Open to All Investigators-Beginning of Digital Frontier Jaunt

[purseownerisme]

For those who are experiencing this for the first time, don't worry. Just keep calm and listen to this message.

If you're hearing this, you're what we call an investigator: someone who retains their memories from their home and other worlds if they have them while in a Jaunt. Some of us have blended in with the setting and are called Infiltrators; don't try and jog their memory back otherwise we'll be in a lot of trouble. They also cannot use the network we're on right now.

What we need to know now is who's not thinking they're a program and what they have noticed so far. Anything will help us try and figure out a way to solve this next issue.

Comments

[purseownerisme]

You'd be surprised.

Something? How did they sound when that was mentioned?

[backwordscompatible]

[It was the first time Zatanna had entered a Jaunt while retaining her own memories. Despite the fact that she had grown accustomed to M'gann's telepathy back home...hearing another voice in her head like this almost startled her.]

I'm still me, last time I checked. For once.

Things are a bit confusing, but so far, it sounds to me like there's something called a Grid that's in need of protecting. From who or what, I'm not sure.

[leftbehindagain]

There might be, yeah. And I think someone's going to need to try to get in Red Team's good graces so we can get their side of the story.

[It'll have to be someone else, though. Naoki's going to keep an eye on Kanji and Naoto as best he can.]

[purseownerisme]

Anyone we know in the Red Team?

[purseownerisme]

Oh good.

[...hey wait.]

Hey, weren't you the one who kept throwing candies overboard when we had mermaids?

[purseownerisme]

It's okay.

Glad to know you're alright.

[notinthecards]

... That's right.

[leftbehindagain]

I'm not sure, but I think Souji-san. I didn't approach him, though.

[purseownerisme]

A grid?

So from what I've been hearing...we might have been dropped in a world where computers are involved. Not my best kind I'll admit.

[purseownerisme]

Yeah I think I was the captain that got pissed off at you.

I can't remember if I threw them back at you or not...if I did, sorry about that.

[purseownerisme]

...son of a bitch.

[Can you hear the facepalm.]

I probably will have to avoid him until we leave.

[leftbehindagain]

That bad, Yua-san?

[purseownerisme]

How do you think he'll react at seeing a version of himself as a girl?

Probably very bad.

[backwordscompatible]

That's what the one girl called it, yeah. She sounded incredibly defensive, like my presence was enough to cause trouble.

[Which was just plain rude. Most people waited until after getting to know her before making such claims.]

I know my way around a computer, but definitely not in one.

Though I can imagine a few people who might in Heaven right about now.

[leftbehindagain]

...Okay, I'll give you that. He'd probably think you were a virus or something.

[purseownerisme]

Yeah and I rather not want to end up hurting him because I sometimes can't hold back.

[purseownerisme]

Probably.

It might be wise to stay together for a bit unless we have more than one person who knows about computers.

[foreveralawn]

Any c-clues so far to...why the red ones are so...scared? Or, um. Maybe that should be "tense" instead...

[leftbehindagain]

And if Red Team's as paranoid as they seem to be, he'd probably say or do something to deserve it. [Now he's really glad Kanji and Naoto at least got dumped on the same side of this mess.]

Still, someone - probably not you, and it definitely won't be me - needs to get their side of it, so we actually have a complete picture to work with. We need to know what they think they're doing, what Blue Team thinks they're doing, and what Green Team's even about before we can try to untangle it. The biggest wrinkle I'm seeing is in how to get Red Team to do something other than glare at us suspiciously.

[Spoken like a true Investigation Team second-in-command - and like someone very, very used to reining in Kanji's more impulsive moments.]

[backwordscompatible]

You really think it's all that dangerous?

[Guess who had already decided she wanted to go exploring.]

[wantedittobeagame]

Yeah, but... it's just a program. Like Word or your web browser.

...oh man, I wonder what a web browser looks like here. They must be fat with a healthy collection of porn.

[He's practically mentally snickering at his own joke.]

[purseownerisme]

...you're lucky I'm not around to hit you.

[wantedittobeagame]

What?! That's totally a logical assumption!

[prolificarse]

Oh, there's no need to worry about that. I hardly know any of you well enough to make a convincing go of it.

I just prefer having as much information as possible ahead of time to blundering about blind.

[hakodate]

Still me. Haven't had the chance to find the rest of mine, though.

[Because recently he's suddenly got twice as many from home to keep track of again, and he can already feel the headache coming on.]