The People United Will Never Be Defeated!

[justabignobody]

Characters: Everyone interested in getting back into their body
Setting: 9/18, after this post (may be extended to following days)
Format: Action, prose, whatever you'd like to go with!
Summary: Dax Is A Bro and left a clue. Now it's up to the Tower residence to unite and figure it out.
Warnings: None as of yet, will be adapted as needed.

[After making that post - the first he is aware of - Riku just sighs (one that turns into a cough all of sudden... don't tell him he's coming down with something on top of everything else?!).

There is really no telling how many people will follow his call out, but hopefully there will be some at least. And hopefully they will have more idea what this clue means than he does.

He turns his seat towards the entrance of the floor. Time to see who would turn up.]

Arrival/Mingling (9/18) | Let's-figure-this-out-party (9/18) | Arrival/Mingling (9/19) | Let's-figure-this-out-party (9/19) | Arrival/Mingling (9/20)
Let's-figure-this-out-party (9/20) | Arrival/Mingling (9/21) | Let's-figure-this-out-party (9/21) | Hacker Shenanigans

Comments

Theory #01254

[thisisdisastrous]

I have watched this video many time, and I believe I have figured one path we can take to solve this issue! Obviously we are all terribly affected by this terrible event, and we need to solve it quickly, in which case we will die! Obviously this is a worse case scenario, we may as well simply have our psyche and bodies damaged beyond repair, and then be left to live empty lives for all eternity!

[ Hello, this android acting out of character? That's totally Doctor Emmett Brown. ]

We need the liquid Jason has been using on these poor children- I suspect the same has been done to us. If two individuals who have been experimented on by Jason were to do the exact same thing again, then one can theorize we would be back in our normal bodies! All the side-effects would end once we would be back home, so to say!

[ Doc pauses and looks around, nobody has paper and pen over here? ]

There are many issues that have to be solved though, I'm afraid. For one we do not have that substance, and I'm theorizing this may be a substance similar to that contained in our collar so we may be facing an impossibility!

And would we be to get our hands on the substance, we need to find which color needs to be injected in which one of us, and once more I suppose this is linked to our collars! I suspect this step can be easilly solved through logic.

[dragonspooker]

...and how do you propose we figure out which substance is the one we need, huh? Trial and error? Who in their right mind is gonna step up to be a guinea pig to figuring that out?

[thisisdisastrous]

I never suggested we go that far! I believe we may have some time to find which substance we need. But would we fail to scientifically deduce a way out of this situation, I know I am volunteer if need be!

[whathehellisagigawatt]

[ Yeah, so that coffee she was drinking to soothe her throat? Totally went spraying everywhere after that, followed by a brief coughing spasm. ]

Doc, that is absurd! Let us just... think of ways before we decide to be a hero.

[thisisdisastrous]

[ Goddammit Sertoria, be careful with this body! He still needs it when that'll be over. ]

Of course, I forgot to mention the possible sacrifices are worse case scenario, but we have to anticipate them in the case we do not find a solution before it be too late!

[hermitofzero]

We're gonna need some cannon fodder anyway. Those drugs we need are only in the retrieval drones, ain't they?

[Jin wasn't usually the first support of science, buuuut]

[thisisdisastrous]

[ ... Doc hadn't thought about that. ]

I suggest we attempt to see if the normal drones, those with colorless collars whom we can find at various location all around the tower, possess the substances we need before we go to such extremities!

[hermitofzero]

[And that's why he was here. To be the cynical asshole.]

It's worth a shot. But don't get your hopes up; The retrieval drones are the ones that like to fix us up when we kick it, so it'd make sense for only them to have it.

Plus, this place ain't that nice to us.

[dragonspooker]

[Lina sighs, then covers her face with one hand, rubbing at the ridge of her nose with her thumb and pointer finger.]

Well, at least you're willing to try it yourself - but yes, do remember that there's going to be someone else tied to this as well.

[thisisdisastrous]

Trust me I have Sertoria's good at heart and will not go through with this unless she is willing as well!

[whathehellisagigawatt]

[ Damn. Damn, damn, damn - she knew that it was better to have a test subject around, but did Doc have to readily volunteer himself when he was in her body?

Though, if it helped everyone else to return to their normal bodies... ]

... Fine. Fine, I will also volunteer in this plan if everything else fails. For now, let us think of other solutions.

[thisisdisastrous]

As I said, i hope we will not have to do that!

[ Sorry, Doc's particularly heroic and that can't be helped today. ]

will think to alternate solution, for now the priority is to obtain the liquid- Without it all our solution are meaningless!

[savedbyasong]

[Shion has pen and paper! He also isn't body swapped but Reno is and so he will do everything in his power to fix this.

He writes down what the girl is saying.] If it is a similar substance to that in our collars we might find some in the infirmary. [Maybe? He hadn't found any during June but since the tower was now actually working...]

[thisisdisastrous]

Yes! I hadn't thought about it, but there are good chances for us to find the substances in the infirmary, some of us should go check it out!

If we do not find anything there then we should check on the colorless collared drones as I have suggested to Suzaku, or whoever inhabits his body! The retrieval drones should be the very last option!

[ This is all very confusing. ]

[provenworth]

[Part of her wanderings had brought Elena over to this conversation, ear twitching at the sound of Shion's voice. And at the sound of the idea of having to send people to investigate a separate part of the facility. Changing her path, she moves closer, standing just behind Shion to peer at what he's writing, then looking up to the woman he was speaking to.]

If we're going to break into teams, we're going to need to be smart about it. With people switched in bodies, it will be hard to tell friend from foe. Not only that, but those switched won't be able to fight or defend in their current state. We'll need to assign individuals who have not been switched to go with them as protection.

[savedbyasong]

[Shion felt a lot better when Elena turned up, he had been feeling out of his depth even though he knew he wanted to help and this was probably something he could help with.] I know my way round the infirmary, so I could help look there.

[thisisdisastrous]

While I wholeheartedly agree, distinguishing switched people from non switched people may be hard! I am Doctor Emmett Brown currently residing in Sertoria's body and I have no intent to hide it, but I am not sure everyone around here will be so willing to reveal they are swapped!

For all we know, the non-swapped individual you'll assign to the team may in fact very well be swapped and lie about it.

[ And thus paranoia was born. After all, how could anyone know? Heck for all he knew Elena and Shion, unlikely of course, could be swapped as well. He turns back to Shion after that. ]

It would be a great help if you could! I am going to keep working on a solution here for when we'll have the fluids, so I'll leave the teamwork up to the rest of you.

[savedbyasong]

[Shion nodded] Someone is in my friends body but I don't know who... they were trying to pretend to be him.

[provenworth]

Which makes things all the more difficult - and could potentially be lethal. We don't have time to conduct a full vetting of the teams involved. However, we could engage in a quick test, no more than three questions, that only the other person would know the answer to.

Like, for example.. [Her attention goes to Shion for a moment] I would ask Shion where we first met, what item did I focus on during that meeting, and where he found me when the giant monster-thing crashed through the tower.

[Turning back to Not!Setoria, she pressed her hand lightly against her chest, head nodding politely.] I'm Elena and I somehow got lucky enough to remain in my own body. I don't know what I did right to get skipped over, but its an advantage we can utilize.

[Turning back to Shion, she gave a disapproving frown.] Not by yourself you're not. I'm going with you - its too dangerous to go alone right now. Besides, two pair of eyes are better than one.

[Wait, what? 'Pretending to be him?' A name, a face, pops into her head, and she's hoping to Gaia it isn't who she's thinking of.] Who, Shion?

volunteering for guinea pig duty :V

[fractus_animus]

[ Minato has been quiet for a majority of all that has been said and it's only after Sertoria (in Doc's body) says she will volunteer that he finally speaks up. ]

I seem to be one of the few who's still their own self... therefore, I'm volunteering as a guinea pig if you really need one.

[ As anyone who knows Minato knows that being injected again by horrible things is the last thing he wants out of life, this is actually an extremely courageous and selfless thing to put up to. His fingers are brushing the back of his neck under his hair near his collar even as he speaks out of old memories and an older scar, of sorts. ]

A lot of people are switched, but if you'd find a use for someone who hasn't been, I'll be here.

[ He pauses. ]

... As for the drones, they don't show up unless someone is causing trouble, usually. We're going to need a better plan there.

this kid should have never met Reno...

[savedbyasong]

So we need to make trouble, enough of us that we will be able to investigate the drone, they are strong... [He had been killed by them once... Tried to kill them once...]

But if there were a lot of us we could probably hold one long enough to see if they had the vials.

Doc is so lecturing you both on taking too big risks after that

[thisisdisastrous]

Before anyone goes on to sacrifice themselves, we need to consider all option! As I said, my offer is only in extreme cases if we don't find anything else!

[ Minato, you've not been swapped and that would be certainly very unfair to make your life hell for the sake of science! ]

I believe we should try on the colorless collared drones first. I have never seen them harming anyone and I somehow doubt they have the same offensive capabilities than the red collared ones.

If this fails we will move on to the red collared ones, but god forgive us as it means we would have to kill each other!

[ Actually not since killing colorless collared drones summon red collared drones, but this he cannot know. ]

l m a o #YOLO 4EVER

[fractus_animus]

[ He is legitimately not going to give a single fuck if he sacrifices himself for science. ]

Well, if people have to die, I'm not bothered by that either. Why are you freaking out about it, anyway? I just volunteered myself. It's kind of my decision what I do, not yours.

[savedbyasong]

[Shion on the other hand didn't like the idea of hurting others but...]

If... If we attack the clear collared workers the red collared ones will come... I... It happened once, in the infirmary... [He doesn't like remembering it... but if it will help.

Also yes he agrees with Minato, it's his choice what he does, he wants to help solve this, Reno is in danger.]

[thisisdisastrous]

It is your choice but because we're revived within 24 hours does not mean we should run into death when other options are still open to us!

[ He turns to Shion then-- ]

Excellent! Worse case situation we simply have to disable the non-colored drones to bring the red ones. However I advise being moderate during this operation.