[walkabout] Monster Movie Melee Missive

[fearinahandfulof]

[Cassandra does not like using the network. She especially does not like initiating contact over the network, because she's not good with words and she knows it (and the network is nothing but words). Unfortunately, this is one of those instances where it's necessary for her to do so, because the things she's hearing stand to affect the remaining Investigators directly.]

Are both of you still with the film crew? If you are, then you need to be careful, because the vampires and werewolves are planning to retaliate against them to prevent being exposed.

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[pionero]

I tend to keep my distance from them. [ There is a pause. ] So, they found something they shouldn't have.

[fearinahandfulof]

The redhaired woman broke into the Kurgan. They have proof on film now.

[pionero]

Redhaired woman. [ Not... entirely helpful. Then again, he hasn't made it his business to really know anyone. ] How involved do we need to get in this?

[fearinahandfulof]

With the film crew. The people who've met her say she talked a lot about breaking into the Kurgan. I haven't met her or I'd tell you more.

[There's a short pause while she thinks this over.]

They're planning to kidnap everyone in the film crew except the werewolf and alter their memories. And the evidence, I think, but the first one is the more dangerous one. I don't know if they'd believe you if you told them you weren't going to tell anyone.

[pionero]

Well, if you're going to break into somewhere, then you don't want to let the world know. It almost sounds like they have whats coming to them.

[ At the moment he's trying to figure out why they shouldn't just let things play out. ]

If people here are so willing to come up to you and admit they are vampires... why hide anything?

[ It's a thing that happened to him. ]

[fearinahandfulof]

I know. But they won't see a difference between the two of you and the rest. That's why I'm worried.

I think that was meant either as mockery or to fool people into thinking they were lying because their "disguises" were so bad. Unless you mean something else?

[pionero]

There's that.

[ Good thing he can just hide away if need be. ]

It's possible. I had someone walk up to me claiming he was a vampire and asking how to get in touch with the head of the film crew when we first showed up.

[fearinahandfulof]

That's... strange.

[pionero]

All of this is strange.

[fearinahandfulof]

I'd tell you you get used to it, but I don't think I am yet.

[pionero]

I'm not sure that I'm going to get used to anything anymore.

[ It is a very honest statement. He may not go into detail but, it's from the heart and lacking anything cynical that he normally caries. ]

...how long have you been doing these jaunts and walkabouts?

[fearinahandfulof]

[Cassandra wonders that sometimes, too. She doesn't know if he needs or even wants to hear that, though. After all, they're not talking about her...]

I'm sorry.

[And then they are talking about her, and she has to stop and count off all the Jaunts she's been on.]

I've been on... eight Jaunts before this. And another walkabout. The walkabout was my first.

[pionero]

[ An apology isn't something he expects. He is quiet for a moment before the tone of his voice changing to a surprisingly gentler one. ]

Things happened back home before all of this. There's no real need or reason to be sorry for it.

[ Having a conversation mentally sure is on the list of things that break the perception of truth about reality. ]

Eight Jaunts. Fucking hell.

[fearinahandfulof]

[She still can't help but feel badly for him, but somehow, she doesn't think he'd be comfortable hearing that from her.]

Will you be all right?

[Technically it'd be eight Jaunts and two walkabouts now - counting this one - but telling him that probably wouldn't help.]

There are others who've been here a lot longer.

[pionero]

Yeah. I'm fine.

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I've talked with a few of them but... eight. What the fuck is all of this for anyways?

[fearinahandfulof]

[Cassandra has heard that before. But even she knows enough to drop it.]

The winner gets to reshape reality to something more like them. And I think at least some of them want to raise their dead comrades?

[pionero]

So, the Arcana get to reshape reality. Great.

Hasn't anyone thought of going against them?

[fearinahandfulof]

There's talk of it, I think, but... There was a much earlier Jaunt where a group of Travelers decided to rebel. A lot of them disappeared afterwards.

[Was it Riddick who had told her that, back in Nibiru? She thinks so, but she's not entirely sure. And she can't remember if Moebius came before or after Belljar.]

[pionero]

Disappeared, huh. Sounds like a conversation for later.

[ Because, maybe, these conversations aren't the best to have on a telepathic network. Paranoid? Not at all. ]

[fearinahandfulof]

Probably.

[Because that thought has occurred to her, too.]

[pionero]

Remind me when we get out of this mess.

[fearinahandfulof]

All right.