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[idolpro]

Who: Those who returned, and those who never left.
Where: Tokyo-F
When: Day 99, early morning

[ Hopefully enough of you got word out—

It's dawn in Tokyo-F, and the last few of your number to make it spill through the crack in the world, before the world boundary seals itself up again. Now your phones work once more, and the light down here is the dim twilight light of early morning.

Some of you might be missing, but most of you are here. Do you want to talk about it? Should you talk about it? Perhaps it'd be wiser not to address it where the cameras might see. ]

Comments

[liftoft]

Where's--

[ ...uh, a lot of people ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I don't know.

[liftoft]

Well, then--! We gotta... we gotta get back in there, or...

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Don't do anything rash. We wait 24 hours and see if they get coughed up.

[liftoft]

Sure... sure... and if they don't, then they're sufferin' an extra twenty-four hours for nothin'. Damn!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Not for nothing.

[liftoft]

[ RRRRrrrrrrrnnnnggggg ]

--Then we start plannin' now, so if they don't show back up by tomorrow we'll be ready.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Ready to do what exactly?

[liftoft]

Save people, obviously! I ain't leaving people trapped...!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

No one's questioning that.

How?

[liftoft]

I dunno just yet! That's the part we're gonna figure out while we wait!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Well now's the right fucking time for belief and optimism to actually manifest into something tangible.

Surely you must have some idea what to do next.

[liftoft]

Step one is trackin' down people who know more about all of this than I do--that means you and Anubis for sure.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

And ask what? You think I know how to rip open a portal out of Tokyo-F? If I knew how to do that parlor trick, I wouldn't fucking be here!

[liftoft]

No! I'm not lookin' for anybody to hand me an answer, and no I don't know exactly what I'm tryin' to figure out. Maybe for you 'figuring stuff out' is just 'immediately know what you're gonna do'but gimme a break here!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

People who work for me don't get breaks!

[It's true. Just ask poor B]

[liftoft]

Then help me!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

By what? Laying out a plan for you? Immediately knowing what I'm going to do?

[liftoft]

Goddammit, no! Just--rrn, never-fucking-mind, I'll do it myself!

[ and just like that, he turns and bolts off through the small crowd, clearly with Destination In Mind ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Is that destination toward the hotel or somewhere else?]

[liftoft]

[ Towards AlcheMe, for sure ]