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Hello, Etraya. My name is Lois Lane, and for anyone who met a younger me before, yes, still a reporter, and no, that wasn't past me.

( A pause. People get alternate worlds here, right? )

I'm interested in talking with people about the most recent mission before our next one hits, especially in regards to the anomaly itself and any resolution or lack there-of there was. I want to write-up what we as Etrayans believe happened and get it out there for everyone since there's no real mission debriefing process.

If there are other missions you'd like to go over from your perspective, I'd be glad to do the same. If you're concerned about being named, tell me and you'll remain anonymous.

( Another pause. She sighs, very, very quietly. )

I'll be spending a good part of the later mornings over at the unnamed Diner. If anyone has anything else they'd like to comment on about Etraya and see distributed, you can reach out to me by text or call or stop by. If you're all going to end up asking for gossip columns or restaurant reviews, I'm drafting help.

( ooc: "Interview" Questions here as a form to fill out OOCly; happy to also thread anything out, just is easier if I have info to work with sooner for writing up. And no I have no idea what I'm doing we're living in Wild Times. )

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[Oh. A reporter.

It's an instinctual impulse of repulsion. For seventeen years, the only "news" Paine saw was someone on a sphere, parroting whatever it was they'd been told they could say by the Church of Yevon, with the only really trustworthy words out of their mouth being the blitzball scores.

But Lois might not be like that. Paine can't return the smile, but she does shake Lois' hand.]

The name's Paine. You're going to be reporting on a lot more than international. And less, at the same time.

So what does reporting involve, for you?

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The truth. Investigating it, verifying it, cross-checking it, getting it in front of people so they know what's happening behind the veneer of the world's show. Calling out the government and everyone else for the cover-ups they think they can get away with.

( Lois simply watches her, eyebrows quirked just a touch. )

Bit harder to get the same degree of paper trail here, given the nature of everything. Gotta start somewhere.

[Well. That is interestingly unlike all the news that Paine has watched.

In fact, it sounds much more like what Paine has been doing in her sphere-hunting, but less about history and more about what's going on around them now.]

Call me crazy, but that sounds like a pretty dangerous profession.

But if you're looking to start some paper trails, I can help out with that.

It can be. The truth is worth it. So is seeing people brought to justice, or seeing those who've suffered find justice in the end.

( Even when it's too late. Not everything ends well, unfortunately. )

Oh? I'm listening.

[Paine has made backups of the pictures--amazing what a few days in the 000 and 004 stacks of the library can learn you--so she's not afraid to take out one of the digital cameras she picked up in San Francisco and offer it so that Lois can look through the pictures in the memory.]

I'm keeping my own records of the missions--and of what happens in between missions. It's all visual so far, but I've been thinking about doing more writing than just captions.

[There's a lot of snaps of San Fran. Ordinary street scenes... less-ordinary things, like superhero antics and kaiju and the weird barrier that cropped up in the last couple of weeks, too.]

This one's just the last mission, but I've got film pictures of other ones, too.

( Libraries are important for many reasons, but self-education is far and wide considered among the best advantages. Knowledge should be available to all who seek.

Lois believes that, much as she looks through the photos on the digital camera shared with her. )

This is amazing, honestly. ( Because so far, no one's kept any records at all, minus Gorgug's. ) All these are from Earth-A, then?

[It doesn't show on Paine's face, but there's a little glow of satisfaction inside when Lois is impressed with the pictures. That there are reporters out there who report what actually happens and that this one thinks this is good, well, that's not a bad day.]

Yup. That's where I bought this camera. A lot more room on it than I'm used to--I tried to get a little of everything, the big stuff and the things that seem inconsequential.

( It's making her miss Jimmy with a surprising, sudden intensity. A reporter and also a photographer, with the knack for getting the right kind of photographs to match the articles they end up publishing. )

I'm not a professional photographer, but from the one I know, he'd say that's what you need to do. You never know if the big stuff, or the little stuff, will be what you need. From the journalism side, you never know what piece will be your breakthrough.

That makes sense. In my experience, the important things can pop up in unexpected places more often than not. And even if it isn't, life isn't just made up of big, climatic moments. An honest record should have the ordinary stuff in it too.

Starts getting into maintaining historical records when you capture it all, but that's not wrong to do, or say. Life is all those moments. More small and ordinary ones than the earth-shatteringly large.

( She smiles a little, lopsided as it is, when she says that. )

Probably better for people's collective stress levels that way.

[The corner of Paine's mouth quirks up briefly. Yeah. There's been times where she thought she'd be happier not knowing what was going on.]

Ignorance can be bliss, sometimes. [She looks through a few of her photos again.] Truthfully, the historical record is what I'm most interested in. Making sure that when people want to know why things happened, the answers they find are actually true.

But knowing what was happening and what is happening go hand-in-hand.

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