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[coolblueiceman]

[Ducks, today you are looking onto the bridge of what is unmistakably a starship, in flight if the view of space in the distance is to be believed. Before you sits a young boy in his early teens, with a stern expression, and in a rather ornate coat with spiked shoulders.]

Greetings. My name is Chrono Harlaown, Enforcer, Time-Space Administration Bureau. I'm joining this community today following a few odd clues I've found at recent scenes of dimensional crimes, mentioning "ducks;" I'm not certain they were meant to lead me here, but a lead is a lead all the same. I hope we can get along.

[He relaxes just a hair.] I feel my first question should be... what is this? I can tell it's a community for people to communicate, but beyond that I'm not certain. Am I understanding correctly that it functions across dimensions?

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[of_many_treasures]

That's correct. It's a interdimensional communications group. Welcome to DramaDramaDuck, or the community as we call it.

[coolblueiceman]

That seems a little extreme... why would you need something like that? Most of the Administrated Worlds that would use a service like that have magic to just communicate at will. I guess there's not really a community for group communications like this, but...

[of_many_treasures]

Because it reaches to all worlds, not just the ones you know about. People interact with each other, visit each others worlds, I personally find treasure across the multiverse.

That, and many worlds that connect also don't have internet service. It can show up in books, and papers and even old socks.

[coolblueiceman]

[Chrono pales a bit.] Wait, this connects to Unadministrated Worlds, and I'm talking about dimensional crime, space travel, and the Bureau? That's bad...!

[lil_tanuki]

You're on a ship.

[Totally ignoring the question.]

[coolblueiceman]

Yes. The interdimensional cruiser Asura. I'm in charge of its military forces; my mother is the captain. [He makes a face.] Why they assigned me to my mother's ship, I'll never know.

I'm in normal space right now, checking in on this area of space, but we'll be headed back into the Dimensional Sea shortly, to travel somewhere else, far away from here.

[lil_tanuki]

Well maybe your mom just likes you around. You're what, 12?

Oh that's cool. What's the Dimensional Sea?

[coolblueiceman]

Fourteen. And if she had a hand in it, that means she probably called in a few favors. Which I'd rather she not do.

The Dimensional Sea connects all dimensions... all worlds. It's a non-existent space that our ships can travel through safely, which we use to go between dimensions and visit new places for our duties.

[mahou_shounen]

I'm still getting used to it honestly. It's interdimensional though.

[coolblueiceman]

Odd... I'm surprised, though. I would expect that anyone joining something like this would investigate it first. I myself spent a few days looking around and searching for information, before I determined it would be better if I joined and actively searched, rather than continuing to review the information as it came in.

[mahou_shounen]

The duck likes to connect itself spontaneously to people, like it did to me. I didn't find it. I just actually bought a new laptop and it connected me right away.

[pinkbefriendingbeam]

Chrono-kun! You're part of this too?

[coolblueiceman]

Nanoha? I wasn't expecting to see you here. I'm following leads on a case, and they seem to have brought me here.

Are you well? I haven't gotten a chance to check in lately; I regret that.

[pinkbefriendingbeam]

Yep. I'm perfectly fine.

And well, from what I heard, this place usually just... forces you to be part of it. It's kinda weird. But cool at the same time.

[Her eyes widen as something occurs to her.]

Hey, would it possible to get Fate-chan using this community? Video letters aren't the same as talking to her in real time.

[oceanicbutterfly]

Dimensional crimes.

This community probably serves mainly to make your life more difficult, officer.

[coolblueiceman]

[Chrono raises an eyebrow.] Oh, really? Do tell. After all, considering my job is to police the dimensions, and I can move through them basically at will, I would think it makes my job easier - I can see what's happening before or as it happens, rather than detecting things when it's too late.

[oceanicbutterfly]

Except that now it'll be happening to you.

[shiningwaters]

It takes some time, but you'll get used to everything around here. My name is Aqua. I didn't realize there were others who traveled the worlds to try to keep the peace.

[coolblueiceman]

Pleased to make your acquaintance, Aqua.

It's part of my service oath to the Bureau. We protect the safety of dimensional space, often from the abuse of Lost Logia, powerful artifacts from a lost colony. Although, we've had a lot of items lately that are of the same power tier as Lost Logia, but are more recent. The analysis teams are scratching their heads; they insist creation of such powerful items shouldn't be possible with modern magic and technology.

[shiningwaters]

Is it possible that they've been leaked from other worlds?

[madeitsquare]

That's pretty much it.

[coolblueiceman]

Well, it's good to know my initial assessment was accurate... Something like this would be extremely difficult to set up and manage using the technology available to me, so I'm assuming any explanation I get will be "it's magic, don't ask"?

[madeitsquare]

Either that or people just outright admit they haven't got a clue.

[brigading]

There's a Time-Space Administration Bureau?

[coolblueiceman]

Yes. We serve as kind of... [He fishes for the words, and with a scowl:] ...I guess akin to space police. The Bureau's mission is to protect civilians and worlds without magic or space travel from the dangers of uncontrolled magic, dangerous artifacts, and criminals.

We tend not to reveal ourselves to worlds that haven't discovered space travel or magic, though, which is probably why you haven't heard of us before. I'm making an exception for this community, though, since magic gets thrown around enough as a topic, and people can cross dimensions somewhat readily through it.