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[egeiros]

Sender: Yuki Tayuun
To: Everyone
Subject: Communal rules

A question, if I may... Does anyone look out to a formal settlement and find it altogether too dazzling at times? Or, mayhap even too much to trust that it is on offer with nearly no strings attached?

[ hm, likely not a great opener. Yuki tries again, maybe something lighter will work better. ]

Pray forgive the overly serious tone, I was once told to, as she put it, "LIGHTEN UP AND STAY IN THE HOUSE, STOP SNEAKING OUT AND SLEEPING IN THE GARDEN" before coming here.

It is something of a ...

work in progress?

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Sender: Estinien Varlineau

[soughtrevenge]

A large city can be quite formidable if you've known naught but a small settlement your entire life.

sender: Yuki Tayuun

[egeiros]

It is as you say, although it is not only this city. Some of the buildings themselves are... quite large enough to feel trapped, very much like I may never be able to find my way out.

[ this might mean more if he was not so often and easily lost, but nobody needs to know that just yet. ]

I am unsure that I will ever understand the apparent luxury of some settlements. Or shelters. A forest floor or a warehouse suits fine.

[soughtrevenge]

Aye, I was raised in a small village... 'twas quite a shock when I first laid eyes on the large city-state of Ishgard on my star during my twelfth summer.

Though I must admit, I've grown used to the comforts found in the large city-states I've come across during my travels.

[egeiros]

Comforts such as...? Pray forgive me, but my visit to Ishgard following its rejoining with the Alliance was ... shamefully eventful.

Mayhap I need to give it yet more time to see more of such places? Was it a difficult acclimation for you?

[ as in, hey, let's talk about that and not getting lost all the time, and maybe hope to someday enjoy the finer things in these jungles of stonework. ]

[soughtrevenge]

ah, so you've been to Ishgard... You're from Etheirys, then?

[ Yeah, he's completely ignoring the other question for now ]

[egeiros]

[ oh. what? is this a term he ought to know but does not? hmm. ]

This is not the term I know it as..? I confess my learning of Western lands may be more shallow than I'd like... My upbringing did not encourage knowledge of aught beyond the forest.

Rest assured I am ever working on it.

[ read: please don't think I'm an idiot, says the viera to someone who actually would not judge anyone for not being the most brilliant scholar in the land. ]

[soughtrevenge]

'Tis the name of our star, something I learned while traveling alongside the Warrior of Light and the Scions.

[ It brings a small smile to his face ][

Tell me, then, what lands are you familiar with? ...And what is your name?

[ Mayhap it's somebody he's met, or somebody who may know him much like Madhuri did ]

I sure did fall on my face...

[egeiros]

Ah... If I may be so bold, I may wish to inquire more about your tales of travel in the future.

[ he may have gotten strange looks when he knew little of the Calamity years ago, but even he had since heard of the famed Warrior. ]

I am ... nay. I should instead say, I was of a region bordering Othard, the Skatay Range. I will spare you tales of vile imperial activity prior to Doma's liberation, and instead share that I have grown familiar with Eorzea in recent years. To speak plain, I am someone with naught but much to learn and debt to pay for my life and any new homelands. Yuki Tayuun.