*hacker voice* I'm in

[runawaystory]

[Somewhere during the Dockside portion of this Liminal Space...

The entire network--shudders. Voices and feeds abruptly cut out, then flicker back to life, then out again. In and out, in and out. Finally, the network stabilizes, though it still wavers, thoughts not getting through as clearly as they ought. Also, there's now an unfamiliar voice in everyone's head.

Well. Sort of unfamiliar. It's still Rosalie's. But it's also not her at all.]



Wow, you guys really went all out on this one, didn't you? But you should've spent a little more on your security~



[Those wanting to find Rosalie, or whoever she is at the moment, can find her lounging on an out-of-the-way rooftop. Her current overlay will only be familiar to the few remaining veterans, as it comes from a long-ago Jaunt: the Spark.]

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[runawaystory]

Obviously I hacked my way in. I saw a secure network and I thought to myself, I wonder what they're talking about in there? Maybe they'll have any explanation for how I got sucked into their play pretend.

And then I got distracted by how incredibly shit your security is.

[...Rosalie will feel bad about swearing in front of a kid. Eventually. Once she's no longer a flashback.]

[happyhalloween]

It was probably the big bullies that run this place. They take everybody.

[runawaystory]

Oh, really.

Tell me more.

[happyhalloween]

They don't share their toys. We tried to punch them once but Malik was the only one that actually got one on the nose.

[runawaystory]

Well, that doesn't sound very nice.

[Roz sounds rather gleeful at the idea of someone new to hack. It's okay, they probably deserve it.]

[happyhalloween]

I know they have servers. I saw them in the conversation space.

[runawaystory]

Conversation space.

[Roz's attention is all on Maria now, her mind kicking into overdrive as she slots this new information into what she knows about the Spark's VR worlds.

...The servers are a little weird, but some people like that retro aesthetic.]

Tell me more.

[happyhalloween]

There was cocoa! It had twelve marshmallows. And a mirror and throne and empty boxes.

[runawaystory]

Okay, but who did it belong to?

[happyhalloween]

The dumb old Trumps. They're meanies that don't share and don't want to let anybody else be as good as them, so they try to get rid of anyone that's gonna become like them.

[runawaystory]

[Wouldn't be the first time that a VR's admins have gone a little crazy with power. That's not very interesting, though.]

Mmm. What else?

[happyhalloween]

They keep yanking all of us into conversation spaces. But the one right now is a lot spookier. Naoki showed us.

[runawaystory]

And? What are they doing in there?

[happyhalloween]

Talking.

[runawaystory]

That's it?

[Not that talking can't be interesting. But she'd be kind of hoping for something a little juicier.]

[happyhalloween]

They gave us chairs and beverages?