[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

[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.

[otakuro]

...Right.

When in doubt, blame Naoya. That's probably a good rule of thumb to live by...

[belfire]

Is there any other way to live?

[Hahaha, blame Naoya for everything. It never steered him wrong (because it always ended up being Naoya's fault in a bullshit, convoluted way, just look at the lockdown!)]

[otakuro]

[In retrospect, Atsuro did not walk forward with a smile because Atsuro was speaking to Kazuya over the network so we can pretend that wasn't used whoops. Let us pretend he shook his head with a smile instead.]

If not, we can always fall back on blaming his cousin. I mean, I hear he's going around calling himself a Demon King now. Can you imagine?

[belfire]

[omg wighty pls]

Oh yes, what a strange child. Although I hear such weird things about his friend! Some people say he never leaves his room for weeks, and orders about ten dakimakura a month!

[otakuro]

Uh... clearly you're mixing people up here. First of all, it's five a month...

[belfire]

Five, ten, you still have a harem of 2D girl-pillows. Or...

[Kazuya squints]

2D guy-pillows...

[otakuro]

...You wish.

I think we're getting a little off-topic here. Maybe we should keep this for the mission...

[belfire]

Right. Yes. This type of banter is indeed for missions. Have to keep up morale somehow and all that.

[otakuro]

...

[A short pause.]

Hey, thanks for going, Kazuya.

[Because he knew, if Kazuya didn't say it explicitly, that he was going along because he felt bad about not being there for the Arena attack.]

[belfire]

Uh? Well, you know, I'm curious! And I missed out on all of the excitement with the arena attack...

...

And, y'know...I knew you'd probably tag along anyway, being the curious guy that you are. I'm just keeping an eye on you to make sure you don't keel over or something.

[otakuro]

Hey, you don't have to worry about me! I can take care of myself, don't worry.

[...]

When I... have the right skills equipped.

Sorry to get you caught up in this.