voice + text transcription

[expellerhead]

Who: Everyone
Broadcast: Yes
Action: N/A
When: Now

[putting his voice on this thing is...not preferable, but this has to get out to everyone to be even half as effective as aizawa would like it to be. so time to get over it.]

Gathering info for something, so I'd appreciate any participation.

One: length of time you've been here.

Two: whether or not you were in a place like this before, IE forcibly removed from your home universe and kept captive.

Three: something you wish you'd known or been told upon arrival here.

Four: something you miss most desperately from home. No 'family or friends' here, please. Material objects only.

Thanks.

[and below the soundbar, a text transcription:]


Gathering info for something, so I'd appreciate any participation.

1. Length of time you've been here.

2. Whether or not you were in a place like this before, IE forcibly removed from your home universe and kept captive.

3. Something you wish you'd known or been told upon arrival here.

4. Something you miss most desperately from home. No people, only items.

Thank you.

Comments

[expellerhead]

That whole explanation is 'not entirely dissimilar.'

This Paradisa entity, it had consciousness? Could it be communicated with?

[lord_wizard]

Indeed.] [He has suspicions, but they might get to that]

It did, in a sense - but no, we couldn't really. We're certain it was listening, but it never spoke in any direct fashion. Perhaps it was too different an entity to be able to do so in a way we would understand. Or it refused to.

[expellerhead]

Some mysterious entity that is either unable or refuses to communicate with the individuals it's abducted.

[not dissimilar indeed.]

Can you recall anything else about it? Anything it influenced? Anything like the augment glitches- events that might've altered people's memories, bodies?

[lord_wizard]

I could write whole manuscripts about the place.

It could change anything it wanted. In my time there I was an animal - twice, a woman, a younger version of myself, and I lost my voice. This is of course not counting any of the temporary insanities that struck part or all of the castle residents at the same time - the kind that would turn them violent or the occasions when the castle would seemingly transport us to a new city and make us believe we'd lived there our whole lives. It once made us all believe we were related in some way or another. Nothing was out of it's reach.

I'm sure you're coming to a similar conclusion that I have - that what Atroma can do and has done to us is much the same. Therefore it's possible that Atroma is in fact a similar entity with a different way of presenting itself. Perhaps we only think we are traveling to planets when in fact it's merely an illusion. Perhaps I never left the castle in the first place.

[expellerhead]

That last one sounds a little too incredible to believe, but I can't exactly discount the possibility. Maybe we're all there.

[god he. hates this shit]

At least that wouldn't change our priorities here. Whatever hold whatever entity this is has over us, there's got to be a way to break it.

[lord_wizard]

[And that's where they are different. Felix hates it too, but he's also come to accept it, in a way. Not that he'd stand in the way of efforts to try to escape. It just simply isn't a priority any longer]

True, it's unlikely. Especially as, within the fleet, there is no obvious concentration of magic. Nevertheless, I feel like they may be related.

It may come at a price.

[expellerhead]

Naturally. One that'll be too steep for some people, I'm sure.

Wouldn't be good entertainment otherwise.