Voicemail/IC Contact

[explosivecombat]

[VOICE/TEXT/VIDEO; OPEN TO ALL.]
(Carmen, you probably want this one.)

"State your name and whatever business you may have with me; I'll return your call once circumstances allow."

[Please state in the subject line if OOC planning is preferred and we can handwave like the wind, but otherwise IC will be assumed!]

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Of course.

[ossifragant]

If I said the word "London" would it ring any bells? A place someone here is from or would be familiar with?

[Please let the answer be no.]

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I've known quite a few people from London, actually, and several others who would at least know of it. There's a world that many people here seem to have in common, geographically-speaking. London is there.

In what way have you heard of it?

[ossifragant]

I was afraid that would be your answer.

It's possible to get there from Amestris. In a manner of speaking.

[He's just going to let that sink in if you don't mind.]

[explosivecombat]

Is that so?

Go on.

[ossifragant]

It's the Gate.

I've told you about it before. I don't remember it clearly, but I know more about it than most because of the master. She spoke of it, saying it was the source of alchemy. I can't tell you much about that because I'm a little fuzzy on the details.

I was told shortly after I arrived here that the father of the Elrics was shoved through the Gate. At the time, I assumed that meant he had been killed instantly, but he hadn't. He ended up on the other side of it instead, in a place called London.

[explosivecombat]

Forgive my skepticism, but might I ask where you've gotten your information from to begin with?

I ask because I know what resides on the other side of the Gate where I'm from, and it's...certainly not anything like that.

[ossifragant]

If I tell you, this information cannot get back to him under any circumstances.

[private]

[explosivecombat]

I can keep secrets.

[private]

[ossifragant]

Envy.

He was told this information by Edward Elric, who survived being dragged inside the Gate and apparently emerged from it unharmed.

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[...]

You know, I'm finding myself once again questioning exactly what is wrong with your world.

[ossifragant]

Hell if I know. It's not like it makes any sense to me, either.

[explosivecombat]

That's fair, I suppose.

May I ask you something?

[ossifragant]

It's only fair since I've asked you.

[explosivecombat]

Why are you telling me about this?

[ossifragant]

Because I trust you.

[explosivecombat]

[...Oh. Well, that's...actually rather stupid of you, if you ask most people, but...]

Fortunate for all parties involved, then, that I don't believe in backstabbing people I'm partial to.

[ossifragant]

[And Greed wonders why his life keeps going to hell...

He's also not quite sure what to do with that statement, so he decides to take it as a good thing because he's not wise enough to take it as a Greed what have you done.]

You're right that is pretty fortunate.

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[Well, at least this version is decidedly more intelligent and decidedly less prone to doing...whatever it is his counterpart does, because everything his counterpart has done that he's heard about has been a terrible life choice.

...this is a running theme with you people, isn't it.]

I also don't mind talking, should something else come up.

Granted, I can't really advise on this or give any relevant information; as I've said, in my own version of Amestris, the Gate is...well, it's decidedly not that, let's put it that way.

[ossifragant]

[Well, when your representation of the other Amestris is mostly Greed and Archer's tendency to say these ridiculous things...]

It's not going to come to that.

I've been told what's on the other side for you. It doesn't mean that the same isn't true for my version. I have no way to prove or disprove it even if I wanted to.

[explosivecombat]

While I've obviously never been inside, I...may have seen mine once. I don't know for sure, however; my memories of it are strange in ways that they usually aren't, so I have reason to believe it was likely a hallucination of some sort.

[ossifragant]

When did you see it, if you don't mind my asking?

[explosivecombat]

My death was a bit on the slow side.

[ossifragant]

[UH]

Then that's one thing that our worlds have in common.

[explosivecombat]

[...YEAH...]

Do you know what happened to this other version of myself, exactly? Archer has never told me and I know better than to ask him; I don't know if anyone's told you, so I admit this is a long shot, but I'm curious.