Fissures of Time: Comms

[voidtreckermods]

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For the third option, a list of passengers appears and names can be searched for by letter. Anyone who has been working to try and make communications happen on their own devices will find those linked in to this network- though it is still only possible to use voice. If they have headphones from the music room they can make it so they work like earpieces.

Comments

[flatteries]

No.

[ Inigo could elaborate, but again, see: the not entirely pleasant to look at part. The 'no' implies that he tried, but he sure doesn't want to share the awful result with anyone else. ]

No matter how you try to impair them, they just keep going. [ It's uncanny. Somehow it's even more intense than the Risen back home - and that's saying something. ]

The only solution might be to destroy them entirely, but I don't have the power for that.

[fivemilesdeep]

[Boy, does that ever have some implications. Ryo's eyes widen, and he takes a moment to very forcibly redirect his imagination, because that's not going to help.]

[He focuses instead on the problem at hand. He can't provide a solution, but maybe they can find someone who can.]

So we find someone who can - Thanatos, Zagreus, the other really powerful people here.

Do you think fire would work?

[flatteries]

[ There's a brief pause, a split second decision, and then Inigo replies. ]

It's worked before, in other places. [ That's some clever wording on his part to not make it instantly obvious he means back in his own world. Instead it sounds more like he means during a previous mission or two. ]

There's no guarantee it will work here as well, but I'd say it's definitely worth an attempt. I can't imagine they could regenerate from mere ashes.

[fivemilesdeep]

Then let's do it. There has to be something around here that can start a quick fire.

[...like Zagreus, honestly.]

I'll see what I can find.

[longforgottenpromise]

Do... [Look he is going to try really hard not to judge anyone here. Not Ryo who he knows to be mostly peaceful and certainly not Inigo.

He can't just not listen to the comms when his friends are out here and yet this is one conversation he wished he hadn't heard.]

Wouldn't it be... If you avoided them, just set the equalisers. That way you wouldn't have to kill those who can't die.

[His voice is almost emotionless, he's trying to be practical.]

[fivemilesdeep]

[...oh. Ryo is accustomed to the realities of cruelty and choosing one group's survival over another - his world definitely has a bandit problem - but that doesn't make this any less heartbreaking.]

[(It's easier, sometimes, to get the job done than to think about the fact that the revenants are still people, caught in the time loop of a corrupted god and unable to die. It...hurts less, when they don't have time to handle hurt.)]

I think...I think we're talking about the ones that can't be avoided. We can't keep running if we have to set the equalizers up in certain places - sooner or later we'll have to hold our ground and fight.

...I think.

[He'll let Inigo confirm - it's not like Ryo has been going into any of the distortions himself. He's not a warrior; he's been staying where his skills are needed.]

[flatteries]

[ Inigo knows what that 'I think' means. It's definitely Ryo looking to him to confirm all of this - and even though Inigo doesn't like it, because he knows exactly why Taiki spoke up, he knows he can't shy away from some duty just because he doesn't like it. ]

That's right. There's too many of them.

[ At least he won't sink to using the argument of 'they'll disappear anyway' - not in front of Taiki. He's amazed the other already heard everything they said earlier without passing out. ]

We can't just sneak around in there, the circumstances make it impossible.

[ At least he has the decency to add a: ] Sorry, Taiki.

[longforgottenpromise]

[Of course there was no way around it. In a way that was a relief. It meant that his friends had thought about this. They had tried to think of a way that didn't mean hurting or killing others.]

You don't have to apologise, Inigo.

[Not to Taiki at least. But he's not judging. He's not. It's just hard. His voice is very small as he adds.] Please both be careful.

[flatteries]

I will be. [ At the very least. Inigo has been serious about this entire mission the whole time already, anyway.

Perhaps a little too serious. ]

You stay even safer though, Taiki. It feels like things are escalating. [ And Inigo is definitely worried about danger perhaps managing to reach the camps too, if things would get worse. ] If you come across any fighting, please just get yourself to safety first.

[ Safety, both in a physical sense, but also in a sense of 'head to a place that won't make you sick'.. ]