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[whereishe]

Hello? Hello. I think they can hear us. [There is a soft echo of ruffling and shifting as two voices come from the small phone. They vary in volume, getting louder and softer as they move the phone's mouthpiece.

One voice is sweet like warm honey, friendly and feminine while the other is melodic, like waves gently rising and falling but a touch deeper in its cool notes.]

... We should introduce ourselves, yeah?

Yeah. Right. We are your friendly neighborhood Gullwings! And we were investigating a possible danger here in the city. We need to find a star shaped key. But, it's a bit more complicated than just that.

[Yuna pauses and looks up at Caelan. Should they tell people more than that? They don't have too many answers and Yuna isn't sure if she can accurately explain how she is able to reach out to the spirits. Summoners don't seem to be common in this world.

Caelan gave her a look back, a nonverbal nudge that even if they didn't explain the but about spirits, they should say something more about their excursion. The sewers were definitely not for the novice adventurer.]

And we'd like to report that if you get it in your heads to go nosing around in the sewers, you should be properly equipped for defense. As the rumours suggested, there are all manner of strange, unpleasant things down there.

I'm working on a proper map now, and I'll have copies made when it's ready. Going to need to make another trip or two down though. You'll find them at the Gullwings office when they're done.

[He fell silent at that, glancing back at Yuna to see if she had anything to add. The specifics of their journey down were more her business than his, and he'd let her decide if anything further needed to be added on the subject.]

Right. We want everyone in the city to be safe. If you need an escort in the Sewer's, we will have someone at the Gullwing office who can help. It will likely be me or Caelan but Jagger is always there and knows how to reach us. Also... well... [She pauses and tries to figure out how to phrase what she wants to say.]

This key that we're looking for. I don't think finding it will be difficult but we have a choice to make and it isn't something I can decide for all of us. There is a terrible evil being held in the cemetery. It can be left there but I don't think that's right. It's controlling the spirits in the cemetery. As a summoner, it was my duty to lay spirits to rest. I can fight this thing, with help from my friends and cleanse the cemetery but it will be dangerous and one person won't be able to fight an army of spirits... that is, if these souls are truly being controlled.

I think we should help but we'll all need to work together to do it. I don't want anyone getting hurt.

That is all. Thank you.

[ooc: The purple text is Yuna and the blue text is Caelan. You will receive replies from both of them because they are standing together and holding the phone. We can do 3-way calls or indicate who you want to call individually and assume it is a personal call that happens an hour or so after the initial call is sent out.]

Comments

[soulsword]

That is very dark magic. It would mean that lich is quite powerful. [ A pause ] And quite dangerous.

[whereishe]

Dark magic?

[Yuna frowns.]

What makes it dark? Is it because the souls are being used?

[soulsword]

Dark magic is mainly offense. Often you use it at the risk of your soul being corrupted. [ A pause. ] White magic can heal and protect.

[whereishe]

I see. I can use black magic but I think that's different.

What you call Dark Magic sounds like the summoners arts, except that I don't believe that they corrupt the soul. Soul's are corrupted with or without magic and power. It's someone with those abilities who define what their magic is used for.

I don't think that any magic is inherently evil. It all depends on how its used. This Lich traps spirits and uses them. I can use the same ability to release the spirits and help them rest.

[soulsword]

More than likely there is a difference. Different worlds have different rules.

White and dark does not inherently mean good and evil. In my world they simply come from different sources. I wonder where this gets their power. [ A pause. ] How do you release spirits?

[whereishe]

It's hard to explain.

I am able to manipulate them but I try to guide them by opening myself to them and leading them to a place where they will be able to rest.

[soulsword]

Why?

[whereishe]

The dead need guidance.

Filled with grief over their own death, they don't wish to face their fate and they resent those still alive. They envy the living and in time, that envy turns to anger, even hate. Should these souls remain, they become fiends that prey on the living.

That's how it is in Spira and that is why the Summoners perform the Sending.

[soulsword]

Fiends? As in vengeful ghosts? Or are fiends something else in your world?

[whereishe]

They are the spirits of those who are unsent but they are no longer ghosts. They become monsters that attack the living.

[soulsword]

Ah, I see. Are all the monsters in your world spirits that became monsters because of that?

[whereishe]

Not all.

There are many types of monsters.

[Including the people who lived in Spira.]

But that is most of them.

[soulsword]

It must be difficult to know that some monsters you encounter may be people.

[whereishe]

Yes but not as difficult as it once was.