[Psychic Bridge II] Walkabout -> Jaunt (side Humans)

[notadisappointment]

[Yosuke can bring up to eight investigators with him on a Psychic Bridge and there's about 13 minutes time, which should be enough for a quick catch up.]

Hey guys, Yosuke here. I wanted to check up on you guys... I know Ignis contacted some of you before coming over but not the jaunt as a whole.

What's going on over there?

To summarize quickly, we're in Questing Country again. Nightmares and stuff. Nothing too crazy yet.

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[razorblade_empress]

We haven't heard from Ignis or anyone else up here. There's two, maybe three of us Investigating on the station; everybody else is planetside and presumably on their own network.

[notadisappointment]

That doesn't sound good.

Has anyone contacted you from the other side or even know about it? If not, I can do another bridge in a week to let them know. Sadly not earlier.

[razorblade_empress]

Nope - I don't think they even know we're here. They probably figure we're with you on the walkabout.

[notadisappointment]

I can't remember the last time this happened.

[He wasn't in Harrogate II where the dead had their own network.]

So what's the status over there? At the... station?

[razorblade_empress]

[There's a short pause.]

The Harrogate return apparently had a separate network for Investigators who either began or ended the Jaunt dead, but that's the only other example I can see right offhand.

[Not that that's entirely relevant now.]

Things on the station are... not great. Humanity mostly lives on space stations and moon bases now because Earth is almost completely ravaged - and the only reason I can say 'almost' is because they've terraformed a couple of spots, one of which the other group is living in. Everything's regimented and micromanaged right to hell, education is streamlined, everybody follows a computer-generated schedule at all times, education's planned to the job you're best "suited" for... that kind of thing. That said, entertainment is big up here, and there's a surprising amount of time budgeted into people's schedules for it. Probably because it's one of their few joys in life - I don't know.

You can probably see where this is going - the settlement with the "Mythics" - that's the beastfolk group - is basically a really long-running reality show to the people up here. Like, four centuries long-running. I'm not sure how many of the people here even realize the people they're watching are real. Right now, the company that owns the... show... is running a month-long extravaganza thing where the winners of a contest they ran just before the Jaunt get to watch unedited live feeds of the Mythics, sample the kinds of food they eat, and answer a bunch of surveys. There's talk of some kind of interactive features that'll be unveiled at some point, too - I'm hoping that'll at least give us a way to communicate.

Traveler-wise, there aren't a whole lot of people up here. I think there's maybe six of us total? And half of us are Infiltrating.

[notadisappointment]

[That is a lot to take in and Yosuke isn't very happy about this (but then, who is). A reality show for human entertainment being the worst, but the way humans were living sounded like a big load of bs too.]

That explains why the liminal was the way it was. Holy shit.

[razorblade_empress]

Yeah, it does. I mean, at least it's not Moebius part 2, but I could easily see how it could be.

[notadisappointment]

The danger that it could become just that is there, isn't it.

[razorblade_empress]

This thing's been going on for four hundred years plus and every so often they clean the slate. A deathmatch would probably get pretty good ratings.

[notadisappointment]

I wouldn't be surprised if they pulled that kind of bullshit, considering what they've already done. Freaking hell.

Which Arcanas would actually agree to this crap?