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[Video] - Backdated to Imagination 21 (After Eva's Post)

So that sure just happened.

Anyway, I think Eva's right. Whether or not we have a physical meeting, we should talk about the answers we got. [Slightly bitterly.] Three questions isn't much to work with on their own, but there's a bunch of us. Together we might have gotten some good deets.

I'll compile everyone's answers into a document and share it on the public computer.

...Ah, yeah. Shout out in case you haven't heard, the computer in our standard coach is open for anyone to use, along with the printer. I've set up a folder for Shared Documents, but if you want to make files with personal stuff, please use a flashdrive if you have one. I'll see if we can get some at our next stop. I'll back things up regularly in the meantime.

Also a computer costs a lot of points, so don't you dare break it.

[She's very firm on that. Be nice to her data kid... or else.]

[OOC: Open to threadjacking if folks want to have conversations about topics.]

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[ Is Madoka super in the mood for this? Nope, she sure isn't, but she figures that at the very least she should make an attempt at being helpful, especially if this person is planning on compiling the answers.. So she speaks up, even though her voice sounds a little weak. ]

Um.. I asked the train about the worlds we've been to on missions.. It said that all of them still exist and are doing well, except one.. um, it just named numbers for it, but I asked mister Piccolo and he said it was the world we got suddenly pulled back from when those shadows appeared.

...I see.

[That was... unsurprising, all things considered. Dairine is glad to hear that the other worlds were doing OK at least.]

Would you say the numbers were coordinates, or possibly the train data glitching on that world's name?

I'm not sure. It's like the numbers the train usually puts in those messages it sends us before a mission starts..

[ Madoka has read those often enough to know those are part of it, at least. ]

But I don't know what it bases those numbers on. It just looks like a really random string of numbers to me.. M-Maybe it's the order in which it discovered those worlds? [ But that means there have to be so many out there. ]

Possibly not just this train itself, but other Voidcraft. I'd imagine these Voidcraft must share some database or similar resource on worlds. How else would the train have so much information on them without being able to revisit places?

[Dairine personally suspects it is not a number assigned by discovery order, but still a way to index known planets.]

I wonder why it didn't bother with the planet's name? It would be much easier to recognize for most passengers.

Maybe it.. doesn't understand that names are easier for people than numbers..? [ She suddenly seems to realise something, as she quietly, but audible continues: ] Just like those inspectors.

[ They also had spoken to them in information that was much harder to parse for your average human than if they had said it in regular human terms, after all. Maybe it's just a void thing. ]

Perhaps. It wouldn't be too surprising, if it runs on an inorganic logic system.

[That said, the second half of that statement was far more interesting to Dairine.]

You met the inspectors? What were they like?

[She had, for better or worse, not arrived then.]

I did. [ She confirms in a small voice.

Madoka knows it's rare by now. There aren't too many people left on the train who were actually around back then, so spreading knowledge of it is a good thing. Just in case she may one day be the one to walk off the platform. ]

They were.. um, I guess it's not a nice way to put it, so I'm sorry.. but I thought they were kind of strange. [ That's such a mild understatement, and yet Madoka sounds apologetic all the same. ] They were dressed very strangely, though they seemed like they might have been human underneath.. B-But they were very business-like the whole time they talked to us. They really did just want to check our tickets and then quickly leave..

Strange how?

[Dairine doesn't seem offended by the phrasing, even if it might not be the most polite. She's not one to sweat a little bluntness. Besides, sometimes there just isn't a suitable word in Earth-bound human language for alien behavior.]

Were they connected to the Void, um, business? I'm guessing not the Ministry, seeing as they found out about us later. [And no one was arrested then as far as she knew.]

They were very tall.. [ More tall than most humans. ] And they were wearing these really big suits with masks, so you couldn't really see what they really looked like..

[ That should probably explain why a regular fourteen year old like Madoka would think their appearance is 'strange', right. It's kind of like a horror movie. ]

I-I think they got some people in touch with the ministry, so they at least have contact with them.. They said that all voidcrafts have to be inspected like that because of.. um.. [ She frowns, trying to remember. ] Because of interdimensional law, or something like that..

Huh. How covert of them. [That second bit is very sarcastic. They might had hidden their face, but how could anyone miss folks looking so sketchy?] I can see why you'd find them strange.

[Dairine frowns a little at the second part.]

That is a bit more worrying. If the ministry has people on the move, it might be easier for them to locate us. [She sighs, and tapping can be heard.]

I wonder.. [ About that last part, that is. Not on the strangeness of the men, since they seem to be in full agreement about that one now. ]

I mean, if those people were part of the ministry, or in contact with them.. They didn't really seem to mean us any harm. All they did was look at our tickets and leave. They didn't try to stop the train at all.

[Dairine leans back, arms crossed as she thinks.]

Perhaps we were under their radar at the time. Or maybe the inspectors fall under a completely separate department from the ministry. [A shrug] Who knows, at this point? Clearly interdimensional law differs for void-connected worlds and the ones we know.

[For those who know intergalatic or interdimensional travel restrictions.]

[ Yeah, because this sure was Madoka's first encounter with even the very idea of interdimensional law...

She's quiet though. Thinking, despite not knowing much about this subject. ]

Maybe we'll see them again sometime. I mean.. the ticket inspection kind of seemed routine to them..

[On her part, Dairine is far more familiar with these processes on a galactic scale, not dimensional. Working with other realities can get messy.]

Maybe, if one time wasn't enough. I dunno if normal Voidcraft have passengers change as often as we do.

[Probably not, given their anomaly status.]

Hmm.. It doesn't help that we've never really met many..

[ Other than that person apparently some people met during the last mission. ]

Which is a little strange, don't you think? I mean, the void must be a pretty big place, but.. it's odd to just never see anyone else out there at all.

Out in the Void or on planets?

[Because those felt like two very different scenarios.]

I figured missions are probably only assigned to one crew to make sure help is spread out, which might be why we don't usually see them on these worlds. Then again, why would they be notified that these missions are taken if the train is, as far as they're concerned, not supposed to exist?

Out in the void!

[ It's not too strange to Madoka that there aren't others like them on planets. After all, she never met a dimension-hopper back home.. well, aside from Homura, but Homura is connected to her own world. It doesn't seem like there a lot of world-travelling-problem-solvers out there, if none of them ever visited her world. Which was definitely in need of trouble. ]

We can't be the only ones traveling out here.. I think.

Ah, that!

[In her experience, finding folks on planets was actually much easier than on route. However, Dairine hadn't traveled in a spacecraft before Paradisa.]

Since we stumbled on one other traveler, seems like it.

Why we haven't run into anyone while in the void... maybe it's just that big? There's a lot of ground to cover even in regular space. Also I'm not sure how we would notice another vehicle out there, given we can't look outside for very long without a headache.

[ Madoka hums. Not to mention there are times no one looks out of the windows, like when everyone is asleep..

But still.. ]

T-Then I'll try extra hard to keep an eye out!

[ Not by staring out of the windows all the time, of course. Madoka knows what the side-effects of that are, and she doesn't particularly want to experience them. ]

I'll sneak peeks outside more often, just in case there's something there!

[Dairine would object, given how the void's appearance seemed to affect them, but admittedly it might not be a terrible idea. They don't know what is out there, other than light.]

Just don't go overboard, OK?

The train probably could identify foreign objects out in the void without our help... assuming it lets us know if it happens.

[Which it probably would? The Voidtrecker has been relatively forthcoming with information. But there was no guarantee.]

If anyone wants to document something extensive for the computer but isn't able or doesn't want to enter it themselves, they can come see me. My Interface-- [He points to the little red device he's wearing.] --does audio to text transcription.

Thanks, that's good to know.

And you are?

[Sorry mate, Dairine has been a bit preoccupied and isn't the most social even on the best days.]

I'm Devero. Came aboard at the last stop. [That sure ain't what it says on the passenger roster next to his picture, though.]

And you?

I see. [That would explain how she hadn't seen him yet.]

The name's Dairine. I've been onboard for... ten stops, so five months now.

[She scowls a little after the mental math. Already she's been stuck here this long.]

Pleasure to meet you.

[He scowls a little too, on her behalf really.] Five months? I'm sorry. [...It's the longest tenure he's actually heard of, whoops.]

[She shrugs.]

Eh, don't sweat it. I've been stuck longer than that before.

[Not that she liked it much that time either.]

Here...? Or stuck somewhere else?

Elsewhere. Before I ended up here, I was snagged by some magical castle called Paradisa. Cair Paradisa, specifically.

It... mostly sucked.

[With the exception of a few friends and memories made with them.]

...And how long were you trapped there for? [Engage horrified fascination mode, apparently.]

[Dryly]

A little over three years.

[...Yeah. It sucked.]

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