[Text/Action (if you wanna)]: It's Business Time

[manicurious]

It's hard to type when I can't feel my fingers so I'll keep this short.

I've been waiting for a good time to announce this but there isn't one.

When we looked at Lab 3 I got this message:

This time, Ichijou Seiya, I do plan to tell you. I have tried the clandestine method under various disguises, but those offer little joy now, not when you all expect it.

No, this time, you get a bit of truth. A truth that, if your so-called saviors had possessed the forethought, you ought to have heard from the beginning. Unfortunately, we all know what is said about truth, especially if it is a truth that has been kept from us for so long.

There is a switch on the wall by the door to that room. Press it and you will see the "machines" you thought were tasked with returning you to your homes. These are but mere illusion, meant to fool you into thinking there was an actual scientific method of man's doing that could send you across worlds and through various dimensions. A clue to it all lies before you.

But the hard truth is: only two beings possess knowledge of the true way home, and neither are in a position to do so. One, quite willingly, will never do so, and the other won't get the chance to. He tried so hard to save you, but his plans have only led to my gaining an ever-increasing amount of strength over this beautiful experiment.

I have said before there is no escape and that, my dear friends, has never been a lie.

Good-bye for now. I eagerly await your screaming messages at me once more.


The part about the switch was accurate.

I was putting together a timeline for someone and realized: Nathan wouldn't tell me to forbid entry into that room for no reason.

If the machines were a ruse, the only other notable things there were pictures of us.

The pictures are what I was supposed to be protecting. The flash we all saw as we arrived here may have been a camera taking a picture like I originally thought.

That's all I have for now.

Find me if you need me.

Comments

[manicurious]

I sort of got that impression, yes. Any place which can produce guys who can light a bonfire with their face must be rather fantastical.

Even if it is some weird place in America.

I suppose you're right about the sincerity of the information that I had been providing, but to be perfectly honest, I wouldn't be surprised if people thought that I was intentionally trying to provide false information. It's hardly a secret that I don't look forward to seeing all of you leave since it means that I'll be here all alone again. I've never encountered a more pleasant group of people.

On the other hand, I hate that you're all stuck here when it's like this. It makes me feel like an awful host even though I have no control over any of it.

[tactilekonesis]

thanks? :/

you can't go back to your world? or to one of ours? i know my earth's no stranger to refugee aliens. i know you wanted to stay in luministi but there's gotta be some kinda compromise

i'd like to go back but i'm not holding my breath either

[manicurious]

I could go back to my world, but I'd rather not. If I go back there I'll die miserably soon after.

I never thought about going to someone else's, though. That's a wonderful idea.

[tactilekonesis]

oh. that sucks.

it should be pretty easy right? i mean if they can get us from our worlds then they can also take us back - and they'd already have the coordinates or locations of our worlds, so it should be easy to plug those in

[manicurious]

I don't know about that. I would have thought that to be true if we knew that machinery was responsible for sending us here, but if it's magic or whatever based on those photos? I can imagine the possibility that passage from one place to another is only a two-way venture.

Not that I know anything about magic.

[tactilekonesis]

like i'd know either! magic and i aren't friends
i know a magician but she's closer to my dad

doesn't sophie know enough? you could ask her

[manicurious]

I know that feeling all too well.

Miss Sophie might be able to comprehend this more, yes. I don't know if I'll ask her. She was angry with me last time I saw her and I'm a bit nervous about what she might do to me if she isn't over it.

[tactilekonesis]

seriously? :/ I'LL ask her if you're too scared to

[manicurious]

I'm not scared!!

I just enjoy having the ability to breathe.

It's called being reasonably cautious.

[tactilekonesis]

what the crap did you do to her? 8/
i've never seen sophie angry before

frustrated and grumpy once but never outright mean

[manicurious]

I withheld some information.

[tactilekonesis]

[You can practically hear his facepalming]

no wonder
i'd be furious too

[manicurious]

Well I thought it would be safer to avoid disclosing too much information about what I thought were the controls to whatever makes people come and go around here.

The last thing I want is for us to accidentally send one of you guys into the sun or something because we touched something that we weren't supposed to be touching.

Rules exist for a reason, you know?