Welcome to Abysia

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I probably shouldn't have jumped into the unknown, I have no idea of how people actually navigate through the empty space.

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Screw it, I'm hopping into the next world I see.

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I'm going to regret this aren't I… ok let's go.

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I need a better landing strategy. At least I think I'm laying on grass, hopefully, this is a somewhat normal world. Ok so let's see, its grass, theres a city a bit out in the distance, a person wearing a cloak walking towards me… I guess that's not strange. There's not much I can do right now so I guess I'll talk to them.

"Hello there, what's up." ...that was bad… whoops

"Hello child, we've been expecting you."

...nope this place is jank, great. I should still have a knife one me… yep, still here, I'll just hold it… "what do you want"

"Follow me."

Theres something I really don't like about this guy, I need to defend myself. "What if I don't want to!"

"You don't have a choice."

I feel something strange happening around me, it feels like magic but there was something different abo…

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What… what happened… oh great I'm tied up in a chair… lovely.

Some sheep person is on the other side of a glass panel. I think he just noticed that I'm conscious, it looks like he's walking into the room.

"I understand why you would be jumpy, apologies, our standard procedures would appear to be concerning to people who don't know where they are."

"Let me out… what do you want from me."

"Oh, I don't personally have any business with you, at least right now. Most people who arrive here know at least a bit about where they are, but you arrived here accidentally by just drifting through empty space."

"How do you know that!"

"Oh I'm a seer, I can see details about people I come into contact with. I take an interest in people with a large amount of potential. Typically my subordinates are the ones to do the introductions but for special cases, I'll do it.

"What do you mean by special cases!" I feel magic starts to gather. "Don't you dare d…" I can't talk! Why can't I talk!

"Oh, that's because I silenced you. Oh yeah, I can also read minds, so that's fun. Anyway, the special case thing is not important right now, just pay attention.

You are in Abysia, we are a large group of multiple different groups and guilds. Right now you are in Soma, we are the original guild and officially the Soma Archives. Each major guild has its own sub-world while Abysia functions as the main hub. Guilds are often split into more distinctive groups, for example, Soma has 3 but only 2 are currently active with the Corvid Dreamers, lead by Trem, which is our R&D and the Cloth Teatre, lead by me, Silv, which is a collection of seers. The archives themselves are run by Arius and we have general members that serve the archives as a whole. Most other guilds follow our example and have a similar structure.

I'm not going to bore you with history details I'm just giving you a broad overview. We classify members based on abilities and classify them into ranks. New members serve Abysia as a whole until they are around rank 4. Now in general members are given missions based off their allegiance, missions can be hired work or for your respective group, it depends. Mission locations can be any world we have ever made contact with, but there is an extremely important location you should now of, because of events in our past Abysia has hundreds of sub-worlds that are corrupted and form a dungeon of sorts. This "dungeon" is where you will start your training.

That should be everything, for now, I'll have some of my subordinates escort you to the main hall in Abysia, there you'll be ranked and given your first assignment. Do you have any questions?"

Oh, I can finally talk again...neat. " Do I need to join?"

"Typically no but I'm strongly urging you to."

Something feels really off about this guy, I don't think I'm going to be given an option… "Fine"