[Locked to the Network]

[youonlylivethrice]

As you may have heard from my esteemed colleges or seen from the video anomaly, the Mictlan appears to have caused quite a commotion. I have been approved for an expedition later tonight. However, this is to be done without the government's aid. While they appreciated your efforts during the tournament, the media's eyes are currently turned on the Visitors as a whole and if the Anoli found out what was going on, they could use this to their advantage.

Time is of the essence, as there are more and more questions as to where our peers have gone off to. Obviously that question needs an answer.

Do not bother coming if you can't stand up and fight on your own.

[OOC - You can only send one(1) of your characters. They need to be in okay condition on the 1st of February to go, and this has nothing to do with the event happening next week. This log will be rapid-paced for the most part.]

Comments

[belfire]

Hmm, I don't think it's the source of the demons.

[Call it a gut feeling - or several gut feelings, as far as his Bel demons were concerned]

It's definitely something powerful. Maybe the reason why we're stuck in this place. Like a multi-dimensional space octopus or something.

[otakuro]

So...

What, Butterfly Mask's true form?

[belfire]

Well that'd be pleasant. He's really a hentai tentacle monster under that butterfly disguise... but who knows. It's hard to get a good reading on it through grainy, Blair Witch styled videos.

[otakuro]

Yeah. I ran some tests... The data responsible for the blanks aren't just corrupted; they're totally gone altogether. I think that's as good as we're going to get.

[belfire]

Uh? You can test for that stuff...? Right, course you can.

Well in any case, guess we get to go on another ~*magical*~ adventure together. Just like old times, huh? Better bring my mistletoe with me, ahha...

[otakuro]

Mistletoe-shaped cell phone charm.

I still can't believe that actually worked. It's not like being weak to fire means someone chucking a piece of paper with fire drawn on it is going to do anything.

[belfire]

I'm guessing it ran off of cartoon logic. You know, how characters could run on midair before realising that, oh shit, this is air beneath me, let gravity suddenly work on me again.

No one really commented on it not really being a mistletoe so I guess it...worked? Or Beldr was a fucking idiot and got hurt 'cuz he thought it was actual mistletoe?

...

Demons are weird.

[otakuro]

...

Anyway. I think we're gonna need more than mistletoe for this. ......Uh.

[A short pause.]

I think this is going to be our first time fighting together again.

[Wow he had never thought about that.]

What skills and demons do you have still? My strongest are Seiten Taisei, Laksmi, and Badb Catha; the rest kind of... can't last more than a hit.

[belfire]

Uhhhhh, let me think. I only brought four of my subjects with me. Black Maria, Okuninushi, Norn and Astaroth. My COMP has Holy Dance, Hassohappa and Megidolaon, but I rarely use that nowadays. I can use magic without it, y'know.

[Well, he could, but, Hinoto-Ri messing with his powers etcetera... He's hoping they'll sort themselves out when they go to fight the multi-dimensional space octopus]

Just leave the heavy hitting and meat shielding to me.

[otakuro]

[Atsuro scrolls through his COMP as Kazuya rattles off his demons. .........Did he even have those registered........ Way to be level 80 and put him at shame Kazuya. Atsuro was at a respectable high 50s himself.]

I'll stick with the physical attacks since, uh. I have problems with the MAG stat.

...And don't eat the tentacle monster, OK? You're going to get indigestion.

[belfire]

[Kazuya got a little free battles and fusion happy okay! Gotta fight for Macca, gotta fight for auctions, GOTTA FIGHT FOR GAME BREAKER FUSION BONUSES]

I'm not fond of calamari, so no worries.

[it feels like eating rubber 8I]

This'll be like old times, huh? Man, remember those times? Trying to survive each hour while a malicious email predicted our deaths? Hahaha, those times...

[otakuro]

Gosh. It was so nice having to scrounge for food and sleep in the park on the cold, lumpy ground. And don't forget the invisible numbers only you could see.

...............Hey, what do they say now? Mine had better be somewhere upwards of 50,000 or something.

[belfire]

I don't think five digits would fit in that small cir- hey!

[Kazuya gasped]

You forgot an important game mechanic! It can't show a number higher than nine! For shame, Atsuro.

[otakuro]

...Oh!

[Whoops.]

...Hah, that's right. Some of the troops who weren't gonna die in the lockdown - you just couldn't see anything, right?

[belfire]

Right. If they got to live longer than 9 days, nothing showed up.

[Although, would it still work in here, anyways? Hmm, darn, if Kazuya went to the arena, would he have seen the Death Clocks? He didn't recall seeing any leading up to the attack...]

[otakuro]

...So how many times did you lie to us when we asked? I bet we were probably at 0 every day, weren't we?

[belfire]

Hahha, you got me.

[Kazuya grins a bit]

We were always at 0.

[otakuro]

H-Hey, what?!

[Atsuro looks slightly pale.]

Seriously?!

[belfire]

Yup, from day one. It was too much of a downer, so I just pulled numbers out of my ass.

[oh Kazuya]

[otakuro]

........Psh. Jerk.

[Atsuro shakes his head and continues to walk forward with a smile.]

Doesn't matter anyway. We've defied our fate every time, right? If it's 3 deaths or 7, we're both still here.

[belfire]

Exactly. I think we've proven that the numbers don't really mean anything. I mean, we defied our fate so hard we broke the LAPLACE mail, heh.

[And defied Naoya's calculations, which was a rare day! Well, Naoya had wanted them to defy those calculations but - well, whatever. Details]

[otakuro]

Yeah, that was a little creepy, actually. The next time we change the future, let's use a newsletter with more user-friendly error messages.

[belfire]

What, not a fan of the distorted symbols and randomised capital letters, huh?

[It was creepy though]

[otakuro]

I didn't realize Laplace's demon had a horror movie bent. If the algorithm for predicting the future is messed up, you'd think it'd just give results in probabilities or say 'undetermined' or something.

[belfire]

Yeah, but you forget that Naoya made it, and doing that probabilities stuff wouldn't be fucked up enough for him to get his jollies over. He probably knew it'd get screwed up the more we defied it.