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What their Eyes See: Optional Ongoing

By day eight the Voidtreckers have made a good deal of progress in all their tasks but there is still a lot to do to help the people of the city.

It is around mid morning when there is a message on their comms. For those that want to help it is easy to either find Anan herself or ask for netpoints and scanners to be brought to them by Chiff.

Illusions have gotten worse, uncertainty and fear are rising across all tiers and the situation is becoming more chaotic by the day. Indeed especially on the first and second tiers it seems that the voidtreckers themselves are being targeted, with creatures stalking them and attacks on their minds to make them believe that what they are seeing is real.

Same inside the Spectura system, the vines seem to almost be on the offensive against the voidtreckers though things are getting better outside the game system as more of the vicitms are freed and wake up.

Almost opposite to the situation on the lowest tier, which is getting more chaotic by the day. Anger is bubbling over, people are frightened and in a place like this the only real way to express that fear is through anger.

There has been a lot of progress but there is still a lot of work to do, especially as many of the voidtreckers have started to realise, this all seems a little too familiar.

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For those who go looking for her will find her and Chiff up on the roof as promised. They have a small area set up, out of sight from the ground and difficult to spot unless they are specifically looking for someone.

She looks like she fits right in here, Chiff skittering around as she tapped on a small portable computer, a small frown on her face.

Any approach was greeted with beeping from Chiff and a wary look from Anan as she looks them over, though she will relax once it is clear they are not security from this tier.

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“Hi.” Senku greeted Chiff as he was beeped at, and although he had the opportunity to meet Anan the night of the sixth, it wasn’t really the best time to ask every single question that he had.

An opportunity to find her again, in that case, was incredibly welcome.

“I’m willing to help you.” Senku opened with, because he certainly wasn’t going to ask for her help and not offer something in exchange. “But can you spare some time to help me answer some questions? Anything you can’t, it’s fine, I’ll make a note of it and leave it with you, if you’re willing.” He was trying to be polite on his end.

Today he was actually dressed like a local scientist - easier for infiltration - and he smiled at her, tugging at the labcoat. “I’m actually a scientist at home too.”

Demyx had been mostly lucky.

He hadn’t seen too many illusions, and that was fine, it wasn’t like he wanted to. He’d also done some sleuthing outside of the buildings to an admittedly dead end. He was sorely tempted to go join another team, whatever the goal was here, it might be beyond his understanding.

However, the call for help to swindle people out of access codes, through stealth or persuasion, well, he had some experience there, so he stayed.

The few illusions he’d seen were places he’d visited, nothing too bothersome really, but when he stepped foot in the absent director’s office, the building faded away. Carpeting was replaced with cobblestone and what he saw ahead of him was not a desk, but a fountain.

There was a gentle breeze coming through the square, a host of purple buildings surrounding the square – apartments – he knew that. His brow furrowed. How did he know that? Where was he?

A whisper on the wind. “____ your help is needed. Grab ____ and come _____.”

Demyx tilted his head back, looking around at the sky, it was ominously covered in dark clouds that said it was not a rain storm approaching and in the distance he could barely make out a castle. He needed to go. He needed to leave wherever this was.

No. His subconscious screamed at him, and he stopped mid-step. He didn’t want to leave...did he? No...he belonged here…

Where was he?

Demyx walked forward and sat on the ground in front of the fountain, lost in contemplation, his gaze distant as he tried to make sense of this landscape.

As soon as Inigo hears the message, he knows he has to free up a bit of time to go see Anan and Chiff. He's busier now the monster ('monster'?) attacks seem to be ramping up, but it'd feel weird to not go to at least say hi, especially when he has no idea if he'll easily get the chance to do so again.

So eventually Inigo finds his way up to the highest tier, managing to find Anan. He may not exactly have some here with ideas, but still.. He smiles a little as he approaches.

"Anan, hi." It's a teensy bit awkward, since at least last time he had Roland and Tidus to act as a buffer, and now he has to handle this social interaction by himself, and by Naga, don't be awkward, Inigo, she's a girl but don't get awkward!! "Are you alright? No one bothered you yet..?"

No one from this world, he means. A lot of people here in tier one look.. well, pretty stiff.

The smile is a little less awkward as his gaze falls on the thing skittering around. "Hi there to you too, little buddy."

Sorry, Anan. Once Goku hears of her, he'll decide to poke in see what he can do to help. And doing that means dropping in with his Instant Transmission, appearing in a blink.

"Hey!" Goku said, waving at the woman as he arrived. "So, what do we need to do?"

"Of course." She smiled at him as he approached, "Make yourself comfortable. I can't promise I'll know the answers to all your questions." Because he strikes her as the sort of person who has an awful lot of those, even if she has only met him once.

"A scientist?" Made a lot of sense, "Of what field?" She seemed to remember herself a moment later. "Sorry, Tidus, Roland and Inigo told me, that you were all taken from your homes without your consent. It must be hard."

Beep Beep
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Chiff scrambled towards him, clambering up his leg and beeping happily. Anan smiled too.

"Nice to see you again, not had any trouble yet. Hopefully it stays that way."

She keeps an eye on Chiff in case the droid looks to be making a nuisance of itself. "How have you been?"

"I understand, but what you do know would be a help." Senku said with a smile as he settled down. He makes his laptop bag appear out of nowhere, thanks to the arms band. "I don't usually take notes, but I'll be doing it for the benefit of sharing it with the others when I get back instead of transcribing them later." He explained. He pulled a journal and a pen out of his knapsack as well.

"Unironically, all of them." Senku quirked a smile. "If I had to choose a favourite it would be astrophysics and cosmology. It was the only thing I was interested in growing up." He was starting his laptop. "All of the STEM fields. Really paid off when my world was hit with a catastrophe, and I was in the middle of rebuilding civilization when I was dragged here." He wasn't offended, he gave half a shrug.

"I have every faith my Generals can handle it whether I'm there or not." He hummed as he opened up the program. "And you can ask me anything you want, I'm the one who's imposing myself upon you." He could handle some back and forth.

"But speaking of that, our worlds are not void-active, according to the train. Could you- Would you happen to know how it is we would've been collected without seeing the train? My world is a desolate greenspace, we'd have seen and heard a train from miles away."

Beeeeeeeeeeeeep

The first thing to greet him is droid that instantly spins in circles at the appearance of someone from nowhere.

Anan looks a bit startled as well but she recovers quickly as she picks the droid up and lets it rest on her shoulder.

"Hello. Are you any good at sneaking around?"

Perhaps, if he could teleport, but perhaps not considering his surprise entry just then.

Netpoints

Finding the perfect place for Netpoint placement seems easy enough. Having transformed into Cure Dream yet leaving the trenchcoat on, Nozomi'll be seen moving to various buildings and laying the Netpoints where she thinks would fit in.

Of course, with more murders happening, trying to get into buildings is starting to get harder and harder, Nozomi trying to squeeze into various open windows and trying her best to open doors and other windows without catching someone's attention.

Care to give her a hand?

Monster Attack Type A

"NGH! STOP IT!"

Nozomi used a bit of her magic to push away the gathering of monsters that had started to ambush her. They were creatures all native to Valkuntha, yet it seemed that they were more threatening in numbers. Skeletons, white elementals and gargoyles - not much by themselves, but threatening in groups.

Of course, it's just getting thinning the herd that might be the difficult part as she's just one person against a small army of claws, swords and ice magic.

Wanna give her a hand there?

Monster Attack Type B (CW: Possible Nudity?)

"RIBBIT! RIBBIT!"

If you're passing by, you might see a frog hopping around, being chased by an ugly plant-like beast. It seemed that whoever faced this creature might have been turned into a frog?

And there might be a chance that the encounter might lead to finding a set of clothes - it seemed that Nozomi's around here somewhere without her clothes?

Or maybe it's the frog?

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Goku thought about it a bit.

"Not really, but I can make it work." he replied, nodding. "What's up?"

Yondu takes a little longer than some, probably, both because of the level he was on and the fact that he wanted someone to be on spectator duty while he was off dealing with this. He's suspicious but that's more of a natural state of being for him rather than anything she's actually done to deserve it. A few good folks on the train have only chipped away at the inclination by millimeters.

"Howdy," he announces himself in his usual folksy way when he gets there, dropping his pack beside of him and opening it up so he can put whatever he needs to into it.

"I'm here for some of them netpoints an' a few scanners. Most of our folks have been fightin' digital. Not a lot of us up an' about so the netpoints are gonna be the more useful of the two. Wouldn't be surprised if our two hackers came up."

Come to think of it, Jou and A-Qing could probably knock it out of the park with a couple of scanners.

Tier 1- A taste of home

Leia figured that tier one would be her best bet at collecting useful security codes, so she was putting her newly acquired scanner to good use before heading back down to tier two. Unfortunately, this was hindered by the illusions she kept running into, and the fact that she could tell that they were illusions didn't mean that they didn't make navigation a bit difficult. The hallways of the Imperial Senate didn't spark much more than mild interest, but the interior and grounds of the Alderaan royal palace were... difficult not to focus on. It was all disjointed, different parts appearing at different times, regardless of where they would normally have been, but each one carried its own memories with it.

Tier 2- Back on the hunt

Was it a measure of her life that her first thought upon hearing the growling behind her as she worked to install a net point was irritation at being interrupted rather than fear of danger? Probably. But that didn't make turning to see the crouched mass of illusory teeth, claws, and quills that was the illusion of a nexu any more unwelcome. And she somehow doubted that this one would be quite as vulnerable to impact damage as the real thing.

"Nice kitty...", Leia said as she slowly drew her borrowed blaster from its hidden pocket. She began edging away from where she'd been standing, hoping to get a bit more space and avoid the not-nexu backing her into a corner.

Tier 2- ID troubles- For Naja

Leia had seated herself on a bench in an open plaza to go over some of the information she'd collected, when she heard a small disturbance, glancing up to see what it was. A protesting young woman was being escorted somewhere by two security officers, and Leia was surprised to find that she recognized her; Najaran, the young woman with the talking cane who she'd met upon her arrival. What had she done to apparently get herself in trouble with security?

She got up and moved to intercept them. "Najaran?", she said as she approached them. "What happened?"

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Thankfully, Leia was looking for someone, and thus it didn't take her too long to locate their contact. "Anan, I presume?", she said as she approached, hoping that her voice would be recognizable. "I'm Leia Organa, from the Voidtrecker. We spoke on the comm, but it's good to meet you and... Chiff, wasn't it?... in person."

Jade's been down with Red Team all this time, but with all the recent changes, decided he wanted to check in on his own team, just to see how things were being handled. Certainly, he could have just kept his attention on the comms, but. Well. People lie. He had to see it for himself.

Anyway, he's not surprised to cross paths with a fellow voidtrecker under attack, but it wasn't what he'd been hoping to do, exactly. Ah well.

He could redirect ice magic in his sleep, if he wanted to, so that's not much of a problem. Frankly neither is much else, for the moment, after he raises a wall of ice between them and monsters.

"Are you alright?" he asks, mostly to be polite; and then, more importantly: "Can you fight? ...should we even fight these, or would it be better to run?"

"I'm okay, I just need breathing room." Nozomi said, glad for Jade's help. The creatures will start chipping away at the wall.

"I recognize them. They're from a world I visited once. Alone, they're nothing, but together, they're a threat." She thought about it. "We can fight or we can run, but I don't like the idea of leaving them to go after others..."

Jade doesn't, either. "We fight, then," he says, with a definitive nod. With a small burst of red light, he summons his spear to his right hand, the pushes his glasses up his nose with his left. "I'll drop the ice before they have the chance to surprise us. On my mark. Three, two... now."

The ice falls, and Jade lunges forward to stab an approaching gargoyle. For now, Nozomi won't have to worry about any attacks from the white elementals, either - Jade's redirecting their magic so it doesn't come near her.

"Good." Nozomi nodded, summoning her Cure Fluret, its sword blade glowing pink. Once Jade drops the ice and attacks the gargoyle, Nozomi lunges at a skeleton, taking it out.

"Keep it coming, get rid of them as fast as possible!"

No nuisances here! No nuisances Inigo seems to mind, anyway. He gathers Chiff right up in his arms the moment he's able to do so, first tightly squeezing the thing in a hug before loosening his hold a little. Just in case the other wants to skitter over him a little. Inigo doesn't mind.

Especially when there's Anan's question, and he doesn't want to ignore that!

"I've been alright. I've mostly been dealing with those creatures-- er.. "creatures"."

One can hear the air quotes. It's pretty obvious at this point that they're not actual creatures, after all.

"Even if they're fake, I really don't want them to harm anyone here, and they are pretty dangerous despite just being illusions." Which.. seems weird, now he says it out loud, but it's not like Inigo has any idea how these illusions work. "Although I have to say that oddly enough it seems like they are more likely to attack any of us than any of the actual residents of this city."

She nods as he brought out his journal and laptop, though she put her own laptop to the side so she could concentrate on the conversation.

"Rebuilding civilisation? That sounds a pretty huge task." Especially when he's so young. A lot of them are so young. Not that she's old herself but she's also not been kidnapped by a void craft.

"I have to say, that is the biggest mystery. Tethering someone to a voidcraft is a whole process, void active worlds have whole areas of study, being a void entry technician takes more study than being a void traveller. Much more considering void tourism. My assumption for how you didn't see it is that it has some camouflaging technology, a stealth mode as such. But that doesn't explain how it grabbed you."

It did want to skitter, clambering up to sit on Inigo's head like a droid hat, metal arms wrapped around him.

"They might be fake but the danger they pose is real." She looked at him sharply. "More likely to attack you?" She frowned.

"Back in Erda, when I was attacked nothing I had was taken except for my SCA. No one on that world should have known what it even was. I was in disguise, it's been bugging me how they knew."

"Very huge, we've been at it about four years now." Senku commented with a hum. "Four years before the nearly six months I've been here. Fortunately it's going well."

His fingers were moving over the keyboard quickly as she spoke, grabbing each one of those terms specifically because the train told them so few things.

"The experience is universal. We're not aware when we're taken. It's not necessarily a snatch from bed situation either, but we're presumably unconscious." Senku explained. "Awareness comes when we're standing on the platform, all of our belongings taken and we're dressed in a colour-coded uniform to separate us into teams, and how the teams are chosen we aren't sure." He hummed. "We're in disguise here, but Tidus, Inigo and Roland are in purple, and Gen and I are in orange."

Senku nodded. "I can accept the possibility of camouflaging technology, as a hypothesis. The rest is just as confusing. On the subject, let's start there. What is the process of tethering someone under ordinary circumstances?" He paused, glancing at her. "Some of these questions may seem incredibly basic, but the train is determined to block the information from us."

She isn't too sure about the truth of that but he sounds confident at least. "These." She held out a small, flat, round object. "They are called netpoints, it would be useful if we could distribute them around the city."

"Hey." She nodded at him, recognising his voice from the comms and greeting him with a small smile. She is beginning to think she needs to start writing names down, there's a lot of these voidtreckers.

Chiff scrabbled over to him beeping softly as it prodded at his leg. "Don't mind them." She said, fondly, moving over herself.

"These are the netpoints." She held out a small, round, flat object that looked to be the colour of her skin, though as she passed it over to him it took on a distinctly more blue colour.

"They are pretty easy to use, just place them places, they need to be out of sight but not really well hidden as you can see."

"Yes." She nodded as Chiff scrabbled over to the woman, beeping softly. "It's good to meet you as well Leia Organa. Please don't mind Chiff, it's not often they can meet so many new people openly."

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