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

[backwordscompatible]

[...how did you ever guess.]

I now have new sympathy for poor M'gann. And maybe Artemis--I'm not sure.

[turbedon]

He didn't really do the full-on flirting with Artemis.

... Maybe that's why they ended up together?

[backwordscompatible]

Could be. I usually don't question why things like them happen. I just sit back and enjoy the show.

By the way, do you think we should tell him or not?

[turbedon]

Nah. He wouldn't believe us and it's better that we don't spoil it for him.

[backwordscompatible]

Even if it means he keeps flirting with me?

[Though her tone, even mentally, strongly implied she didn't seem to mind. Much.]

[turbedon]

Just tell him to back off. I think he only kept going after M'gann because she never told him to stop.

[backwordscompatible]

[Now, it wasn't that she hadn't already thought of that, because she had. And she would. Eventually. When it stopped being funny.]

Really? Not once?

...all this time, I just thought he didn't know how to take a hint.

[turbedon]

Nah, M'gann's just too nice to know when or how to say 'no'.

Still, it all worked out for him and Artemis in the end, right?

[backwordscompatible]

Right.

Saving the world just in time to ring in the new year does have that kind of effect on people.

[turbedon]

Oh, the attraction was there before. It just took a while for them to realise it.

[backwordscompatible]

No kidding.

Oh! Speaking of attraction....

[She paused for a second, allowing that beautiful segue to really sink in.]

Have you seen what the locals are driving around here? I think they call them light cycles.

[turbedon]

Not yet, I've been chatting up the locals to figure out what's going on.

[backwordscompatible]

So have I. I can multi-task.

Anyways...I was thinking about borrowing one and going for a ride at some point. When I can.

[turbedon]

Have you seen where they're kept? Maybe we could steal one if we get desperate?

[backwordscompatible]

[Wouldn't be the first time.]

Not yet, no. I'm working on it.

Does this mean you want in?

[turbedon]

Uh, yeah?

[D'uh, Zee.]

I should probably find a quiet spot to play around with this equipment the Trumps set us up with though. Think I'll head out to this 'Grid' to do that.

[backwordscompatible]

[It was mostly a rhetorical question anyway.]

Same.

I was also going to go look for a few familiar faces. See who's who and all that fun stuff. It's...definitely a little weird being on this side of the Investigation for once, I'll admit.

[turbedon]

It's been a while since I've been an Investigator. [A mental shrug.] At least that gives us some measure of control for once.

[backwordscompatible]

In a manner of speaking.

Want to meet up sometime later and compare notes?

[turbedon]

Sure thing. Stay turbed and we'll think of a rendezvous point later.

[backwordscompatible]

Only since you asked so nicely.