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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]

[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.

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[girlworthfighting]

[Mulan straightens up a bit, assuming from his armor he must be some sort of military commander, someone she is trained to respect. Her mind boggles at that whole 'dead for hundreds of years' thing, so at first she focuses on what else he says.]

Verdana? I've never heard of such a realm.

[Video]

[nodavinci]

Planet. Not realm.

[He regards the screen warily for a moment.]

Asgard ring a bell? Or are you from some other part of the ren faire?

[Video]

[girlworthfighting]

No, I've never heard of Asgard. Nor this 'Ren Far' either.

It seems as if those of us who have been brought here come from all over.

[Video]

[nodavinci]

You aren't wrong about that. This place is either proof of the many worlds theory, or the universe's largest insane asylum.

[Video]

[girlworthfighting]

I'm familiar with there being many worlds. But I'm used to the differences being much more gradual.

[Video]

[nodavinci]

What, they just bleed into one another? That's...incredibly cool.

Stay away from the giant blue bubble, above the cordon on the ship, and out of anything that looks like it's going to collapse, and you should survive long enough to figure things out. Probably.

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[girlworthfighting]

Something like that. Magic is typically required to travel between them, however.

[But at least Wonderland and a lot of the major ones are all about the same level in advancement.]

Considering that last part sounds very much like advice I have given to other people on occasion, I believe I should be able to manage.

[Video]

[nodavinci]

Uh-huh.

[He looks skeptical at the mention of magic - ingrained disbelief is a difficult thing to break.]

How does this magic work, exactly?

[Video]

[girlworthfighting]

The most common method was beanstalks sprouted from magic beans, but those became lost when the giants died out. Occasionally those who knew magic could enchant an item to create its own portal.