If five isn't too many, then I'd like to come as well. I'm not sure how well I'd be able to handle just sitting around and waiting for news.
[ that and, if you think Yuuri is going to let Arianna, Ardyn and Church go and do something potentially dangerous all by themselves then buster you've got another thing coming ]
As long as all five of you aren't completely intimidating.
[And without clarifying which among you he finds the most intimidating, here we go!
You arrive early enough to secure a booth off to the side, hopefully away from any fans who could pass. It doesn't seem like a very busy place to begin with - probably that's why Yl'lb knows it well at all, as often as he tends to get approached in public.]
I just told them that you were friends of mine who could use some help. This isn't a typical way to get that, but. [Shrug.] I'm mostly here to give you some kind of credibility - I haven't had any public strangeness like some people. But let me know if you need me to back up any of your story.
York is first, and as far as you can read dog moods, he seems to be fairly neutral to this situation. It's sort of weird, okay, but Yl'lb is a pleasant enough person. Moses is taking up the rear, and he seems wary. Possibly this is the reason for York taking charge of the greeting.]
Good afternoon, Dr. Ein. And - [He sniffs lightly at the air.] - I say, haven't we met before?
Well...the answer is rather part of a complicated matter with which we require your assistance. [Ardyn smiled, trying to look sincere rather than like the politician he was speaking as. Thank Shiva he didn’t have to sound like Gladio this time.] You have our gratitude for taking the time to meet us, so will you be kind enough to hear us out?
We did come all this way. [like, they weren't gonna just leave?] But you should be aware that we're currently on an anti-piracy and smuggling task force. It probably would have been better to go to your local authorities.
We are quite sorry for pulling you away from an important task like that, but I fear we rather require the metaphorical bigger guns for this particular problem. Besides that, I suspect the two matters are tangentially or directly linked.
Indeed, it is likely that your work is leading you toward our difficulty. It... will take some explaining, but piracy is very much involved.
[Arianna doesn't have to try not to sound like a politician. It's a gift, or a curse, depending on how you look at it. She does, however, have to restrain herself from stopping to pet York.]
Allow me to get to the point as directly as possible. We’re all very well aware how unbelievable this will sound, so please offer some measure of patience and let us explain as clearly as we’re able.
[where to START, even.]
To begin in the clearest of terms... my name is Ardyn Tenmyouji, and the series this universe knows as Airlocked is less fictionalized than Intergal 7 would have anyone believe. Those of us before you now are part of a group of survivors of the network’s machinations, and we are in desperate need of help if any of us are to continue surviving.
[Moses narrows his eyes and looks like he's about to say something, but York speaks up first:]
Is this anything to do with those transmissions that happened? We know that the "Airlocked" people are aware of them. [Whether he means the fans or the network isn't quite clear.]
[ who the fuck is this well-spoken smooth talker and what the hell did he do with ardyn ]
The ones from just before Christmas, you mean?
[ they've already done A Lot of Illegal Stuff but somehow now she's faced with real, actual cops it's a little harder to, er, cop to something that might actually get them in trouble. ]
We tuned into it, yes. It was the first time we'd been able to talk to any of them since... well. What happened in our seasons.
Correct. I'm not certain of the specific events which led up to that particular broadcast... but it would seem digital backups of those that have died are currently uploaded into a simulation as Arianna says.
Listen, IG7's bad news bears, we all got transported here from other universes, and the 'actors' in the show aren't fucking actors, and as the only cops we personally have any connection to in any way, we're genuinely asking for help here.
The pirates, by the way, are totally involved. Like, they don't even want to be, but they got involved anyway, and now it's a whole fucking thing with Flavortown and all. I cannot believe I said Flavortown in all seriousness.
[You know who's not in politics? This motherfucker.]
[Moses holds up his hands, because that was a lot of confusing shit at once. Pointing to Yl'lb:]
Are you still behind all of this?
[And, when Yl'lb nods, he points to Church instead, because horrifyingly enough Church was the only one of you who presented some kind of actual explanation instead of just SAYING THINGS.]
Okay, you. You're claiming to be involved in some sort of...large-scale snuff film?
Yeah. Basically. Not willingly. All those season finales, where the survivors got away somehow, that was literally us escaping the stupid fucking hellhole we'd been trapped in.
The other Champions who are dead, their bodies might be dead, but their minds got uploaded to digital Florida, so in that sense, like when we all got to talk to them on that frequency for a little while, they're not necessarily dead. We want to bring them back, and we want to take down IG7 and make them pay for the crimes nobody seems to know they're even committing.
At any rate, [says the captain of Muttering Amongst Ourselves,] we are telling the truth. None of this has been scripted, those recent messages least of all.
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[ that and, if you think Yuuri is going to let Arianna, Ardyn and Church go and do something potentially dangerous all by themselves then buster you've got another thing coming ]
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[And without clarifying which among you he finds the most intimidating, here we go!
You arrive early enough to secure a booth off to the side, hopefully away from any fans who could pass. It doesn't seem like a very busy place to begin with - probably that's why Yl'lb knows it well at all, as often as he tends to get approached in public.]
I just told them that you were friends of mine who could use some help. This isn't a typical way to get that, but. [Shrug.] I'm mostly here to give you some kind of credibility - I haven't had any public strangeness like some people. But let me know if you need me to back up any of your story.
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York is first, and as far as you can read dog moods, he seems to be fairly neutral to this situation. It's sort of weird, okay, but Yl'lb is a pleasant enough person. Moses is taking up the rear, and he seems wary. Possibly this is the reason for York taking charge of the greeting.]
Good afternoon, Dr. Ein. And - [He sniffs lightly at the air.] - I say, haven't we met before?
[Moses is suspicious of this!]
i lied here i am
Well...the answer is rather part of a complicated matter with which we require your assistance. [Ardyn smiled, trying to look sincere rather than like the politician he was speaking as. Thank Shiva he didn’t have to sound like Gladio this time.] You have our gratitude for taking the time to meet us, so will you be kind enough to hear us out?
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We did come all this way. [like, they weren't gonna just leave?] But you should be aware that we're currently on an anti-piracy and smuggling task force. It probably would have been better to go to your local authorities.
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[where to START, even.]
To begin in the clearest of terms... my name is Ardyn Tenmyouji, and the series this universe knows as Airlocked is less fictionalized than Intergal 7 would have anyone believe. Those of us before you now are part of a group of survivors of the network’s machinations, and we are in desperate need of help if any of us are to continue surviving.
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Is this anything to do with those transmissions that happened? We know that the "Airlocked" people are aware of them. [Whether he means the fans or the network isn't quite clear.]
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The ones from just before Christmas, you mean?
[ they've already done A Lot of Illegal Stuff but somehow now she's faced with real, actual cops it's a little harder to, er, cop to something that might actually get them in trouble. ]
We tuned into it, yes. It was the first time we'd been able to talk to any of them since... well. What happened in our seasons.
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Correct. I'm not certain of the specific events which led up to that particular broadcast... but it would seem digital backups of those that have died are currently uploaded into a simulation as Arianna says.
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The pirates, by the way, are totally involved. Like, they don't even want to be, but they got involved anyway, and now it's a whole fucking thing with Flavortown and all. I cannot believe I said Flavortown in all seriousness.
[You know who's not in politics? This motherfucker.]
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[Moses holds up his hands, because that was a lot of confusing shit at once. Pointing to Yl'lb:]
Are you still behind all of this?
[And, when Yl'lb nods, he points to Church instead, because horrifyingly enough Church was the only one of you who presented some kind of actual explanation instead of just SAYING THINGS.]
Okay, you. You're claiming to be involved in some sort of...large-scale snuff film?
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Yeah. Basically. Not willingly. All those season finales, where the survivors got away somehow, that was literally us escaping the stupid fucking hellhole we'd been trapped in.
The other Champions who are dead, their bodies might be dead, but their minds got uploaded to digital Florida, so in that sense, like when we all got to talk to them on that frequency for a little while, they're not necessarily dead. We want to bring them back, and we want to take down IG7 and make them pay for the crimes nobody seems to know they're even committing.
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[And the part where they might incriminate a bunch of their friends.]
Sir Moses, during those transmissions, you reacted to the name Radical Skullqueen.