001. [Video. Public.]

[offdutyturk]

[There is a pause before any words are spoken. In that time, the sound of tapping can be heard - fast and brief - and a click or two as buttons are pressed in quick succession.] Son of a-- [The muttered curse is abruptly cut off, and the audio with it. Seconds tick by. Then audio resumes, this time accompanied by video.]

There.

[The red-haired

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[offdutyturk]

[He adopts the easy half-grin again at the tone. It's a little more strained than usual, but there it is.]

How d'you know you don't know my boss? Maybe you do and just don't realize yet.

[Video] No worries ^^

[offdutyturk]

Tseng. Kinda tall guy, about my age, long black hair, dark eyes, and a dot on his face right-- [He taps the center of his forehead, just above the line of his eyebrows.] --here.

He can be a stick in the mud sometimes.

[Video]

[capuletnomore]

Unless you and your 'boss', whoever he may be, are from the Inner City, I doubt you will find him here. This place is different to anywhere else any of its captives have lived.

[Video]

[offdutyturk]

Maybe. I don't give up that easily, though.

But you're right about one thing, lady. This sure as hell isn't like anywhere I've been before.

[Video]

[capuletnomore]

I will allow it is possible he may be here. I had thought I was alone when I first arrived, only to find my cousin a day later.

[Manners and off-color language in the same sentence? She nods her head in greeting.]

I am Juliet. I assume that you are new to this place, good sir?

[Video]

[offdutyturk]

Name's Reno.

What's this place called? Could always just be that I've been here before but was too drunk to remember it.

[fairesthero]

[...Well. There's a face he hasn't seen in years.]

You talkin' about Tseng?

[offdutyturk]

[There's just a brief pause this time. The lazy grin's still there, but his eyes are narrowed.]

Yeah. That's right. Ya seen him?

[The hell??]

[Video] Derp, forgot this XD

[fairesthero]

He's not here. None of the Turks are, except you, now.

[And Vincent, but does he really count anymore?]

[Video] And clearly I did too >.>

[offdutyturk]

'course I am. Gotta send the best in first, right?

[Don't I know him from somewhere? Hmm..]

[Video]

[argentimperator]

Reno. [It's calm and un-inflected, a simple acknowledgement of Reno's presence and the fact that Sephiroth knows who he is.] None of your direct superiors are here, nor is your partner.

'Here' is Adstringendum. We are, for all intents and purposes, captives, albeit with a largely free range within our prison.

[Video]

[offdutyturk]

[There's an instant where Reno just freezes, his grin completely forgotten and his eyes widening more than he'd care for them to do.]

Uh.

[Crapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrap.]

Thanks. Uh-- hey, are't you supposed to be off destroying the world or something right about now? [Maybe this place isn't so bad on a global scale after all.]

[Video]

[argentimperator]

[Zack is going to kill you, Reno. They've been trying to keep the whole 'trying to destroy the world' thing on the down low. Actual, visible surprise flickers across Sephiroth's face for a very brief moment. Destroying the world? Is Reno serious or just being an asshole? That freeze indicates he's probably at least partly serious. Unfortunately, it would probably explain why Zack is so wary of him and Strife hates his guts.]

Actually, I'm 'supposed' to be investigating a town called Nibelheim. However, our captors, the Animus, seem to have little regard for whatever responsibilities we leave behind us.

[Video]

[offdutyturk]

Nibelheim?!

[The Turk's clearly taken aback again, and it's another minute before he actually responds with anything more than that. When he does, his expression is as guarded as his words. Well, some of the others DID say 'different times', not just 'different worlds'.. Though that's almost a harder story to swallow. But maybe..]

What're you supposed to be doing up at Nibelheim, anyway? Backwater town like that can't be too interesting. At least it wasn't last time I was there.

[video]

[unreadability]

Unless they have been brought here as well, you will not receive a response.

[video]

[offdutyturk]

Yeah. I'm starting to get that.

So who're you?

[video] 1/2

[unreadability]

[She raises an eyebrow. How... blunt.]

[video]

[unreadability]

Much like you, I am another visitor.