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[hypothreaticals]

[The video starts up on a new face, someone who's apparently found her apartment and original clothes and everything. She is very orange. She has also propped the phone up somehow and spread out across the table are a whole bunch of pamphlets -- pretty much every pamphlet it's possible to get when first arriving to this world -- and a notepad which, due to angle and distance, it's possible to see some writing in it but not to make out what it actually says.]

Allll right, everything seems to be working... Hello everybody!

[That smile is very wide and almost tangibly nervous. She bounces on her feet; a pen is in one hand even as she gestures them a lot as she talks.]

It is great to meet all of you, I am super excited to get to know more people who've been brought into all of this... From what I've seen, we have the responsibility of helping save this world, but we're also responsible for leading our own lives like normal people, needing places to stay, money, jobs...

[She picks up her notepad, eyes darting over what she's already written.]

It sounds like there are a lot of benefits to joining one of these Guilds, but I'd love to hear from anyone who actually has experience with them, good or bad... Or experience with other jobs or ways to help! And if someone happens to have any more questions, who or what is the best source of information in this city? After all, it's always safer to know what to expect.

--Oh! I almost forgot. I'm Anxiety!

[She sure is.]

Comments

[hypothreaticals]

[She scribbles that down, too, feeling like she's accomplished something already. That helps, and she smiles.] All right, I'll stop by!

That... is amazing, actually. Mostly healing others, that would come in so handy, but flying would also make the height issue less of an actual issue...

[As worrying as some things about the idea of flying already were. Actually:] What happens if we run out of magic while we're flying?

[happydreamed]

[Opens mouth. Closes mouth.]

I haven't cut it that close and neither should you.

[hypothreaticals]

Oh, that's something I'm going to try not to do ever.

[Underlined mental note to NEVER!!! fly any higher than she can easily handle falling.]

[happydreamed]

It might be fine? But I haven't had reason to test it personally.

[hypothreaticals]

It doesn't seem easy to safely test. Which is fine! I just won't fly that high. I was only really thinking about using it to reach high shelves and cabinets anyway.

[happydreamed]

That should be fine then. -I admit I've used it for the same.

[He's 5'4", which is considerably taller than her, but for an adult humanoid man it's still pretty short.]

[hypothreaticals]

I definitely want to ask at the Guild too, but I'd love to know if you have any advice on how to learn these powers. They seem really fascinating even if I'm not going to use them to fight.

[But there's definitely a difference between hearing You Can Do X and having any idea of how to even start figuring out how to Do X...]

[happydreamed]

Hmm... I had magic at home, so I may not be the best to give advice on how to learn powers from scratch... But in general, I find visualizing what you want to do helps considerably.

[hypothreaticals]

Oh, does being a dream mean you could do magic? None of us can, or any of the mind workers, but imaginary friends and people like that potentially can.

Visualizing... [She makes a final note of that, then nods.] All right, I'll ask at the Guild if they have any other advice, but I'll start with trying to visualize. And... not starting indoors. Wind indoors seems like it could be a problem if I don't have control over it yet. [Either nothing would happen or an absolute disaster could happen...]

[happydreamed]

If one dreams of a world with magic, then one should be able to do magic within it, yes?

[And he was never meant to leave that dream, so that sidesteps the issue of bringing it into reality.]

I do recommend practicing in an open area, yes. Ideally one with padding when you start learning flight.

[hypothreaticals]

Right, that makes sense! I came in after Riley stopped playing with her imaginary friends, so I don't have actual experience with that, but Rainbow Unicorn definitely has some magic and she works as one of Riley's dreams.

[So that checks out! And if any of them came into the world like this, it would... feel weird if they could exist out here but not have magic, so Anxiety can believe that's how it works.]

Do you know if the Guilds have anywhere like that, or can recommend places safe for learning?

[happydreamed]

[Anxiety would be a later emotion in life, that seems reasonable. Is Kantera an imaginary friend, he wonders?]

I believe all of the guild headquarters have training simulators in them? Besides which, the colosseum in Dayrise is often used for powers practice.

[hypothreaticals]

[Kantera probably can't be categorized like that, Anxiety's firmly made a mental note that he's from another world and probably nothing like a Dream Productions worker... But she was more inclined to think of him that way. It didn't sound like he'd been following a script, though, right?]

All right, that's great to know! [Another final couple of notes, then she smiles at the phone camera again.] I'll have to look into those. Thank you, Kantera!

[happydreamed]

[She and Saddness aren't really like residents of the dream - they'd always known what they were. But they're still the closest people to himself that Kantera has met.]

Happy to help. Feel free to contact me if there's anything else you need.

[hypothreaticals]

I appreciate that, and I will definitely keep you in mind. I'll let you know when I'm in Blossomcrown so I can stop by for a visit. Thanks again!

[Anxiety gives a quick little wave, smiling the whole way through, before disconnecting. That had actually been a very nice conversation; Kantera seemed like a good person to meet first thing like this... Things were going well, all things considered!]