backdated all the way to week 2

[callyourname]

[ OOC: UMMM. Remember when we lost two letters from ArMin?? Yeaaaaah, I was supposed to post this way back then, but RL happened ( and it's still happening, actually as I'm in the middle of moving and other stuff... ) ...but here i am backdating this post to happen soon after that happened... And I'm very, very sorry this is so late!! x_x; ]


So, tell me.

What the hell happened to Armin? ...No one told me you can become an infiltrator in the middle of this!

[Fair warning? Mikasa doesn't take sudden bad(??) things happening to her family well at all and Armin is the only family, who she has left here, so... Good luck or something? Someone somewhere might need it!]

Comments

[wantedittobeagame]

...wait he did what?

How?

[bypartisan]

I don't know, but in the process of my own conversation with him, he seems to have attached a tracking device to my coat.

[callyourname]

What I just said.

I don't know how, it's why I'm asking.

[leftbehindagain]

You can do that?

[wantedittobeagame]

Well okay.

What was he doing before he switched?

[callyourname]

... What's a tracking device?

[ the name says a lot, but -- girl's from 850 and pretty new here. ]

[callyourname]

Well, apparently it just happened. Somehow.

[callyourname]

Nothing unusual as far as I know. [Now she kind of regrets not keeping an eye on him all the time.]

Oh, except he rented a private hotel room to himself before this happened.

[leftbehindagain]

Just another thing making this a weird jaunt, I guess.

He's one of the people who was around before Moebius. Maybe it has something to do with that?

[wantedittobeagame]

Okay...

So whatever he did, he did intentionally?

[bypartisan]

It's a tiny device you attach to someone and it sends a signal through the air to a little machine you're carrying and you use information the signal gives you in order to pursue a person.

[shantiprayer]

Wait... Wait, what!? Oh my gosh! I've never even heard of that happening before. I just talked to him and he was definitely still him!

[callyourname]

These aren't always weird?

Maybe. If anyone else from before that is still themselves here, maybe they know something.

[leftbehindagain]

Well, this one's weirder than usual. First time I can think of that we've had someone both infiltrating and not. And while this isn't the first place we've revisited, I'm pretty sure the first round of the Grid was before any of the current group were doing this.

[He's gathered the walkabout thing was a revisit as well, but from what he's heard about it that was also different. Everyone who'd been there before actually remembered the place.]

It can't hurt to ask.

[callyourname]

...

[Wow. Okay, give her a moment, she hadn't thought about that. Not yet.]

Either that or someone or something was in that room waiting for him.

[callyourname]

...Huh. Sounds quite useful, but not like something people usually put on strangers without a good reason.

[So why does he have it? Or why does Armin have those with him, so that he can even do that? So much frowning while these answers raise even more questions. Typical.]

[bypartisan]

Yes. His infiltrator-self, if indeed this is what he is, seems to be a man of hidden depths.

[callyourname]

Sounds like no one's heard of it before... Guess you talked to him before me because he definitely wasn't Armin anymore.

[wantedittobeagame]

Who, though? Someone already infiltrating?

[shantiprayer]

No, it doesn't sound like it. I haven't been here as long as Armin or Joscelin have, but I'm pretty sure I've been Traveling for at least a year now and this is the first time.

[But just freaking out and yelling about it never happening before isn't going to help anyone. She might not be a "real" Learder like Lupa or Serph, but she was darn well going to try her best.]

We should start by figuring out what we do know. As far as anyone could tell, he went into his hotel room alone as Armin and came out as... whatever he's going by as an Infiltrator, right? So whatever happened to him happened in there. I was in there with him for a little while, and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. Armin's so smart, I'm sure he checked everything himself before he considered it safe. I mean, I'm sure Gale would do that, and Armin seems like he could be a Tribe strategist too so... Whatever happened to him in there, it probably wasn't something weird about the room itself.