sub-quest five | I still want to believe you'll return

[knockedonwood]

CHARACTERS | All unaffected characters
DATE | Dec 5th - 18th
RATING | PG-13
SUMMARY | Many of the players in The World seem to be dropping into a deep sleep you're unable to wake them from. Those of you left awake are also left wondering just what's happening to your friends and comrades. What could be affecting so many people?

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Dec 8-9th

[knockedonwood]

The Lost Ones have woken up for a few hours only to fall back into their comas. It seems the symptoms are the same as it was before but did you manage to glean any useful information from them while they were awake?

And again, the GMs are still nowhere to be found.

[dimension_door]

Albel had woken up for a few hours and while Fayt knew it would most likely end up futile, he had tried to get a decent conversation with the cranky Elicoorian. Not... the most successful of tactics. The Earthling had been left with more questions than answers.

"Just what is happening?" Fayt wondered aloud, as he typed up another flashmail to one of the GMs. Because if they had no answer to this mystery, then who would?

Or maybe he was just looking in all the wrong places. He could always form a party to go and see if there was any information to be gained from the fields...

[coilturn]

"They're not going to respond, you know..."

Suddenly, a voice from behind! ...And a rather chilling one, at that.

But the awkward middle-schooler had been watching people pull out their Relics and typing frantic messages for a couple of days now, to no avail. May as well get this guy to quit while he was ahead... hmm, and that typing style seemed very familiar, somehow. Which meant that he was close enough to read it. Just how long had Kageno been standing there, anyway...?

[dimension_door]

Fayt almost jumped out of his skin when Kageno appeared behind him. Really! You'd think after having met so many different people, the blue haired student would be more used to being snuck up on. Apparently not.

"Whoa-!" he spun around, Relic still in hand because he had grown used to having to hold onto his weapon during... Well, during any sort of distraction in battle. It was a skill that was very handy here in The World if his recent encounters with other players were any indication.

"Well, if they are suppose to be GMs, they should be responding." Fayt replied, still slightly off due to the surprise and the new confusion in regards to Kageno's appearance. Hair over their eyes? Was looking like someone out of a psychological-horror the new fad?

He'd been away from Earth too long.

[coilturn]

Hm-- the reaction was somewhat Handa-like. He rather missed it...

If Fayt's surprise had made Kageno uncomfortable, it certainly didn't show. He stood rather stiffly in front of the blue-haired boy, eyelessly staring back at him with a grim expression.

"They haven't been responding to anyone," Kageno responded, very simply. "Everyone's been trying to reach them for days, but it's as if they disappeared..." the cleric trailed off a bit uncomfortably. He didn't like being the bearer of bad news-- not that he was often the bearer of any news to begin with-- but at this point, any information could be considered as useful, couldn't it?

[dimension_door]

Kageno's response was met with silence before Fayt mutters quietly: "I can't believe it..."

The GMs weren't responding? How irresponsible could they be? His grip on the Relic tightens; the authority couldn't have just abandoned them! Then again, his own world was suppose to have been deleted. Who knows if the same thing would occur here?

... Fayt hoped the same thing wouldn't happen here.

"There must be something we can do for them. Or something we can do about this situation," he said in frustration.

[coilturn]

Kageno remained quiet for the moment, at least seeming less frustrated than the other boy. Perhaps it wasn't that the GMs weren't doing anything-- maybe it was that they couldn't. It was a strange enough situation to begin with-- who could really say what was going on?

And maybe, just maybe... they needed help? From the players?

It was true that everything was a lot easier with the right teamwork, so maybe...

"...Got to be..." Kageno murmured softly. "...But it's hard to know where to start..."

[dimension_door]

For Fayt, who had been through something akin to a game world like this, the idea of the higher ups not being able to do anything to help - or at least provide information or clues for what the people could do - was frustrating. Then again, no one save Blair ever really cared about the 'characters' that inhabited the Eternal Sphere. Which meant that this whole scenario was only to be expected.

"We start where we can... At least, that's the only thing we can do. Would you mind helping me out again?" Here, he stopped to smile a bit sheepishly. After all, while Fayt wanted to help everyone, one person in particular stood out in the crowd.

"Even if I don't know someone well, I can't just bring myself to just leave them. Y'know?"

[coilturn]

"...I know." The tall boy smiled back softly and nodded in agreement, shifting his staff in his hands. He was finally used to carrying the strange instrument around, and in a situation like this, though he couldn't fix everything with a wave as he was sure other Clerics could, it made him feel useful.

It had been a long time since he'd felt like that.

"What would you like me to do...?"

[dimension_door]

"I ran into someone else a while back who could use healing spells. It didn't work..." Fayt frowned.

"Maybe if we asked a few of the townspeople, they might have some information for us. If this is suppose to be some quest that the GMs set up then this really sucks."

It was a lame finish, but even if he'd been through the philosophical destruction of his own world... Well, something like this was trying all the same. It wouldn't be so bad if one of his friends was here. Cliff, Nel, Mirage, anyone just so he could have a second opinion or... something. Was he just homesick?

"Let's go together. That way, if there really is something we need to do, the two of us don't have to run across town to find each other."