001 {what a fantastic death abyss!}

[sandcastleking]

[The hand is small, slanted, and the letters and words have barely any spaces between them. There are no flourishes, swoops, or other such things; everything is compact--like the writer is more used to making notes in margins and along diagrams than writing across a full page. Letters appear very quickly.]

Testing, testing...

What a place--what a

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[ziongaiv]

Its nice to hear someone's excited about being here. I'm Pollux, nice to meet you.

[sandcastleking]

It's rather hard for me not to be--this place is something of a magitechnological marvel, so elegant in its execution.

Pleasure to meet you, Pollux! Have you been here long?

[sting_to_death]

There's really nothing to be that enthusiastic about.

oh lin <3

[sandcastleking]

Someone has run electrical cords through residences carved into a still-living, still-healthy tree, and you don't see anything to be enthusiastic about?

the usual spoilsport ;;

[sting_to_death]

No.

we love her so

[sandcastleking]

No? How about the plumbing, then?

[pompous_today]

Your upbeat attitude is quite refreshing, Geoff. My name is Simon; welcome to Edensphere.

[sandcastleking]

Is that so? I noticed a lot of griping--or, well, it sounded like griping, I couldn't quite be sure--when people were speaking nonsense, but then that's only sensible in that situation.

And it's my pleasure, Simon. So, what do you do here?

[pompous_today]

I think that deciding to wait until it went away was probably a wise decision, yes. I was fortunate enough to not be affected, but I was quite in the minority.

I'm a senior medic at the clinic on Wellspring Island.

[sandcastleking]

Yes, I noticed. A few people made sense, but then, I had no guarantee I'd make sense to them as well.

Senior medic--sounds like an important position, and a highly-trained one, too. How does that work with the memory loss?

<3s your layout so much :)

[memoriesclouded]

I'm [scribbles illegibly] fine.

I guess.

You're really enthusiastic about this place, aren't you?

aww ty

[sandcastleking]

You sure? Is there anything I can do?

I...guess I am. I simply want to know how it all works.

:) slightly late...

[memoriesclouded]

I'll--

[ Awkward pause. ]

I'll let you know if I do.

It's not a bad thing.

[ It's just different from him. ]

<3

[sandcastleking]

I know this is a bad situation--but there's nothing we can do about it, and even less we can do if we don't know this place.

I'll be here if you need help at all.

[feathered_earth]

It's all really amazing when you first get here, isn't it? I'm pretty sure I never saw a machine like the elevator before this.

[sandcastleking]

Really? I think I've seen one before, but it's the how that's puzzling me.

[feathered_earth]

Well, I thought a machine that big ought to look more like it... there's no way to see its parts at all or what makes it go. I think there's a chain or a cable inside that pulls in up and down--that's what someone told me when I first arrived.

Oh! I'm Cara, by the way.

[sandcastleking]

With lots of mass, it's hard to hide the pieces--but it becomes, with moving parts, all the more essential to keep people safe and all the more elegant when accomplished.

I imagine so--a chain, cable, counterweight and pulleys at the least... [have doodled diagrams in the margin of possible elevator designs]

Cara! I am charmed.