Hello everyone. I just wanted to let all of you know that Artanis is no longer here, so I'll be looking for a new deputy to take his place. If you'd like to throw your hat into the ring, feel free to come speak to me. I certainly don't guarantee the job to the first person who speaks up, so if you're at all interested and qualified, please speak up. I'm not just looking for people who can hit things hard, but any form of magic, healing, technology prowess- anything that could be useful to the team could be what gets you the job. I'd like to keep us well-rounded if possible.

[ She's not going to mention that she has the funding for two, but she's assuming she'll get more than one candidate to choose from. ]

I also want to thank everyone for their generous contributions to the GSRF. Hopefully we'll be finding out more about this world soon, and if you have some kind of scientific background that you believe may help, feel free to request an interview to make sure that you fit the GSRF's standards.

locked to yang, blake, sun, nora
I need to speak to each of you privately when you get the chance. It's.. a somewhat difficult topic, but considering it's coming up on that time of the year again and Whitley and Pyrrha have already popped up, I want to address it sooner than before one of you punches a hole in the wall.

locked to whitley
How is the job search going? [ The one she assumes he better be on. She's going to big sister him to death if he doesn't, she's only got excess money to support him until she hires new deputies. ]

locked to her friends + whitley and winter
I'm going on vacation for my birthday, no surprise parties.

[Kratos is not... a wordy or expressive man. When he arrived at the Bay, he quietly listened to the instructions of the hologram with grim acceptance, and wandered all the over city, looking for a place to stay because it's winter in Genessia. He found the map from a few magazines to find his way around.

Truth to be told, he sort of marveled at the sights and sounds and life of the city, compared to his world of Derris-Kharlan where he foresee his people of lifeless beings under his care after Mithos is gone. The technology is different than the magi-technology, he observed.

After a few days, he settled in an inn in Fayren. His lifeless world, the floating planet in space was left behind...for the time being. Still, the mana he sense here on this world is stable as he can use most of his spells while practicing in the woods of the forest.

Ah, it didn't dawn upon him to use the device to communicate to the Network. So speaking into it with a very mild:]

"... ... ...hello."

[Yup. Pause. Not a wordy man. He's one of those strong silent types.]

"Greetings. I'm Kratos Aurion. I'm a swordsman and a mercernary. How do you do?"

[Good start. There we go.]

"Is there is anyone who is a swordsmans around here too? I think I'm rather out of place in this city."

Attleton

[It was listed in the recent newspaper: Attleton Painted: A group of teenagers with paintball guns have been seen vandalizing buildings and shooting people with them. A level 2 payment is being offered for their capture."

For a week, some walls of the town has terrible art and graffiti as the result of the paintball. The innocent civilians were afraid to come out of their homes because of the delinquents shooting those paintballs. Being a resident in this town and working at the local elementary school as a teacher, he had been chasing and hunting the culprits to capture them and take them to the nearby police.

Opening his v-log to the post to the network, with Jade being painted all over in different colors.]

"Hello, Jade Curtiss here. This is not my idea of celebrating the new year of this world, chasing hooligans all over town and confiscate their paint guns. If the youth have so much energy to give, they should turn to art, and not dealing with the law so early in life."

[A pause, beat.]

"All of this paint is going to be hard washing out of my hair."

[ while he's made himself pretty scarce over the weeks, Akito kept busy with training and taking care of the egg he arrived carrying in his arms... which is now most certainly no longer an egg but a happy, healthy Eevee nestled against his chest. ]

My egg finally hatched the first morning of the new year - the same day my big brother was born! I'm not going to make it share a name with my Oniichan though, so...

[ he holds the Eevee up to give everyone a good view of his cute precious fluffball #2 ]

This is Rouge! Everyone please be kind to Rou-chan!