Some Important Follow-Up

[photonicfighter]

Excuse me. If everyone who went to Santa Carlita has a moment?

[Dakki pauses briefly to give people a chance to pay attention. That's how this is done, right?]

I've followed up with Tachibana, and it turns out that he put a tracking device on something that belonged to me. It's gone now, but apparently, the agents are now on the lookout for interdimensional aliens, not just ones from other planets.

I should have been more cautious. I'm sorry. Could the other agents confirm if they've planted anything, too, before I go and get everyone shaking themselves down for bugs?

...and that said, now that we're all back to ourselves, I'm very curious... did the 'aliens' pose any actual threat? What was that all even about? I'm not impressed with a government whose first reaction to extraterrestrial life is to panic and try to lock it up. That can't be the entire story, can it?

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[theflyingone]

Everyone, place your things in Hammerspace or ask someone to do it for you. Time does not pass there, so their devices should not work.

[acapriciousthing]

My overlay didn't track anyone, there wasn't time.

They were still trying to figure out if the alien was a threat. They just knew at least one alien was there and hadn't disclosed their arrival. There was never enough information to be sure... or to be sure he was harmless. They're not just looking for extradimensional threats in addition, it's now the main focus. Because as far as Area 54 was concerned, the extradimensional ones did prove themselves a threat.

If we ever end up back in that one, it's going to be a Situation.

[claudiometer]

....oh. Gr-twelve. [Yes, she did just say 'gr12.'] Another world that hates us.

[chalicejoker]

I should be alright. He was trying to recruit my overlay to battle interdimensional ninjas with him before we left.

[rustyhonesty]

I probably woke their interest as well. Running around in my vampire form in shadows. At least one walked into said shadows. Ugh...

[Maybe he didn't do so well investigating this one after all? Whoops. That's a punch back.]

[unconventionalelf]

They had devices for tracking? Isn't that cheating in a hunt?

[ More reasons to not like those men in weak dark armor.]

I, might not have helped too much with the failed spell I cast when I freaked out.

[loyalrebel]

You all did passably better than I've come to expect at being subtle, for whatever that is worth.

The aliens are utterly real in that world, my overlay was knowingly intimately involved with one before getting kidnapped and recruited.

[There's a mental sigh.]

I know that the people they first encountered were only minimally threatening, but there are also far stranger and more dangerous non-earth life forms in existence. I would not be entierly surprised if something terrible had happened previously and they were simply being hypervigilant following it.

[tookashirototheknee]

Oh, Earth is absolutely the 'panic and lock it up' type, if they're not shooting first and asking questions not at all. Honestly, I'm not looking forward to going back if I ever do. I'll probably get locked up.

... and that is so not fair that I missed aliens on Earth. For eff's sake.

Sorry for the irrelevant comments.