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[madethemproud]

I think I've finally got this thing working. [Neville appears sideways on the screen. He's not holding it right, but give the kid some credit for figuring out this wacky muggle device.]

I've already been told the general gist of what's going on around here. And I've had the chance to experience it a bit for myself. And, well, I want to help if I can. It looks like there's still a lot of questions to be answered about what's happening and if I can do anything- not to mean that you lot haven't been working hard and all. I'm sure you have. It just, you know, an extra set of hands and all that.

[He's beginning to feel a little stupid for making the post, but he needs to feel useful. Being trapped in a new culture with nothing to work towards is testing his nerves.]

I'm Neville, by the way. Neville Longbottom. Anything I could do to help, if you'd let me, I'd be grateful for.

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[Video]

[harpbeat]

[Whenever it was that this post gets made, it's night when it's answered.]

Eater. Welcome to the crew.

[Video]

[madethemproud]

Thanks. I'm sorry I didn't introduce myself when we first met. And for how I was acting. I was just a bit shocked.

[Video]

[harpbeat]

No problem. I'm not the best person to meet to introduce you to the crazy.

Re: [Video] srry for html fail. on my phone

[madethemproud]

I'm sure that's not true. (Even if he thinks it, he is too much of a gentleman to say)

[Video]

[harpbeat]

No, seriously, I'll make fun of myself in the daytime more than anybody else does.

Re: [Video]

[madethemproud]

You shouldn't be so down on yourself.

[Video]

[harpbeat]

Daytime me isn't nighttime me.

[enjoymyatelier]

[long...bottom...

...you poor soul...]

Well, I suppose we don't have much of a choice given how little progress had apparently been made in about six months.

[madethemproud]

[hey it's a perfectly respectable name in his world.]

Well, I figured getting to the bottom of this would be difficult.

[though that is a really long time to go without figuring anything out.]

[enjoymyatelier]

[how many generations are we talking.]

I'm sure it will be, yes. I suppose I should be thankful that there are some leads now, even if they're maddeningly vague.

[madethemproud]

I've worked with vague before. What leads can you tell me about?

[enjoymyatelier]

A local senator is pushing a religious sect known as 'the churches of three,' which seems to have come out of absolutely nowhere. This would be worrying on its own, but apparently the owner of the entirely suspicious hotel here that's free for our use is named Trey Matre, which is similar to "tres matres."

Now, how much do you know about mythology, Longbottom?

[madethemproud]

A bit. It's three something. Matres...mothers? Women? Something like that.

[caliberill]

Glad to have you on board. [Strange name, but who is he to judge?]

I'm Nate. Nathan Drake.

[madethemproud]

Thanks. Nice to meet you, even under the circumstances.

[caliberill]

Agreed but it could be worse, you know?

[Especially if you are friends with a certain Drake. Neville. You were warned.]

[madethemproud]

Oh, I know. Much worse.

[He's friends with Harry Potter. He's used to it.]

[caliberill]

So what do you do back home, Neville? I know it's a pretty lame conversations tarter, but it's something at least.

[madethemproud]

I'm a student. [Vague but true.]

[Video]

[pardonmylanguage]

[Neville? That plus Longbottom...although maybe his parents are just big fans.]

Do you...do you know a boy named Harry Potter, by any chance?

Re: [Video]

[madethemproud]

Yeah. We're friends. You know him? [Startled.] Is he here?

Re: [Video]

[pardonmylanguage]

[What. What what what? Luckily she's gotten good at making up quick excuses.]

I read about him. [And you? Should she say that? What happens when you tell a fictional character they're fictional?]

But no, I don't think he's here.

[Video]

[madethemproud]

Read about him? I didn't think he'd made the papers [in the muggle world.] out here.

Re: [Video]

[pardonmylanguage]

I'm not from this world. I read about him before I came here.

[Awkward awkward awkward.]

[Video]

[madethemproud]

Are you from the same world I am then?