khuioduan | [01] text; consolidating resources

[X is very, extremely not used to going public, and part of him is still screaming that this is a bad idea.

But there are other lives that matter more, and if there's anything X can do to help, he wants to do it. Keeping the video and audio functions turned off seems a good precaution to take, at any rate. That way people know who to contact, and he doesn't plaster his identity all over for everyone to see.

... You know, in the world where no one knows who he is. Azri, he's becoming paranoid.]

During the recent lunar festival, several people went missing. The last I heard, everyone's been found except for one person. Unless that's changed, we need to find her, and the authorities here don't really seem to want help from anyone outside the Sentry. Possibly for good reason, I don't know.

The thing is, I'd like to help. I'm sure I'm not the only one, so I thought we could use somewhere on the Lae to coordinate what people saw that day. If anyone took any pictures, especially around the funhouse, please share them here if you can. She has family, and I have no doubt they want her home safe.

Thank you.

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Got a suggestion of illusion, which could work if that's a thing here, since that could be used to hide a lot of things, but unless we've got a way to check that, that's another dead end.

[Illusion. X's smile is sad when he reads the message. He knows someone who could help with that, if this world ever saw fit to bring her here. As things stand...]

In my experience, illusions can't affect a person's memories. And none of the victims remember a thing.

Although, did you see the funhouse? It had a lot of minor party illusions, didn't it?

Illusions for everybody around so they don't notice until it's too late, something... else for the people getting kidnapped. Probably kept them subdued.

[It makes him shiver, briefly, where he's bent over the device, remembering the cold press of the stone against his horn and the subtle whisper of the red thread... He shakes the phantom sensation away and focuses back on what he's doing.]

Huh, yeah. It's kinda a theme, isn't it? Twisting your perception...

[Which might, maybe, account for all of it? However it'd be done.]

If it was a large-scale illusion, it would be easier if you had a foundation to build off of. Lots of mirrors, lots of twists and turns. That's assuming magic works the same way here as it does in our worlds, but why else would the funhouse be the only connection?

[... Is he rambling? He can't tell.]

Not a clue, but yeah, the imagery is very... fitting, for it to mean nothing with the fun house being the only apparent connection.

Man... I hope someone finds some more information, and soon. Taking time in these circumstances is never good.