an issue so serious it calls for Serious Chinese Food
[ Filtered from the First Gens. (Outsiders, People Beyond, etc.)]By now we've all gathered that everyone disappearing is ending up in the Dead Zone. We don't know why, but until we get more clues, we have to focus on getting those people back safely
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It's good advice, though when it comes to people stuck without journals, there's the potential problem that they'll be too far out for the smoke signals to be seen and they'll be stuck waiting around for a train that's never gonna come.
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My bigger concern is that it might attract other people.
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... That's a worry too, but I think it'd be more dangerous for them to try to escape detection, given there'd be roughly no hope of us finding them if they were actively trying to keep out of anyone else's sights.
Ollie was talking about whether this could be connected to that Midnight Man incident, seeing as how it involved kidnappings too. But trying to figure out why they'd be dumping anyone out there...
I mean, it could be possible someone from here was testing whether the Outsiders meant business about not letting anyone out there. In which case, they might want these people to be found by the wrong party ( ... )
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I don't know much about this Midnight Man incident, but Jr.'s been sweeping Insolitus, and I'm going to go over it again at a microscopic level when I have a moment. Might turn up something, but if it doesn't, that trail's gone cold.
Who here would be testing those waters? Aside from Riful and Arthas living near the border, all of the other people I know who cause trouble either don't seem to care about going beyond the border, would die if they crossed, or are smarter than that. If it's really about testing whether the Outsiders would kill, why not wait for one of those big expeditions? The quest for knowledge is a little more threatening than some lost, unarmed people with no supplies.
But, again, there's no way someone from the castle could move people that far, that fast. That isn't even to mention that Tony would know if the Ironman suits entered the area again.
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I don't know enough of the people here to rule out that one of them might put the possibility of getting out of here above the lives of some of their fellow residents. It's not something I really like thinking about, it was just a possibility. But it's a moot point anyways, since even if someone were willing to go that far, they couldn't have been behind this. Which means if we have a culprit, it's the castle, or something outside of it.
And I have to agree, it seems an odd move for the castle to make, since it seems so intent on keeping people in. But I thought the Outsiders in Tony's suits had actually physically brought people back here before; if they had the means to just magically transport residents from spot to spot like this, why ( ... )
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Which is why none of this makes sense. The castle has no reason to put people in a place where it doesn't like people going. The Outsiders have no reason to drag people out there, unless they're trying to lure out groups... which makes no sense, because they asked us to stay out entirely.
As for residents, many of them would be capable of pulling off the kidnapping without anyone noticing -- Prime, Hank, Riful, Joshua, anyone with magic or superspeed. But even then, how could anyone get them a hundred miles out into the Dead Zone, instantaneously?
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Unless there's someone out there we don't know about yet. Or we're reading someone or something's motivations all wrong.
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As for a dark horse somewhere... that's always a possibility.
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You'll be happy to hear, though, that I cast my vote for turning castleward again once we get everybody back within the borders. For now, at least.
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You can save the sales pitch, like I said, I already accept that now's not the world's best timing. We've got bigger things to worry about. Just have to convince the rest of the crew to feel the same way, and I think Claire's the only one who might argue.
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[He will carry her back kicking and screaming if it comes to it.]
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