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.

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[betrayedblade]

I have not heard any mention of such a place though I know they are eager to continue their searches for their old structures. Is that one relevant then? I could ask...

[notinthecards]

You think maybe this big lava lamp might be the place?

[purseownerisme]

Anything will help.

This just got seriously complicated.

[purseownerisme]

Maybe. Or a decoy.

[notinthecards]

Doing a pretty good job, if so.

[purseownerisme]

Considering that this might be a game to them...it doesn't surprise me.

[notinthecards]

And we're nothing but a deck of cards?

[purseownerisme]

Some of us are.

[notinthecards]

As long as I still get to be the Ace of Spades.

[leftbehindagain]

You found - wait, she was there when we all arrived. There goes my Tower theory, I guess, unless there's more than one around at a time. Can there be more than one around at a time?

[He doesn't see why not, but maybe these things have rules.]

Well, a game's better than a war, and they should also consider that the pieces can think for themselves. It also implies they have an interest in keeping us alive.

Are you all right?

[purseownerisme]

Doubt we have a trump for that so you're safe.

[purseownerisme]

The scariest part? I think this IS a war. Just not what we assume it to be.

I...I think so.

[leftbehindagain]

And if it is a war, they still have to contend with the fact that we have our own ideas about this. [Even if Naoki's fall on the side of 'we're changing things by the very fact that we've been dropped here, so try to make it a good one.']

I can't help much with the Green Team theory, but - Raidou-san, I think his name is? We didn't get around to introductions, but he was talking to someone else about a lot of what they know. That might be useful.

Did she have anything else interesting to say?

[purseownerisme]

Yeah I know of Raidou. Met a couple of times before I got dumped into a dungeon.

For someone who is about truth, she had a habit of circling around it.

[leftbehindagain]

Bumped into a dungeon?

[Naoki snorts.] I think this is where Kanji would say 'gods are dicks, what can you do' if he could contribute right now. Still, circling it doesn't mean not giving you - and by extension us - anything to go on.

this may get tagged hella slow since the log where he's hearing this is ongoing. /o\

[hakodate]

Pretty sure there can be, and there's going to be.

PSYCHENet was in Liminal Space. PSYCHENet. The Lovers. Whatever you want to call her.

She implied someone else is coming...and that they won here before. Whatever the rules they're playing by are, it sounds to me like someone's breaking them.

That's cool!

[leftbehindagain]

[Naoki hasn't heard a whole lot about the jaunt before he showed up, so he's thankful for the card designation. In any case, there's a more interesting part to that, even beyond 'someone else is coming.']

They won here before? When was 'before'? I didn't think they'd want to revisit a place after they were done with it.

[icy_heavens]

Somehow, I'm not surprised. [Irritated as hell? Yes. Concerned as to what it means for all of them? Yes. But surprised? No.]

Re: That's cool!

[seestheworld]

[Minako can't quite stop herself from interjecting.]

So does that mean we're undoing someone else's Jaunt?

[flatteries]

[ Yeah, good job, Yua. Saying that people should be careful in talking to the Trump after you mentioned you talked to her first.. no way that's not going to pull his attention. ]

She didn't do anything to you, did she? [ That has priority over the whole thing about games. ]

[inexecution]

Well, that's not exactly a surprise, is it? They're certainly not altruistic. I wonder why they're showing up in person, though. That seems new.

[seestheworld]

Are you all right?

[Please tell her you didn't do anything stupid, Yua.]

[canbebrave]

What did she tell you? We should know, exactly.

[tealeafs]

Oh, I think one of them actually appeared because of Toshizou and I.. because we were marked, probably.

[ And then something about entering that tower triggered it-- somehow. Chizuru isn't entirely sure of the details either, apparently. ]

[inexecution]

That's interesting... but even marking people is a recent addition. Maybe their 'game' is escalating.