voice;

[earthy]

[It takes Terra a while to investigate his new little communicator device... and then a while longer to remember everything he was told about how to use the thing... but eventually he gets an audio recording going.]

Hm. That definitely did something. [Or he's pretty sure he got an audio recording going, anyway.] Yeah, looks like it's working now. Okay. Uh... Hello?

[There's a brief pause and then he clears his throat and starts again.]

Hello. My name's Terra. I'm new to this area.

[This whole situation is an unimaginably big problem in regards to the keeping of the World Order, and he is probably duty-bound to Do Something About It, but while he figures out exactly what one is supposed to do about a whole world full of people knowing there are other worlds out there, he'll just not contribute to the problem. You will get no acknowledgement that this is another world from him, no sir/ma'am.]

I was wondering if anyone's figured out why they're here? I've read a couple times now that it's just... an accident, some random happening, but I don't buy it. There's gotta be a reason this power has been bringing people to this place. Some purpose or purposes it means for us to serve?

[Another pause. What else was he meaning to ask? Oh, right.]

And does anyone know anything about the games played around here? Sports games, specifically. I was given a job as a sort of coach... [Wait, let him just read the job title off the paper-] An 'Athletics Counselor'. For troubled kids. I'm told I'll get some training for the job, but I'd like to go into it knowing as much as I can... and right now, I really don't know anything. [Ah.] Except that they don't use fruit as balls in any of their games.

[A good thing to know, that.]

That's about it, I guess. Thanks for your time.

[Now to remember how to turn this device off.]

Hope that worked.

𝓿𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓸 𝑜𝓃𝑒

[debutaunt]

[When the video comes on, there is a gorgeous woman sitting in front of the camera, with a beautiful (but very clearly staged) background behind her. Flower arrangements, curtains, you get the picture. She smiles widely as she speaks up:]

Hello darlings! You would not believe what I had been through before suddenly showing up here—

[It makes it seem like a dream. But this whole ‘world’ where ‘superheroes are real,’ that also seems equally likely to be a dream! Or yet another afterlife...

But even when she had her suspicions about what’s real and what’s not, she’ll do what she’s always done. Stick it out, hope for the best, be the change she wants to see— et cetera, et cetera…]

Enough about that!

My name is Tahani Al-Jamil, you’ve probably heard of me.

[She knows they haven’t, her family name apparently has no connections here, BUT she is aware of her own powers. Namely right now, the one that means everyone will know of her, and she can work with that.]

It’s a pleasure to soon meet all of you! I’ve heard there is usually a large “welcome” party every month, is that true? Oh, it must be a joke that it’s called a “Swear In,” isn’t it? I almost really believed in that one! Truly terrible. So, what are they really called, and who is hosting them?