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[Waking up when he didn't remember falling asleep had never ended well with Clay. He sat up quickly in the coffin, thing, his hand going to the grip of the pistol nestled in his shoulder holster, something he's pleased to see he's still wearing.

Disoriented by the surroundings, he looks down briefly to note the weight that had been sitting on his chest and palms the box before climbing out. His telepathy constantly idling tells him there's no one in the immediate vicinity of wherever the hell this is and he re-holsters his pistol to take a look at the box's contents.

He'll look up toward the entrance as soon as he senses any mind that comes into the tunnel, and they should be prepared for a pistol aimed at them, purely defensive obviously.]

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[The voice that comes over the audio feed is deep, resonating, and has an accent that isn't place-able as being from any one region of the U.S. His first statement isn't in English, nor does it carry a heavy English accent. It's in Tagalog, if anyone speaks it, and it roughly translates to "hey, Shadow Boy, if you're around here, sound off."]

Tao ng mga anino, kung nandito ka, sabihin ng isang bagay.

[There's a beat before he continues in English.]

I just stepped off the boat, and I've got a question: how outdated in the information from the hologram? [Because nothing is ever completely up to date.] Surely somebody knows more than "we don't know anything, go squat somewhere until we figure it out".

action; anywhere in genessia city

[Clay isn't going to just choose a place to live without knowing the lay of the city, so he can be found in various locations throughout Genessia City. According to the brochure (why does an inter-dimensional prison have a brochure, by the way? Is it just that much better than all the other inter-dimensional prisons there are to choose from?) Genessia City is the most like the environment he has to choose from, even though his necklace, also know has he newest pocket accessory, suggest otherwise.

He'll be ducking into various shops, bars, and the like, just to get an idea of the city, but he can also be encountered along the many streets.]

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A half a year the first time. I arrived in summer of last year and have been here since.

[She hopes that makes sense.]

The first time? [He nods. It was worded in a confusing way, but Clay wasn't dumb, and timelines were something of a focus for him. When you ended up losing pieces of time sometimes, you started to focus pretty hard on the pieces you didn't.]

So, you've been here almost a year since coming back, and you were here half a year before that. Do you know how long you were gone?

I think it was about 9 months.

[She replies softly.]

I don't remember being anywhere else. I remember being home but nothing about this place while I was there. [It continues to confuse her.]

So, after six months, you left for about nine, didn't retain any memory of the place while you were gone, but got it all back when you came back here?

[He looks at her as though looking for confirmation.]

That about right?

[Terra nods, her fingers lightly playing with a flower petal as she spoke.]

Yes.

Okay... [Man, this chick is weird.] So, what pearls of wisdom can you lay on me about this place?

[He'd been waiting for 16 years to taste freedom again. Almost 2 doesn't seem like such a big deal.]

It depends on what you think is important. [She nods at the hologram.] What Weiss said is correct. Some people have theories but we don't know the true reason why we're here. Just that Genessia collects people for a reason. There are different archways. Attleton is a small town. Everglade is dangerous after dark having a curfew and creatures that hunt humans at night. [Terra doesn't fear them but she doesn't actively seek out trouble either.] Fayren has the Hands of Decay who hope to kill all those associated with magic or the things they don't understand. Genessia is most like what I've heard described as a common city. Nova City has more technology and vehicles.

[Her head tilts to the side.]

Does that help?

[Terra isn't weird, she's just answering his questions in a very literal sense.]

[Aside from the curfew thing, and what was that about people getting hunted after dark, it sounded like a fairly basic setup. At least that was what had been in his brochure, too.]

Sort of? [He runs a hand back through his hair.]

I bet you've got a lot of information about this place, seeing as you've been here so long. Mind sharing?

I don't mind sharing but it would help if I knew what question you were looking for an answer too.

[She can keep spouting off information however it'll grow more and more irrelevant without a direction he wants their conversation to take.]

Why don't you start with how we get here?

[He fully intends to know everything there is to know about this place. The idea of being a clone wouldn't even bother him that much...

...it would just piss him off.]

I'm not completely sure. We come out of the pod that you awoke in. I always thought it was magic. I know those who can teleport though never between worlds.

[She can teleport but that doesn't feel like an important detail at the moment.]

[He's heard of people who can use magic to teleport, but nothing this intense.]

So, we all show up here the same way, huh?

[If he didn't know any better, the pod looked like a storage box.]

Yes.

[She looks towards the pods.]

There is a place that we can regain memories but we don't leave this world... I can't really explain that. I'm sorry.

You were at this place for nine months?

[He looks back over to her.]

No. I only remember being home and it was for a shorter time than that. I haven't gone back to remember more but I've heard they put memories into your head.

[She can't explain it better than that.]

[Clay frowns, clearly not liking the sound of that one.]

They just put memories in your head?

That's what I've heard.

[She hasn't actively bothered to go there. She has nothing and no one worth remembering.]

What the fuck...

[A pause, and he looks over to her.]

And where does this happen?

[She points towards the things he woke up with.]

I can show you on the map.

[Terra can't give him directs since she's never been there.]

[He gives the map he was holding to her dutifully, noting the location mentally as she does so on the map he provided. There's a place in this city that just injects memories into peoples' minds. He finds himself wondering if they're consistent. Where do the memories come from? Who runs this freak show, anyway?

He's not a stranger to mazes, and like those, he's not expecting cheese at the end. He'd done everything in his power the last two years to avoid the hamster wheel, and it looks like he'd done all that trying for nothing.

Except he was going to be a clever little rodent. If there was a way to get the door open, he was going to find it.]

Thanks. That's a big help. [He flashes her a smile.] So, who's in charge around here?

[Terra points to the position on the map before retreating her fingers. She looks up at Clay's smile curiously before nodding.]

There is the CPU which gives us notifications and then there are the guardians who are elected to help run the cities.

[She doesn't know what else to call them.]

[He blinks, his brow furrowing.]

Did you say "CPU"? As in a computer?

I believe that is another name for them, yes.

[The technology is Terra's world is strange because it runs off of magic as well as steam.]

[He blinks at Terra for a moment before he realizes something.]

Do you know what a computer is?

[Terra pauses for a moment before nodding her head.]

I do but they take a different shape and function on my world. It isn’t the same and everything is given a name I am unfamiliar with.

[She doesn’t know if she can explain magitck or the way they use steamed/magic powered systems. Terra can say that she knows what a computer is, she knows roughly how to use one but she doesn’t know how their internals work.]

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