video || something of an announcement?

[ateratmods]

[When the video initializes, those who've been around a while may well recognize the little green face on the screen. It's difficult to determine her expression, but her overly-cheerful voice when she speaks suggests she might be a bit...apprehensive.]

Good morning, everyone! I hope you're all enjoying the cooler weather! My, but it's been some time, hasn't it? I've heard one of you is looking to reopen the Academy! So industrious!

[It almost seems as though she's stalling.]

I've just returned from a journey and I would love to catch up with you all. I was...searching for something we've lost, but regrettably I did not find...it. I did not.

(OOC: The NPC will be responding as needed, but you're also welcome to thread among yourselves, even after you've gotten some information from her, and you will get information from her, if you ask the right questions :D)

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[ateratmods]

It did, but that's often the case with interdimensional travel.

I'm not sure they're interested in...partaking of me in my current state. It would be wise to bring reinforcements when we return, yes, but that will take a degree of preparation on my part. It moves, this dimension, and the cryst has a habit of not wanting to be found.

Video;

[ask_whydunit]

When you put it like that… [ He thinks back on a conversation he had with Harry and has to ask. ] I don’t know much about the cryst beyond what’s been said… But if it keeps giving you the slip, and you say it has a habit of ‘not wanting’ to be found… Would it be wrong to guess it has some form of sentience?

[ Or… Some kind of artificial intelligence system born of magic, perhaps, not unlike some he’s come across. Something to make it try to preserve its own safety or stay out of people’s hands after what happened. ]

Video;

[ateratmods]

It does, though we were never able to ascertain precisely what level. It may be something as simple as desire, or something as complicated as having its own itinerary. Our headmaster was looking to get to the bottom of that mystery as well when things went sideways.

Video;

[ask_whydunit]

The headmaster, hm? Too bad they never worked out the specific before the incidents, still… It’s good to know that we weren’t wrong to consider the possibility. [ It gives him more to think about, knowing that it has some level of sentience. ] From what I’ve heard, there hasn’t been much found since that time either, and he doesn’t appear to be around to ask?

I’ve been working on digging around the records room at the Academy, though, if I happen on anything interesting mixed in that might have survived, I’ll share.