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[wintershepherd]

Hey everyone. The Welcome Center is coming along pretty well, and we've got all the structural things put back to rights. I still need to talk to the Metalworkers and ask what it'll take to get a couple consoles put in there.

The people who have arrived since we all got out of the Dreaming seem like they're being dropped all over. If you were one of them, can you reply and let me know where in the city -- or outside of it? -- you showed up? Just in case there's a pattern.

Has anyone had luck getting the kedan to hire them?

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[wintershepherd]

Anything you remember about the place outside the city? Was it near anything?

I don't need the help in the Center itself so much as out in the city, getting the information we use AT the Center. We used to be able to direct people to certain shopkeepers who'd give them a good deal, things like that. Obviously, that's... a bit more of a problem right now.

[ Jack frowns a little bit at the mention of SI. ]

Anything you can do on that side will definitely help and I'd appreciate it if you could be a go-between for Aya and I, she's not able to see or hear me. Nice girl, lacking on the belief side of things.

video;

[highprofilerichkid]

Just a big open field. Hold on, I'll send you the approximate coordinates. [A second later, Jack will get a text ping with the location, as well as Tony remembers it.]

I'll see what I can do with Zanru. [But he's curious about what Jack just said about Aya.] Aya can't see you? Does this have something to do with you being invisible on that console message when I first got here? What's the deal with that?

[He hasn't interacted a whole lot with Jack except in passing since then, and he'd brushed it off as just some weird magical quirk. He can't remember if Jack had tried to explain it in that first conversation; Tony had still been processing the whole "magic" thing and he'd been hearing everything through a pretty heavy Skeptic Filter.]

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[wintershepherd]

Thanks, Tony. I'll check it out this afternoon.

Same reason, yeah. You have to believe in spirits, or near enough things like us, to be able to see me. It hasn't been a problem so much as it was when I originally got here, but Aya's one of the few hold-outs. Not on purpose, but you know.

[highprofilerichkid]

Oh, yeah. Spirit of Winter, right? [Tony still thinks that sounds kind of nuts, but half the stuff in Keeliai is kind of nuts, so that doesn't mean a whole lot.] I'll believe just about anything, these days. Different universes, different rules. [He shrugs, then grins.]

That's terrible scientific methodology, though. I can see why Aya would have a hard time with it.

[wintershepherd]

Got it in one.

I'm not arguing that one, I've always thought the rule was pretty stupid myself. Seeing is believing is seeing, what a pain that was for a long time.

[ He's making light of it, but he's also had a few years of Keeliai to come to terms with it, and he's no longer nearly as bitter as he once was about it. ]

Unfortunately, there are some rules that are less rules and more "actual law of the universe that can't be broken".

[highprofilerichkid]

That sucks. You'd think being a big-league spirit, you'd get to make your own rules.

[He says it lightly, unaware of any of the bitterness and baggage that Jack might have about it.]

[wintershepherd]

[ the spirit laughs ]

I like the way you think, Tony! It's a shame Bunny isn't still here, he'd get up in arms to hear you say that.

[highprofilerichkid]

A by-the-book kind of guy, huh? Yeah, that's not my style. I've found that it's a lot easier to break some of those "unbreakable laws" than a lot of people want you to think. Or work around them, anyway.

[Tony's usual reaction to someone saying "unbreakable law of the universe" is "wanna bet?"]