.] And hey, one of our most successful dungeon crawls featured our rogue baring her midriff, and somehow that never became an issue despite all the inherent potential problems.

...

[There's a lot to parse out in that statement. Fatima decides to go with the least sexy part of it, for now.]

...dragons are real in your world?

...They're not in yours?

[This makes two of them that have suddenly found themselves struggling to grapple with the implications in each other's words.]

No.

[There are thousands of things lurking in the shadows. Including Fatima, to a certain extent.

Dragons aren't part of that set.]

Just dinosaurs. And they're extinct.

Dinosaurs are extinct in your world?

[This keeps getting weird and weirder. And as much as Roy can personally wish he'd never have to deal with dinosaurs again, hearing of a total loss of a family of creatures is nonetheless pretty alarming.]

Yeah...for millions of years.

This is getting weird...

Well, all things considered, that shouldn't be too much of a surprise.

Still pretty unsettling to hear, though.

[About as upsetting to hear that dragons are real, she reasons.

There are going to be a lot of surprises in store in this place, aren't there? Fatima's not sure she's ready for it all.]

I'll have to start taking notes on all of this...

[Why is it bad that dragons are real? The metallic ones are wise, ancient forces for Good, and the chromatic ones have excellent treasure hoards.]

[And the gem ones are just weird, but who ever sees one of those anyway?]

I think I've run into more technological devices I don't understand than you have into species that you don't expect to see so far, so I'm pretty sure you still have an advantage on me in that respect.

Well, at least I know dragon lore.

[A pause.]

...I think?

I promise you there won't be a test. [Aside from a potentially practical one if a dragon does show up.]

[She laughs.]

Good to know.

[Honestly, as strange as these revelations are, they could be more uncomfortable. Fatima is at least easy to talk to, which is a relief after all the weirdness they'd been experiencing of late.]

I won't say our current circumstances are ideal, but I think we absolutely have the potential to make the best of them, and a responsibility to try. So long as we can work towards that goal, I think we can smooth out anything else that arises from being from very different worlds.

I like the attitude.

[Even if she's always a little wary of optimism. Auntie Diana's an optimist, and what has that gotten her?]

Just keep in touch with me, okay? I want to know as much as I can about this place.

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