Noise to signals.

[truerevelation]

[Is that birdsong on the Jaunt network? To start with, at least, before-]

Right, Piyo, I'm getting there!

[...cheep. chpee? hpeec. chp!]

[A slightly stressed Kanji speaks up again, though hiding it better now-] Uh. Hey. So everyone's... companions've started talkin' nonsense, ain't they? I mean. We all kinda heard Ryo.
Was wonderin' what sorta messages everyone's getting. If it actually means anything... I know that stuff gets cryptic sometimes, but this is kinda ... taking all the cakes. Still. It's got me thinking. Started when the Glatasshole got beaten, right? So what changed there?

...Ow! Peckin' me ain't clear communication either!

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[ninjayeehaw]

Ain't sure this is gonna help all that much, but Rodeo ain't talkin' period. He was startin' t'get the hang 'f it in this form, but now seems like every time he tries, he just... goes an' starts tryin' t'dig a hole in the ground.

[truerevelation]

Huh. Well, doing stuff is still a message. Worth knowing, right?

[ninjayeehaw]

It's still somethin'.

[There's a long moment's pause.]

...Piyo's a Pogemon too, right? Y'all gettin' anythin' outta yer Bond from 'em?

[truerevelation]

It's ... about as mixed up as anythin' else.

[Kanji's having a slight twitch inside - ugh, this is screwing with that too, it needs fixing...]

[ninjayeehaw]

Well, I'm glad it ain't just me. Don't make it any better, mind...

[he doesn't like this]

Rodeo ain't got no way a' talkin' t'me now, I think it's stressin' him out.

[truerevelation]

Yeah. Ain't gotta have any mystic crap to tell that with Piyo.

[ninjayeehaw]

Havin' seven feet 'f anxious rattlesnake ain't a fun thing, I can tell y'all that much. Hell, Drago weren't half this antsy when we were down in that underspace...

[truerevelation]

No kiddin'. One wrong move and you're untyin' knots for a week.

...Underwhatnow?

[ninjayeehaw]

...did none 'f us get 'round t'mentionin' that proper? [whoops]

Back when the Glatisant first popped up, me an' Matthew found out where it first came from. Found a bunch a' Nightmares too, so later me, Yakumo, Phillip an' Altair all popped down there t'see what was causin' 'em, and found this.

[And he sends a brief memory, available to anyone who wants to see it, of a great rainbow-banded cachobon with lightning arcing around it.]

Found out it's where the Glatisant most likely spawned from - sure as hell it's where all them Nightmares in the Forest were poppin' up.

[truerevelation]

Picked up that there was somethin' going on but wasn't sure what the full story was...

...Damn. That thing's impressive. Kinda pretty, too.

[ninjayeehaw]

Pretty damn big, more'n anythin' else. 's'like a little island. 'cept Altair's pretty sure it's sentient, same kind a' way a Harbinger is. It didn't notice us, but we couldn't get more'n a superficial search goin' just in case.

[truerevelation]

...damn.

Okay. How d'ya get down there?

[ninjayeehaw]

Only way in an' outs teleportin' from the bottom 'f the lake, 's'gotta be at least forty feet straight down, an' that's just t'get y'all way high up in the air. Altair went an' did some kind 'f astral projection t'get there, the rest 'f us went seperate.

[truerevelation]

Just teleportin'? Because I can portal straight to places. Can fly and glide, too; might have to check it out.

[ninjayeehaw]

Gimme me a shout if y'all do, I'm plannin' on givin' it another once-over. It's got somethin' t'do with the Glatisant, could might it's got somethin' t'do with all the Spirit Companions goin' haywire.