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[Jessica's recovered slightly from the horrible failure that was her first attempt. Now it's time to show the gardens she means business! With the aid of a lot of dirt and a small pile of draft paper.

[First up: three more towers, with windows all around, for lookout. Internal elevators, so people can easily get to the tops. Then, a keep below, fortified and with plenty of rooms for storage and living and doctoring. A high, thick wall encircling, wide enough to walk on, with occasional guardhouses for supply storage. Fortified entrances at each cardinal point. A clear plastic roof stretching over the rest of the complex to shield from aerial attacks. And, once the basic shell is there, something she's been wanting for a while: interior plumbing, plus a sprinkler system just in case.

[She stands back, observing the result with satisfaction. Once she's inspected the area, she opens up a mirror on the vine.]

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I've finished the fortress I was planning. If anyone who's an actual fighter or has, y'know, experience with this stuff wants to check it out and make sure it's up to code, that'd be great. Mostly I just want people to know where it is for the next time we get overrun with things trying to kill us. Just look for the towers.

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Yeah, I'd want to know why the thing is doing that, and... y'know, what's sustaining it, how it does it... unless I can get that information, it's not a good explanation.

What kind of sensations? Is this a... [she searches for a word and ends up with a rather pathetic] Thing?

[She nods with a small approving smile.] No, it is not a good explanation.

[Sephiroth considers. She has felt something odd here, but it is difficult to explain.] I was wondering if this place had any kind of slow, cumulative effect on its captives.

I'm not referring to desire or affection. [She has heard that that is one of the Queen's goals, but she has experienced nothing of the kind here yet.]

Well, I'll pay more attention, but I don't think I've felt any changes that can't otherwise be explained.

Thank you. I'd appreciate that. I was wondering if we were being affected in some way other than the obvious. [It seems Jessica has not experienced anything similar, but it is no great matter.]

[Sephiroth moves on, bending to open the chest.] I can quickly show you the different items I created, if you'd like.

Have you had... I dunno, problems? Weird stuff?

Oh, yeah... yeah, that'd be good.

I have experienced an unfamiliar physical sensation. It's difficult to describe. I don't know what it is. [She tries to think of what to compare it to.] We feel cold or hunger because we need warmth or food. It's like that. I feel a need for something, but I don't know for what. [She doesn't sound too concerned, only curious.]

[She pulls out the first of the items in the chest, a small, round brown and bronze container.] This is an antidote. You ingest the substance inside to cure poison.

Huh. That sounds... slightly worrisome? Maybe... uh, you're missing something from your home?

[The notebook and pencil come out once the item tutorial starts up] Antidote, right.

Wait, like any poison?

That could be it. The snakes provide me with one substance I need, but there could be another--not necessary, but one which I'm so used to that I feel its lack. That's my current hypothesis.

[Sephiroth nods.] There might be some very specific poisons that it won't work on, but it works on most of them, yes. It's like the immune system, in a way, only it identifies and neutralizes poisons rather than pathogens.

It wouldn't work on something purely mind-altering, like the psychoactive chocolates.

You know what it is? Do you get, like, headaches? Brain zaps? Dizziness? The shakes?

Man, what we'd give for something like this back home...

No, it's nothing like that. It's not painful. More of--a yearning.

Antidotes are quite useful. On my world, there are many monsters that can poison humans.

[She next pulls out two vials: each contains a kind of bright sphere. One of the spheres is purple, and one is golden.] These are potions. You apply them to injured areas to cure them. The purple is for minor wounds, and the gold for more severe injuries. If you have internal injuries, they should be ingested.

If one isn't enough, you apply more potions until you're healed.

"Yearning." But not homesickness or anything?

[The Potion information is noted diligently.] I'm guessing this is instantaneous.

No. It is a physical want as well as a mental one, like hunger or thirst, but I'm not hungry or thirsty. It's difficult to describe, because I've felt nothing like it before.

Healing occurs very quickly. However, if the damage is too extensive, it cannot be repaired by a potion. There is a point beyond which they will not work, though that point depends on the strength and endurance of the injured party.

[She frowns slightly.] I wish I could help you more, then. It doesn't sound like anything I've ever heard of.

Hopefully that won't be a problem for us. Though given the fact that people apparently come back here...

As I said, it's not unpleasant. At worst, it's slightly unsettling. But I am curious about it. [She gives a brief smile.]

Yes, I'd heard about that. That is fortunate. I suppose we don't have to worry as much as we would otherwise.

[She removes the final item types from the chest. They are similar, yet different. Both are metal discs attached to what appear to be shimmering cloths, but one disc is Sun-shaped with a golden cloth, the other Moon-shaped with a silver cloth.]

These are Light Curtains and Lunar Curtains. If you're being attacked, you can use one of these. Activate them, and they'll form a temporary barrier of light around you. Light Curtains will lessen the damage from any physical attack. Lunar Curtains will do the same, but they protect from magical attacks. Each curtain can only be used once.

Hopefully you can figure something out about it... I don't think I trust any changes around here.

Well, we don't so long as it keeps happening. I don't think there's been a lot of chances to test it, and I wouldn't want to be any part of experimenting on it.

Only once. [Noted!] How long do they last?

Thank you. You're right. I don't trust it either. The sensation intensified up to a point, beginning several days after I first arrived, but it seems to have reached a plateau. I'll continue to monitor it.

Yes, that's not an experiment that should be performed on anyone. [She frowns, briefly.]

I would say up to twenty minutes, or maybe a little more, although it's impossible to be precise with such items. If your primary goal is to escape danger, then I'm sure the barrier would last for the time it took you to flee. I don't use these; I use Materia, but I know it would take a lengthier battle to dispel their protection.

Well, if it's kind of... stabilized... That's probably good. Or better than it getting worse.

Twenty minutes is a pretty long time. Hah, I could watch most of a TV show with that. Of course, even if there were TVs here... (Wow, that was a stupid joke...)

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