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.]

Comments

[sugarslice]

Oh. [ Oh, right. She mentioned that somewhere in that wall of text (wow). ]

I've never seen one of those before. What do they look like, gremlins? Furbies?

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Gremlin Furbies? I don't know, but regardless... they're sort of a bad sign of what may be going down here. The lights, the Vermini... it's a pattern.

[sugarslice]

[ Ehhh. ]

I wouldn't sweat it. We kicked ass once. We can do it again. More importantly, we should enjoy Vegas before anything shitty happens to it.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

I'd prefer to be kicking the butt of the right thing this time, and not a rampaging monster that wasn't supposed to wake up. We need to make sure nothing terrible happens so anyone CAN enjoy Vegas, I think.

[...unsubtle... censoring... She can't help herself, which is surprising around her sister and Marina.]

[sugarslice]

There's another monster?!

[alilyinthemoonslight]

[Pause.]

That was... mostly rhetorical. But if everything keeps running in the same pattern... I don't want to think about how else it may end.

[sugarslice]

I am not letting another round of mother fucking snakes ruin my time in Vegas. What's the next step in the pattern?

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Well, I wasn't there at the time. But luckily Dr. Solus' FAQ is thorough...

Soon after the Network evidently started and the Vermini appeared, Paul Ben was killed. I'd like to hope that's not part of a PATTERN there, so the next thing to look for is...

The snake statues.

But, Proud is dead...

[sugarslice]

Maybe there's another guy like him, only his theme is something different... like crocodiles.

Have you seen any crocodiles?

[ This connection makes sense in her head. ]

[alilyinthemoonslight]

...I think the only crocodiles around here are at the Mandalay Bay.

I hope.

I REALLY hope there's no one else with the ability to make the things Proud did, though...

[sugarslice]

Maybe we should get rid of them just in case.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Angeline, no. We're not going to go randomly kill some poor creatures in captivity!

[sugarslice]

You got a problem with prevention?

[alilyinthemoonslight]

When you have no proof of them doing anything wrong? Yes, yes I do.

[sugarslice]

[ ...................................................... well. Okay.

She can concede to that point. ]

Well, we have to do something. Let's at least check them out.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Certainly. If we don't have a lot of area to cover, we've got to go over everything that IS here. That's one place we'll definitely have to look.

[If only to convince against the slaughter of innocent animals.]