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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[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.

[ninjayeehaw]

I know y'all saw the channel. How much a' that d'you reckon any a' their viewers thought was actually real? A solid half a' the comments Kris got were askin' after his editin' software. People're gonna think it's a hoax, or some stunt t'get their channel or viewers back.

[comebewe]

Not something we can rely on. Especially since the people most likely to be a problem are the ones who'd recognise that their stuff was real.

[ninjayeehaw]

Y'all can come an' go over the footage if y'wanna check the damage. [It's... bad, though. The damage, not the footage.]

Least it's just a couple crackpots on the internet an' not, as a totally wild example, some a' the local pantheon.

[comebewe]

I...



...I don't need to look at it.

[Not now. Maybe not ever. If they ever do go back, they can deal with it then. For now, Matthew doesn't want to relive it]

[photonicfighter]

If I can interrupt for a moment..?

[She sounds very, very tired.]

Whatever the quality of their recordings, it's very likely that a lot of government effort will be put into covering the entire incident up. The public won't know about us, and the authorities that do might not assume that we're inter-dimensional travelers.

[comebewe]

[There's wry, morbid amusement in Matthew's response]

Great. So instead we can be assumed to be terrorists.



...We can't do anything about it now, anyway. But if we ever go back, we're going to have to keep it in mind. If.

Hopefully we never go back.

[photonicfighter]

It's no worse than usual, then...

[She's so, so worn out. So much so that she can't even manage to be that upset.]

We did the best we could, given the circumstances. I hope we never have to go back, either.

[ninjayeehaw]

Which means the agents would a' gone from suspectin' terrorists, t'Kris an' Skye bein' con artists an' fleecin' the entire town, an' then back t'terrorists.

[Look as much as he's annoyed at his overlay he can appreciate the stupidity of this.]

[youandyoualone]

I am fairly certain that cover-ups aside, Agents Delaney and Sigal now believe in ghosts and should realize that we were benign, no matter what the official word on the subject may be.

But yes, officially 'tis likely to be ascribed to 'terrorists.' Likely those who died along the way will be said to be part of the cell. Bodies will be produced.