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-and then if I set this glyph like this, then... did that do it?

[This is a face that hasn't been on the community in a long, long time, it feels like. Rita's leaning over something as the feed comes on, but as it stabilizes, she waves a hand over it and grins.]

Ha! I knew I could replicate that damned blastia if I worked on it long enough. Uh... hey, everyone. Sorry I've been gone a while. It's kind of a long story. Long enough that Estelle is writing a book, and most of us have moved on to bigger, better things. Or whatever Yuri does... I'm getting ahead of myself.

I can talk about what happened to me if anyone really wants to know, but what's important now is that we had to give up all blastia on our world in order to fight something that was going to end our world. That included little things like the blastia I used to connect to the community, so I've been trying to figure out how to reconnect without it, and it looks like it works. As annoying as it is, there are some people I liked talking to, and now that I don't have to worry about saving the world every damned day, maybe I'll have some free time for that.

[She scratches the back of her head nervously; up until now, it's basically been a status report. Now she's got to actually talk about herself, and that's not exactly something she's ever been good at.]

If there's anyone on here that's new since I was here last... I'm Rita Mordio, genius mage, consultant to Brave Vesperia, savior of the world, and researcher at the Imperial Blastia Research Laboratory. I guess I should apologize in case I say something weird; I tend to talk first and worry about ruffled feathers later. [With only a little bit of a sullen expression:] Pleased to meet you.

Anyway, that's all I wanted to say for now. It's weird, but... [Rita smiles again, and it's honest for once.] I'm glad to be back.

Comments

[aquaticrush]

Rita-san! Rita-san!

[blahblahblah]

[Rita's eyes widen. She knows that voice.]

Retasu-!? Is that you?

[of_many_treasures]

Good to see you again. It's been a while.

[aquaticrush]

Yes! I'm here! You aren't hurt, are you?

[blahblahblah]

Hah... no, I'm okay. Just a little tired. Gotten into any trouble while I was away?

[aquaticrush]

Well, I don't think anything really bad happened.

[You know. Not like last time.]

We haven't had a virus this month, though, so it's a little concerning.

[blahblahblah]

Kaitou. Somehow, I had a feeling you'd be here still. You've always been tenacious.

How's it been?

[blahblahblah]

That's good... no virus yet, though? Sounds like I might have come back at a interesting moment. I should probably page back and figure out who else I know is still here...

[aquaticrush]

Maybe it'll be like when the community moved itself. Were you there for that?

[mightletyouknowme]

Hehhhh?! You're back!

[Have a grinning, happy, joyful, pleased, ecstatic Sena.] I knew you'd save the world! That's what heroes do.

[blahblahblah]

Moved itself? No, I don't know anything about that. It exists outside space and time, though - what does "moving" even mean?

[blahblahblah]

Yeah. I'm back, Sena. [This might be more praise than she'd gotten in her own world, at least to her mind. Maybe Sena's words just mean more than some stuffy researcher's.]

I didn't- well, I did do a lot. Changing the entire basis of our world's magic and technology all at once isn't something I can make light of. But it was close for a while. Too close.

[aquaticrush]

The address changed and everything that was blue became red. During that time, we had no viruses.

[blahblahblah]

Huh. That is odd. I'm not sure what to think of that... maybe it needed a new cosmic force to power it? Like how we just had to find a new power source for all our magic? But that means whatever powered it before... I probably shouldn't even think about this. I like challenges, but this is outside my specialties by a lot.

I hope it's not something major like that, though. That sounds like a pain.

[aquaticrush]

It was a little confusing. Maybe there's another big change. I hope it's a good one.

[blahblahblah]

I hope so, too. I couldn't handle everything going upside-down on me right as I get back. I've still got enough problems in my own world, never mind borrowing someone else's.

[aquaticrush]

Really? But you said everything was done!

[of_many_treasures]

The usual. Rider Wars, superhero wars, Tsukasa being an idiot.

[blahblahblah]

Let's say I made a machine. This machine, to save the world, destroys all pens in the whole world, in a matter of seconds. The other things it does aren't important.

How do you write things?

[blahblahblah]

Business as usual, then. Stolen anything important to anyone lately?

[of_many_treasures]

I took Tsukasa's Rider Card. He can't transform anymore.

[aquaticrush]

...I'm not really sure I follow what your analogy is about, Rita-san.

[blahblahblah]

There are no longer pens anywhere in the world. How do you write things if you don't have anything to write with?

The answer is to make something new to write with, isn't it?

[blahblahblah]

That's a big haul, all right. Isn't that going to cause a problem somewhere down the line?

[aquaticrush]

So your world really depended on that blastia thing, didn't it? I'm sorry.