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[for_a_purpose]

::So you're a human person.

You come across this empty lot with a snowflake shaped spaceship parked in the middle of it.

The more bizarre thing is the Lucy Van Pelt esque help desk manned by the cute white haired dark skinned woman.::

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[empyricaldreams]

I'm a human person.

She steps up, heels clacking, wearing leopard print pants and a t-shirt. Stops at the desk, sunglasses still on.

"...Hyperborea?"

[for_a_purpose]

Correct.

[empyricaldreams]

"Might I assume that this is basically a Q&A stand if I have questions about your world or the twelve dimensions?"

[for_a_purpose]

Yes.

[empyricaldreams]

"Excellent. How did the twelve dimensions come to be?"

[for_a_purpose]

There are many views on this in various religions.

The Great Gods Osiris, Ra and Obelisk created them.

A card flipped from face-down to face-up.

The Queen of Another World created them.

The Solemn God created them.

The Creator created them.

The twin goddesses Tierra and Sophia created them.

Many myths and legends exist.

There's also the very disliked suggestion that humans imagined it into existence.

[empyricaldreams]

"Ah, so as hotly debated as our own." She pauses at the last one. Nods.

"All I needed on that front. Magic is real, how does one wield it?"

[for_a_purpose]

Why would it be any other way? And as for magic, it is wielded either by talent or via a device.

[empyricaldreams]

"... Like, magic wands, if you don't have talent?"

[for_a_purpose]

That would be the crudest example.

[empyricaldreams]

"Right."

She hrms, crossing her arms.

"Tell me about Hyperborea. Imports, exports, style of government. You're... a clearly ice themed."

[for_a_purpose]

We import metals and various equipment. We export ice.

Government is the Imperial Royal Household, which I am the Crown Princess of. Effectively, however, we operate as a cloud network group mind.

We are chiefly an aggressive expansionary power that coverts other worlds into ice-locked realms for more resources and the expansion of Empire.

[empyricaldreams]

"Ay... That sounds. Rather dangerous, actually. And you're set up on Earth, because...?"

[for_a_purpose]

Observational status. I'm capable of doing all of my military functions from here.

[empyricaldreams]

"Ay... What scary people live in this town.

You had said that there were... worlds? In these twelve dimensions, there are... multiple worlds like this one, then?"

[for_a_purpose]

Yes.

[empyricaldreams]

"Bizarre. Are they alternate dimensions proper, where one must punch a hole to travel through, or are we talking old legends, like what my husband studies, when the time is right, certain places become gateways...

Or both. How does one access these twelve dimensions?"

[for_a_purpose]

Both answers are correct. You access them by wormholes in time and space essentially.

[empyricaldreams]

"Ay... And I assume your ship functions on those principles then?"

She hrms.

"What are the chances of a spirit like you being left on earth, about fifteen/sixteen years ago?"

[for_a_purpose]

It's not impossible. Much rarer these days because there's not as much magic / fantasy in the world, is the best way to explain it. Humans drove magic and the strange away.

[empyricaldreams]

"With rationalism. Well, didn't do us much good, since the strange is back, at least here in Domino."

[for_a_purpose]

With a bomb of all things, meant to drag the strange back.

[empyricaldreams]

"What sort of idiots set off a bomb like that?"

[for_a_purpose]

Please inquire with OOPARTS for further information on that.

[empyricaldreams]

"...What's OOPARTS?"

[for_a_purpose]

The joint private-public Police Unit designed to handle supernatural crises and disasters.

[empyricaldreams]

"Ay, I should probably grill them as well for more information, should I not?"

She sighs.

"I am... sorry for being so curt. You are the only one around for such questioning, to my knowledge."

[for_a_purpose]

To be fair, you're one of the few people who have bothered to talk to me, and talk to me at length.

I could recommend alternate sources of information, but they're much more dangerous and unpredictable than me.

[empyricaldreams]

"Ay, seriously? You'd think a foreign embassy would be afforded more respect.

Who? I am mostly just... curious."

[for_a_purpose]

We haven't been given the budget and most people don't want to acknowledge us, despite a peace treaty.

The first source would be The Gren Maju Da Eiza that dwells in this city, who is renowned in the 12 Dimensions as The Ultimate God of Destruction. However it is very secretive and lives in a castle outside the city.

The second would be Euphemia the Observer, a member of a collapsed order of witches, however she's an amoral psychopath at best.

[for_a_purpose]

Alternative the Dragon Generals, Ancient Fairy Dragon and Black Rose Dragon might be of insight but I don't know where they are for the former and how approachable either of them are.

[empyricaldreams]

"Mmm. I could see not having the budget...

Those all sound scary, I would probably need a... bodyguard of a more supernatural bent." She crosses her arms.

"SAI has been good, but not quite on answering some, ah... burning questions."

[for_a_purpose]

I am not sure where you could find one for hire. And SAI isn't meant for such deep scholarship, they're more. Public relations.

[empyricaldreams]

"Ay, I am finding this out. Is a better resource than nothing in my situation, but I'd like to not have to find equally scary people for protection in asking scary people for information.

[for_a_purpose]

Then the answer is to make yourself scary.

[empyricaldreams]

"...Ay, I'm not as scary as a dragon."

[for_a_purpose]

But you can be.

Though the getting there typically on experience requires a series of comical coincidences and a conga-line of trauma. So it might not be recommended.

[empyricaldreams]

"...I'll just sic my daughter on them."

[for_a_purpose]

That might work depending on who your daughter is.

[empyricaldreams]

"My daughter is...

She's meu chuchu and... I am starting to suspect, has nothing human in whatever she is. I'm curious for her and my sake."

[for_a_purpose]

Then I recommend SAI to get her evaluated to see what she is. That is their job of sorts.

[empyricaldreams]

"We've just been going to some programs, get her to stop breaking tableware if she cuts her steaks with too much force, not break bones if she gives an excited hug... I'll see about something like that."

[for_a_purpose]

... She definitely sounds like she could pick a fight with a dragon.

Not that that's a good idea.

[empyricaldreams]

"I would never force my little girl to fight a dragon.

...She'd do it all on her own."

Sighs.

[for_a_purpose]

Children are difficult.

[empyricaldreams]

"Truer words were never spoken. Is your entire culture your children then?"

[for_a_purpose]

No, they're my father's.

I just have a son, that's all.

[empyricaldreams]

"...Ay, I'm glad to hear that. At least there's fellow mothers with their undoubtedly horrifying progeny here."

[for_a_purpose]

Horrifying...?