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[Text Post] Wait WHAT?!

[In the same fine calligraphy as before, the lines slightly rougher as if the writer's hand were shaking, the following message is posted:]

What do you mean we don't even get to keep anything from our journey to that world?

What's the point of going into weird alternate worlds if we can't come out with loot?! Doesn't this place know adventurers have that as the number-three rated motivation for their work?!

There's already so much annoying and problematic about this whole thing, but that on top?!

Damn it, I had plushies and I wanted to keep them...

[The last couple periods drag off down the page a bit...]

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If you draw me a picture I can probably sew you one... I think I've figured out how to make stuff stay around.

I've been offered this, and I should probably try to create something myself I guess. It's more the act of doing the consumer thing being pulled from me that hurts really.

I can understand that. ... If you want lessons, I can help teach you.

- Nara'a (apologies for not signing my name earlier)

Oh right I should sign too huh.

That might be good at some point. There seems to be skill training going???

- Laina Guthart

Yes, there is - though I think that's for skills related to the library. As for weaving, I'm quite good at that myself.

A professional, perhaps? I gotta admit, getting to feel newer fabrics was certainly a neat side effect of all that happened here.

Professional enough to have people buy my goods, so I suppose I am.

Newer fabrics were interesting... I wish I had more time to learn from their weavers. Clothcraft and leatherworking are things I grew up with.

For me, scribing was the trade of choice; when you're in a monastery of a god literally nicknamed the Archivist, it's kinda natural. Quite a few people can write, but far fewer can illuminate and record reliably.

Agreed. That would be more the domain of the Scholar in my world, but similar concepts.

I grew up in a hunting clan in the scrublands between a forest and a desert. I only was able to get books when I traded for them.

A very different world, for sure. It seems you chose another path in time, though.

I... Haven't really thought about changing routes yet. Other than having to gear up for adventuring recently.

[Oh! He perks up, even if she can't see it.]

If you need advice for adventuring, let me know. I've been doing it for the better part of a decade at this point.

I'll definitely have to keep such in mind. I'll admit... Sleeping along the road's gonna be the rough part. When I get to it. Which may be longer, given I'm now here, where at least we have beds.

Ah, well. I've slept outside most of my life. I was from a hunting clan, and while we have camps we didn't really shelter inside unless there was bad weather. And there wasn't much rain where I lived...

Honestly sleeping on soft mattresses was difficult for me to get used to, but you can get used to most things eventually.

That does seem reasonable, yeah.

Where was that, if I might ask? In Salzberg, shelter was kinda critical most of the time, so..

We're likely from different worlds, but - the Wellwick Wood, between Ul'dah and Gridania.

Huh. Possibly similar-ish? Forestlands would definitely be better for camping than pure open sky... Animals notwithstanding, of course.

It is, but we made do. I suppose everyone growing up does.

If it's all you've known, change is oddly difficult, even if you think the change for the better. That's just... People in general, I think.

True. People stick to what they know a lot of the time. It’s frustrating sometimes, but it’s just in their nature.

The balance of new things to stability... Yeah, that's a whole thing. Frankly, I was about to start a new thing when I wound up here and having a time of it.

I’m a bit annoyed that I’m missing the matches I’m supposed to fight in, though hopefully time won’t proceed as swiftly there as it does here. The Assistants have said it doesn’t, but… trusting them may or may not be a good idea.

That's. Yeah. And we can't be sure if that's malice or them genuinely not knowing.

It may also differ between worlds, for all we know.

Well, that could really suck for some and be really good for others? So that's a thing.

It could. We just don’t know anything for sure.

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