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[red_planet_blues]

[Today you are all graced with the visage of the Mars marshal, who has finally decided maybe it's time he brings something up here on the network.]

Howdy folks. Name's Sparks Nevada, if we haven't met yet. Before this planet, I was on one called Crystallis. Though before that, I was on Mars, and originally, I'm... from Earth. Thing is, I know a few folks who're from Crystallis that are here, too. It was kind of a similar situation. Y'know, the whole getting dragged outta yer home to be forced to live on another planet with crazy magic and chocobos and all that stuff. The difference there was that we were all considered to be somethin' called "Heroes of Light" and we had to basically save the planet -- the whole multiverse, actually -- from gettin' annihilated. Yer welcome, by the way.

Thing is, there are sure a lotta coincidences on this planet. If the jobs and the races 'a folks and all that ain't enough of a clue, the place names are a dead giveaway. Half of them are named for the Heroes from Crystallis. Even I got one - Sparks Goldsaucia. Pretty cool. Reckon it's all a bit too much to be a coincidence.

Bonnie also brought up the map to me, and... [He looks that over in a separate window.] If ya squint just right, and slide some bits around, sure as heck does look like Crystallis. Durin' that whole apocalypse thing, the planet did get kinda messed up and broken, so I guess we wouldn't have known what the continents looked like after all that. Woulda taken some time to re-map, and I was only there for a month after the whole ordeal was over. Had a planet to get back to marshaling, ya see.

What's my point to all this? Guess my point is that I don't believe in coincidences. The universe is, like, both too big and too small at the same time for that nonsense, if'n that makes any sense at all. It does. I think.

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[red_planet_blues]

There's a lot to explain. Lots of weird things happening with crystals, people called Avatars, things called Weapons, an empire, a king of the moogles, traveling to pasts and futures and alternate timelines and all kind of crazy stuff. It's a lot to handle over text.

I feel like me and the other Crystyallis veterans should just get everyone together and tell the whole story at once. Over drinks. I'll definitely need a few of those while going over this stuff.

[promiselisting]

[ She sighs, a little disappointed. ]

Fine. You better invite me to that though, when it happen.

Not all of us are old enough to drink though.

[red_planet_blues]

Alright, that's fine. You know, back on Crystallis, us Heroes used to have what was basically a guild hall just for us, and we'd have meetings there to swap info. We weren't lucky to have these kind of computers there. But maybe doing something similar here wouldn't be a bad idea.
Maybe it doesn't have to be a real space, but we could do, like, virtual meetings over video chat with every one of the, um, space immigrants? We need a good collective noun.

[promiselisting]

Could probably crowdsource ideas for that one.

So you mean sorta like some kind of otherworlders-type guild? Preferably run by non-natives.

[ Guess who doesn't trust the Curti Center~ ]

[red_planet_blues]

Exactly like that. Might be a good idea to have our own space and ideas, right?

[It's not that Sparks has a reason to distrust the Curti Center, but he doesn't have a reason to trust them yet, either.]

[promiselisting]

Definitely.

I'd be happy to rig up a bit of security for any technology there too, if we ever get somewhere like that.

[ Well, once she gets a bit more of a grasp on the tech here. But something as big as this would probably take some time anyway, so she's fairly sure she'd be ready by then. Not everyone may share her mistrust of the Curti Center but she's fairly certain that a lot of them will rest easier having their own private space, even online. ]

Or for an online forum, I suppose, if we go that route.

[red_planet_blues]

Reckon we could always do both. Online and offline meetings. We'd just have to pick somewhere central to the airships, since people seem to be moving off to their own places already. Most of the Heroes on Crystallis lived in the same city we showed up in, but that was mostly because they gave us free places to live the whole time.

[promiselisting]

Wouldn't that be nice.

[ She's got about two months before they're all kicked out and she... doesn't know what to do about that. She's pretty sure she won't be great for a lot of the normal jobs and the only free housing after that is for school which she wants to go back to even less, so.... She really hopes Ren and Makoto have some idea what to do. ]

Well, if anything like that does start happening, let me know. Offer stands.