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[girlworthfighting]

[Upon awaking Mulan took her time warily exploring the ship, after having retrieved her armor and weapons of course. Finding no one to speak to, eventually she turned to the unfamiliar device she located among her belongings.

The video focuses mostly on her face, revealing a young determined looking women wearing red and black armor with a coin pattern. Her dark hair is unbound and hangs carelessly around her face, straight and loose.]

It's my understanding that wherever they are on the other end of this...object, someone can hear me. Whoever you are, I want you to show yourselves. [Tersely, teeth briefly bared.] This is not a request.

I do not know if I came to this strange place by chance encounter or deliberate action. But this is not my land, nor is it any land I am familiar with from my distant travels. And I have no memory of my arrival here, either. The only explanation I'm left with is abduction.

Whoever you are, whatever it is you may want me for, speak. The longer you make me wait, the less the likelihood you'll have of anything like my willing cooperation.

[Posturing? She is, a bit. Normally her course of action upon arriving in unfamiliar territory would be to keep her head down. But given the circumstances, she thinks it's important that she put on a strong front, let anyone out there who might be looking know she means business. That she's no easy pickings.

And that the abrupt manner of her being brought here has made her more than a little angry.]

Or if my unknown captors are too cowardly to explain themselves, then it is my hope that these words will reach someone who can enlighten me.

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[Video]

[kazeninaru]

[Here, have a slightly amused but also slightly sympathetic face, Mulan. It's hard to tell whether said face is male or female; the dusty blonde hair is short, the face shape neutral, and the voice low.]

Calm down, jo-chan. Whoever did the kidnapping is long dust. Most of us would like answers, too, but they are not likely to come any time soon.

[Video: here, Mulan, have a dragon]

[steamosaurus]

[The large, feathered creature that appears on the device appears to be in some sort of workroom - there are metal parts scattered across the parts of the bench that are visible, and some sort of plans hanging up on the wall behind it. Its muzzle has a conspicuous grease smear.]

If only it were that easy, my friend. We've all been searching for answers and have precious little to show for it. I can promise you that none of your fellow abductees - myself included - mean you any harm. At least, none that I've met have been so inclined.

[Its voice is gravelly and dry, somewhere between a human's and a parrot's. At least it's polite?]

[video]

[iwanttosettheworldonfire]

[A young woman with a smudge of grease on her cheek looks distractedly at her screen.]

Such a long story, sister. ...Well, no, I guess it's mostly a weird story. Still, easier to do that part in person, but any of us can give you the skinny. You wanna head down to the city. I can come up if you need an escort. There are monsters and junk. Best to be armed.

[Video]

[nodavinci]

[The man who appears onscreen is wearing some sort of armour, red and gold, though the visor's pushed up to show his face.]

Dead, actually. For about a hundred years, give or take a decade. And probably not all that interested in willing cooperation.

Welcome to Verdana. You've been out cold for a long time.

[Video from a boat]

[genoshas_general]

We're all abductees here. There are plenty of people to punish for this, though. And they will come after you unless you go after them first. Ignore the appeasers.

We face a very real threat here. Keep that warrior's spirit handy.

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[frostedoverland]

[Jack is just gonna stare at you. At first. Never really expected someone like this to suddenly appear over the network. Not quite chancing the hope of being seen, he starts texting. Though he'll leave the video on. Just in case.]

Easy there, tiger. You'll get an explanation, no need to demand for it. You're on a planet called Verdana. A home away from home for now.

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[wrench_and_ruffles]

'Fraid no one's rightly sure how we got here, exactly. Ain't anybody claimin' to be on charge on that front, anyway.

[Not quite what she's used to]

[Video]

[pepperspray]

[Caught in the middle of planning an excursion south, Pepper's response to the video comes at a delay. Still, have one poised businesswoman, the pickup showing a backdrop of books and shelving in some sort of archive.]

The ship responsible for housing us all in the pods like the one you woke up in crashed at least a century ago, and the crew seems to have died in the crash.

That said, it at least had the decency to crash on an inhabited planet, if a war-torn one, so the locals have both food and housing set up for new arrivals until we can find our feet. My name is Pepper Potts, and if you'd like any questions answered, I'll do my best with them.