01 [Video] [backdated to before port!]

[notrueking]

Let's see, now...

[There is some clear fiddling going on here. Which is to be expected, really, given how many people currently on the barge are from pre-computer settings. It flickers from audio to video a few times before finally settling on the latter, revealing a man whose expression is less "panicked about suddenly coming back from the dead" and more "mildly annoyed at the situation."]

Though this has some features I'm unfamiliar with... I'm assuming this is some sort of radio, so if whoever's responsible for my presence here is receiving this... I'm having some difficulty in determining what, exactly, you planned to achieve by recreating my room like this. Were you truly expecting me to believe that all of that was just some sort of dream? If so, then you weren't particularly competent in doing so, since there are a number of objects that appear to be missing.

Explain yourself.

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[notrueking.livejournal.com]

[...that pings him]

There are multiple ways that one can arrive here, then?

[nicebluehat.livejournal.com]

Yes. Either through invitation, or the way you arrived. Those who are invited have certain responsibilities over the other kind.

[notrueking.livejournal.com]

Ahh, yes. I had gotten that impression, although I wasn't quite sure whether the former also arrived because of their deaths.

[nicebluehat.livejournal.com]

Unless a train derailed at the station before I heard the commotion, no, I can't say that's how I arrived.

[notrueking.livejournal.com]

Of course.

...do you know if it's also possible for the Admiral to invite people who are dead?

[nicebluehat.livejournal.com]

[She thinks for a moment.] I suppose so, but you'd arrive here with the memory of that invitation.

[notrueking.livejournal.com]

I see. Well, thank you for the information, Miss...?

[nicebluehat.livejournal.com]

Shirogane. ...Naoto. [It seems to be the convention on this boat.] I can't say I caught your name earlier, either.

[notrueking.livejournal.com]

My apologies-I never mentioned it. I'm King Bradley.