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[alphabeticalplans]

This would probably the last place I expected to end up, if I even knew it was on the list.

Weird way to meet the neighbors, too, but how do you do, I guess?

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[menarebrave]

I can think of stranger ways.

Anyways, welcome to Driftcrest.

[alphabeticalplans]

Maybe. The last I checked, phones didn't automatically conference call everyone with an extension. Maybe I did something wrong.

Thanks. It's nice to be in a place so


I guess 'convenient' is a good way to describe it.

[menarebrave]

These phones do. You can customize the messages to go out to only certain people, or to lock them further from that. Think of it more as posting to a message board than setting up a conference call.

Less need for a business suit that way.

Driftcrest is only convenient now that we solved their problem. The question is how much longer are we staying before it changes again.

[alphabeticalplans]

I saw that, but it only works if I know their network designation. So far, my roledex comprises...1.

Is it Bruce or Wayne?
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What problem and what do you mean "again"?

[menarebrave]

I'm sure you'll fill out that contacts sheet soon.
Bruce Wayne is my full name.
Driftcrest was under siege by invisible creatures that would turn victims into pure ice.
Driftcrest is the third reality I've seen. When I arrived? It was a beach.

[alphabeticalplans]

If people are as helpful as I'm getting the impression they are, I'm sure you're right.

Well, it's good to meet you, Bruce Wayne. You can call me Biggs.

The third what now?

[menarebrave]

We're all in the same situation. Far from home without a way back that we know of.
Any first name to go with that, Mr. Biggs?
World, reality. We come from different places and we change them. It was a beach when I arrived.

[alphabeticalplans]

I'll get back to you on whether or not that's comforting.

Victor, but most people just call me Biggs.

And it was a winter wonderland before you guys defeated the Unseen, right? That's normal.

[menarebrave]

It probably isn't. It shouldn't be.

Biggs then.

It was. I'm guessing they had some ability to affect the weather if it melts the moment that they're stopped.

[alphabeticalplans]

Are the monsters a common thread or did they come with the snow? I get the Unseen were ice-based. That I can jive, but have there been similar occurances in the other realities you've seen?

Roger. They were ice monsters, pretty powerful ones too, by the sound of it. That sort of magic doesn't come from garden variety fiends, at least not that I've ever heard of. I know a guy who'd probably know better, but it looks like I left him in another reality.

[menarebrave]

It seems like they came with the snow in this reality. That, or they simply were the most active during the winter. The previous reality was a metropolitan city, and before that a beach city. Driftcrest has certainly been the most dangerous so far.

Magic. You have that?

[alphabeticalplans]

Came with it or caused it?

My world does, yeah, but the last people who could use it without using Materia, that's crystallized magic basically, died out a long time ago.

[menarebrave]

That would require us to have been here prior to the Unseen. From what I gather? The information is dodgy at best. They tried to suppress what they could about it to control panic.

I've heard a few people mention magic before. Not in the context of "materia."

[alphabeticalplans]

"Suppressed" or not, someone has to know SOMETHING.

...is this a secure line?

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[oldmanfive]

Aside from the natives, I don't think anyone expected to end up in this place.

But at least you got dropped in after all the chaos has settled down.

[alphabeticalplans]

I think I heard something about that. Anything I should know?

[oldmanfive]

The main trouble has passed, a couple of days ago several of us fought a bunch of monsters that were known as the Unseen. We got rid of them. So everyone is taking a collective breath now.

[alphabeticalplans]

The Unseen.

Has that happened before? Monsters, I mean. They aren't exactly uncommon where I come from.

[oldmanfive]

From my understanding, the Unseen were a problem of Driftcrest. The people who have been here before it morphed into Driftcrest, told me that they hadn't had any problems with actual monsters until then.

I got dropped here pretty much as things had took a turn for the worse with the creatures. So I only have the information that I collected during my research of the monsters. There was a lot of conflicting information to work through.

[alphabeticalplans]

Okay, let's table this whole 'Unseen' thing for a minute. What do you mean by 'morphed into' Driftcrest?

[oldmanfive]

According to others who have been in this place longer, the setting changes but the natives seem unaware of it. Jerry and his information booth seem to be static as are some of the businesses, but everything else will change.

I haven't witnessed this myself, this is just what I have been told by several people who have been stuck here like us. During my research of the monsters, I did find references to places called Beachville and Weschester City though. So I'm inclined to believe them.

[alphabeticalplans]

The setting changes, but the people don't, or do they change, too?

...well, that's something.

[oldmanfive]

It's unclear to me. You might have to ask one of the others who have experienced it first hand.

It is. We're likely to learn for sure, if Driftcrest shifts since the monster problem was solved and that would be an opportune time to change the setting up again. Of course, this is just my speculation right now.

[alphabeticalplans]

Copy.

What I'm getting here is "keep an open mind, Biggs. You're not in Midgar anymore." I can roll with that.

Speculation leaves a lot of room for error. Never my first choice, but I'm not seeing a lot of options.

[oldmanfive]

I'm not always a fan of speculating either, but it is all based on what I have been told by others that have experienced the shifts. Hopefully we'll have more of a definitive answer soon.

[alphabeticalplans]

Or at least new information to add to the pile.

[oldmanfive]

Touché. One way or the other we have to wait and see what happens next.

[alphabeticalplans]

I can be patient when I need to be. Besides, it'll give us time to prepare for whatever this place might have in store for us, right?

[oldmanfive]

True, but we might not get to prepare as well as we would like.

[alphabeticalplans]

All the more reason to prepare for anything.
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Let's collect what we do know. This place shifts realities, and when isn't predictable. Okay, that's workable, at least in a pinch. Does it effect us or just the environment?