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Man, the Trumps sure know how to throw a welcome-back party. Too bad there's probably no deaf, dumb and blind kids around, I hear they play a mean pinball.

So. That was an unpleasant little side quest, don't recommend it, don't wanna talk about it. How far along are we from the Grid? What'd I miss?

Also, FYI, as soon as I can work out how I'm willing to make lightcycles for anyone who missed out. Still a work in progress, though, so don't all come running at once.

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Two Jaunts. Hell, or at least quasi-hell, and magical girls. Or, to be precise, magical people. To be honest? I doubt you missed much.

...Yeah, I think I'll count myself lucky on missing Hell. No thank you. [It's one thing for Joshua to tell her she's going there and quite another to get dumped there literally.]

At least it wasn't twelve years. So what all was up with those two?

Twelve years? That is awfully specific.

Hell was... hell. A piece of the Name of the Divine went missing. As to Questing Country, it was a... quest for a wish-granting thing called a Valence.

[The shrug in Naoto's voice is almost audible.]

Interesting, but not too impactful.

My brother spent twelve years in an interdimensional space. Long story.

...I'd ask how you steal someone's name, but I've been sent on wild goose chases for some pretty weird tchotchkes before, so let's just go with that making sense. Bigger question's why.

... Claudia?

What are you doing in my head, darling?

--Helena? When did you get here?

A few moments ago. I was intending to do some research in the library, and now I am standing in what looks like... a pin-ball machine.

Is that the name of those noisy creations that Pete plays in Toronto Sector sometimes?

I have no idea. I never got to ask.

...He plays with... [SIIIIIIIGH.] He's gonna make himself deaf, dumb and blind one of these days. But I really shouldn't be surprised after the Alice incident.

Welp. Welcome to Liminal Space, hope you enjoy your stay, until whenever the entities in charge decide the next thing is.

Probably go faster if I'd kept Interface. Of all the things you wouldn't think would be useful.

[The next question's posed to the group at large more so than Naoto in particular.] Incidentally, did anyone hang onto that? I didn't exactly get a chance to ask.

What does sensory deprivation have to do with a pin-ball machine, darling? That makes no sense.

Also Liminal Space. Please start at the beginning, I seem to have missed quite a few things.

They have nothing to do with each other and everything to do with Pete's habit of playing with Artifacts. He was playing ping-pong with the mirror a while before the mess with the disco ball.

[...This is not gonna make a goddamn bit of sense to anyone not them, is it. Oh well. If they ask, she or Helena can explain.]

The beings running the show are the Trumps. Vaguely tarot-themed, no I don't know why, apparently a couple of them are dead. Anyway, they kidnap people from their home worlds and send them to other places to fix things. I got to see Anime Trope High School and Computer Land before I got dumped in a side quest to shiny gold nonsense. [The lineface about that is almost audible.]

Liminal Space is where they chuck us in between. As much as it's usually anything, it's not usually this... this.

Wait, wait...lightcycles?

[Hello, you have the resident Kamen Rider's attention.]

Oh, did you miss Computer Land? They're pretty sweet rides. I think I'd be able to recreate them, but I'm still feeling things out.

I seriously need to catch up on the Grid in general, I missed literally all the excitement.

The Hell thing was my first one, so yeah, I think I missed computers. Don't know that I can really help you with catching up.

I can help with motorcycle-related stuff, maybe. I know a lot about engines and things.

Sounds like we just missed each other, then. I'm Claudia, good to meetcha.

They're... not exactly motorcycles. Otherwise, as long as I could get someone to make materials for me I could whip one of those up right away.

Man. The Grid was a coupla Jaunts back now. But ... y'know, I like your plan.

I think it's a good plan and I should feel good. Glad to hear someone agrees.

Come to think of it, I'm hella behind on what actually happened on the Grid itself, other than I think I said hi to a Trump. I missed literally all the excitement.

...How did you manage that? Seriously. Sayin' hi to SAGE was about the last thing we did there. Got him outta stasis 'n then everything glitched out. Not that it hadn't already, but... yeah.

I spent most of it holed up in some old armory or something that I don't think anyone else ever got to? And believe me, the irony of hanging out in an isolated warehouse is not lost on me, you'd think I get enough of that at home. No idea there was much of anything else going on until the communications system went back up, and then it didn't seem worth the risk of actually leaving, what with the monster horde and all.

[The irony's lost on him, though.]

Well. Damn. We had the Variables 'n the original Cryptos in stasis bein' unearthed, Automata everywhere and wreckin' the Miner base, a bunch of Miners going off and starting a rebellion... not that I was followin' most of what they were doing over there. First I knew was when they started showin' up in yellow lights. The whole thing was just ... one big mess. You were probably in the best place with everythin' going on.

[That would be why she explained it a little.]

I did wonder what was up with the sudden yellow. Original Cryptos, though? Do tell. Nobody mentioned we were recruiting, either.

You...? Ah. Right. Makes sense. [He laughs. As natural as it might have felt for him at the end, he's still aware of just how unusual their situation'd been...] Yeah, me 'n - three others, I think, converted. Leo offered three of us the choice when we were lookin' around in the archives, 'n KALI fixed the last one up and brought him over.

...Heh. Sorry I missed you down there.

It's all good, considering I was barely around for the damn thing. And even then I felt more useful than frickin' Doki. [She's just... not going to think about the fact that the Crypto thing maybe kinda sorta pinged with the Caretaker thing. She's not ready to deal with that yet.]

I'm Claudia, by the way. Good to meetcha.

Kanji. Good t' meet ya too... [Even if it is a couple of Jaunts late.]

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