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[despairing_hope]

Hello, my name is Komaeda Nagito. This is the first time I'll be addressing everyone, it's a pleasure to directly interact with everyone who was amazing enough to be styled a protagonist.

But first, let me get I to what I would like to talk about. There are two topics I'm interested in.

1: If you were ever in the world called Christallis, can you share your experiences there? Or agree to an interview?

2: Is there anyone I interested in archeology? Though not an immediate plan of action, I feel looking into that will bring I interesting discoveries.

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[despairing_hope]

A pleasure Nakagawa kun.

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[twomeals]

whats archeology?

[einspine]

ARCHEOLOGY IS FASCINATING! ESPECIALLY IF IT INVOLVES UNEARTHING ANCIENT PUZZLES. OR ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY. OR ANCIENT PUZZLE TECHNOLOGY!!!

ARE YOU PERHAPS PROPOSING A GRAND EXPEDITION?

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[charming_jerk]

Yeah i'm from Crystallis, what do you wanna know

[despairing_hope]

The study of ancient civilization. Basically, you dig up old stuff from the past and try and understand how peope lived based on it.

[despairing_hope]

I dont know about an expedition at this time, but I would like to try and find a spot to try and escavate.

[despairing_hope]

What you can remember before and after your final moments there. Also any landmarks of note.

[twomeals]

oh
do people usually bury their stuff with them when they die
it sounds really interesting though

[despairing_hope]

Sometimes people will bury things with the dead, but what I'm interested is different. When cataclysmic things happen, cities can be abandoned, or other structures and things lost. Over time it gets impeded in the ground.

[einspine]

WELL, IT'S A START. BUT SURELY SUCH A FABLED LOCATION WOULD REQUIRE ADVENTURE! A JOURNEY ACROSS THE WILDERNESS, WITH OR WITHOUT A MAP. POTENTIALLY INTO SOME TREACHEROUS TEMPLE OF TRAPS!!!

[Someone's watched too many human movies.]

[masqueraid]

A... protagonist?

[despairing_hope]

Perhaps, but, I would hope that it would be less exciting and more... knowledge rich.

[despairing_hope]

People summoned from another world, given special powers, and meant to start an adventure are always protagonists.

[masqueraid]

Then that should mean... you're a protagonist too, right?

[despairing_hope]

[That causes him a moment of pause.]

Someone like me could never be a protagonist. I'm more like... an NPC or companion.

[twomeals]

catac
those must be really big things if they make people abandon whole cities

[despairing_hope]

Well, the world we want to find evidence of did end rather violently.

[charming_jerk]

Do you mean like in the grand scheme of things or literally moments before we got here?

Landmarks, there were a lot of those. The city i lived in was called Aqures Ixen.
There was a town like Sparks Goldsaucia called Trano Goldsaucia. There were these big elemental crystals that were important and powerful. Aqures Ixen had the Crystal of Fire.

[euphemia]

I've heard of that saying a number of times now. Something about heroes and light. I'm not sure what that means. I'm no hero.

[despairing_hope]

I'm not sure what it means for here either, but, I would say everyone has the potential to be a hero in this context.

At least, it feels that way. It would be if it were a video game or novel.

[despairing_hope]

Both. I want leads to see if we can find evidence of this world being connected to that world.

Can you describe those locations? Draw a rough map? If something similar were found could you identify it?

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[shinra_dog]

I heard you talked with Takeshi.

I'm Reno. Another one from Crystallis, but I never considered myself a "protagonist."

[charming_jerk]

maybe. i did do a lot of travelling.

honestly these worlds are eerily similar. the map looks like Crystallis just shifted around a bit. considering all the world-shaking shit that went down before i got here, it wouldn't surprise me on how different it might look. people were still working on remapping Crystallis before i showed up here.

also a lot of place names here are suspiciously like the old Heroes from Crystallis

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[despairing_hope]

I did.

Well, what else would you call someone who was summoned from another world, given abilities, and given tasks to do?

And since you are from Crystallis, can you share anything from what you remember of your time there?

[despairing_hope]

All the more reason to have a map we can look at and compare.

If you can write down the locations and heroes they match that would be helpful as well. There are a lot of things to go through before we can know what will bring results and what won't.