Open to All Investigators (Backdated to AFTER the attack)

[purseownerisme]

Everyone, I hope you guys are doing alright after that massive attack...hopefully we won't have to do one for awhile but knowing our luck, I don't count on it. I do however have some things I would like to either tell you and ask you at the same time.

The first thing: I found one of the Trumps. She's a blue haired program who is the biggest workaholic I have ever met and I've taken on at least three or four part time jobs back home. She's also looking for something as well...

For those who have been around the Cryptos or Green Team, has any of them mention a 'center' like a hub maybe? It's not much but it's all I got.

One more thing: be careful when speaking to the Trump. She can claim up to five of us. Not only that...

[Her voice tightens.]

These jaunts...what we do to help others...they're games to them. If 'round' means anything...there's a lot more things we stumbled on.

Comments

[purseownerisme]

Well...let's just say that if you see one, run the hell away.

[purseownerisme]

No I just thought they were dicks already. Just kind of confirms it.

[purseownerisme]

Apparently so.

It makes me wonder if they're only human or if something special has to be done.

[flatteries]

[ It's not too hard what that Trump could have done. He knows, especially since he also talked to one before. ]

.. she didn't. [ It's not really denial of what she's implying as much as it's denial in general. Sure, he got marked, but it's since he agreed to it - no way in hell Yua would agree to something like that, right? Then what happened? ]

[leftbehindagain]

No. No, they shouldn't.

[nicotinized]

Well, yeah. Though 'rounds' implies this shit isn't new - whether it was a different group of travellers or us.

[purseownerisme]

Depends on what you think she did.

[purseownerisme]

It wouldn't surprise me if there were others before us.

[tealeafs]

Yes, I thought the same.. [ About the voices, that is. ] Then that was the first time we heard them, even if they weren't talking to us directly.

[ It didn't sound that way back then, at least. Chizuru remembers thinking it was more as if they accidentally listened in on the Trumps more than anything. ]

Still-- it's a good thing if they talk to us now, right? That way they can finally point us in the right direction rather than us having to wander around, being unsure of what to do. [ Then again, this is Chizuru. She's only focusing on the positive part of all this.. ]

[flatteries]

[ Might as well get to the point then, even if his fists tighten until his knuckles are practically white as he thinks it. ]

Did she mark you?

[purseownerisme]

[Mark, claim are both the same thing. She's silent for a moment, knowing full well that this is public to them. She's surprised he's the first to question it bluntly. He probably didn't hear the message she accidentally sent over the network not too long ago:

'I'm sorry...please forgive me.']

Do we know of anyone who managed not to?

[flatteries]

It seems not everyone who talked to PSYCHENet last time around was marked..

[ But there's nothing really hopeful about that statement. It's more just a fact that yes, some people have interacted with Trumps without being marked, but Yua doesn't sound like just nothing happened. ]

That's why I'm asking. [ Because even if he's assuming it happened, he wants to hear it from her. Because if she can't even say it, she'll be just as miserable as he is. ]

[seestheworld]

...Huh.

[At least it's not a murdercube.]

[seestheworld]

[Perish the thought.]

Right.

[seestheworld]

...I know that 'that's not comforting' is a really obvious statement, but that's not comforting.

Do you need some help? Or some company?

[inexecution]

It might be. But that assumes that what we're doing is really for anyone's good but their own.

[Which, you know. Expecting controlling forces to be anything other than self-serving was... well. It was definitely a 'best case' scenario, rather than an obvious truth.]

If there's a reason to all of this beyond just the Trumps, the help could be good. But otherwise it might just be a case of not performing up to their standards.

[canbebrave]

While their cruelty matches man's, I'm not sure about their power. Something terrible must be happening, to...kill them.

[purseownerisme]

I...

[Hesitating. Just by that he should know. She said yes but she didn't feel a thing.]

I...don't know.

[purseownerisme]

I'm not sure what but it's powerful if it's managing to kill them off.

[purseownerisme]

I'm...not sure about help.

[Just really confused.]

[canbebrave]

We must be vigilant. And....remember this information. I fear they will make us forget, now that we are learning too much.

[seestheworld]

[Does she need to beat someone over the head with Satan the Vel Vel Muruga on your behalf?]

Do you want to talk about it? ...Although maybe not here.

[purseownerisme]

...maybe not here. How many of us would be pissed off?

[seestheworld]

[Is there something they should be pissed off about?]

We could meet somewhere to talk? Or... is there a way to do that over the network?

[tealeafs]

Not performing up to their standards..?

[ Sorry, Souji. Chizuru is just a little bit too naive and good to be able to immediately jump to that conclusion, so she didn't even think of it that way yet, judging by her tone of voice as she asks. ]