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

[tealeafs]

[ That's a relief - in fact, there's a half-audible mental sigh coming from Chizuru in relief when she hears the response. She doesn't think she's very qualified to stop people once they've got an idea stuck in their minds. ]

You seem like a very careful man. [ Quick to draw conclusions, huh, Chizuru.. ] I'm glad.. sometimes these situations can be dangerous, so it's true that it's good to be well-prepared.

[prolificarse]

I've never quite been called that before.

[There's a faint current of humour riding the words, though his thoughts still carry the flavour of wary tension.]

I'm a scholar, of sorts, and clever enough to know when I'm in unfamiliar territory.

[tealeafs]

A scholar? [ It's not really said with surprise as much as there's a hint of amazement in it.. not that Chizuru isn't easily amazed, but still! She thinks there's so many amazing people among the Travellers.. ]

That's great..! Maybe you can help us figure out more things! Um-- when we're stuck in a place you actually understand, I mean.. [ Since this whole technology mumble jumble might as well be Chinese to her, and some other people don't seem much better off in that regard. ]

[prolificarse]

Perhaps. A familiar frame of reference would help - or a library. If we're lucky, maybe these fellows will give us access to one, once they're through being menacing.

[tealeafs]

That might be a little bit more..

[ Considering their track record. There's been a few Jaunts where she was pretty sure the natives didn't trust them all the way through.. ]

They do seem a little bit intimidating [ moreso than they usually have to deal with, anyway ] don't you think?

[prolificarse]

They're certainly making a credible attempt at intimidation. The colour scheme they've chosen does help.

[tealeafs]

I hope they won't try to do something seriously bad to us.. especially since there could be some of us among them.

[ You know, just as Infiltrators. And fighting people she knows turned Infiltrator is definitely not anywhere on Chizuru's "do want" list. ]

[prolificarse]

Does that happen often? Those you know being placed in the ranks of the potentially hostile?

[It's an uncomfortable thought. What little he's heard so far about Infiltration is rather uncomfortable in general, but being so thoroughly turned against one's friends an allies (as he assumes at least some of the Travelers must be)...]

[tealeafs]

Hmm.. sometimes.

[ Thankfully she's never been faced with that sort of situation, but she knows some of her friends - even some of the people closest to her - have been stuck in that situation. So it's better to warn people. Maybe as long as they know in advance, they can think of what to do in those kind of situations.. ]

It's since Infiltrators can practically be anything at all in a Jaunt.. so sometimes they end up fighting each other, or.. [ .. suddenly she noticably goes more quiet for a moment, struggling to get the next words out even mentally. Chizuru's never been good at hiding her feelings, and the next part hits something personal. ] .. hurting each other, too..