A day or two into Lotus Mingle

[ninjayeehaw]

[Kinji sounds... less himself than usual. There's a distinct lack of energy to his words, the very strong impression of his face being buried in his hands.]

If anyone who got sent off t'Walkabout wants t'know what happened durin' Harrogate, I came back with a whole heap a' my overlay's footage. Still gotta go over an' edit it, but I got the whole final battle, fer the most part, an' a pretty decent chunk a' the rest a' the month. So long as y'all don't mind it bein' filtered through me. [because he knows how many people he actively annoys just by existing]

Anyone want out a' that footage, lemme know an' I'll fix that. Alcuin, I'm gonna go an' ask that I get t'keep all the footage we got durin' yer interview, but if y'all don't want it hangin' round, then by all means lemme know. Anyone wanna help me add t'this, make a full account a' what went down an' not just Kris's, gimme a shout. Anythin' I ain't got footage for, I got memories I plan on uploadin' too - gonna leave everythin' in the library when I'm done.

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[youandyoualone]

Messire Thompson?

[The mental voice sounds almost, but not quite, like Agent Delaney's]

[ninjayeehaw]

Agent--? [wait no] ...right, I s'pose y'all'd be that French 'ghost' Delaney was talkin' 'bout.

M'name's Kinji, normally. Kinji Takigawa.

[youandyoualone]

Yes, I would be. Alcuin returned my consciousness to Anton's body when I tracked him down after his escape from the guard station.

Anafiel Delaunay, Messire Takigawa. I am very pleased to be in my true body again.

[comebewe]

...We were all risking death, madness, and mutilation, and those two idiots were filming.

Why am I not surprised.

[ninjayeehaw]

I really ain't too sure what y'all were expectin', quite frankly. They couldn't do much else in the circumstances.

[comebewe]

You realise this might be a problem if we ever have to go back there again, right? [God he hopes they don't have to go back there. Not ever.] It's tricky enough returning to jaunt worlds without bloody video evidence of your last visit floating around the internet.

[cloudpotter]

[there is poignant discomfort, first. (he doesn't want to be the one who brings this up.) then a sense of resolve. (get him out of that footage.) then uncertainty. (but Skye featured so heavily in it, that cutting any trace of him out would leave almost nothing left.) then back to the discomfort. (they both know full well why Skye is such a prominent figure in that footage.) then back to the resolve. (even more reason to be rid of it.) then back to--

he'll keep this frustrating loop up for quite a while.]

Private, no protection

[ninjayeehaw]

Yakki.

[At the very least, he can give his best friend a modicum of privacy.]

I can edit y'all out.

what is psychic protection we just don't know

[cloudpotter]

[surprise, embarrassment -- how dare you call him out -- and then steely, firm, Igasaki-style resolve.]

Then you'd have precious little left worth showing, and any valuable hints those two missed could be lost.

Private

[helborn]

... You need anything, Kinji? I can help with adding to the account, but...

[Worry, worry, he knows that Kinji's a badass ninja cowboy or whatever but he's still his friend and...]

I'm more worried about you, really. Do you want help sleeping, or food, or... anything?

[ninjayeehaw]

Gettin' an Investigator on this'd be right useful, actually. Did y'all get hit by some a' those nightmares too? It'd be good roundin' up a few a' those fer comparin'.

[He's just not gonna address that last bit.]

[helborn]

[He'll address him later, he is apparently the Mom Friend, let him Fuss.]

Yeah, I did. Both with other people and without it. We managed - well, Thorne and Alcuin managed - to sift some meaning out of the one without it. Pretty sure it was the Arcana giving me some hints, which is... weird.

[all_onis_are_true]

...

I have to say, your overlays had an astoundingly low self-preservation instinct.

[Says the guy who had the epitome of paranoia as an overlay.]

[ninjayeehaw]

Only real difference 'tween me an' them is that I can get back out a' the stupid situations they go an' get themselves in.

[He's pretty happy to admit he's bad at the whole 'not jumping headfirst into stupid shit' thing.]

[all_onis_are_true]

So you are stating you find yourself in stupid situations a lot as well?

[butthemiracleneverhappen]

...any information on... his... weaknesses can and must be preserved.

Save it. Make it available to those who need it.

[ninjayeehaw]

If there's any inside info y'all can give us on that front, it'd be mighty appreciated. If'n it ain't gonna hurt y'all t'share it.

[butthemiracleneverhappen]

What hurt I cannot endure has already put me in a dungeon. I am not worried much. But I will keep my limitations in mind.

...please let me know which of us suffered directly at the hands of the Crawling Chaos. The rituals my overlay used to summon him were blasphemies I was familiar with from my Fragments of origin, and... there is an eventuality I must be certain did not occur, or if it did.

[awitchdidit]

Hm. Normally I detest being on camera, but I don't think it will make much of a difference in the middle of that debacle. That's assuming cameras could see through the shredded veil as well as human eyes could.

[ninjayeehaw]

It could see the ghosts well as the rest 'f us, but I don't recall gettin' any footage a' the eye a' the storm. Kris might a' had as much brains as half a brick but he wasn't so stupid that he'd go rushin' right into the thick 'f all that.

[awitchdidit]

You never know with humans sometimes. At least he seems to have survived that...

[willyousee]

Keep it. Duplicate it. Spread copies to as many Travelers as possible, and keep several available in the library tower. That story should be readily available to every Traveler past, present, and future - and the events of this one as well. Make sure each one contains details on what we did to contain, disconnect, and banish the Elder One this time.

I hope we never return to that damned place, but if it happens, whomever goes ought to be prepared.

[ninjayeehaw]

I'll be puttin' everythin' I got into the library, don't worry. Videos first, since I already got those, but if y'all wanna help me make transcripts an' documents fer everythin' I'd mighty appreciate the help.

[highnoonsomewhere]

I'd like ta take a gander, if'n you don't mind.

[ninjayeehaw]

I'll be hangin' round the Workshop fer a fair while fer all this, y'all can swing by whenever an' I can show y'all most 'f it. If I recall, Kris gave yer overlay his website, ain't sure how much a' that y'all went lookin' at.