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[Now, Junpei is fairly certain they're all here for some kind of fucked up death game, because why wouldn't the third time be the charm!!— but until some mysterious costumed weirdo starts getting on all the screens and making announcements, there's not that much to go on. He can skulk around town glowering suspiciously at things for long so long.

Sooooo.]

if anybody wants my vote, it's t minus however the hell long before we all start killing each other. would love to be wrong, but if i live long enough to say i told you so, yknow. yippee.

so.

why do *you* think we're here? wrong answers only. top 3 by popular vote get a prize.

[Does he have a prize to hand out... No, no he does not. He will find some cheap garbage in one of the shops and write a 1ST/2ND/3RD PLACE on it, no problem. Eventually. Maybe even a sticker.]

and what do you guys think about picking code names? you know, just in case.

[big talk from username junpei]

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[Oh, Junpei thinks, is this guy... awkward? Shame Junpei is also awkward, although he supposes he... sometimes talks to people...? Well, here goes. He's going to Try.]

uh, ok, like right now? you and me, a trial run? well i'm junpei, since my plan for code names already ended. i'm not good at combat, i guess. how's it going?

[ 'Awkward' is right on the money. ]

Setsuna F. Seiei.

[ Mister "be careful what you say over the network" maybe shouldn't be revealing that, but it's technically a code name, and by now he's doubtful it's enough information to cause him any more problems than he's got already.

...Staring down the phone, it's dawning on him that the progress he'd made in communicating with others really has backslid. ]

Things are fine. For what they are.

Code names were good thinking. If you're only known as 'Junpei', that'll still make it harder to pin down your identity.

not if i'm the only junpei, but never mind. it doesn't matter now that everyone's seen it. i'll deal.

so you do combat, huh? that like... a job thing?

Something like that. I'm a mobile suit pilot.

[ He's assuming this is a Thing in most worlds. ]

whoa, wait

no way

for real?? that kicks ass! is your suit here? can i see it?

[ He wouldn't say it kicks ass, himself, but Celestial Being got their own in-universe movie, so the public must disagree... He does not think he likes that. ]

It's not here.

[ As far as he knows. It's possible it's been confiscated and hidden somewhere... Hm. ]

People die in combat. Don't forget that.

[Ooh--ouch, called out for being inconsiderate. Junpei has never winced harder at his phone than in this moment.]

oh uh

yeah. sorry. that was shitty. we just don't really have tech like that where i'm from, so...

my bad.

Don't worry about it.

You don't have mobile suits?

[ This is some alternate world space-time stuff again, isn't it? ]

no, nothing that advanced. i figure it's only a matter of time before some rich guy builds the first one for himself, though. people are definitely thinking about the concept.

[ And then they'll be used for war. There's no need to say what's a given. ]

In my world, mobile suit development began around two hundred years prior to my present day: 2314 A.D.

oh

well, it was new year's day 2029 the last i checked. so that's not too far away. uh, for someone else and not me.

So they use the A.D. calendar, and you also seem to. We could be from the same world but different time, or multiple worlds have major commonalities...

What year is it for you?

uh, 2029. i have no idea what year it's supposed to be here, but some guy i met thought it was earlier than '29, based on the tech. i guess he had a point... i'm not really into old school tech, so i can't give you a good ballpark.

The 21st century shouldn't have the technology to gather people like this... Teleportation is on the cutting edge in my era.

oh, you'd be surprised. we could just be dealing with powerful psychics. and i know that sounds like bullshit, because it is bullshit, but it's serious bullshit.

No, I believe you. I'm familiar with something like psychic power.

huh

alright, so, you see where i'm coming from. enough people like that *could* drag us all here without us being able to stop it.

what's "something like" psychic power?

Quantum brainwaves. They can enable telepathic communication, among other things.

[ He debates with himself, and then adds: ]

I gained the ability to use them two years ago.

[God, it's always quantum, isn't it. He desperately wants to know what "other things" is, but quantum-brainwaves-telepathy is so on the nose that he's stuck on it for a second. He's... not relieved, because that implies he isn't immediately full of dread, but - centered, maybe.

Is everyone here psychic. Should he write these cases down. Okay--]

okay. i have to ask: do you know what the morphogenetic field is? or the collective unconscious?

I've heard of the collective unconscious.

cool. next question: is that how your psychic powers... uh, travel? like it's a medium, i guess?

If that's a factor, I don't know. There's a lot I don't understand. I know that quantum brainwaves interact with other quantum brainwaves.

But there's something called GN particles. In high concentrations, they can create a field where thoughts and feelings are transmitted to others without barriers, whether or not you have the capacity to use those brainwaves naturally.

[...does the morphogenetic field have Particles... he never asked. Shit, maybe it does.]

that sounds about right. not sure about the particles, but the function is the same, so - i get it.

uh, i can do that, too. use the field to pass information. it's been a while... i do something else now, but i don't think it's working anymore.

The city may be capable of suppressing these abilities. I haven't sensed anything yet. Not the way I used to.

[ It was difficult to adjust to, sure... but he'd never ask to lose that power. ]

huh. if it's happening to a bunch of us, yeah, maybe. that's... something to look into.

[He would love to be able to just SHIFT right out of here, before his inability to leave people alone gets its hooks in him and he's in too deep. (This will take, like, four days tops.)]

they'd have to have a source for that, or something. something smashable?

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