ZERO;

[crashout]

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[fleuris]

Zuhdelta? Interesting name.

[ what the fuck is a Radical-6? ]

... And what do you mean, you "got to the timeline"?

[ are Carlos and Junpei like Accord? ]

[crashout]

[Awkward...]

...we knew him as Zero in the game before he told us his real name, Delta. The one in charge of the original game the year before was also named Zero.

[So. Haha. Anyway.]

It's a thing Carlos and I can do...a few of us learned when we were playing the game to get out of the bomb shelter. It's called SHIFTing. [He rolls his eyes a little.] To make it really simple? It's jumping timelines, leaving past selves behind and moving to switch places with other versions of ourselves while still being...ourselves.

[Is that simple, Junpei? Is it.]

[fleuris]

[ hm... she rolls her eye at that little reveal. ]

If I want to kill someone, I wouldn't set up some stupid murder gauntlet - I'd just kill them.

[ is that supposed to be reassuring...? ]

So you're moving your souls to new bodies?

[ or maybe it's just the mind... seems like something straight out of Three's experiment book, or- ]

Sounds like something the Old World would cook up, but I've never seen it happen before. Too bad you can't do that here - we might actually be able to figure something out instead of relying on unfriendly ghosts.

[crashout]

Yeah, figured that out pretty fast. But thanks for the reminder. [Wry. It's fine, he's happy to know Zero's up front about her murders. Nevertheless, that's an interesting way to put it and he nods along.]

Consciousness, but yeah more or less. There's a few things that have to happen to do that, and the body has to be yours and also alive, but it makes a swap between you and the other version of yourself. They're like branches of the same tree.

I suspect whoever brought us here thought I'd just try to SHIFT my way out. Carlos couldn't do it either while he was here. And accessing the morphogentic field itself wasn't working last time I checked.

[fleuris]

Well, from what I've heard, no one can use their abilities here. It's not entirely a surprise you can't use your morpho... thing.

[ except Nathan and Chuuya and the other dead folk that can use powers, but that topic just infuriates her so let's just do our best to ignore it. ]

It's too bad. I doubt the demons would've stood a chance if we were at full strength.

[crashout]

Yeah, I've been hearing about what people can normally accomplish and it doesn't surprise me at all. It makes the whole thing even shittier knowing we were brought here on purpose and had our powers stripped.

It says a lot though. SHIFTing isn't even really a superpower or anything. It's just a mental thing. Sort of.

[fleuris]

A mental thing that might have helped us get around this stupid lack of information that keeps happening.

[ censors? suck. as does not having a braincell. ]

I still haven't found out what happened to the asshole that leaves us trial messages, have you?

[crashout]

Point taken. And if you mean the guy who keeps leaving the audio diaries? Haven't heard shit, but I'm working on it. There's no way those things aren't on a timer and purposefully planted.

[fleuris]

That wouldn't surprise me - everything is on such a tight schedule around here, someone could definitely set things up ahead of time.

[ she's not really sure how? that kind of magic would be kind of complicated, wouldn't it? ]

Well, I'll try asking around too. I'll let you know if I find anything.

[ looks back at this a week later and closes my eyes ]

[crashout]

Cool. That's all we can do is keep each other up to date. I appreciate it.

[EVERYTHING HAPPENS SO MUCH, AND YET.]

[fleuris]

[ well this has been a Totally Exciting and Fun sharing session. Zero stretches and stands to roll out. ]

See you around.

[ cries at time, why is it a thing ]