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[cutejustice]

[Well. Maya had gotten settled, such as it was. She had found a place to live for the time being. But so far not really doing much of anything was driving her up one wall and back down the other. So, it was clearly time to change that.

The screen flashed on. She at least had figured out how to access the network. Though it had taken many questions (sometimes asked more than once!) of her long suffering robot buddy, Helper.]

Hi! For those of you who don't know, I am Maya! I know there are a lot of people and robots and stuff I probably haven't met yet!

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone needed a lawyer around here? Or a spirit medium/ghost talker type person? Don't think it's weird that I'm mentioning the two of those things in close proximity. You'd be surprised at how often the two intersect!

[Robots could get into trouble, right? Besides, there were human people around. Besides... Maya didn't want to know know about the existence of robot ghosts, thanks. Though she had a feeling she might find out before she got to go home.]

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[10_20_15_5_50]

Maya, nice to meet you! I'm Sam, and also surprised. You get many ghosts talking to you?

[It's a perfectly serious question---she's not trying to tease.]

[cutejustice]

Back home, I did. I'm from a town called Kurain. Home of the Kurain Channeling Technique. I can talk to ghosts, I can channel spirits. I can see ghosts, even if I don't channel them. Since some ghosts just never really go away. Most ghosts are actually pretty harmless though.

[Note: most ghosts.]

So, Sam. Are you new too? Or have you been here for awhile?

[10_20_15_5_50]

And you're not yanking my chain, here?

Newish. I'm coming up on two months, though that sounds strange; I can barely believe it.

[cutejustice]

There are better stories I could make up if I wanted to yank your chain.

[Maya wasn't really surprised at Sam's question. She heard it, or questions similar to it often enough. Spirit medium wasn't exactly a super-common profession, after all.]

You've still been here a little longer than me. I just got here. No warning. Everyone back home is probably frantic.

[10_20_15_5_50]

I didn't mean anything by it, but I had to ask since I sometimes see ghosts. Not all that often, and not well, unless they're... I guess, attached, to a live person, but still!

[What was growing excitement falls away at 'everyone back home,' and the girl grimaces.]

I'm sorry. It sucks, I know. There wasn't any warning for me, either---I was walking to my car after work, was all.

[thankyou4myheart]

Good afternoon, Maya. My name is Deckard, with the Haven police. I'm not familiar with the legal side of things, but I'd imagine the police chief could direct you. The main precint is in the South region. I could take you there if you'd like.

[cutejustice]

[She paused before she responded to that. She hadn't really been looking for any cases. After all, technically she wasn't a lawyer yet, but it might not be bad to get an idea of what was going on around here. Robot crimes might be better to deal with than robot ghosts.]

So... are you a detective or an officer, Mr. Deckard?

[He didn't look quite as big as the other robots. Maya hadn't actually thought that the police force would be robots, honestly. She thought, once more, of a giant robot Detective Gumshoe, and giggled a little.]

I've been to the South region. I woke up in the lake there. It was cold.

[She made a slight face at the memory.]

[thankyou4myheart]

[He gives her a bit of a look at the question - there's a difference?]

Both, actually. I'm a police officer, and the kind of police work I do is detective work.

[And fight off bio-monsters and criminals in giant robotic vehicles, but that was more back home than here, really.]

[He frowns at the last.]

I'd imagine so. You're all right now?

[cutejustice]

[There is where she comes from! So... robot Detective Gumshoe. Awesome.]

Sounds like they keep you pretty busy.

[At the frown, she gave Deckard a winning smile.]

Don't worry about me! I'm fine now. All dry! The lake wasn't as cold as the freezing waterfalls I've trained under in the past!

[knight_light]

Spirit medium?

[He shakes himself] My apologies. My name is Wing. It's a pleasure to meet you, Maya.

[cutejustice]

[Wow. Another robot man. This place was, indeed, full of them. Maya stared at him a little, before shaking herself out of it. Someday she might get used to really tall robots, but today was clearly not that day.]

Yeah. Spirit medium. I see ghosts, I can channel spirits. That sort of thing. Are there robot ghosts?

[She would probably regret asking that question later.]

It's nice to meet you, Wing. I just showed up here not that long ago, so I'm still kind of getting used to everything.

[knight_light]

Wow, that sounds quite amazing.

There are stories of ghosts, though I can't say if they're real or not.

[He smiles.]

In that case, welcome Maya. If you need help with anything you're welcome to call me.

[cutejustice]

It's not too bad. The problem with ghosts is that I can see them... and they never quite go away, even if I can't channel them.

[Maya shrugged. Robot ghost stories. She filed that away for later. She would have to keep an eye out for robot ghosts now. Great.]

Oh there are so many things that I need help with. I don't even know where to start.

[She was smiling a little, but there was a slight serious note to her voice. She was so overwhelmed by being here. She had a million questions, and her little robot buddy could only do so much.]

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[not_a_ghost]

[Just a face. A ghostly kitty face]

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[cutejustice]

[Ghost cat. Ghost cat. Oh well. It's not the weirdest thing that Maya has ever seen. And she smiles at it.]

Kitty! Where did you come from?

[If this was, in fact, just a ghost cat... well... she wasn't really expecting much of an answer. Not all ghosts were exactly something that you could do something about, after all.]

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[not_a_ghost]

Very far from here.

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[cutejustice]

Oh wow! You can talk? What's your name?

[Correction: a talking ghost cat. This? This had just gotten way more interesting.]

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[dirge]

You can talk to ghosts?

[He's only recently found out about human ghosts and how they could haunt him via the Sam Witch's threats to do so if he killed her.]

Would you be able to convince one to go away?

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[cutejustice]

I can talk to ghosts!

[At the big robot man's question, Maya frowns a little.]

I can do exorcisms, if that's what you're asking. Are you being haunted by a ghost?

[Great. Robot ghosts. This could be tricky. Where did robots even go when they died? That was the real question.]

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[dirge]

...Not at the moment. But possibly in the future.

What about curses? Can you remove those?

[Humans were a lot more powerful here than any he had encountered back in his own universe, it seemed.]

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[cutejustice]

[At that question, Maya looks at the large robot man with a very sideways look.]

I can remove curses. But if you're doing something that involves angry ghosts and getting curses flung your way, I'm not sure I should be talking to you, let alone helping you.

Not to mention, I don't even know your name.

[One thing she had learned very young - if a person brought a haunting or a curse upon themselves, sometimes it was just better to leave well enough alone. This might be one of those sometimes.]

Way backdated. X3 Pretend I'm not super late. XD

[hotheadwarmheart]

[Oh hey, a new face! And a new human face at that; always good.]

Dunno anybody who needs a lawyer. Come to think of it, I really have no idea how the court system around here even works.

[Or even if there was one, really. He should maybe look into that...]

Though you may find that the whole thing with ghosts is a bit more... interesting than you're used to.

[cutejustice]

I'm not sure I want to figure out the legal system here, truth be told. I mean... I've seen some pretty weird things back home, but I'm not sure how I'd go about defending a giant robot in a murder case.

[At the redhead's statement that the ghosts were more interesting than she was used to, Maya just groaned.]

All right. Tell me. How weird are the ghosts around here? Are there robot ghosts? Are there zombies? I already had someone tell me that there used to be these guys who could reverse death at a whim, but they don't seem to be around anymore. How much worse does it get?

[hotheadwarmheart]

[Lea shrugged.]

The same as you would anyone else would be my guess. I've lived with these guys awhile; they might be different from us physically, but I've found that if you just treat them like really huge people you won't be too far off the mark.

[That makes Lea smirk though]

The zombies... we had to deal with at one point but hopefully not again. They weren't native, and were brought in by this huge, evil chaos deity called Unicron. You'll be finding out more about him if you stick around long enough, but for now, just take my word for it; the guy and anything associated with him are seriously bad news.

Also there's the cats. One of them looks like a ghost, but really isn't; she's actually some kind of energy based alien, which is weird enough. Both she and the other cat are among the Guardians here.

And that other cat... is Death. Literally. He's the aspect of Death that serves this world, and though he can really look like anything, he usually takes the shape of a black cat with glowing red eyes, so as not to scare everyone. He kinda can't help being creepy, but he's actually an OK guy... force... whatever, and doesn't usually scare people on purpose.

[cutejustice]

[Robot. Zombies. Maya didn't like dealing with any kind of zombies, but robot zombies? This was going to be awful.]

Evil Chaos Deities are usually bad news. I think I'm going to want to stay far away from this Unicron guy. I mean, if he's an Evil Chaos God, I might not be able to do anything if he shows up, but I'm not going to go looking for trouble, you know?

[At Lea's discussion of cats, Maya blinked.]

I've met one of the cats, Sirrah, not that long ago. But Death around here is a cat? Wow. I just... Wow. I never thought Death would be a cat. I always thought he'd be a bear... or an angry old man with a tazer...

[Maya's seen some weird stuff. Though it's somewhat comforting that Death is a cat and not an angry old prosecutor with a tazer.]