[It's fine, both of them can just sort of bumble through this conversation as it happens. Katan pauses and then opens the door to what I assume is Room 302, gesturing for Ludger to come in -- they may as well sit down if they're going to get into the weeds of this.
Since it sounds like there's a lot going on here.
It also gives him a few moments to flip through the notebook he carries on him. Patient records... there.]
... I wasn't aware that previous records could contain people we knew. [though, given some of them are clearly from the same dimensions, it wasn't a hard leap to make; the coincidences are just strange in an abstract way] But it seems he was somehow immune to the infection. Maybe that had something to do with his disappearance.
[ given how many saw him storm out, and the fact that the note is still posted... he had assumed everyone would associate it with him.
Ludger enters the dorm, giving a quick glance around, before following Katan's lead. ]
Fran thinks this place is some sort of... accumulation of all the previous research that's been done. So even if Jude wasn't here, the information involving him is.
[ he is. not sure he believes that. but it's not like there's evidence that disproves that either. ]
It sounded like Jude was cooperating with the research - I don't think he would've left before finding a cure. So either he was taken, or he found out something that made it necessary for him to leave.
[It's quiet; Katan is the only one in these apartments now.
That being said, it's still nicely decorated from a couple of weeks ago: some plants, a kettle, a pile of books, cute lanterns on the wall and not too many dings.
They can hang out on the couches (default decor).]
The nature of the place itself? Or just what's been left in all these abandoned buildings?
[It's evident that this isn't a normal space; it becomes more evident every time the space expands, each weekend, with every move their dubiously helpful third force makes. But to dangle things in front of them like this--]
... You must have known him rather well. Do you have any idea why he might have been immune?
I'm not sure where it showed up, but this entire place is supposed to be- yeah.
[ accumulation of all promising research and knowledge etc etc. ]
... I'm starting to think someone found it through alternative means, honestly. Which is why I was hoping you would say you hacked it from the network or something.
[ but alas. ]
I don't know. Jude was... the kind of person who would grant his wishes with his own power. I can't imagine what he was even doing here.
It seems rather optimistic to me. To think that this place would be for such ends.
[This place that has a tendency to hit them with as many illusions and delusions as anything else. To call it a crystallization of research or something like that...
He shakes his head, though it's mostly to himself.]
But no, there was no such convenient list on the network. We barely found anything coherent on it at all, apart from the spirit of Kamiki.
I think that... regarding your friend... he's not the only one who would be difficult to extract a wish from. But this place may not care about such technicalities.
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[ the thought of their conversation makes him frown, completely missing any of Katan's search for context. ]
... One of the people listed is from my world. Jude Mathis. The one that... went missing.
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[It's fine, both of them can just sort of bumble through this conversation as it happens. Katan pauses and then opens the door to what I assume is Room 302, gesturing for Ludger to come in -- they may as well sit down if they're going to get into the weeds of this.
Since it sounds like there's a lot going on here.
It also gives him a few moments to flip through the notebook he carries on him. Patient records... there.]
... I wasn't aware that previous records could contain people we knew. [though, given some of them are clearly from the same dimensions, it wasn't a hard leap to make; the coincidences are just strange in an abstract way] But it seems he was somehow immune to the infection. Maybe that had something to do with his disappearance.
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[ given how many saw him storm out, and the fact that the note is still posted... he had assumed everyone would associate it with him.
Ludger enters the dorm, giving a quick glance around, before following Katan's lead. ]
Fran thinks this place is some sort of... accumulation of all the previous research that's been done. So even if Jude wasn't here, the information involving him is.
[ he is. not sure he believes that. but it's not like there's evidence that disproves that either. ]
It sounded like Jude was cooperating with the research - I don't think he would've left before finding a cure. So either he was taken, or he found out something that made it necessary for him to leave.
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That being said, it's still nicely decorated from a couple of weeks ago: some plants, a kettle, a pile of books, cute lanterns on the wall and not too many dings.
They can hang out on the couches (default decor).]
The nature of the place itself? Or just what's been left in all these abandoned buildings?
[It's evident that this isn't a normal space; it becomes more evident every time the space expands, each weekend, with every move their dubiously helpful third force makes. But to dangle things in front of them like this--]
... You must have known him rather well. Do you have any idea why he might have been immune?
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[ accumulation of all promising research and knowledge etc etc. ]
... I'm starting to think someone found it through alternative means, honestly. Which is why I was hoping you would say you hacked it from the network or something.
[ but alas. ]
I don't know. Jude was... the kind of person who would grant his wishes with his own power. I can't imagine what he was even doing here.
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[This place that has a tendency to hit them with as many illusions and delusions as anything else. To call it a crystallization of research or something like that...
He shakes his head, though it's mostly to himself.]
But no, there was no such convenient list on the network. We barely found anything coherent on it at all, apart from the spirit of Kamiki.
I think that... regarding your friend... he's not the only one who would be difficult to extract a wish from. But this place may not care about such technicalities.
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[ lol. lmao. ]
Yeah, that's... true. Even idle wishes are good enough, apparently.
[ SIGH ]