luministi | Shield 04

[Once again, Kon's in the Talon, drinking a huge cup of coffee (which in itself's a bad sign - Kon doesn't really like the taste of it). He stares at the screen blankly for a moment before he goes ahead and asks:]

I know I wasn't here that long, but this Filippo Rescari's offer sounds ridiculous. He said he was the guy that tortured you guys last year - so was he the one that put everyone on reality TV? [There's a long pause as Kon realizes belatedly...] And did he put us on reality TV AGAIN?

I'm kinda wondering now since he was able to watch us and stuff. It's like we're all in one giant episode of the Truman Show - only we know this place's fake and we need to get out fast. I don't know about you guys, but the Talon and Professor's car and Willis's house and Ichijou's weird tub of blood... all those things being here aren't good.

I like the Talon, but I didn't want my world to be affected by this stupid experiment too. Are we still looking for that lab? I think I want in. And if we're not... well, come down and have some coffee. It'll all be on the house. [Nevermind that it was already free in the first place.]

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[A world from back when an atlas was halfway a work of fiction!]

By specifics, do you mean anything remotely helpful?

...nah. Not directly to me, anyway. Maybe to one of the others, but to tell you the truth I was zoning in and out there for a while. Best I got was that we need to find some map of all the secret labs while Nathan goes and does something else unspecific.

[Yeah, Flynn's not very impressed with the vagueness of this task and it's written all over his deadpan expression.]

You'd think this place would eventually run out of labs, wouldn't you?

[Kon's not too impressed either.] They'd really hide a map of a secret lab here? It doesn't take a genius to realize that's a pretty dumb idea.

You never know, man - this place's changing too often for me to keep track of it.

Stranger things have happened. Really, though, you've got to admit it's fishy. If this place was this well thought out, you'd think they wouldn't leave maps around...

[He's run into some pretty dumb guards in his life, but usually he's found they're balanced out by the guys who actually know what they're doing. Or, you know, by a really smart horse.]

Are you getting the feeling that no one is actually telling us the truth here? As a professional liar -- a former one, mind you -- that's the feeling I'm picking up from all this. Just saying.

It's not just you. Everyone's got their own agenda, and I can't blame anyone for that, but it'd be a lot simpler if we could just unravel it all to figure out how to get back.

Plus, maps're kind of old fashioned, even for this place.

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