During the second fourth wall liminal

[darkhourdear]

 Um, guys? There's definitely a voice in the thunder but I can't hear what it's saying. Has anyone else heard it? I mean I could only hear it with Sithen ears, so probably not but... I can try to analyze it with my Persona, but I'm not sure what good it'll do.

And... I guess has anyone figured out anything about it this time? There's a lot of stuff.

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[itsananimalthing]

Didn't hear that, but if anybody's got diabolin form still, don't fuckin' use it. Whatever's watchin' us is even worse then. And it's impatient.

There's a big data dump of visuals in the rocks, too, if you interface, but I'm still sortin' out what it all is. It's familiar. And also impatient. So hey, guess they've got a theme goin'.

[darkhourdear]

That goes with what Kanji said... apparently the voice says 'Hurry up please, it's time.' Which... is a polite way of being impatient, I guess?

I have Interface too. Would it help if I came over?

[itsananimalthing]

Any rock'll do, don't have to be the same one. Take your pick.

[darkhourdear]

Ok, I'll go try it. I'll tell you if I figure out anything else, ok?

[itsananimalthing]

Sure. Just don't be surprised when it's a little overwhelmin' at first.

[This is coming from Riddick, who is pretty much never overwhelmed. So... you know... take that into account.]

[darkhourdear]

[...no kidding.] Yeah, ok. I'll be careful.

[senpaidol]

Wait, Interface works on the rocks? Mind if I join you guys? Turning into Citrine might help me process it faster...

[itsananimalthing]

Pick a rock and knock yourself out. Though I'm startin' to think I know what it is. I'm catchin' scenes that're pretty obviously mine, from the network, in here.

[Because his livestreaming vision is pretty unique, among the Travelers.]

[senpaidol]

So they've got recordings of our Telepathic stuff? Huh. Why?

[itsananimalthing]

We've got recordings o our telepathic stuff, kid. You can go back as far as the computer bubble Jaunt, listen to what we've all had to say. This is just part of it. The livestreaming part, where there's visuals, I think.

[senpaidol]

Well yeah, I've been checking that myself, I'm just wondering why it's in the rocks...

[itsananimalthing]

Obviously they're tryin' to tell us somethin', but I couldn't tell you what. Let me know if your synethetic thing helps make more sense of it.

[senpaidol]

[A bit later...]

It's a countdown.

Like, there's a countdown embedded in the "videos" that Citrine was able to process. It starts with the Mermaid stuff and is getting close to zero in more recent things.

Probably counting down to "Phase 3" or whatever.

[itsananimalthing]

So it started when the Trumps started showing up, and now that we're runnin' out of Trumps, it's getting to the end.

[He's paid attention to conversations; he knows they've seen the majority of still-living Trumps, now.]

Could you get a sense of how much longer we've got, by comparing how long it's been and how much time we've got left to zero?

[senpaidol]

It's more like...it's not counting down numbers so much as a feeling. It's like impatience and urgency and a crescendo instead of math. It's not any kind of system Citrine ever heard of, let alone me as myself.

[itsananimalthing]

Well, fuck. So nothin' we can really use, then.

[He supposes he shouldn't have bothered hoping.]

Besides a vague "it's coming soon". Which we pretty much already got. They're bangin' us over the head with "it's soon", already.

[senpaidol]

Judging from the other info people got, maybe one of them is getting impatient? Some of them are like little kids sometimes, aren't they?