exsilium | 01 ✦ video

[The feed starts off a little shaky, almost telling of a technologically incompetent user on the other side, but he seems to have it. After a moment, a long haired man shows up on the screen, inspecting his device to make sure it's really on, and yes, it is.]

So, I got a question. Someone mind explaining to me what these 'missions' are? 'Fraid I'm really not that studying type so going through this backlog is something that's not happening. Figured it'd be easier to ask all of you, since it seems I'm here for the long run. May as well get settled in best I can, and that seemed like something that's necessary to know.

And while I'm asking, anything else I should know? Secret handshakes, passwords, people to avoid, places with good desserts, how do make a dollar or two to survive, you know the basics.

[He smirks for a bit, about ready to turn off the device, then wait... right... manners.]

Please and thank you.

[So that may have been sarcastic but he figured he didn't want those moral types to be on his case for not saying 'please' or something.]

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They call you in, they give you a job to get through, and we go back in time to do it, at least in theory. If you die on the job, they get your body out of there and revive you back here in the present day.

But they're too cheap to save the locals.

Hrm... People to avoid? Eh, I'd trust your own judgment there, there's some typical human petty rivalries going around. Actually, there's the guy who has the zombie plague power, I forget his name but, well, most of us who like being something that isn't mindless undead should avoid him.

You can grab day jobs by asking around if the stipend they give you isn't enough for your purposes.

Nice to know they're kind enough to revive us after we've died. [Said while dripping in sarcasm.] Pretty sure I only want to experience death once.

[But yeah, that going back in time stuff really bothers him. What gives him the right to mess with someone else's history?]

Yeah, so no one major? Guess that's good to know.

[And day jobs... yeahhh... no. Unless it's being a hunter or killing monsters then that's another thing.] It should be enough, but just in case I'd like find ways to make an extra dollar if necessary. [Keywords: if necessary.]

I try not to think about that. But really, they'd have to - at some point, you need to be returned to your own world and timeline in one piece, right?

If you've got a performance skill, I know you can get some light tips at the bars sometimes.

I'd rather not be taken from my world at all.

[Sigh... oh well. No use complaining. All he's getting out of this is that he is really disliking this place.]

I think I told you before, my skill is fighting. Not much I can do outside of that. [Not much he wants to do outside of that.]

You and me both on that front. I still have work to do back home.

But, well, we're stuck. And if the Initiative's telling the truth, we're protecting our world by weakening United Earth.

Fortunately, if you're good at fighting, you'll likely be good there, at least sometimes.

If I might ask... How do you feel about working in a team?

As long as they don't get in my way, I'm good.

... Pragmatic, but somehow adorable.

Anyone ever tell you you're weird?

[He's not really used to be called 'adorable', especially by people he hardly knows.]

Yep.

Also insane, crazy, and various other things. It kinda comes with the territory given I come from a place that apparently works differently than all of your worlds.

In all seriousness, though, I'd like to see how you fight a bit - in case we end up teamed up on a mission.

Not really sure if I ever want to know about your world then. [Then again, he's not sure how this whole 'many worlds' thing works, and would rather not think on it too hard.]

Well, you're a healer right? Just heal me, and I'll do the work. Though if you've got some offensive spells, then I s'pose that'd be good too.

I like my world.

Well, my healing isn't as good as that of some people here. I have to touch you to cast, for one, which isn't easy to do in a melee. But I think being able to render your weapons more accurate, more powerful, and prone to channeling enough lightning through their strikes to knock out most species of elephant, and then trip someone with a whip, pretty well makes up for that.

[Yuri will be the first to admit to himself he can't do as much as he'd like to do without a healer, but this girl could come in handy for after battles and such.]

Sounds like an interesting ability you have. So you specialize in buffs, then?

More or less, yeah. It's a useful specialty.

Can't deny it is. Take it it's been useful in battle before.

It's hard to explain just how useful until you see it, but yeah, I'd like to think it's pretty good.

Well then, I'll have to see it one day, no?

We'll have to see when that chance might come...

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