[ archived ] mailbox

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Welcome to the NPC mailbox. Characters are free to send letters to the various NPCs currently in charge of the city. All replies will also be written and sent via messenger bird. Replies may take a while as they are busy officials.

Requests to meet NPCs in person are doable, but there is no guarantee it will happen—at least immediately. Efforts will be made when possible.

Since inquiries are sent via letter, you can write them as long or as short as you wish.

To schedule a thread with an Arehtei, refer to this entry.

To send a letter, fill out the following form and include the message.

<b>To:</b> INCLUDE DESIRED NPC <b>From:</b> CHARACTER | <user name="JOURNAL"> <b>Date:</b> IC DATE (backdates are fine!) <b>Message:</b> <b>OOC Questions:</b> If you have any OOC questions or concerns regarding the topic of the message, feel free to add them here. We will also include OOC notes if necessary.

Comments

[empc]

[Honestly, Rebbekah wouldn't mind a giant manual herself. She can only figure so many things on her own!]

I can definitely say that the original buildings of the city were definitely dated to be older than eight hundred years, so it existed before the war! We just...don't know...much else about that, eh heh.

But Areta! I'd really love a chance to find it. [A wistful sigh.] I just feel that it really is deeply connected to Verens somehow.

And hey, didn't you actually show something with Areta on it? [Hands on her hips, as if demanding him for him to finish spilling all the beans.]

[gottacatch]

Oh! [ Did he forget?? ] Right, the equipment!

[ He can unscramble his brain easily to remember that: the large rusted machinery, a few of them here and there within the cavern. The design is easy for him to recall. ]

The other team found the same type of equipment. [ He points over to the tube. ] Except they found that and some microscopes-- basic analysing equipment: lens and stuff. I guess they didn't have an office there to study the crystals they found and used that space instead.

The whole area looked like a mining site like in the Ferril Mountains. I didn't see anything else close to it, so wherever this is... [ Now he's using his finger to make a spot for where the quarry is, and then brushing his hand over to a farther direction. ] Any cities that would have been in the area might've been farther away. And then they used the teleporter to transport the crystals over the distance.

You might be able to find a way to Areta there... if there's codes to the city lying around somewhere.

[ Like, a book of codes. The answers are always in a book. ]

[empc]

[They got sidetracked by teleporter and crystals.]

A mining quarry near Areta... It's definitely possible. They had to have gotten their crystals from somewhere, and unless Areta did a lot of machine exporting, that could be theirs. And you found this tube in that make-shift office?

[She should open it.



She's definitely opening it.]

[gottacatch]

[ The cloth and tie around it is easy to pull off, and the pieces of the diagrams easily fall out, too. Red comes over now to stand side by side with her, to help with the pieces. ]

There's one in here that's really torn, but this one-- [ Ah, this one with the long, diagonal tear through it-- ] --this one's okay. You can jigsaw together this one too.

[ That's all the blueprints are for him: a weird jigsaw with science-y info on them. ]

[empc]

[Rebbekah stands over the blueprints, and for the first time since the two met, she's silent. Focused.]

...Hm... Hm, yes, I see... [She taps a few lines, fingers tracing over what was clearly the old language's script.] I'll have to ask Lindsy to help cipher this out, but... There's definitely no denying it. These are diagrams regarding the crystals and I think plans for their uses.

[gottacatch]

[ Red's watching her hand, the answer...well, that makes sense. ]

Isn't that normal? Crystals are used in everything... they must've had loads of these for keeping the cities powered.

[empc]

It's normal, but this...this— [She's lost in thought again.]

I'll have to figure things out, but I think their methods were different. More specialized and efficient.

[gottacatch]

[ .............


It's all a bunch of lines to him, wow. ]

Then... they would've used this to dig out the right size of crystal they needed?

[ It must be why something like that was lying around inside a quarry. ]

[empc]

Dig or...modify...

[She's more murmuring to herself than directly answering.]

It's hard to say—this needs a bit of cleaning up, too. [She holds the paper closer to her face, squinting.] And wow whoever wrote this had bad handwriting!

[gottacatch]

[ He huffs a small laugh, watching her with it for a moment before shuffling in his place. ]

I'll leave it in your and Lindsy's hands, then. I'd be interested to know what you figure out about it! [ Please shaareee, Rebekkah. ] While you're doing that, I'll see about checking another few routes out for more if I can before you can get a team together to check it out.

Other than that... I think that was everything. It really looked like a mining site than somewhere with a lab nearby. [ Jokingly- ] Sorry.

[empc]

Oh it's fine, it's fine! I don't need a lab to learn what I need from all these beauties. [Meaning the crystals.] And you've brought more than enough! I'll get working on all of this right away and report my findings ASAP!

[gottacatch]

Thanks!

[ AND THEN WE RELEASED LAENA FROM ONE NPC THREAD. FIVE THOUSAND MORE TO GO!! ]