Trial 001 [Radio, audio only] [Public]

[portal_refugee]

I'll admit, you've got one interesting place here.

[The voice belongs to a young woman, and sounds to be in her early to mid-twenties. A bit tired perhaps, but whatever stress she feels is being carefully restrained as she begins her plea for information - with an introduction naturally.] As practiced as that orientation is at the Welcome Center, I take it everyone is rather used to newcomers. So, hi. Name's Abigail, and I'm from a city called San Fransokyo.

[There's a pause that follows, but the hesitation is shaken off as she proceeds to her point.]

Just walking into the city in the first place showed me a lot. And keeping an open mind, the whole Great Turtle is begging a lot of questions, but I have one thing I would like to confirm.

For lack of a better way to say it, did time really stop back where we came from? Has anyone been able to verify it somehow? I ask because I transitioned here at a really...inopportune moment.

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[portal_refugee]

You don't say...

[Hear that lack of amusement? She might forgive him if only because he answered her main concern.] Do you know who was able to verify it or how?

And for the record, if you're going to try to mash two city names together to make a fusion city up off the cuff, might want to try two different countries of origin. New Yoscow works much better.

[highprofilerichkid]

Sure. Me, for starters. I can get you a list of other people, if you want to talk to them.

...Wait, were you serious about San Fransokyo?

[portal_refugee]

No, but if you can describe your own experience with it even vaguely, it would be appreciated.

[A little slow there, but not bad.] Yes. It's a beautiful city. It used to be called San Francisco before the 1906 quake.

[highprofilerichkid]

There's a kedan healer here, Milyn, who can give you a drug that lets you access the Dreaming and see your future that way. It feels like going home, and you don't remember Keeliai while you're there, but physically, you're still here. That's what I did. And there have been a couple people who vanished for real and went back home, and then ended up here again. Jacob Cain is the guy you should talk to about that.

The mechanisms for getting here and getting home have changed a bunch of times since foreigners started coming. But the effect is always the same: when you go home, you forget Keeliai, and you haven't lost any time.

...Yeah, it's still called San Francisco in my universe. [Why would you rename it San Fransokyo? That just sounds silly.]

[portal_refugee]

[Certainly the most thorough answer she has received in terms of how trips home work, Abigail gains a little more knowledge and a lot of other questions. She has a growing suspicion she is going to end up with a headache before she figures out the mechanics of how all the planes interact here as well as with other timelines such as the one she hails from.]

Milyn and Jacob Cain...okay. Any idea as to the best way to get in contact with them?

Preservation of the original timeline requires that much I suppose. [Even if it feels like a raw deal.]

So then did your San Francisco not have a 7.8 quake and fire that destroyed approximately 80% of the city?

[highprofilerichkid]

Jacob you should be able to get in touch with on the network. Milyn's apothecary is in the Water Sector - if you picked up your newbie package at the Welcome Center, it'll be on the map they gave you.

[As for San Frans[isco/okyo]:] No, that still happened. [He thinks. History isn't his strongest subject, but "big earthquake" and "San Francisco" definitely rings some bells.] But they didn't rename the city.