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[alilyinthemoonslight]

[Lily appears on the Network for the first time in... weeks, really. Beyond a couple of text posts here and there, she's still been largely... shut down. As it stands, she looks more than a little worn out. Lack of sleep isn't as severe as it was a couple weeks ago, but things have still clearly taken a certain toll on her.

All the same, she smiles weakly at the camera. She's in her and Winter's room at the hotel provided to them in Germany.]

Hello, everyone. I've been... quiet for a little while, and I'm sorry about that. I can't say I've been in nearly as bad a spot as other people, but... [She bites her lip.] I guess I need to still work on dealing with certain kinds of things better, myself.

[She shakes her head.] But that's not what I'm here about.

Some weeks ago, Numbered were permitted by the German and Austrian authorities to investigate the large tower that appeared. Winter, myself, and several others made our way through it and eventually... well, found out we can go higher in it, and to space. You might already know about that, but...

We weren't the only ones there. Winter and I encountered two of the aliens - Geoff Benwick and Badri Barkley. But what we saw was them arguing, heatedly. In a language neither of us have ever heard or could understand.

Winter was recording it via Network access at the time, although there's no sound. Barkley in particular was acting strangely, once they noticed our presence - making a supposed "joke" about blowing the place up with us in it, which was what prompted us to transform. Instinct, I guess. And he brazenly admitted they got in their uninvited, having "lots of was of getting into places without permission."

Benwick was much more even tempered, but it was... very, very strange. Informing the authorities out here, they're tightening security, and have told us to keep an eye out for them. If they do anything else particularly strange, we should notify authorities, probably on both continents.

They also want information on them, whatever we might have. I can't... say this is a bad idea, especially knowing how dangerous Barkley could potentially be, for a group of people who said they came with no real weapons.

[Though perhaps not technically untrue - Badri is not inherently a weapon. Right?]

Also sort of bothersome... they had a bunch of Happy Meals. A lot. This isn't so strange, but... there were bags from all over Europe. I noticed that when were there, and going back over Winter's footage and doing some searching, it looks like there were ones in German, French, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, Greek, Finnish, Polish, and Hungarian.

They've been going all over the place, and if this is the first we're realizing this... That bothers me more than a little bit.

Still... this is just what we ran into. Be careful, and if you see anything else amiss... Tell someone.

[OOC - Apologies this is so late after the actual event, although they did not actually come across the aliens until late into that post as it was, plus some necessary fact checking with the mods! Luckily, a little mental trauma kept some folks grounded for a bit, so that... works for the most part. :D; ]

Comments

[video]

[gogoghostpowers]

[Well well well, look who's decided to show his face around here again. It's been a while since he did or said...well, much of anything on the network. About a month or so, really.]

Huh...

Did you tell the German authorities that you saw the aliens up there?

[alilyinthemoonslight]

[Lily appears ... more than a little surprised, eyes widening at even seeing him.]

Danny...

[She bites her lip though, focusing more at the question at hand first.] Yes, of course. I don't think they're terribly happy about it, all things told.

[gogoghostpowers]

I wouldn't be either, if I found out aliens were secretly sneaking up my space...station thing.

[He rubs his chin, looking deeply engrossed in thought.]

Do you know what language they were talking in? Could you try running it through Google Translate or something and see what language it might be, or what they were saying?

[alilyinthemoonslight]

For beings that have supposedly been so up front until now...

[She sighs.] Unfortunately, I can't do that. I'm fluent in a couple languages and have dabbled in others here and there [lest we forget Lily is a NERD] and whatever they were speaking... I didn't recognize it. Unfortunately, Winter wasn't recording audio either... we were just trying to get a documentation of what we were seeing, and this was the last sort of thing we expected.

[feastorfamine]

... And that party a few weeks ago came after all of this happened...

That's a lot to think about, Lily.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

[So apparently this is just going to be a string of people she should have been talking to but hadn't lately:] Amy... yeah, I- didn't really realize that was going on, I hadn't even seen the flier until it was over with.

I... haven't been out much lately.

[feastorfamine]

... I can't really talk, so don't worry about it.

But that seems kinda suspicious when you think about it, doesn't it?

[Audio]

[chalicejoker]

...Happy Meals? Really? Of everything they could possibly be hoarding?

[Audio]

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Yeah, it's a little... odd, but the more important thing there is where all they came from. They've been... busy.

[Audio]

[chalicejoker]

And something tells me they weren't in it just for the little toys.

[Video]

[espigeonage]

I didn't go up there. That's... pretty unsettling. I wonder if they're gearing up to something.

[Video]

[alilyinthemoonslight]

No telling. Either way, it's... worrying, and if they make anymore moves only we'd notice, we should be informing the FBI and the European authorities.

[espigeonage]

Yeah. They know about Badri's little skill, right?

[Video]

[charcoalfeather]

[Aliens and happy meals.... Rakka's brow furled in confusion as she thought about all this.

Ugh. It didn't bode well with her.]

What... does this mean?

[Video]

[alilyinthemoonslight]

[Join the club, Rakka.]

I wish I knew that much, but... Whatever it is, something doesn't feel right, clearly.

[Video]

[charcoalfeather]

[Her mind rushed as she thought. It worried her so that such a thing would be happening. The aliens had seemed trustworthy at first, but now...?]

Do you think the aliens are planning something? That just doesn't sound right.

[Video]

[onecream_fivesugar]

...Did they at least share some of the McDonalds?

[Okay. Maybe now isn't the best time to be joking around.

She'll take a deep breath before she continues.]

Uhmm-You know, they didn't come with weapons.

...But I kind of heard from a friend that Badri had some freaky powers.

[Which she kind of hated to say because Badri had been very nice to her.

...She even had an autographed picture of the two of them.]

[Video]

[alilyinthemoonslight]

[Lily frowns at first.]

They offered the toys. We weren't interested.

[She nods though.]

Right, I'm aware. Emil had it shown to him back when Barkley was passing out ice cream. That fact... kind of unnerves me, to be honest.

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[onecream_fivesugar]

Yeah... I don't think I'd really be all that interested in the toys either. They aren't really as cool as they used to be.

[She'll nod back.]

Yeah, he was the one who told me too. I just wanted to be sure that you knew just in case.

...It is kind of creepy, I'm guessing they aren't as friendly as they've made themselves out to be in the past?

Voice

[icy_heavens]

So they're hopping around to places we can't get to without losing our Pulses. [Yeah, he . . . is a little unsettled by that.]

Voice

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Yeah, that's one of the main things I took away from it. A good question is, how are they "hopping around?" If they haven't been causing waves by the mysterious aliens suddenly appearing all over Europe... it can't be by traditional means.

Voice

[icy_heavens]

We really don't know that much about them, do we? [It's been a vague concern of his for a while now, but it hadn't seemed urgent in the wake on new boundaries opening up, and the mafia threats . . . He really hasn't been paying a lot of attention to the aliens.]

audio

[dragon_blossom]

So I think everyone agrees that this is sketchy as fuck, right? Has anyone mentioned any good ways to keep an eye on them yet? I mean, if they can get Happy Meals from everywhere, probably not, but... I'm nervous too.

audio

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Yes, it does seem ... sketchy as, ah. All get out.

I wish I could think of a way to monitor them, but they've got a lot more freedom of movement, so... I'm drawing blanks there.

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[dragon_blossom]

[ You can swear Lily COME ON DO IT. ]

We need friends outside of our group who have more resources. Like secret agents and spy satellites.