Interlude (Reprieve From Speedrun)

Floating in the space above Dome city, seeing everything below through the eyes of his transdimensional spy, Hermaus Mora....was the ever-present Raven Oscars.

He has been waiting for Dome city to settle down for quite some time before he opens the next world he has created, and the shopping location (pavilion-type venue) at the center tower with spacial fluctuations...Travelers will need to have certain skills to even be able to reach the shop within Dome City, the area reserved for the most dedicated and skilled Travelers who have ascended...

He watched below as Timothy Lee, the Rook's guild leader, is leading two of his members in laying siege to a strategically located high-rise location....this area has been a place of conflict for many of the high-ranked guilds....each looking to establish their control over a well-placed area.

But all this is neither here nor there....so with a *sigh* at how unexpectedly long it is taking for these conflicts to die down, Raven decides to check once more on the Altissian worlds before fully focusing on Dome City...

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Using astral projection which, according to Hermaus, cannot be detected yet as no one has purchased a sensory ability or the astral projection from the pavilion in Altissia, Raven moved through each of his worlds one-by-one getting more excited with each one...

It was similar to his past life when he went on a hardcore Otaku binge, watching every anime, tv show, etc... and playing every game he could after taking a week off work.... truly some of his favorite moments in life.

But, just as he was passing through the Sea of Thieves, he laid eyes on a woman that caused his incorporeal eyes to shine...although this solo pirate woman, currently sailing the seas with a dazzling smile on her face was not someone he knew, she bore a striking resemblance to his once best friend...

In his past life, around the age of twenty, he met a beautiful woman at an anime convention...she was dressed in sailor-moon cosplay and her temperament caught his attention immediately...

Through a series of events, they became fast friends and without him noticing, he fell in love with her...but stage four brain cancer ensured that the time he had left with her was short.

He never confessed to her, he couldn't bring himself to fill her last moments with regret and what could have been....he just sat with her in the hospital room, day after day, reading manga, watching anime....laughing. She died in his arms, as the best friend he ever had...even until his old age he never once forgot his past friend and the time they had together...

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Memories of his past unrequited love caused tears to fall down the projected consciousness as he boarded the beautiful woman's ship...her outfit coupled with her similar appearance reminded him of a comic con he and his best friend visited in his past life while dressed as pirates before she died...

The more he watched the young woman, the more he felt an unknown connection...she seemed happy to be adventuring and experiencing new things...but she would cry for hours at night, watching a recording of her time in The Four Nations...

He found it strange at first but after asking the overseers to provide him with her records and after weeks of observations, he knew that both of them experienced the same thing...

They both knew love...and they both lost their partners....their loves died before both this woman and Raven traveled to new worlds, leaving their past lives behind...

Similarly, they both had to find a way to move on, the only difference was that her wound is new while his wound had some time to scab over...

Raven Oscars continued to follow this interesting Chastain Grey throughout her journey in Sea of Thieves and even her next world travels through Minecraft and Earth (Dr. Stone)...he was enjoying watching this kindred spirit adventure through his beloved creations but, just as she was planning to enter the last world on her list (TSW), he had to stop watching as Hermaus Mora told him that the fighting in Dome City has died down and the inter-guild strugglers are at a temporary stalemate....so it was time to add the new 'community district' at the center tower...