Video day 23 to everywhere- from cabin 4:D

[longforgottenpromise]

[Taiki is sat on the bench in the small cabin, looking straight at the camera with a very serious expression. Despite the fact that speaking to so many people, even over a video is a terrifying concept and despite the cloud of sadness that still clings to him nothing shows on his face. He looks perfectly calm, though he doesn't smile as he begins.]

Good morning. I apologise for disturbing you all. I was handed this ballot. [He holds it up.] Unfortunately I disappeared for a little while and so I have missed any run up to this election. [At least he understands the concept of an election, even if political science wasn't exactly a subject he had paid much attention to in school.]

I am still relatively new to this train and so I don't know most of the people on this list. I don't feel I can cast a vote without knowing what the candidates stand for and so, though I apologise if it is covering ground that was covered whilst I was away, I would like to know something of each candidate.

Thank you for your time.

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[longforgottenpromise]

[He had seen the video come up and had watched it, so he knew what Curufin was talking about at least.]

Thank you Curufin. Um... what other worlds did you live in? [He knew a little of Curufin's world, but not so much about other worlds he might have lived in.

It was easier to focus on that than the more militaristic aspects of his speech.]

[so_dark_a_road]

Besides my own? First, a world that looked a great deal like mine, and it must have had the same history. But it had to have been at least 7000 years into my world's future. It seemed that some disaster had happened to it; all the people had vanished but were replaced by a combination of outsiders and people from my time and later. That world snatched people from other times and places the same as the Voidtrecker does. It seemed to have good intentions, aside from the kidnapping. It sent us on missions to repair parts of it, or to fight monsters, or on other useful errands.

The second world I lived in after my own was very different. It was run by a pantheon of energy parasites who called themselves gods, but who weren't. They needed our emotions to survive on, so they collected us and used us. They were in the midst of a war with a race of robotic creatures who hated the so-called gods and wanted to destroy them. The parasites weren't fighting them at the time I arrived, they were just running, moving us from place to place, trying not to get discovered and killed. Long story, which I won't tell now. The good news is I had some experiences there that I wouldn't be without.

I don't know what you need to know, but if you've got more questions, ask away!

[longforgottenpromise]

Oh [That was odd. There was more than one phenomenon that stole people from their own worlds and threw them into others. Energy parasites sounded terrible and robotic creatures that killed were even more so.]

Um so... Those other worlds. They had people like us... Did they organise themselves like this? Were you part of the leadership there?

[so_dark_a_road]

The first world, the one we called Arda Marred, didn't have any organized leadership. Everybody just did their best to contribute something to the community, and we worked together on projects that mattered to us. I built a forge and provided anybody with weapons who wanted them. I also started a number of projects, such as clearing a nearby mountain pass of the rubble and debris that was choking it and making it impossible for us to use it as a road, and such as going to a distant Elven tower that had become infested with werewolves -- we killed or exorcised the evil spirits.

The second world, which was called Hadriel, had some organizations that had leadership, but not everybody belonged to an organization. I did. I was a member of the City Guard, which mostly fought the monsters that lived outside the city and sometimes tried to invade it. We fought the killer robots, too, when they finally came. I was also a member of the City Clinic, but I was not a healer, I was a kind of an outside ambulance service. I wasn't a leader in either service, though I was often the first one to spring into action when the Guard was called out. I started the Fire Brigade myself, and I was its leader. And I was always participating in projects, some of which I organized. Digging wells, building boats and wharves, etc.

No City Council, though, in either world. Or teams with brightly colored uniforms. [ Grin. ]

[longforgottenpromise]

[He was primarily a fighter then. Taiki isn't that surprised and honestly he can understand the need to fight when monster and killer robots attack. Even if he doesn't like the idea. A healer was good though.

Fire brigade was interesting, a vital service to a city and one that many may not think about.]

I see. The uniform thing is strange... Especially since the tasks... aren't really suited to everyone.

[so_dark_a_road]

[ Curufin was primarily a fighter and a forge-master, but he ran the Fire Brigade, managed the recruiting, the training, and the building of equipment, and the record-keeping. And of course he was the Fire Captain when the Great Fire swept the entire city and all the surrounding territory. Nobody had thought about the need for such a service before Curufin did. ]

I agree, the uniform is strange. Not everybody on Red Team is a warrior, but Red Team always gets the assignment that involves the most fighting. And not everybody on Orange Team has tech skills, but Orange Team tends to get the technical assignments. However, a friend of mine was wondering if the colors have some sort of magical significance that we've never been told about. Hard to say, without more information, whether color on the Voidtrecker is entirely for practical purposes.

[longforgottenpromise]

A magical explanation. [That would be strange and he couldn't think of what it might mean. What might it mean to be on one team over another.

But he nodded, he had already been told red team got the most fighting. He had no idea why he was there. The only explanation he could think of was that he had been put there because Lord Gyousou was there.]

We do need more information. It seems we still know so little...