Digging Continues (Open, threadjacking encouraged once again!)

[promiselisting]

[ VIP week at Sparks Golsaucia's still going on, true, but it involves a lot of loud noise and people and Futaba ain't here for that without the rest of her friends. So instead she's been working on something else. Something even the people who didn't join in can hopefully appreciate. ]

So. Got a few things for you all and a few questions in return, especially for the newbies.

First of all, I've got some notes for you all. Some of you might remember the post I made a couple months back. Been doing research since then, so I figured I'd follow up with my findings. The more this info is widely spread the better. Also if you've got anything to add from searches on your own, feel free to talk about it here or lemme know and I can add it. We may even want to have like... some kinda meeting to discuss this stuff?

I'm not organizing it though.

[ Nope. Nope. Not a chance. Putting together notes and tossing them out to the wind? That she can do. Organizing a bunch of people and talking to them and all that kind of thing? Nope. ]

Unfortunately this place doesn't have the internet, so I can't just make a website for these notes. Pretty much all I can do is make my files available for download as of right now, so I'll have to post an updated version periodically. Sucks but there's nothing I can do yet.

Anyway here's the file: file:vaikunthanotes

[ And next... ]

On that note, one of the big questions last time was about a strange little girl with blond hair who called herself Ashelia. She only turned up right after the new arrivals, and only spoke to a few people before disappearing again. Anybody happen to see her this time around? Looking at newbies especially for this one.

Also a Moogle that shouted some kind of doomsday prophecies about a "she," I guess.

[ She'll ask more questions if anybody actually happens to volunteer information. No point typing a lot up front if it turns out she wasn't even here.

And... as for the last thing. And the thing she's especially glad she's using text for. ]

Also... back on Earth, a lot of countries around the world happen to celebrate Father's Day on the third Sunday of June (sixth month). Which is... this one, I guess?

So. Happy Father's Day.

[ Especially to her own dad, even if... he isn't here... ]

Comments

[lordshield]

This is the day we would celebrate it on Eos as well. Interesting coincidence.

You have done an excellent job compiling this data. Well done.

[promiselisting]

Huh. That's honestly one of the last things I'd have expected to share between worlds. Universes. Whatever we wanna call it here.

Thanks. I just hope it's useful. Right now we just keep finding more answers as we go.

[dreamsoftomorrow]

This is really neat, thanks Futaba.

Something I've noticed are the chocobos. They may look different, but they're not just on this world. My world has them too, as do some friends I met. They have them on their world.

The summoners here summon Eidolons, something that only certain individuals on my world could do as well. I only recognize one of them though, Shiva. Although she was different on my world as well. They are the twins of Shiva, Stiria and Nyx.

Actually, that reminds me. You mentioned Earth mythology. My friend Lightning, her Eidolon is named Odin and I was told by Hunk that that's the name of a Norse god on Earth. It seems there are a lot of references that are somehow crossing to other worlds.

[Father's Day would be mentioned but... he misses his dad too much. It was easier to hide behind text, too.]

[promiselisting]

No prob

So... add that to chocobos being another connection between this world and others... and... others with each other, I guess. I'd say that's probably odd but if we start thinking about every thing that universes have in common, we're gonna have to wonder why we're all even humans. If what you're saying is true though, it almost makes it sound like Earth is the odd one out for having horses.

I did talk to Naoto about the Eidolons too, though. I've been thinking of looking into them as is. I'll definitely add them to list. My [ She pauses here for the the longest of moments, teetering over which word to use, and then- ] brother Ren's a Summoner. He should be able to speak to 'em. Maybe we could find out something that way.

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[despairing_hope]

I spoke with a man that implied this world might be related to another world they had been in before here. So, that may be worth looking into. Supposedly that world ended, but they saved it or something.

[He didn't care about holidays for parents, so he made no comment about that part of the post. He barely remembered his own.]

i'm so sorry for her being her

[promiselisting]

[ Oh, it's that guy who rained all over the parade on Makoto's birthday post. Not to mention the content of the post... he better not have just skipped all over her notes or she swears.... ]

That world

wouldn't happen to be Crystallis, would it?

[whirluendo_of_puns]

Thanks for sharing your notes. It's nice having everything in one place.

I don't have a lot to add, but I did talk with Marshal Nevada about Crystallis a while back. It seems the Eidolons here might be the same ones that existed in that world. If that's true, they would be the most likely source for some answers.

[promiselisting]

I actually talked to Ira about that and some of them seem to be the same ones? But others are different. That's something I forgot to put in my notes. I'll have to fix that.

[ Thanks for the reminder. Honestly she needed to make a full Eidolon section soon. ]

Anyway the ones that Ira recognized were Shiva, Ramuh, and Chocomog, while Ultros, Typhon, and Titan were unfamiliar.

Either way, yeah. Time for our summoners to step up.

[regalblaze]

It was very generous of you to share this information with us

[Why did she do it is something he won't question at this time.]

I saw someone mention chocobos- we have them on Eos too. And not only that. The currency here is the same that is back home. Crown City didn't use the same currency, but that is just one city on Eos. Everywhere else on Eos was gil. There are drinks that are also familiar here as well as plants and wild animals.

How can you be so sure that the event of the Crystalis is not repeating itself? Perhaps not in the same intensity, perhaps only parts of our world are just broken off. Don't you think it is a bit too early to write it off?

[promiselisting]

Eos too, huh? ... you know, like I said to hope, keeping track of every connection between this world and others - or even our worlds and each other - would probably be a pain and not very productive, but it's kind of weird to see which similarities are there.

Anyway, according to what Ira told me, the siphon on Crystallis was completely shut down and the guardian that manned it was killed.

[ In retrospect she's really hoping it was a robot guardian of sometime because otherwise... yowza. ]

Up to everyone what they take from that, though. I'm not dismissing the possibility that there's some new kind of cycle going on here. One that's equally nasty.

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[acceptedlife]

There's another name for you to add to that list.

Bonnie.

She was a moogle companion of a friend of mine on Crystallis.

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[promiselisting]

Good to know. I only added the people I noticed explicitly talking about it in public, since we were getting plenty of info from you guys.

[ Like she mighta dug into things a bit more eventually, but right now there wasn't a need to go shoving into the business of people who might wanna stay hidden for whatever reason. ]

[rivieran]

[ It's time to give typing a go. ]

Greetings
I very much appreciate the effort you have gone through to compile this information
I have been following any post so far on the bulletin regarding Vaikuntha and its origins but have only recently learned to use this device so what information I already have has already been mentioned

Many above have also been pointing out similarities to their own world
Sadly Vaikuntha and my own plane are vastly different
We do not have a holiday to celebrate fathers in my country
However I do wish to share my thoughts
According to the rules of arcana in my world summoned creatures disappear and return to their home plane when their role is fulfilled or when they are killed or after a set amount of time
I cannot say that the rules are the same here on Vaikuntha
But on the off chance that they are this may be vital information for us since this implies that a very powerful and higher power has brought us here for a reason

One question I do have is how old the world might be
If it was indeed reborn and other summoned visitors stayed long enough to procreate over generations and long enough for the rebirth myth to indeed become a myth then I am leaning to the older side

So I am inclined to believe that a large batch of newbies ie ourselves would be different from the previous visitors
All baseless assumption however

Again I appreciate your efforts
If you would like for a meeting to be held but do not wish to organize it I am more than happy to fulfill that role

A pleasure
Ena

[promiselisting]

[ Wow okay yeah this definitely reads like someone who was new to computers. She's seen similar types of posts from old ladies who barely knew how to use a keyboard.

...No offense. Mostly. ]

I mean if you wanna organize it, go ahead and knock yourself out. I'm no good at that kind of thing.

[ Not with a bunch of strangers at least. She can do this sort of thing, mainly because she does all the legwork on her own and leaves people here to make of it what they will. And also because she can mainly communicate via text. That part helps loads. ]

Your assumptions are fine. I mean, we don't have anything to prove them yet, but we don't have anything to disprove them either. Same thing about being brought here by somebody, or something. It's definitely something we need to keep an eye on.

Guess we could work on looking more into this world's history too. I'd been thinking about it for other reasons.

[ It certainly couldn't hurt, at least. ]

[arosetowar]

This is very informative. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Have you any specific observations on the rest of the Curti Center staff?

[promiselisting]

[ She'd thought she'd made her feelings on the Curti Center pretty clear but. Well hm, had she really not? No, she hadn't. ]

Well, on my last post about Ashelia one of them pretty much told me and the others who saw her that we were probably hallucinating. Then backpedaled pretty badly when I called them out on it.

Also they say that they weren't expecting us, have no idea why so many people started appearing in the Dream Width, yet they just happen to have all these spare houses lying around for us to use. The help we the Jobs was nice and I'm glad they haven't just... kicked us out into a new world with only our clothes, but it still feels a lot like we've been left to our own devices to figure out our own way here.

[ She does not trust the Curti Center, can you tell???? ]

[witchwithoutacause]

I was never very good at Father's Day gifts.

anyway this is a lot to go over. sorta sounds like everyone brought here before us was a practice run though right?

[promiselisting]

Yeah I wasn't really the greatest at it myself for a while. [ Mostly on account of... not having a dad. ] I rocked Mother's Day, though.

[ She's... very glad this is text right now, so she can absolutely play this off as a joke and not something that actually stung a little to say. ]

And it's hard to say? If there actually is someone or something specifically bringing us here, then yeah though, that sounds likely.

[masqueraid]

( futaba has always been great at info-gathering, and this guy here has the utmost confidence in her skills. there's a copy of her notes already on his slate that they'd gone over together, so there's something else in this post that he chooses to address instead... )

Father's Day, hmm...
What do you think Sojiro would have liked?

[promiselisting]

Just so we're clear, the number of Fathers Days I've celebrated is still under three.

[ And honestly last time she'd... she'd tried her best to spend the day outside her room. She didn't make it outside the house mind you, but... still. ]

Maybe we coulda gotten him an apron though. One of those silly ones with "World's Best Dad" or "Kiss the Cook" on it or something.

[failtsuninari]

Guess there are some universal holidays across our worlds after all. So thank you.

[He maybe sniffling on the inside because he's missing his kids now.]

Also again really thank you for creating these chances for us to share info.

[promiselisting]

[ She misses her dad something fierce so they can be a pair, or something. ]

I mean I'll gladly create more oppurtunties for Takeshi to drop more gigantic truth bombs on all of us, it's no problem, really.

[ YOUR SON IS TROLLING HER. ]

No word yet on if Ashelia popped up again either. And I don't think anybody's spotted her since.

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[red_planet_blues]

Reckon if we can't get everyone together to talk, then this is the next best thing.

Good work on this.

[promiselisting]

No prob

Still think we should do that too eventually though.

[ She's still not putting it together though. She's shit at organizing people unless it's sending people a text to come to the hideout. ]

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[chosehope]

Goodness, this must have taken you quite a long time to gather all this information.

I'm impressed!

[promiselisting]

Thanks?

Been working on it since I got here, pretty much.

[ She doesn't actually think it's all that impressive but??? Mildly flattered???? ]

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[likewishes]

Personally, I never paid that Moogle any mind. Having a whole set of new individuals dropped here from various locations would make anyone reconsider if the end of the world is soon at hand.

Can I ask where you picked up some of those origin myths from?

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[promiselisting]

The libraries in Arito, mostly. Was kind of a pain to find though. Somebody should come and invent the Dewey Decimal system here or something. The second version's probably somewhere at the Curti Center? Since Ashelia pretty much popped up on our first day here and she's the one who wanted to see it.

Honestly I don't really care much about the moogle either, except that his "she" might be the same "she" that Ashelia was warning me about.

[euphemia]

A doomsday prophecy? About a "she"?

[promiselisting]

Didn't actually get to hear it myself but yeah. Showed up right with the first wave of people. He was really vague from what I heard and wouldn't answer any questions.

Why?

[chosennobody]

i have a lot i can say about world connections. where i come from all the people i knew were aware other worlds existed. the group i was part of traveled from world to world regularly. this is possible because the hearts of all worlds are connected but i always had my abilities in those worlds and i don't here. S'reee and i were talking how worlds might exist in groupings and this might be a different group but that doesn't make sense because we had moogles and stuff back home too. i saw chocobos here and i know i heard about them back home and cactuars too.

i was in another world like this before i came here. people from all over different worlds were pulled there by evil gods but not a whole lot was the same. this place is a lot more like home than that place was.

one more thing. does anyone else think its suspicious that the center had all these empty houses and apartments just sitting around? like what were they doing with all of them before we came? seems like a waste of space.

not here; 1/2

[acceptedlife]

[hell yes roomie, YEET that world order BS.]

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[spaceforged]

Thanks for compiling this. It will be extremely useful in keeping track of what is found so far. I made a written copy of it for my own personal updating.

But, anything I find out I'll pass on to you. We need to keep our intel organized and easily accessible for everyone.

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[promiselisting]

Definitely a good idea, especially in case a moogle tries to steal my tablet again.

[ STILL ANNOYED ABOUT THAT TBH. The way he says that last bit. Hm. She thinks for a bit. Thinks a lot. Then switches the conversation over to private. ]

I actually have a bit more intel, but it involves a possible connection to my own world that I didn't exactly want advertised. It's not much yet, though.

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[studdedcouncilprez]

Thank you for doing this.

As well as making it accessible to everyone.

I am also heartened to see that this discussion has been much more cordial than the last time you made a group post.

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[promiselisting]

Well, that one local hasn't turned up again.

[ So that's helped. ]

None of 'em have, actually. You got a full copy of my notes though, right?

[ She's... pretty sure she sent Makoto one? But it can't hurt to be sure since there's.... been a lot going on. ]