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I was thinking of figuring out a way to get Qinglong to come home with me, but I'm really second-guessing that right now. Can't they keep things working properly when they have three different branches of the game going?

Man, this is weird. I can't do anything but barely talk.

Wait.

[Hey look, it's a moving image of the aforementioned giant-ass dragon enthusiastically sticking his snout deep in a feeding trough.]

I guess I can still Livestream. Not that I want to risk talking around locals.

...It any different if it's a pet that you didn't get from home?

I think it depends. Sometimes you can keep something you bonded with when you get sent back after a Jaunt, like Kanji and Piyo, other times people can pull things they met before into Liminal Space themselves.

The bond crap might make a difference. Wouldn't know.

[What he does know is he's spending a lot of time petting Koromaru before he has to actually go to the kitchen.]

Yeah.

Hey, there's not a really gigantic cat anywhere around, is there? It sounds like Naoto's other pets are doing okay but they're a robot and a...program? Sorta? Artificial intelligences, I mean.

Ain't gone back in yet. Doesn't Shirogane's overlay have a gigantic dragon?

[It wouldn't be the first time someone's pet infiltrated along with them, from what Shinji's picked up.]

She does, yeah. On the large end. And he does try to eat everything...maybe that's him. I wonder if I can read his mind to check...

Don't ask me. [He has just enough network capability to keep his private shit private.]

Ares seems to have suffered no disappearance, for the record.

[Helena's mind-text looks like a Victorian printed book.]

He is playing with a small hovering robot and what looks like a scrap of cloth that says 'yes' and 'no', but seems to be stuck on 'no'.

Huh. Least they ain't bored.

That would be roombit. Naoto's infiltrating, so I guess it got left behind.

Can you tell it that I created the stables again so cleaning distractions are available? Ares is welcome to join in.

Room's and items can also be recreated. Of course without Leonardo there's no way of getting the Workshop up...

Without who?

Leonardo da Vinci. The original creator of the Workshop. He's no longer with us, so it's not even an issue of being in Harrogate.

Oh.

Can't help with that, but I could probably swing some bedrooms if anybody really needs it. With Koro-chan here I ain't bothered going back much, though.

I was thinking about putting a few beds in the stables, so that those who need a break can stay there.

I'm not staying much in Liminal either. I'm getting a headache over the white... just need to make sure Anastasia's comfortable.

[He's pretty sure a purple-maned horse would be an odd addition on in the desert.]

That's why you don't look at the white.

Enough to do out here in any case.

It's hard not to when the white and a few doors are only things in existence.

Yeah. I am concerned over what this might be... nothing like this has happened before in my memory. But I won't get too distracted from what we're doing.

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Damn, they really shut everything down, huh.

Either it's a problem or it's stoppin' a problem. Till we hear otherwise, I'm gonna go with stopping.

I'm hoping it's stopping. Though it does make me wonder what the problem is... maybe something going on in Harrogate?

Probably. Dunno why they can't just lock down that half of it.

Jean, right? Good plan. I'm going to go throw a few blankets and futons and things in Aiya when I can: not like we don't have any good places to crash down here, but not worth taking chances.

Hey Kanji. Yeah, that's pretty much what I thought. It's always good to be prepared and the more spaces we have in Liminal to spend the nights, the better.

Yeah. Kinda something I thought about doing for ages, but ... well, not really been anything we needed until now. Guess that's shown me.

...And if calling her back again doesn't work?

Then keep tryin' till it does. Maybe it takes more force than usual.

[Shinji wouldn't know. He's not sure how he summoned Koromaru in the first place, so he has no idea how much he had to put into it.]

I don't know what people think I've been doing all this time but when something or someone takes my best friend away from me, not trying until I get her back is NOT WHAT I DO! [And she is clearly getting a little lots of frustrated at how it's not working, yet.] . . . Seriously, I've tried everything I can except doing it with the force of over ten thousand lifetimes of light and hope, maybe I'll try that next! Except clearly people are getting theirs back without that, so maybe that's not the way to go here.

[On the other hand, when people tell her to try harder until she gets what she wants? That usually works, eventually. Sorry mister, she's clearly aiming some of her anger at the wrong direction here.]

Never said you ain't trying. [And really, the fact that he started this conversation in the first place points toward him knowing exactly how she feels about it.]

I just dunno how to describe it other than 'try harder.' If I pulled it off you can too, you're just... missin' a step, probably. Fuck if I know what that step is, though.

[This is Shinji trying to be helpful.]

First time I've been glad Piyo's running around in dragon shape.

Gonna see if I can get Aiya back up next time I've got long enough to experiment with this stuff. Portals working okay for people?

Ain't tried yet, but I ain't heard otherwise either. Phillip apparently got himself over here just fine, though, so that's something.

Right; saw him earlier. It's a good sign, anyway.

Don't think they'd cut off portals if they don't have to.

Cutting things off ... stuff over here's safe, though?

Sounds like it needs settin' back up. [He should really pop in and do that himself, if... mostly for Minako's companions' sake.]

That's the plan, yeah. If everything's working right ... ugh, feels weird thinking of stuff not being there.

Least we can put it back.