mylittlejamjar | First Gambit

*After several days of getting his bearings, David finally decides to address the scrolls. He's wearing an impeccable business suit that incidentally covers his Cutie Mark, along with a warm and friendly smile.*

Hello, everypony. I understand that I, along with quite a few others, have been somehow abducted from our worlds of origin and trapped here...and that I evidently have quite interesting timing. The Pale Pony...or rather, Càlice...it seems I've stumbled into something fascinating, yet terrible. I hope I can be of help here, both for the sake of returning home to my family and for seeing my fellow captives returned to where they belong.

My name is David Xanatos. I'm a businessman and something of a tinkerer and not entirely unfamiliar with the supernatural, though it's hardly a personal area of expertise. I'll just say the city I live in has become rather unique of late and leave it at that. But I know enough to leave my skepticism about what's happened at the door, at least. Actually, I find it intriguing. I wouldn't mind hearing about other worlds, if people don't mind sharing. Perhaps an exchange of stories could even help me get to know my new neighbors, as well as lightening the mood after what just happened. Or if not, I'm happy to have other discussions instead. Either way, I look forward to meeting all of you.

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[That question takes him by surprise a bit.]

Ah... Demona, I think. Tall, Red hair, has the villainous bad habit of gloating about her schemes. You know her?

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Unfortunately, yes. She's from my universe. We used to be allies until I discovered she was deceiving me and trying to use my resources for her mad scheme to destroy humanity.

It's troubling to think that she's now plaguing entirely different realities. Tell me, do you know if there were any other gargoyles there?

Not that I know of, no. There might have been, but it was a big ship. Might have missed them.

Hmmm...unlikely. If they were there, they probably would have come into rather loud conflict with her. Especially when she made her ploy at genocide. Well, most of them, anyway, but if the exception was there...well, you probably don't want to think about it.

Do you have any idea what happened to her?

We stopped her, but after a while the Drive took her. Don't know where she went. Could be home, could be elsewhere.

Let's hope home. I don't like the idea of her bouncing around the multiverse without anyone around who knows her tricks.

*Demona is one of few who crosses even David's lines.*

She wasn't the worst of that the Thor grabbed, unfortunately. There's probably a lot of people like her going about.

I know there are individuals worse than her... *Thailog, a handful of immortal historical figures.* It sounds as if these hubs have the potential to cause much more trouble than is initially apparent.

Yeah, but most of the time it's balanced out by idiots like me there to stop them.

[At least he's honest about how stupid playing the hero can be.]

*Interesting information alert!*

Luckily for those of us who don't have any supernatural assets of our own, I suppose.

[He may have let that slip, but by this point it doesn't matter. Not like he tried very hard to keep his Persona a secret.]

People without power or anything like that seem to not get caught up in these sort of things as often, I've noticed, and if they do, they've usually got something else going for them.

Extraordinarily lucky, then. I'm afraid I can't entirely say the same back home, aside from the fact that my city has certain...protectors who are good at minimizing the threat to helpless civilians.

Join the club. We have T-shirts.

[If only he had the shirt he ordered from Woona by now... that would have been a perfect joke.]

*Snort.*

If I didn't know any better, I'd say we were all from right out of the comic books.

It wouldn't be the first time I've seen it happen.

Oh, I wouldn't be surprised if there were going to be stories about certain people in the future, or even if there already were in alternate universes. But I doubt they're entirely accurate.

I just go with the "anything's possible" route and try not to think about it too hard.

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