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[the transmission cuts in and out since their party is quite some distance from the city in the mountains – and under one – but Law is sure going to give it the ol' college try here. Part and parcel of his campaign to share information publicly]

I'm recording this in the hopes that it can reach the city, but if not, I can replay it later when we return. We've reached a bunker [fzzt...garbled words] like the caves, for those who’ve been here long enough to remember. This one has a surprise in it.

[he pans over to where Caedra is eagerly poking at a star chart of some kind, a technological marvel with shining points of light. Now, pirate boy here has seen maps before but star maps are pretty unique, even for astral navigation. The room itself is pretty technologically advanced, event compared to Hadriel itself]

This is...something between technology and magic as far as I'm concerned. If you touch one of those stars, you feel things. Emotions but also physiological response. Even though [fzzt] in here I felt cold, it stimulated nerve sensation. We're testing out as many as we can before we get tired of it but I wanted to send back an image.

[It's at this moment that Caedra reaches forward toward one of the points on the map, but quickly she withdraws her finger with a hiss of pain and a glare at the offensive point of light.]

So far that's all we've found here. No natives, no bodies. I plan to col- [more garbling and pixelating] before we come back. Oh...and it's just the two of us now. Black Leg-ya disappeared an hour ago, right in front of us.

[he looks vaguely disgruntled about that. Lucky bastard gets to go home. Law out]

((ooc: replies may come from either Law or Caedra or both))

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That actually makes a lot of sense. Assuming the old hosts actually built that, it also kind of suggests that they were spread out over more than just this planet. How else would they know what each location feels like, y'know? Unless I'm interpreting this all weird.

No, that's a valid concern. I took it for Null technology and it may well still be - but if it is, and what you're saying is also true, then the cooperation between species was far deeper and more complex than any side has so far let on.

I can't take it back with me so the best I can do is show this video and let everyone see it for themselves.

Just judging by what we saw in the labs, it's possible that if there was cooperation, it wasn't entirely voluntary.

This might be asking a lot, but would it be possible for you guys to record what each of those planets make you feel? If you get a good photo of the map, we could probably label it ourselves that way. Maybe it would help us find some kind of pattern?

Ah, you were with that party? I got the notes a couple days ago, there's a lot going on there. [with the sour note that suggests as a doctor he's appalled at the nature of such medical experiments] I'll look into it more when we're back.

That was the plan. Caedra-ya is enjoying the experimentation part, I'll jot things down as we go.

Nate's group, yeah.

[Yeaah he'd rather not revisit that trip it was kind of a disaster.]

Awesome, you guys are on the ball. ...Is she actually enjoying that, because she doesn't look super thrilled.

[Overhearing that comment over by the map, Caedra calls in the phone's direction-]

Some of them are lovely! I told you all we should have gone to that forest world first.

[perfect answer time. Law rolls his eyes at her assertion but doesn't argue, she already knows his feelings on a working Door vs warm jungle fun]

It could be a lot worse. This room is the only thing of interest we've found at all.

...I mean, jungle planet did sound pretty nice.

[SHRUG he half agrees with the demon lady, but also all this new information is probably gonna be super useful so hey. It is what it is.]

It's a pretty big find, to be fair. This could end up being a big game changer for us.

Right about now I'd take some tropical heat. [FUCKIN SNOW] But. Yeah, anything anyone finds, we need to share it. As unpleasant as this world is, the information we need in order to sort out our plans going forward is here.

Is your group back at the city yet?

You're right, yeah. We all need to be on the same page.

We got back to town a few days ago. When did you guys leave?

Mid-month. I noticed something weird was starting up again and decided it was a good time to get the hell out of there, but Black Leg-ya had something he wanted to do on the fourteenth.

What's going on there? What happened with the exchange with the Null? Nobody has said anything on the phone that I've seen.

Yeah, um...

[He fidgets a bit, brushing his hair out of his face. It's a bit of a touchy subject for him sorry bruh]

We, uh, we got Tranquility back. Delight was killed.

[Which is the super condensed version of THAT story, but there you have it.]

...oh, shit.

[he knows that's not good. That's not good at all.]

Maybe we'd better not dawdle here, then.

It's been pretty bad back here since it happened. I mean, everything feels really wrong. I don't know what losing a god means for the city besides that, though.

Things were rough after Sorrow was killed, but Hope was able to bring him back. This, though...

[not at all the same, no. If she died there, or in pieces, there's no resurrecting. Whoops.]

Yeah, I... I don't think Hope can do anything about this.

[Yeaaaaah she kinda scattered all over two different places, pretty brutal.]

[Law may not be personally invested in their lives but he knows a bad situation when he sees it]

Figures things would have to get worse before they get better.

Yeah, no kidding. I guess part of me isn't surprised, but I was really hoping this would like, not be a total disaster.

To be fair, I was expecting a lot better than that. But going in guns blazing probably would have ended up with a lot more than one god dead, so.

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Killed her? You mean - permanently?

[Girl contain your enthusiasm]

She was scattered between here and Null space, so yeah, I'd say that counts as permanently dead.

[MEANWHILE Peter's pretty pissed about it >8( ]

Oh! Dramatic. How did they do it? What was it like?

With a thing, it was bad, okay? Don't start gettin' all freaky on me, I'm not in the mood.

But it's new and exciting! Not everyone gets to see a creature of pure energy die. Maybe I'm interested. For science.

Yeah, exciting if you're a psychopath, I guess.

[But I mean, science IS a pretty valid reason to be interested, even if she is just bullshitting. Peter can't deny that he's pretty goddamn curious about a few things too, which is honestly the only reason he isn't just tossing his phone across the room and noping out of this chat]

I didn't really have a chance to see what they hit her with. Fear panicked, I guess, and teleported us all back as soon as Tranquility was free. We didn't even get a chance to do anything against the Null.