[walkabout > deathside]

[leftbehindagain]

[Naoki probably could push the current limits of the network, but he's not going to, so it's a text stream that pushes through to the ghostvestigators.]

This is Naoki. Which side of things did I get a hold of? I have... maybe fifteen minutes to talk to you guys.

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[runs]

The one where we don't have proper bodies and have to possess them if we want one and it's stupid.

[She's not very happy about any of this.]

[leftbehindagain]

That does sound pretty inconvenient.

[runs]

It is the worst!

And Jules and Gil are infiltrating on the other side so it's even more stupid.

[leftbehindagain]

Even if you could talk to them, you can't talk to them?

[runs]

Yes.

[Oh, but! What is not getting distracted]

What do you have over there? I bet it's better and you have bodies!

[leftbehindagain]

Desert planet with baby dragons. It's not so bad, give or take the weather.

[Even then he wouldn't claim it was worse than Harrogate.]

[runs]

...No big dragons?

[Look, she's used to dragons who control international corporations.]

[leftbehindagain]

I want to say the biggest adults are about small-horse-sized? But the main focus is on the babies, and they take a long time to mature.

[runs]

How intelligent are they?

[leftbehindagain]

Enough so to communicate what they're feeling.

[runs]

So not very intelligent. [Not enough for the intelligence to combine with general deadliness and become an issue.]

...How can I come over there?

[leftbehindagain]

...Good question. That's not something I can do myself, but maybe someone listening in can give you a hand.

[runs]

[A pause.

....Not a very long one because she isn't that patient.]

Is anyone listening?

[seestheworld]

[Minako feels vaguely like she should be saying something about grasshoppers and patience here. She suspects this is because she'd watched a few too many American movies with Junpei.]

It's doable.

[runs]

Can you do it now?

[seestheworld]

You might end up as an Infiltrator, but yeah, I can summon you now. Who am I summoning?

[runs]

[...oh.]

How likely is that?

[She'd really prefer to be on the other side, but she'd really rather not be an infiltrator, either. Not that anything about Lilo was bad, but... She'd rather be herself, really. In as much as there even is a 'herself'.]

[seestheworld]

Probably 50-50, but even that can be gotten around as long as there's someone over here who can restore your memory.

[runs]

...If I get infiltrated, could you find someone who'll do that?

[seestheworld]

[She knows Naoki can do it. The question is whether he already has, and if so whether he can do it again.]

I'll make it a priority.

[runs]

[...That's probably the best she can get. And staying here for another four weeks or whatever will absolutely drive her crazy, she's sure of that.]

You're summoning [and here comes the problem. Uh.] ...Kitty. [That's the one name all of 'her' have in common in some shape or form.]

[seestheworld]

[That is definitely a problem, because she doesn't remember anyone by that name.]

That is... not ringing a bell. Were you on the last Jaunt or the walkabout?

[runs]

On the Jaunt. ...Lilo Whitley?

[seestheworld]

Oh, right! I remember you. I'm Minako.

[You know... the one with the cash.]

[runs]

The one counting all the cash openly!

[She does indeed remember her by that.]