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

[professorwolf]

[And fortunately, Lyall has had enough Japanese students in his time (and watched enough anime) that he at least knows what sensei means.]

I can only change when the sun is down. The strength only applies then, as well. I'm... not really sure what counts as a sun here, so I'm playing it safe thus far and not trying anything. The senses persist during the daylight, however, and those still work as advertized.

[leftbehindagain]

Yeah, when all we have to go on is 'millicycles' and no sense of how long those are, it's going to be a little tricky to figure that out. Still, at least you have some of it to work with - better than nothing, right?

[professorwolf]

Indeed. Though everything here smells strange. I'm still working on putting names and sights to the things I'm smelling. We appear to be inside some kind of computer system, and everything here is synthesized. I actually think what I'm scenting might simply be data that I'm only processing as scent... it all seems very complicated, to be honest.

[leftbehindagain]

Maybe as time goes on you'll get a better idea of what it is. Like how we know next to nothing about all these factions right now.

[professorwolf]

I'll keep my ears open to the best of my ability. If I find out anything of use, I suppose I can come here? To this telepathic... thing we have?

[He isn't entirely sure how to protect to all and sundry-- his own mind is a fairly contained thing-- without something to reply to, but he can certainly try.]

[leftbehindagain]

That would be my best guess. I'm new to this too.

[professorwolf]

Oh dear, is it your first time, as well? I only just arrived in that awful supermarket full of ghosts.

[leftbehindagain]

I think I was one ahead of you - some kind of weird airport thing that didn't actually go anywhere. Could have done without some of the supermarket, though.

[But on the other hand, other parts of that gave him some closure.]

[professorwolf]

I could have, as well.

[And he'll leave it at that, unless there's another question for him. Remembering the faces he saw is just depressing. All of them.]