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[A kid with rad shades on adjusts the feed, and if you look closely you can see his left eyebrow is twitching a little.]

Okay, so. After that, [A pause as he looks off screen, away from the end of cycling road that stretches upwards behind him.] report.

[Twitching in that eyebrow just gets worse. It has nearly reached out of control levels. Dave mutters a few swear words and steps out of the frame after kicking the stand on his bike down so it stays in place. He appears a moment later.]

Anyway. Getting to the point of all this. First off, newcomers, yo. Yes this is a real place and if you got questions, just ask'em.

[He holds up a hand and a large Salamence with pointy shades lands quietly at his side.]

To anyone around longer than a week. There was a survey going round before about gathering up who has rolled through here and what worlds have the most representation. We were looking for patterns or something like that. Couldn't find the results, for those of you I talked to. I figure we might as well do another one.

I'll even forgo my red text and do this properly. Because it isn't a joke, it's a fact finding tour of the gear network.

[It switches to text from here.]

Name (obvious)
How many people are here from your universe? (if i need to explain this one shame on you dudes)
How many people have BEEN here from your universe?(as in what people are no longer here and how many times)
What's your universe even like? (what was the most common what themes etc)
How long have you been here? (someone remind me if i forgot anything from the last one)

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...comforting. Noting down that the link exists but crossing it could mean your life. Ok. Bit different with ours but it did in a hell of a lot of death.

As I was saying, the powers manifesting in slightly different ways.

It has to do with our 'roles'. I think mine is more active? Dunno how to explain it other than it's like expecting a sword fighter and an archer's fighting style to be the same. Same thing with a Knight and a Maid. I don't know too much about this either, I was focused on doing what I was supposed to get shit done.

Well, it's... difficult to tell if they ever get to the stage where they even attempt to cross between worlds, really. I've always gotten the impression that it was just the training that did it...

...No, I think I understand. So you have a great deal of power but you need to be in the middle of things, while Aradia would have a greater range of movement and be able to change things from further away, correct?

...Wow, yeah that is a good way to put it. I act more directly, she has a wider view yeah. It's like active and passive, sorta?? I basically just repeated what you said but yeah.

What training could suddenly pull you across like that??

I was mostly going with the comparisons you provided; it reminded me somewhat of a certain aspect of the Holy Grail War system that seems to match up to those designations. Servants can be summoned into one of seven classes that influence the way they fight, with two of them being Saber and Archer. A Saber class servant would likely function more like you, whereas an Archer class servant would likely function more like Megido.

I... really have no idea. We magi are secretive by nature, even among our own kind. The only reason I'm being open about any of this is that a great deal of people here seem to come from places where magic is hardly a secret... and no one here is going to remember anything of it upon being returned to their worlds, so it's no threat to anyone who comes from a world where its existence is hidden by necessity.

Yeah to be blunt, the only reason I'm really talking about this is because I have to if I'm to dig up some answers. The whole lack of it affecting shit means no headaches or not thinking about how it fits into the mainstream of time until it does, etc.

Ugh, that makes my head hurt trying to put those together. Okay, anyway. It sounds like an apt comparison. I've kinda noticed this place refuses to let us do our thing except sometimes. But I don't remember everything of those sometimes. Just.

Bits.

How about you?

No, I definitely understand. Given that people are taken from different points in time, I can only imagine what kind of effect retaining our memories would have on the timeline.

[...but he wouldn't say no to giving it a try, really...]

As for those particular incidents... I've experienced several of those, and my experiences have been roughly the same-I remember enough that I'm sure it happened, but at the same time, my memories are frustratingly incomplete. Still, remembering anything at all is better than what happened during the first of those incidents...

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