video | un: plushiesidequest (everyone lets talk scylla)

[reincarnesiac]

( Alex looks refreshed. Which does not seem like that should be anyone's present normal, but she had a little help for feeling clear headed and then some, so she's doing better than she would have coming out of the last two weeks. She also waves to the camera, and then holds up a piece of paper with writing on one side. Slowly, she turns it over to show the back side is covered in mathematical equations. )

Hey everyone, it's Alex again. Scylla talked with me briefly right before the fog started clearing up. Mostly I wanted to bring up the journal page he left with me. I can read it out loud for people, just ask, but he said there's a total of nine more of these in Etraya right now. Anyone else get one? What he and Aurora can't talk about directly because of a specific curse on what they're allowed to say can probably be guessed at through these entries.

( Holding that mathematical side closer to the 'camera' such as it is, she adds: )

So who here are our math wizards? He said the mathematics explains what's going on, and his challenge was us looking for a solution to the whole problem. I don't think he actually thinks we will, which kind of makes me want to all the more.

( Another pause. )

If you have questions about what else we talked about, you can ask that too.

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[reincarnesiac]

( She claps her hands! )

Oh, good! Now we're at two of ten! We can either make copies so people can work on them at the same time, or... no, okay, let's make copies. One to keep the side with all the journal entries together, and one for the side with all the mathematics. Accelerator wants to look at them, so now that's two we can copy, and then... yeah!

( She pauses to think about what might work best after that last yeah. There's at least one place with a copier that she knows of... so. )

Do you want to go ahead and hold onto the one you found and meet me over at the 7-Eleven so we can make copies? Then I can get you what I have at the same time, and have a copy of yours, and however many more people want.

[demainvient]

[ He's still tired, worn ragged from everything the fog had shown him, but his smile warms, brightens, and he lifts a hand to gesture as he picks up her train of thought and keeps going with it. ]

Once the others are found, we ought to make sure they're posted someplace public where everyone can see them even if they don't want a copy of their own. Or maybe make enough they can be handed out when new people arrive... put them into a booklet, maybe, for anyone who might be interested.

The more eyes we have on them, the better. No telling who might have the necessary expertise to puzzle them out.

[reincarnesiac]

Any of those are great options, and if we keep a master copy of each side separately, we can keep making those copies as we need to. Even if things happen to the ones we were given, or found.

Because you're exactly right. The more people who look, the more ideas we can have, and maybe working together we'll find our way to an answer the others hadn't found. At minimum, at least the math should work out to help convince people this is all real, right?

[demainvient]

Yeah. We have the best chance at figuring out what's happening if we all work together.

[ A common sentiment in Lumière, but not one that has always applied here. ]

And if we can find out what's happening, we have a better shot at finding a way to stop it.

But first things first. When should I come meet you?

[reincarnesiac]

Exactly. The more we work together, the better chances we have.

( Alex, from a culture that also supports the idea of working together, not building islands on your own. Speaking of islands... )

Do you know the building with the number 7 and the world Eleven on it? It's in the... I think it got renamed, but on the island where the hospital is? Closer to where the trolley stop stands.

[demainvient]

Yeah, I know the place.

[ It's near the apartments, and though he hasn't been there often, he's stopped in now and then, mostly to see if there's any new kind of sour candy to bring back for Maelle. ]

I can be there soon, half an hour or so.

Glad to find I'm not the only one who picked one of these up. We need all the information we can get.