67th Gear. ...always pick the WORST times to come back. [Video]

[naniteknight]

Someone wanna tell me why there's a giant bubble shield over the city? And why my builds are breaking down before I can even finish making them? I'm not coming in tired, everything should work!

[Yep, guess who's back. And just in time to find everything gone to Hell in a hand basket.]

[From the look of it, Rex is still near the outer Northern

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[Video]

[lastminutestuff]

I WONDER THAT "WELCOME BACK" WOULD BE APPROPRIATE, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, BUT NEVER THE LESS...

[Video]

[naniteknight]

Yeeeaaaah, I do kinda wonder about that.

Good to see you though, Death. Glad you didn't up and leave while I was gone!

[Video]

[lastminutestuff]

I AM NOT SO EASY TO GET RID OF.

[Video]

[naniteknight]

That would make two of us.

So aside from total chaos around here, does anyone have an idea of how to handle this situation? I mean, we're supposedly staring down the barrel of impending doom here, right?

[Video]

[lastminutestuff]

ON THE CONTRARY, IT MAY BE THE OPPOSITE. NAUTILUS HAS BEEN LIFTED MUCH TOO FAR FROM CHAOS.

THUS FAR THERE HAS BEEN NO ACTION TAKEN, OTHER THAN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE COMING OF SAID "IMPENDING DOOM." DOING THAT ITSELF MAY NOT BE SO EASY EITHER, CONSIDERING THE STATE OF BENDING, AND EVEN THOSE ABILITIES BOUND HAVE NOT BEEN FUNCTIONING AS THEY SHOULD.

[Video]

[naniteknight]

Well, more like...muted chaos among people. Sounds like there's general confusion, like no one knows what to do on top of stress, flaring tempers, all that kind of thing.

If the almost total loss of bending has something to do with winding the chains like Doc Holiday told me, is there anyway to unwind them?

[Video]

[lastminutestuff]

-OH, THAT WAS A FIGURATIVE SORT OF THING, WASN'T IT...

[He clears his throat.]

BUT THAT WOULD COVER MOST OF IT, YES. AS FOR UNWINDING, IT DOES NOT SEEM LIKE THE DEVICES HEKKET PROVIDED TO WIND THE CHAINS IN THE FIRST PLACE OPERATE IN REVERSE, AND HEKKET HAS NOT BEEN SEEN TO ASK.

[Video]

[naniteknight]

So the chains are stuck like that...

Somehow that seems a little too convenient, not having a reverse switch or something. It doesn't look too good that no one can find Hekket, either. And not like cutting the chains would help because then we'd just plunge...

[Video]

[lastminutestuff]

[Death nods slowly.]

NASH HAD GONE TO TRACK HIM DOWN, BUT THAT HAS BEEN WEEKS AGO AND HE HAS NOT BEEN SEEN SINCE.

OF THE DEVA, ONLY NERIAE HAS BEEN SEEN LATELY.

[Video]

[naniteknight]

...I really don't like the sound of that. You'd know if something happened to him, though, right? I mean, can you tell even if Nash ended up outside of Nautilus?

[Because you're Death. You...should know, right...?]

Neriae... Guess that explains the bubble over the city.

[Video]

[lastminutestuff]

THAT HE IS SOMEWHERE JUST OUT OF RANGE OF THE CITY IS ALL THAT I CAN VERIFY, ASIDE FROM THAT HE STILL BREATHES. THIS IS ALSO WHY IT TOOK SOME EFFORT TO LOOK INTO THE SITUATION WITH ORIHIME AND SKYFIRE; ALTHOUGH I BELIEVE IN THAT INSTANCE, IT IS NOT MERELY A FAILING OF MY BOUND ABILITIES SO MUCH AS THE DARK AEON'S INTERFERENCE.

I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO CLEARLY READ ANYTHING BEYOND THE BOUNDS OF THIS CITY, WHICH WOULD NOT NORMALLY BE A PROBLEM SO LONG AS THE SUBJECT IS ONE OF THE WAKENED.