SHUSH LEVI I AM THE BEST LEADER.

[bufudine]

Who: Serph, Cielo and YOU!
Location: Starting in the plaza! Anywhere else is fine, too.
Time: During the daaaaaay
Style: ANYTHING GOES.
Status: OPEN

[ Hello dear Vatheon, how are you? Good? Good, because you've got two rather oddly dressed guys in your plaza. They don't seem to be bothered at all by the fact they're dripping wet, though the one with the dreadlocks is carrying a submachine gun. Every now and again, they converse with each other, but they don't seem aggressive.

Approach? ... Well, even if you don't, they will be approaching you. ]

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[rainbowarch]

[Their world. Here, have the extremely condensed version.]

Serph and me, we come from the Junkyard. It's not pretty at all, no plants or anything. Used to rain all the time. Everybody lived in Tribes, and the law said that we all gotta fight and whichever Tribe wins by conquering all the other ones gets to leave the Junkyard and go to Nirvana. Nirvana's supposed to be paradise. Supposed to be real beautiful, too. When you're there, you don't have to fight anymore.

Everybody wants to go to Nirvana, so we fight each other. We fight, we make friends and we lose them, and we won, so we get to go to Nirvana, ja? Well, more things happen and now Serph and I are here.

[Serph, if you want to add more details, go ahead. Cielo's not sure we should mention the whole "demons and eating other people" thing.]

We really want to know what happened to our comrades. We're supposed to go to Nirvana together, you see?

[bufudine]

[ Yeeeaaaaaah let's not mention the eating people thing. It hadn't exactly been a pleasant change, and the story had still been the same, before the arrival of the Atma. They simply changed the weapons they fought each other with, that's all.

There's another reason Serph wants to go to Nirvana. Varin's dying words. He wants to know the truth about themselves.

Serph nods in affirmation; Cielo's summary gets the gist of things across. ]

There's only six of us left.

[ Cielo and himself, Argilla, Heat, Gale and Sera. The hundreds of others who had been taking care of territory and hadn't climbed the Temple with them... all gone. ]

[kokuanten]

[She's quiet during Cielo's speech. She'd heard of tribes before but "Junkyard" was a bit unfamiliar. Though from the sounds of it, of what she caught and understood, it was another type of war, right? Fighting, joining with others, losing some of those people.

And this Nirvana place. For a girl from a previously war torn land, with a similar setting, even the idea of it all is hard to hear.

Then there were Serph's words just now.]

Only six? What about the rest-

[No. Even Kunoichi is smart enough to figure out what possibly happened from just hearing everything. It's just hard to believe that there were that few left in the end.]

To think that there were others besides myself and the few from my own world, as well as its alternate, who had gone through a war of some kind as well.

[rainbowarch]

[Obviously, it wasn't exactly the same, but this girl seems to understand. Understand war, understand so many sides vying for power and dominance, and understand what it was like to be trapped in it.

It was kind of weird, too. Cielo felt like he could relate to this stranger even though they've only just met.

But all that was pushed aside when he hears yet another thing that confuses him.]

What do you mean by alternate?

[Her world...had an alternate? An alternate world? At least, that's what he thought she was saying.]

[bufudine]

[ Yes, it's very sad that the worlds of others have also been full of strife. But Serph is certain that there are other worlds where that is not the case. And the strangers words seem to suggest that of the others she knows in Vatheon -- she seems amiable enough to get along with others -- there aren't many who have lived through war.

Serph has the same question on the forefront of his mind, and his thought processes were similar, too. If it's an alternate world, wouldn't things be different?

He just tilts his head, since Cielo has already spoken. ]

[kokuanten]

Mm. There's the world I'm from and then another version of it. It's still hard to believe, but with enough proof of such being present in the form of people I know but are quite different in one way or another, it's not like I can really deny such.

[A small pause from her after that.]

Though I can't say for certain if those from the other version went through the very same battles as the ones I know or heard of. But if the people are the same, despite the differences, then most of what I know of should be similar.

[rainbowarch]

[It's a little difficult for Cielo to be able to wrap his head around the idea that there could be another world where there's people you know, but they're different.

And then he has to idly wonder if maybe there's another Cielo somewhere in some alternate world of their own. If only he knew.]

This different world business is weird.

[And that's all he has to say about that.]

[bufudine]

[ Hmmm... He's closing his eyes to think over this. Varin had mentioned that he had devoured Argilla, but he hasn't. He had also mentioned that they had all been people from Nirvana but... Varin had made it sound like Nirvana wasn't peaceful at all. This conversation's given him another possible explanation, though. ]

Is it possible to know what has happened in the alternate world while still being in your own?