Sixth Echo

[echo_of_a_jedi]

[Video]

Good morning, Hinoto-Ri.

[A woman wearing a brown robe and a vague smile seems to be sitting on the roof of a building and enjoying the morning sunlight while looking into her COMP watch.]

I seem to have been gone for a couple of months, or at least long enough that they had to give me a new ID card. It's kind of disconcerting, since I'm pretty sure I was only "back" in my galaxy for a few hours, but at least they were quiet hours for once.

Anyway, if the last major thing I remember is the bull monsters, what have I missed?

Oh, and for any new Visitors, my name is Meetra Surik. I come from another world, like you, and I've been trying unsuccessfully to figure out the meaning behind the mystical events here for a while. I also enjoy card games, sunrises, and meandering philosophical dialogs.

Comments

[angryyoungvamp]

Back? So you've been back to your world?

[This is relevant to Maugris's interest - and a couple hours is all he really wants.]

Well, it's nice to meet you, Ms. Surik. Call me Maugris - and I'd be happy to help with looking into the mystical stuff. I've been sort of trying, myself, but I don't think I've been having a lot of success.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

Briefly. I'm not sure why, exactly, but it apparently happens with some regularity.

And the arcane here is definitely...well, arcane. Even the demons can't really give much information other than "we're here, we've always been here, the humans just started getting more uppity in the last decade".

At least, the ones I've met can't.

[angryyoungvamp]

I haven't really talked a whole lot to the demons. But I'm used to the kind of demons where even talking to them is dangerous.

So far all I've really got is a rough idea of how Personas work and that Butterfly Guy - er, Philemon - is a thing. Something about a bet or contest? I've only been here for a couple of months.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

Well, that's the basics.

We briefly ran into "Butterfly Guy"'s rival once when I was here before. Or rather, when we got sent to another world. The stakes here are a little higher than just a contest, really.

[angryyoungvamp]

This stuff takes time. I haven't been in this city long enough to really know the right places to look or the right people to ask. If this had been back in my town it would be different, especially if this was a repeating phenomenon.

Well, of course they are for us. Gods - or whatever they are - aren't known for having quite the same sense of scale as the rest of us.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

I guess not. And most of the people who seem like they might know what's going on are the distant mystical types themselves. Probably under some kind of agreement not to help us too much, or something like that.

[angryyoungvamp]

I hate it when people do that, I really do. I am a mystical type, and I don't do that.

Well. I try not to, anyway.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

Sometimes there's a reason. Usually it's just a mark of being full of oneself, though.

[angryyoungvamp]

Yeah, no kidding. It's still a pain when you're trying to get something done and need their help, though.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

It's actually an even worse pain when they're being paranoid for a perfectly good reason.

[angryyoungvamp]

Because you usually get to find out that reason the hard way?

[echo_of_a_jedi]

Oh good, you've done this before!

[angryyoungvamp]

Unfortunately, yes. Nobody ever seems to want to make things easy, even when you're trying to help them. I have a lot of experience with that issue in general.