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"Hello, Torbjörn? This is Tuuri, do you hear me?"
"
Expedition, this is
HQ, Trond speaking. Yes, I copy."
"Uh ... okay. We seem to have a problem here, I'm afraid ..."
"You can't see or move at all?"
"Yes! How do you know?"
"It's the same over here, it's called a chapter break."
"... what's a 'chapter' and how can it just
break us all!?"
"... no, 'break' as in 'taking a week off'. Or several, actually. With the scarcity of visions among the mages recently, it seems that the Divine Buffer ran
quite empty."
"I'm afraid that I don't understand a
word you say ..."
"In summary, when the Gods haven't had the time to plan out our everyday fate, they put us mere mortals on standby. The
important ones, that is, so it didn't affect you until you became part of this expedition."
"Hmmmm. But how are we able to communicate by radio, then?"
"I'm afraid I can't do more than
guess on that one. It seems that our radios got squirreled away into the Forgotten Props Limbo by the Holiness of the Plot before the break started, and that we
can reach and operate them from the limbo we're now in ourselves ..."
"Well, His name be praised for this foresight, then!"
"
Her name, you mean?
"
"... oh no. I
angered her now, didn't I?"
"Hardly, it's quite obvious she
loves having us mortals confused about genders every now and then. Matter of fact, some of her acolytes keep using the wrong gender in their speech so as to show their devotion."
"Huh. That's not the
standard Plotter rite, is it?"
"No. It's more common for them to just up and get
utterly drunk whenever they hear someone confuse genders."
"... I think I see why that's the more
popular school. But back to the expedition, what are we going to
do now?"
"Nothing. That's what the Gods want
us to do 'til
they figured out some future for us."
"Gee, those 'chapter breaks' sound like a really
boring thing to go through."
"Boring enough to
finally remember your standing order to radio in
daily reports, hmmmm?"
"....... yes. :C"
