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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The dreaming?

[Oh, yes, one of the planes. Hm.]

No one's sure what happened. Several people went missing near the funhouse during the festival, and then everyone turned up at the end of the day except for one. None of them remember what happened to them. If it was a kidnapping, it wasn't a very efficient one.

one of the dimensional planes here. life, dreaming, and death. if weird shit goes down, it's usually thanks to the dreaming.

and that definitely sounds like weird dreaming shit.

has anyone sent in any pictures yet? if we track where and when each person was last seen before they vanished, maybe we'll find a pattern. or restrict the search radius, at least.

[That's new information. X frowns down at the screen.]

Can the dreaming pull people into it without a trace?

[That would explain a lot. And, somewhat ironically, it would be more in line with X's experience.]

Not yet. I've heard there's a network for photos here, but I can't remember what it's called. Zazu, I think. There might be something on there, but if there is, I have no idea how to find it.

The funhouse is the only connection any of us found.

from what I can tell, the dreaming can do whatever the hell it wants.

I'll check it out. I don't know this system at all, but it's still computers, basically. can't be that hard to crack.

[... Noted. Unpredictable dreaming stuff. Sounds a lot like the forest, as far as X is concerned.]

You said you could modify sigils for tracking. How would that work? Is it related to cracking the computer system?

no, different skillset. sigils are something I picked up from another foreigner. it's not native magic, but it still works here. most of what I know is geared around magitech, but if the dreaming left any kind of energy trace, I might be able to work something up that could track the signature.

[For the purposes of full disclosure, he adds:] it's a long shot. [Maybe it wasn't the Dreaming. Maybe it didn't leave a detectable energy signature. Maybe he won't be able to sync up a sigil to it. Maybe the sigil won't pick up anything useful. Maybe all it will tell them is that she's gone someplace they can't retrieve her from. Too many unknown variables.]

There was an energy trace left behind, actually, but I don't know if it was the Dreaming. Someone who says they have good eyesight saw traces of it, but nothing definitive, and nothing like it anywhere else.

Maybe we can do both. Sigil tracking, and computer cracking. Can anyone follow the sigils once you create them?