Some Legends Are Told, Some Turn To Dust Or To Gold [CEREALIA INBOX]

[zerotohiro]

'Busy, leave a message!
...oh, you've reached Hiro Hamada. Whatever. Still busy!'

Hamada art by D-Joel, found on tumblr

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[zerotohiro]

[There's a snort both at the pun and the word Weebo. What, it's funny. The amusement's immediately zapped from him when she continues, however, if only because that's never a good sign.]

…that's really only common if people are pulled back into the Nexus, I think. [That sounds a lot nicer than "gone", doesn't it?] Anybody tell you about that yet?

[earthpulse]

[There's a slight pause on the other end of the line before she answers, which is already an answer in and of itself.]

Nope. Does it have something to do with our..."code"? The level of technology in Glenwood isn't even half as capable as the technology here, so this "code" stuff isn't something we're familiar with.

[The pain of being from medieval fantasy JRPG canons.]

[zerotohiro]

It's got everything to do with our code. The Nexus is where all of our data is stored and stuff and where CERES keeps us if they decide our code is corrupted or incomplete. They send people there when something's not working right inside the colony. Sometimes people come back right away. Sometimes they don't. According to Mosley my brother and I were both here before and sent back to the Nexus to be fixed before we came back a couple of months ago. I don't remember any of that, but other people have told me that we were both here before.

It's...creepy. I've seen pictures of the inside of the Nexus. People are just hanging there waiting to be rebooted basically. That could be where Sorey is, especially if he's no longer registering as being in the colony.

[earthpulse]

[There's an even longer pause this time as she tries to take all that information in. What she's really understanding from all that is that Sorey's possibly stuck somewhere, hanging somewhere lifelessly, just waiting to be "rebooted" (she's guessing that it means something close to reawakening)]

...How do we get there.

[It's not a question so much as a demand.]

[zerotohiro]

That's the thing. I haven't found a way yet. [And it's clear that he's frustrated with that. There are people in that Nexus that he wants to rescue, too.] The good and bad thing is that they're not going anywhere. It gives us time to hunt him down.

[earthpulse]

[She lets out a derisive noise, not at Hiro, but at the situation. The thought of Sorey, or anyone in their little gang (like Dezel; he deserves his salvation and rest but they won't even give him that?), being kept somewhere in some sort of stasis doesn't sit well with her at all.]

It's not going to be easy to get to either, since it's apparently so important. Not the sort of thing you'd leave around in broad daylight. They'd probably have to make the first move or slip up somehow.

[It's annoying, sitting around and twiddling their thumbs for something to happen so they can take advantage of it. She's admittedly way out of her element here, but that won't make her give up.]

[zerotohiro]

A friend of mine told me that a lot of people were dragged into the Nexus a few months ago. I avoided it somehow, and now I kinda wish I hadn't because I could have used the experience to figure out what's going on. Athena couldn't tell me how they got in or out but she showed me pictures of the place. It's…they're not dead. They're just shut down and it's weird. But there's hope to bring them back online if we can figure out where it's located.

My guess is the tower but that tower's huge. And they don't just let anybody in. [There's a huff of his own.] But people sometimes come back on their own. Like when people die here? They're revived in a few days. Maybe we can start figuring out where an access point might be. Something.