open to Investigators - before the bomb disposal

[leftbehindagain]

I don't have much time right now, but I need to get these questions out there.

The evacuation isn't sitting right with me. Why now? Is it just because everything's going to hell in a handbasket, or is there something deeper to JORD1's reasoning? Has anyone else heard anything? Anyone who was infiltrating in there, have you heard anything that might make him want to pack up his toys and go home?

And then there's this 'important mission.' Armin-san and Yua-san got marked by ROSE, and Ambrose-san said another Trump got him before this. I'm willing to bet everyone on that list of people is marked - but Naoto's marked and she's not on it. Is anyone else conspicuously absent, and does anyone know where they are, if so? [There may be nothing to this particular rabbit hole of thought, but one of his friends is notably missing from it. Of course Naoki's worried. Besides, it might help them figure out what ROSE is up to - she almost certainly picked the people, if marked Travelers are the common thread.]

...Okay. If I'm about to get myself killed, someone else take this information and make it useful. If JORD1's up to something fishy, make sure Naoto knows. Hopefully I'll be able to myself, but I can't let myself back in if something goes wrong and I may not have the time to anyway.

Comments

[wantedittobeagame]

...what.

What's this 'if I get myself killed'?

[hakodate]

I can confirm that Chizuru and I are marked. By PSYCHE, or the Lovers, whatever you want to call her.

[And that worries him, given the rest of the context. Rounding up the people marked by forces that are operating in dead opposite to each other? Sure. That's bound to be completely innocent and doesn't smell at all like big fucking trouble.]

Don't see either of her other picks on that list, though. I haven't seen Kongou at all since this started, and she doesn't strike me as the type to keep her head down. We might've just lost her in a dungeon portal or something.

But I don't know what Mai's situation is.

[neverfeltthatway]

...There are at least six people who've been marked who were not on the list. So while ROSE may be choosing from the list of the marked, her criteria are obviously more selective than that.

[loyalrebel]

Other than the things he hates the most infecting his men and threatening the grid he put everything he has in to protecting?

[professorwolf]

Ah. Sorry to be the one with the stupid question here, but... what do you mean by "marked"?

[Lyall's new, and he hasn't had any friends explain this to him yet. Sorry, Naoki.]