[The PORTAL turns on, and it doesn't look like it's actually being held. In fact, it's on the ground, facing a wall and a stray cigarette.  After a moment, the cigarette is stepped on, and the PORTAL is picked up. The girl holding it up may look familiar to some, but she had disappeared off the network a while back and hadn't returned until now.]

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[Harper is sitting outside in the late afternoon light. Behind her is a partial view of an old house. The house is apparently "U" shaped, and there's a yard with a garden in the middle. Harper is sitting next to the pond, with some of her Pokémon nearby.

The roof of the house is visible and it is covered in black birds. The birds call out to each ( Read more... )

[Though his memory of the past week is fuzzy, only compounded by the pain and wooziness still lingering from his revival, Dobryn remembers enough to know that he needs to be wary of exposing his face or voice over the network. Still, he cannot keep from issuing a single question-]

Are such horrors a regular occurrence here, or was this a special ( Read more... )

There are Vita-Chambers stationed around the city. [He chuckles.] I wonder where they could have come from?

... I was wondering. For those of you who have been here for an inordinate amount of time, how long exactly has it been?

[Private to Jack:]I have another question to pose for you. Why were you revived by the Vita-Chambers in Rapture, when ( Read more... )

[The video feed turns on to show a boy with what is clearly the best hair ever hunched over a little golden pyramid that's hanging from his neck. He appears to be shouting at it.]

Partner! Partner, answer me! Yuugi! Tell me you're still there! Yuugi!

[He clearly has not noticed the PORTAL yet. You might want to change that. This is kind of

:33 < um
:33 < i think i know the answer to this already
:33 < laurent is gone isnt he??
:33 < and i know lior went and then she came back
:33 < but that doesnt happen much does it??
:33 < compurred to when they dont
:33 < and it could happen to anyone!!

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[Soubi has been searching for four days. He has been calling for four days. Still... nothing. He won't admit it to anyone else, but panic is starting to creep from the back of his mind to the fore, and all he can think of to do now is ask for help.

His expression he shows to the network is focused and serious, but any traces of fear are hidden.] ( Read more... )

[Laurent looks a bit more flushed than usual today.]

How do you tell someone that you are not interested in them in an…intimate way? Especially if they are demanding about it.

[He makes a worried face.]

[Good morning, Promenade, there is a maskless young boy shouting at you which isn't tooWOW WHY DOES HE HAVE CAT EARS.]

Hey! This letter is completely useless! [He waves the Exile's note around. ... His cat ears are twitching, and his frizzy tail is flicking around wildly, so those are definitely not fake. He also seems to have an injury, because ( Read more... )

[the feed is a little shaky, and after a moment or so it's obvious that the young girl on screen is holding the device up to record herself, having been unable to find a suitable place to prop it up and keep it functioning ( Read more... )