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[He's not used anything like this before. But Vivi decides to give it a try. It seems like it would be important to learn how to do this, to talk to everyone, after all. He just added it to the list of things he is learning and is new to figuring out. Which is a rather long one, given he is only technically a few months old, but still. There's initially something akin to the dark sky, and two blinking....wait, eyes? Before the young mage shifts and tries to adjust things a little as he straightens his large hat.]

Is it....it's working? I think. Um. Hello? My name is Vivi. I'm new here, I guess? I'm still figuring this place out. I don't know if anyone has seen my friends, whether they are around here somewhere?

[Cue him holding up a drawing he did. Vivi isn't sure if it might help. But it can't hurt? He won't know unless he tries to ask? Right? He tilts his head, lowering it for a moment as he puts down the drawing and fidgets a little.]

I was told we were here to prove something. To save our home. But I'm not sure if I should be the one who was chosen. I'm not as brave as Zidane. I'm not important like Gar -- Dagger. There's lots of other black mages. So I'm not sure why me, out of everyone...?

[He's not sure if being here might somehow impact things. His short lifespan, and however long he might have left. Aware that because they had stopped the Mist, there was likely no way to create any more black mages. At least that he was aware of. He's sure that there were plenty of other, better options to bring to prove that their world was deserving enough to be saved. But he tries to shake that train of thought.]

This place is pretty amazing, though. There's so many things here that I haven't seen or done before! It's kind of exciting! Even if it is a little scary, too.

[But at least, regardless of what happens to him, he knows the others are alright. Hopes that Zidane is. Vivi isn't sure what else to say, exactly, so he pauses after a moment before fumbling to turn the feed off.]

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I'll help. If I hear or see something. I can let you know. If that's okay.

[He doesn't want to pester Dion, or anyone else. But he does want to help if he can. He just wants to contribute somehow. So if he does think something might be important, he could use these things to message Dion or others?]

I would appreciate it. In return, I shall do the same, if it is acceptable to you.

[ He hopes that perhaps, if he mirrors Vivi's polite caution, it might help to reassure him. ]

Oh. Um, y-yes! That's okay! I mean. If we work together, then...then it'll help both our worlds, right? So....it's better. I think.

[Vivi is still figuring all this out yet, but. From what he's been told, at least. That seems to be his understanding, anyway.]

Yes, I agree with you. Cooperation will surely benefit our worlds.

[ Why else would they be issued team-building missions? There must be purpose behind it. ]

I want to do what I can. Have you been here long?

[He isn't sure how long everyone has been here. How long might he be here for? He doesn't think that he has long. Not before he would....stop moving. Die. He just wants to do what he can with the time he has left. However long that might be. Here, or back home.]

Two moons since my first mission in Aphaia. Others have been here longer yet.

[ Dion suspects that Odin and Ramuh have been here significantly longer, adjusted to the world as they are. He wonders whether the curse has advanced for the latter in that time. It hasn't yet in his case, though this could mean nothing at all. ]

It would seem ours is a long-term task.

Oh. I see.

[Two months. Some were here longer....Vivi isn't sure how much longer he has. But, well, he just has to try and make the best of it. Do what he can. However much longer he has left. He can spend his time doing his best to save his home, his friends. He's okay with that.]

So I could be here a while. That's okay.

Yes. We are well provided-for, at least.

[ Such a bounty of resources and free of the encroaching threat of the Blight. The technology far exceeds that of his people as well. It's a luxury beyond what his people know, in many ways. ]

Should you require something specific, you may be able to ask it of Aurora, as well.

Oh? I guess I'd have to figure a job. To pay her, right?

[Vivi hasn't.....really actually had a proper job before. But he doesn't mind. He wants to help out and be useful. Aurora and whoever else should be thanked and compensated for helping. He's still figuring this place out, with regards to accommodation and money and everything yet.]

The only currency in this realm are points we're awarded for being active on missions and social functions. These are what Aurora accepts as compensation.

[ It's a curious system, though one that leaves none of them richer than others. In that sense, Dion reasons it levels their standing. ]

Social functions? I guess that seems simple enough.

[He isn't sure on the objectives of these missions, but he guesses that might change depending on what they are required to do. How they are supposed to help, prove themselves, and their world worthy of saving. As far as social functions go, Vivi is decidedly out of his element there; that sounds more like the sort of thing Garnet would be better at. Given his appearance and all. But he supposes he could try. He's not quite as shy and timid as he was.]

I believe they are encouraged as "team-building" exercises, generally speaking.

[ Dion will not soon forget that Camp Etraya was not, in fact, a training camp. It was extremely peculiar to him, having spent so much of his life in the military, but he supposes he can see the merit in it. He did endeavor to know and understand the men under his command.

...They just also trained. ]

I guess that's good? Right? I mean. For people to get to know each other and be able to work together. If we want to save our home.

[Not that he has any idea about camps. Or....well. A lot of things, really. But still. Vivi is trying his best to remember to just make the most of it. To try and be positive. He doesn't anticipate there being any issues on his end, being against working with everyone else. Moreover, he just hopes that his appearance won't be a problem. But so far things have been fine?]

That is true. Missions tend to require cooperative efforts.

[ To that end, becoming familiar with one another in advance saves them difficulties they might otherwise need to muddle through. Missions provide challenge enough as it stands, in his view. ]

I'll do my best to help! But I guess, hopefully, I'll have a little time, some chance to get used to things here and get to know people first.

[He isn't sure quite how often these missions come about. He's still figuring everything out quite yet, but Vivi is doing his best to learn. To ask and make note of any advice or information that seems new to him. It's just kind of a lot. Especially alone.]

I believe you will. We are notified of missions in advance, and some consideration has been spared toward letting people recover from more demanding forays.

[ As a career soldier, Dion couldn't say that he required or was even at ease with so much time on his hands, but he would always consider the needs of others. Not everyone is like him, and he believes that is for the better. ]

Alright. That's good. So we get some time to....mm, prepare. Make sure we're ready and know what we're supposed to do to help.

[He's still kind of nervous. But that won't stop him from trying to help out. It's good that if there are more dangerous missions that they might get more time in between to be able to recover, if anyone might be hurt, or the like. Even if he was used to magic being able to support in that healing process, that didn't mean that anyone here might be able to do something like that.]

Yes. If the pattern remains as I have observed, we should not be caught off guard.

[ Which allows them to ready themselves for whatever they may face in the future. ]

And should you have need of assistance, or wish to discuss preparations, you can always contact individuals directly.

Good. But ah, so this isn't just to talk to everyone? I haven't used this sort of thing before, so I guess I'm still figuring it out.

[Vivi will get there. He just might need a bit to figure the phones out properly. But he should hopefully pick up on it quickly enough. He just has not had a lot of time yet to sit down with it, to really play with it and settle in quite just yet.]

You can both talk to everyone and direct a message to an individual. We each have a form of message box, you see.

[ The "inbox" is still a peculiar concept to Dion, but he has made use of it to contact Cloud, so he knows it works. ]

Oh. These are pretty useful. We could really have used something like this back home sometimes.

[Especially during the obligatory gotta split up the party sections! Vivi can't help but be impressed. But then, it isn't like it takes all that much to get him excited. A lot of things are still new to him, given he's only a mere nine months old.]

It's far more efficient than methods employed in my world, as well.

[ Some advancements in this world are so far beyond those of his own that they might as well be their own form of sorcery. Dion can't help but marvel at it. ]

We would send letters with the moogles. But this is way quicker! And you can talk to lots of people at once!

[It's pretty amazing! At least to Vivi. He's not used to a lot of this sort of technology, even if he is aware of some of it. Though, he did grow up in the swamps, so even what he was familiar with back home isn't anything like this.]

Moogles carry mail in your world?

[ He can't help but be diverted by this piece of information. ]

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Yeah! Some of them. There is one we met that sells stuff. And I think Mog, Eiko's moogle, is more like her friend.

[But generally. Yes, they would go around delivering letters and helping out where they could.]

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