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[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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Yes. [She's not surprised it's obvious.] It was my honor to serve in my Emperor's army for several years, though recently I have been more of what I suppose you would call an 'adventurer'. The skill set is mostly the same, though.

Good to know. I do some work for Edmund, the master of trade for the city. We've recently had a plague sweep through here that came up from the south and the trade routes there. While it's now dealt with, there has been no word from one of the southern outposts.

I'm planning a trip in the next couple weeks. If you're settled enough by then, and interested, an adventurer would be very useful between the chance of bandits and the hostile wildlife.

[She mulls it over for a moment, but not for very long.]

I'll have to see what happens once I get my bearings, but provided nothing comes up between now and then, I can see no reason why I couldn't join your party.

My name is Fa Mulan. I may contact you in the future this same way?

[Pepper's good. Beyond a moment's pause to her expression, the visual equivalent of a skipped CD, she gives the name a simple nod of acknowledgement. There's a Victorian werewolf and a young man from the heart of the Frech Revolution running around. Best to file the warrior woman in archaic gear under 'proof of historical basis to legend' until a small dragon voiced by Eddie Murphy shows up.]

Absolutely. If you use my name as a search phrase it should list me, and if you'd rather meet in person I keep an apartment near the ospital when I'm not at work.

I'll keep that in mind. A good day to you, then, and my gratitude for what help you have been able to offer.

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