video; un: Oracle

[adaine]

[The video flicks on and a girl in a blue denim jacket with pointed ears and round glasses struggles with positioning it right, even as the video is already playing. She takes a step back, sitting in a chair opposite the camera on a desk that's just full of papers.]

Um, hi. I think it's recording? Yeah, it's recording... Hello. [She clears her throat and adjusts her glasses. She speaks with a nervous somewhat nasally british accent that rings of 'very educated and also somewhat traumatized by it'.] So, I wanted to make something of an introduction, since I've heard that people show up a lot here. It's a bit overwhelming, the amount of information there is to learn about this place, but I'd like to get through it as quickly as possible.

My name is Adaine Abernant. Back home I was something called the Oracle, which is a title that was sort of just... dumped on me, but it does have meaning. Uh, basically it means I get prophetic visions, both of the future and events happening in the present. [Technically it's the 'Elven Oracle', but here's the thing. Fuck Fallinel and fuck the elven government.] On top of that, I was also a student at the Aguefort Adventuring Academy and a wizard of the Divination school, which works similarly to how Paleblood magic seems to work, at least from my initial observations.

So, uhm, the point of all of that is that if you have something you'd like to find out, a prophesy, or something to find, I might be able to help. I'm still figuring out how to work it now that it's all mixed with Trench's native blood magic. And as an adventurer, I'm also used to helping people out if they're in trouble or there's a largescale threat.

[She pauses and peers down at one of the papers, a list of some sort, and then continues.]

...On top of that, and the larger point of all this is, I'd like to learn as much about Trench's magic, metaphysics, cosmology and society as possible. I'm doing my own research, obviously, but if anyone wants to share their own notes or experiences, or even just point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it.

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[tealeafs]

[ Oof. That's quite the question - especially when Chizuru wants to be honest here, but at the same time doesn't know if dumping her problems onto someone she just met is exactly polite either. It feels like a lose-lose situation, no matter what she says.

So after a very brief quiet moment, she just slowly says: ]

I'm doing my best.

[ Her tone definitely seems to suggest that the end result might not be that she's adjusting very well just yet though.

But she doesn't want to discourage the other and make it seem like things are terribly hard, even though they are. Just a little. So-- ]

B-But other people seem to be adjusting relatively quickly, so I think it might just have something to do with the place I'm from being very different than this one.. So please don't worry!

[adaine]

...I understand.

Part of the reason I'm doing all this is so that I won't go crazy because my friends are out of reach. It just... helps, to have something to throw myself into.

[She only got this far because of her friends. The idea that maybe she'll never see them again is one that she is actively and militantly denying.]

What's your name, if you don't mind me asking?

[tealeafs]

.. it's Chizuru. Chizuru Yukimura.

[ It's hard to properly bow for an introduction over these things, so Chizuru more just nods. It's the best thing she can manage without just disappearing out of view without an explanation. ]

I'm.. sorry though. To hear that you have found yourself here without your friends. [ Not that it seems to be an uncommon thing. If anything, it seems much more rare for entire groups of friends to be pulled to this place together. ] Even if you have ways of trying to cope with it.. It's still sad for anyone to be separated from the people they care for like that.

[ Especially when you're suddenly being separated by an entire world. ]

[adaine]

[It is sad, even despite the things that they've done to work on it. Adaine... can't help but feel like the chances of ever making friends like the Bad Kids is extremely unlikely. She only stumbled into them because she was tricked into stealing a book and they were forced together by mutual tragedy.

Still, she smiles.]

It is. But... Well, I figure if we're both new here, maybe we could help eachother out?

[tealeafs]

Oh! [ Chizuru looks a little surprised by it. Not that she just assumes anyone she meets is unkind, but she's still not entirely used to people offering this sort of thing so easily back home. It's been more common here, but.. still, it's an adjustment.

A slight adjustment though. Which means the surprise doesn't long, or that it's at least quickly followed up with another reaction, Chizuru nodding feverishly. ]

Yes, of course! [ Please, Chizuru was born to help. ] If there's anything I can do for you, please let me know! I.. have to admit that I can't help much when it comes to the dangers of this place, but I'm pretty good at cooking, or other chores..

[ Especially since Chizuru knows that for some people it's their first time having to take care of stuff like that on their own, so it's the least she can offer. ]