( the video feed clicks on to display a very clear shot of the gigantic kogarasumaru team emblem carefully drawn across one of the walls in his room. you know because fuck the opinions of his roommates, he's a god and gods do what they want.

it's accompanied by one hand smacking hard against the emblem on the wall before ikki comes stepping into view. as soon as he's fully on camera, his hand closes into a fist, pointer finger jutted outward and it's aimed right at whatever audience he's got watching this. )

Listen up, listen up all you wretched fools! This is a public service announcement! If you'll check out the wall behind me, you'll see a majestic looking emblem! That's mine! It belongs to me and me alone! It's the great mark of Kogarasumaru! If you encounter anyone wearing this, they belong to me! Same damn rule for places and objects too!

Everything bearing this grand mark belongs to the great and awesome Sky King! THE ONE AND ONLY MINAMI IKKI!

( there's a pause then, followed by a quiet sigh. )

But if you catch one of my worthless underlings running around lost, report 'em back to me and I'll reward you handsomely—

( he taps a finger against his chin, almost pondering. )

—Depending on which one it is. I won't pay you for the beanpole in a hat or the little fatass.

[The face on the screen is very reptilian, with curling horns on the side of his head, yellow slit eyes, and scales with a bronze sheen to them, and his expression is displeased. His voice is dry when he speaks, the first sentence muttered under his breath.]

I hope I'm using this damn thing right.

If this is a dream, it's definitely the strangest one I've ever had.

[He speaks a language that sounds almost exactly like English but with some differences in pronunciation, an entirely foreign word every rare occasion, and with an accent similar to Eastern European. The displeasure on his face doesn't completely fade as he gets serious, wings rustling slightly.]

I am Lord-Governor Kang of Teyr, on the world of Krynn. I've read through some of the information given to me already, and I'll try not to ask too many questions without consulting it first. I apologize in advance if I ask something included in it.

First, are there others from Krynn who are here as well? I've found two already, and in order to avoid further... mishaps, I want to make it clear that I have absolutely no intentions of starting any sort of trouble.

[Please don't hit him with any more chairs or try to kill him. He won't be so nice about it next time.]

Second, I've met one of my 'roommates' already. She has told me that a Lord Prestor is also sharing quarters with us. I would like to formally meet you.

[It takes him a moment to figure out how to end the feed, and the last thing that's seen and heard is a frown and a quiet, mild curse.]

Hey, I appreciate the tour and the free knockoff iPad, but can we not with the kidnapping thing? No matter how much that lady smiled her creepy smile and they gave us free grub, it's still kidnapping. Just really polite kidnapping. Some of us have had a rough day at work and all we want to do is go home, sit in the tub with a bottle of wine, and a terrible book, not go off and fight in somebody else's fight.

[She stares at the screen with a certain amount of intensity, like she's going to force somebody to send her back home. This lasts all about five seconds. Way to go, Ange. Everybody now knows you're a stone cold badass]

Yeah, that's not going to work, is it? Fine. I hope you know I'm friends with an FBI agent. He's not going to go easy on you.

[Because thinly veiled threats work so much better?]

[So... arriving here was a shock enough. Now... she's still struggling to absorb everything she's learned. It's so overwhelming, really. And Xion is not comfortable at all with just... putting her face and her voice and herself in general out there, but she has several questions and nobody she knows nearby to ask. So, text it is]

So we can't go home until we help the Initiate win this war? What if we've never fought in a war before? Why do they choose who they do?

I'm sorry if that's a lot of questions. I just don't understand what's going on. [Or why they picked her]

Is there any way of telling if there's anyone you know here?

[It seems like that's it, but at that moment, Xion slips in a puddle in the real world and nearly drops the tablet, fumbling with it and accidentally activating the video feed. It shows a small hooded girl, though her face is difficult to see. She seems to stare at a moment at the feed in surprise before she mutters "Sorry", and a hand clutching the bow she got when she arrived reaches up and clicks it off again]