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

[wizard_redfive]

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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[wizard_redfive]

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.]

[happyends]

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..

[wizard_redfive]

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.]

[happyends]

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.

[wizard_redfive]

[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.]

[happyends]

[ 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..

[wizard_redfive]

[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.]

[happyends]

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.

[wizard_redfive]

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?

[happyends]

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.

[wizard_redfive]

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.

[happyends]

[ 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!

[wizard_redfive]

[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.]