[Alas, Joshua will have to suffer the smell for a bit longer, but at least it's not so bad since they got him out relatively quickly. Relatively. Eh, Cid has seen and smelled worse from others.]

Where to start...

[He rubs his chin for a moment before shaking his head.]

The ship we're on is called the Stormbringer, run by some group or organization called the Corsairs. For a bunch of pirates, this bunch are at least friendly and seem used to people randomly appearing on their ship.

They say this is another world, and these so-called "rifts" are what took us from ours and dropped us into theirs.