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[NETWORK POST] Update!
WHO: Everyone!
WHERE: Libra App
WHEN: February 1st
WHAT: Zodiac Network Post
WARNINGS: None!
[Wherever you are, your phone will start to ring and vibrate. It doesn’t matter if your phone was off or on mute - it will ring anyway. Checking the phone, you'll see the Libra app has opened itself and will not close until you read and response to a new post from Zodiac]
Hello everyone! Happy Lunar New Year and we at Zodiac hope you've been well!
We've seen your engagement on the app this past month and we're impressed! Thanks to everyone who got involved in sorting out the situation in the Helheim gate. You all did some incredible work and we look forward to working with you in the future!
Now we understand you have a lot of questions. While there's many things we can't disclose at this time, we can clarify one thing. Everyone on this app has been flagged for abnormal spirit energy readings. We're still looking into what it means and the potential effects of it. All we really know right now is they're similar to the energy readings coming from our otherworldly guests.
We'll try to keep you updated as we learn more! In the meantime, let's end on anothe question to lighten the mood!
Sponsored by Deathmatch Wine & Spirits. Try our Comos Canyon mix today! Please drink responsibly.
[Users will have the option to choose their own display names and userpics if they haven't already. If nothing is chosen, the app will use their real name and a quick photo taken of them from their camera's phone. Like last time, there'll be no responses from Zodiac]
WHERE: Libra App
WHEN: February 1st
WHAT: Zodiac Network Post
WARNINGS: None!
[Wherever you are, your phone will start to ring and vibrate. It doesn’t matter if your phone was off or on mute - it will ring anyway. Checking the phone, you'll see the Libra app has opened itself and will not close until you read and response to a new post from Zodiac]
Hello everyone! Happy Lunar New Year and we at Zodiac hope you've been well!
We've seen your engagement on the app this past month and we're impressed! Thanks to everyone who got involved in sorting out the situation in the Helheim gate. You all did some incredible work and we look forward to working with you in the future!
Now we understand you have a lot of questions. While there's many things we can't disclose at this time, we can clarify one thing. Everyone on this app has been flagged for abnormal spirit energy readings. We're still looking into what it means and the potential effects of it. All we really know right now is they're similar to the energy readings coming from our otherworldly guests.
We'll try to keep you updated as we learn more! In the meantime, let's end on anothe question to lighten the mood!
Sponsored by Deathmatch Wine & Spirits. Try our Comos Canyon mix today! Please drink responsibly.
[Users will have the option to choose their own display names and userpics if they haven't already. If nothing is chosen, the app will use their real name and a quick photo taken of them from their camera's phone. Like last time, there'll be no responses from Zodiac]
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I'm not poor or starving, so I can't say I'm interested in free food.
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what
why wouldn't you want free food? it's free!
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And what's an Ishgardian?
Because I'm not desperate like you apparently are? That should be obvious.
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i'm not desperate, i just like food. there's nothing wrong with that
you realize you'll get a lot more help around here if you pretend you don't have a stick up your ass right? do you need lessons on how to talk to people?
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[He bristles a little at the question. He isn't exactly used to talking to people casually, you don't get many opportunities to do that when you've got an entire realm's worth of responsibility on your shoulders, but he can't very well just admit that.]
Why should I bother? Given apparently no one here knows how to travel between the realms, I don't see what kind of help any of you can offer me.
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[Amal tells it straight sometimes, but only when he thinks people need it.]
sure, i get you. but what about this:
do you know what a car is? how to apply for a job online? how to pay taxes?
actually scratch that last one i don't know either
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He just kind of stares down at his scroll - sorry, phone - trying to come up with a response. Hell, the only reason why he even knows how to work his phone is because he had enough sense to read the booklet that came with it, and because it luckily closely resembles the magic scrolls used back home. These other things, however, have him at a complete loss.
It's embarrassing, really, especially when it comes to things he knows should be really basic like finding a job. That wasn't something he had to do back home - you don't need to figure out what you want to do in life when someone else figured it out for you. The only thing he has to go off of right now is this Zodiac organization.]
Those things can't be hard to figure out. [AKA the answer to all those questions is 'no.'] This realm is a lot easier to survive in than back home.
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that said, there aren't monsters outside the city walls or places for mercenaries to get easy jobs so it's easier in some respects and harder in others
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Woof. you haven't been having a good time.
Okay, fine. You might not be completely wrong. [About the... stick thing.... He hates his life.] What kind of advice do you have for someone new to the human realm?
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hm... advice...
if someone doesn't have libra on their tomestone, device, whatever - it's best to just go along with what they say rather than risk arguing with them about things they don't understand. they literally cannot and will not acknowledge what you're saying. i debated with a guy for an hour about elves when i got here and it didn't go well and i think he walked away from it thinking i was a fan of some books i've never heard of
secondly, if you don't trust zodiac and don't want their handouts, you can still find a place on your own. but! that's really hard to do without a place to sleep, so it's in your best interest to ask around and see if anyone minds having you sleep in their house until you find some way of making money. i cook for the people i stay with, but you can clean for them or whatever you think would be helpful.
thirdly, if you borrow something from zodiac, always make sure you return it when you're done with it. the late fees are no joke
and lastly... all those weird lights on the roads mean something. the big vertical ones hanging over the street are for cars, and the little ones posted at the corners are for you - for people walking around. if it has a little man on it or says WALK, then you can cross the street toward it. but if its red or says DON'T WALK, then don't step into the road because it isn't safe.
i think that about covers it... but if you have questions about something specific i can definitely try to answer. i've been doing odd jobs for blissfully ignorant citizens as well as people who live in the middle of the weirdness.
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Is there some kind of blanket magic placed on all of them preventing them from understanding? Or maybe it's been placed on all of us? It could be coming from our scrolls. Phones. Whatever they are. That sounds like it's the one common denominator between all of us.
[Don't mind him as he nerds the fuck out.]
Zodiac seems to be the only thing resembling order around here. If anyone is going to have answers around here, it's them.
Is that the best system they have in place to keep people from getting killed? Flashing lights? Who's going to obey some flashing lights?
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[He has nerdy friends so he indulges.]
they're bare minimum helpful, but it's better than being actively unhelpful. everything they've told me has been true so far
people obey the flashing lights for the same reason everyone wears pants and shoes if they can afford them - it's a societal thing. there are guards that drive around in black and white cars with red/blue flashing lights on top, and they'll enforce the law as they see fit. everyone tells me prison is terrible here so i don't suggest finding out
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Good. I don't want them being a waste of my time.
Right. Them. [He remembers those jerks, the ones that arrest him and the horse.] Guard enforcement makes sense, in that case.
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yes! aether is the term we use on my world for magical energy or mana. specifically, it's the lifeblood of the planet and in all living things. it ebbs and flows around us though we can't usually see it. in places without aether, casting spells is difficult and staying too long is dangerous.
this place, though? it's so full of weirdness and magic that it might have too much.
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Aether sounds like the Titan's magic, maybe wild magic. You don't have a system in place to control it, do you?
Really? So far this places seems kind of magicless to me.
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besides, how do you control a whole planet?
it seems that way, but just take a stroll into undertown. i'm telling you, this place was weird even before we got here.
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I'm sure there are ways. We did it back home.
What's undertown?
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[Wise words for any burgeoning scientist really.]
it looks like a creepy dungeon from outside and everyone calls it the abandoned subway station.
wrong!
it's probably the biggest magical bazaar i've ever seen. potion shops, blacksmiths, stalls selling fried monster, pretty much anything off-the-wall or magical you might need you can find it there. and if you don't want to work for zodiac, a lot of them are happy to have help.
it is still pretty creepy though