Text; Evening 4/8

[alilyinthemoonslight]

As anyone's noticed from Winter's update, we arrived in one piece. With our pulses/echoes intact, but there's some caveats to that. So... a quick rundown, for anyone interested:

Upon leaving Locke City's barrier, our pulses were not entirely LOST - rather, they were weakened severely. Memories of the Network and regained memories of other lives became fuzzier. I didn't try to transform, but I imagine it wouldn't have worked, although my transformation device remained. But there was still some remnant, or trace of things - but it was like trying to pull back thoughts veiled through static. Just not... QUITE there, but I knew they SHOULD have been. It's a weird sensation, but... it's important. One can hypothesize that the more of these light there are, the wider WE can reach. At the very least, it's enough to keep you on track if you travel outside.

Everything returns in full at a certain point when hitting the Las Vegas barrier. There's a difference, however: This barrier is much smaller. A cursory walkabout leads me to believe it doesn't go terribly far away from the Vegas strip.

The hotel offer is entirely legitimate. If you have super powers.

Unfortunately, that walkabout also turned up one disturbing thing - I spotted a creature that most definitely should not have been there. A hairy little creature. No one else seemed to notice it, and it took off before I could get close enough. It was before my time on the Network, but based on what I know... I think it was a Vermini.

As an side: You can smell CLOUDS cigarette smoke from casinos without even being relatively close to them. I practically feel the need to walk around this place with an air freshener as a necklace.

[OOC - Small note to roommates: By the time of posting this, Lily would have informed any of them of all this. Anyone in that vicinity is free to harass her via action for the evening time, as well.]

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[argents]

Likewise. Unless I have a silver dress in my future that my brain is keeping me in the dark about.

[ pls don't let him jinx that ]

Well, anywhere you go - there's birds, right? Stray cats, mice. Those sorts of things. And it's not just that, but we think they were created, or at least stored somewhere. So...where?

[alilyinthemoonslight]

THERE'S a mental image.

Well, true... That's a good point.

The thing is, the area WE can search here is much smaller than Locke City. Because if we venture outside of it, we won't know why we are probably, so... We just have to hope its in this one space. Which gives less ground to cover technically, but a lot of those buildings reach a ways under the street, too.

[argents]

I probably ought to be sorry for that one.

Anyway, I wonder if it's just us who are affected by that barrier, or if it's everything related to this. Including the Vermini. No matter what, you probably have your work cut out for you, if you're going to try to catch one. No one even managed that back then, I don't think.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

You should be.

But I suppose we could always kick one at where the barrier stops and see what happens.

Catching one, though... It's probably a tall order, but at the same time... A lot of people have a lot more to work with than a year ago. Including us. I think it's feasible, but it'll obviously take some work.

[argents]

Then officially, I'm sorry.

And good luck. If there's anyone I know who won't shy away from work, it's probably you. Winter, too. I'll see if I can dig up anything from a year ago in the meantime, when everyone was still trying to figure this out. Square one, I guess.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

I'll accept that. This time.

But... thank you, Banagher. I've been going back to try and look over things, but it's a lot to sort through. You have the experience more than I do, so if you think of anything at all, it would more than likely be helpful. Especially if it is indeed "square one" again.

[argents]

Anytime. Thinking about it this way, a year seems like a lot, even when it passed by so quick. Maybe we still can't call ourselves prepared, but at least now we have a shot at keeping things from getting bad.