Audacious

Myriad Reality

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Do you have some kind of television or news where you're from?

@Nimda

We do.

Myriad Reality

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Did you end up infamous or something?

@Nimda

Not infamous, not famous, somewhere in between, but known.

Myriad Reality

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That's really cool. Any progress with your world?

@Nimda

They don’t hate as much, and certainly don’t hate me, as a whole. Some really strong… What would the word be, conservative? Some really strong conservative idealists resent me for sympathizing with an outsider, for wanting to leave home to be here, etcetera. In the grand scheme of things, I say I made out great, but you see after all that why not everyone is a fan of me. The one thing I’m not a fan of is that everyone knows who I am, too.

Myriad Reality

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So it's been ten years since he first showed up?

@Nimda

Yeah. Quite a while.

Myriad Reality

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How long was he around your people before the arrest?

@Nimda

About seven years. I was an actual child when I remember hearing about his first visit.

Myriad Reality

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Oh wow. And here I thought this was a long time ago.

@Nimda

The background info I gave earlier was a long time ago. But I’m not old at all. Everything involving me is very recent history.

Myriad Reality

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That's really, really cool. How many years have you been doing that?

@Nimda

Threeish, now? Not terribly long. I'm still very young and haven't seen a lot, but between Rythian's teachings and my time in the IA as a whole, I have experienced a lot in short time. At least, I like to think so.

Myriad Reality

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I’m assuming that it didn’t go your way for the both of you…?

@Galvanize

Sort of?

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Assault? For grabbing someone's arm?

@Nimda

The whole thing is ridiculous, so that bit just doesn't surprise me. Needless to say, though, they took us both to "court". The officials there were outraged that they had laid hands on the guy, as they never wanted to give more outsiders a reason to come. For this same reason, they refused to prosecute him. Moreover, I hadn't technically done anything wrong myself. Push comes to shove, the scholar finally offered a form of acceptable compromise. If I were willing, he would take me to the outside world. Show me what it was like, maybe to finally offer everyone there some peace of mind that it isn't as bad as years of isolation due to fears from history led us to believe. He would not come back again until he was truly welcome, but I would come with him, and have the ability to come and go as I please. I could learn about the elements under him, and act as the middle man for bringing that information back to our people. Long story short, I got this sweet gig where I get to come and go whenever I want or need, share bits of my teachings, and I get to learn under a teacher that is both more skillful and knowledgeable in our own craft than any of us had been for eons. That's where I am all the way through today.

Myriad Reality

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*listens in awe*
What happened after that?

@Galvanize

Tensions hit their peak. Someone finally had enough, and against all odds, raised their arm to strike me. Quick witted as he was, the scholar stopped that man. First time in all his interaction with us that wasn’t purely an attempt to be friendly. He grabbed his wrist, stopping him from bringing it down on me, and tried to bring to his attention that he was about to hit a kid. They all got upset that he had laid a hand on one of our own, though. Immediately called for the government to take some form of action. They swarmed both of us, pinned us down, and in a strange form of angry mob citizen’s arrest, dragged us both to officials to have him tried for assault and me for fostering criminal activity.

Myriad Reality

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That’s good. It didn’t get worse.

@Nimda

Not immediately. The improvement of opinion only was really a thing with the government. People hated that he seemed just free to come and go and felt he had no right to do so. It boiled over eventually, when a bunch planned to mob him the next time he visited. Instead of just passive-aggressive remarks but letting him be, they actively tried to obstruct him from doing anything or going anywhere after he arrived. I heard about it down the pipeline, and I rushed over to help in any way I could, trying to stand by him and argue back with the people harassing him.