A dead man's wish

[warriorscribe]

Characters: Everyone.
Setting: Everywhere, July 11th
Format: Whatever you want - it's a mingle log, after all.
Summary: While Naoya gets the reveal started on the network, Enoch takes care of physical copies.
Warnings: Reveal. Info. Nothing else, inherently.

*There's something different about the tower today. Not in a big way, not like the power or glamours are out. For one thing, everyone with a mailbox will get this note, unsigned:

Souls in our world are defined as the self. Even those without anything that can be considered a soul in their own worlds would manifest one here. Souls are extremely resilient - they can be torn out of their body and survive provided they are removed in the right manner. But they shouldn't be of course - the side effects might be disastrous in ways we can't quite understand. It's happened here before. Souls can be torn out of this world the same as in any other. Here though they can split - that's extremely important. They can split and merge if you have the right skillset. Never lose your soul in the Tower of Animus. None of yours are yet lost - but never lose it! They won't come back whole if you let her swallow them up. The power must have gone by now - she'll want to restore the tower. Everyone who ended up trapped on their own worlds is now in grave danger! She can't take souls as Zo can, but she can siphon them and she can squeeze all the energy out of them.

As soon as this message is decoded put it in as many places as possible! Put it on the network make copies and plaster them on the walls. Do everything you can so that as many people read this message as possible. There isn't enough energy to erase everyone's memories!

Remember - souls born here can be split and reabsorbed here. A soul born elsewhere can be split there, but there's no way to put it back together unless you can put it back where it's supposed to be.

Not everything is as fake as it seems. Your souls are here and you have all been drugged to keep certain aspects of yourselves contained but every part of you is here. You can use that against them if you can figure out how to unchain yourselves. I'm afraid you'll have Jason as your first opponent as he's the one with the keys you need. Be careful! There is information everywhere though much of it has been nearly permanently sealed. I can make it possible for you to access it, although you will all have to unlock it.

If that wasn't strange enough, you've probably seen it already. The same message is posted throughout the tower - on bathroom stalls, on walls, on tables. There are easily over a hundred pieces of paper.

And hey... Isn't that the same note "the Observer" put up on the network yesterday evening?*

((ooc: Mingle log for reactions off the network! Have fun!))

Comments

[crouching_sin]

It is. Responding to that post is fun, too. Even though it's a little aggravating to pretend to be a teenage girl, the intelligence management part is fun.

[He uses hsi extra speed to build up a run, and leaps to smack a poster a bit higher. Hopefully it'll take retrieval units longer to get it off since it's a bit out of reach.]

[His own retrieval unit tail is attempting to keep up.]

[destructiveprinciples]

Good to know you're having fun satisfying yourself, here. A bit of aggravation is a small price to pay~ [ No retrieval unit here, since he isn't important in the administrators' eyes to warrant one which suits Avenger just fine. ]

Ah-huh. The first responder, that girl. She knew you, from your world, right? Who's she? [ A mental laugh. ] Nightmares about you acting like a teenager girl, huh?

[ There's an odd sort of cheer, sticky with his usual hatred and resentment, that filters through to Naoya. ]

[crouching_sin]

She's my cousin. Albeit from another version of my world - in mine my cousin is male. She chose a different path - she took my option of becoming the King of Demons, instead of the Messiah as he did in my version of events.

What she went through was regretful, though she was the only one who could do it - that's why I placed her in that situation. I did send her some emails from 'The Observer' - an algorithm I set up. You could say it predicted the future - it was more like it took into account events and movements and other factors to compile a daily list of things that were likely to happen. I believe it was fairly helpful.

But we were raised as siblings, which I imagine is why she's going to have nightmares about pretending to be a teenage girl.

[He chuckles a little bit, as he heads up the stairs. The music room next, likely.]

[destructiveprinciple]

[ He's familiar with alternate universes. Though gender was a new difference, if a minor one. ]

The one you said you were raised with as brothers? That one... Hm, at least she's not as big on being a misguided idiot as to turn to something like God when she claimed great power. Messiahs never turn out happily for anybody. After all, the only thing a human being can save is themselves. [ This 'Observer' algorithm sounded like it had been a useful application of math and experience. ] She got put through the wringer then? If she came out the other side, good enough, eh!

Hahaha, I got'cha.

[ Oh yeah, Saber's dormitory room. Let's stuff some notes under the door. ]

[crouching_sin]

Sometimes not even then. But yes. She's still a bit of a misguided idiot, but that's normal for older siblings to think of their younger ones.

[Aaaand taping one to the piano as well as any large instrument.]

[destructiveprinciples]

[ Okay, done with this dormitory block, onto the next block. ]

Gotta' give them points for effort anyway. [ In the hallway, he's a dark shadow moving silently along. ] Have fun keeping her in one piece.