Llama 27 - Video (action if wanted)

[enthunder]

[ Lightning comes to in luggage with the resigned practise of a control coach veteran. Knees uncomfortably tight against the canvas lining and zip pressing a line against her thigh, it's familiar. Irritating. The disorientation, the sudden switch from Kamakan to carriage--

She rises. Stumbles to the ICP, the roster appearing the moment she jabs her ticket into the slot. The list of names... isn't that different. The month's the same. She exhales, jaw untensing, and scrolls back up with a flick of her fingers. No dead. Good.

While she's still logged in, she taps Video and then everywhere. A choice she visibly regrets the moment she does it, but no helping it now. Ahem. ]

Twenty-seventh, huh... How're we doing?

[ It's more awkward than she remembers. A glance off-screen-- ] Looks like the gates are up. What else'd I miss? What happened in Kamakan?

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[controlsthedie]

[ Thanatos brings out his notebook and flips through some pages. ]

After you left, the illusions expanded beyond the fighters in the ring. Then the illusions grew to cover the entire city. The local population were lead out into the fog. There, we were met with a labyrinth of powerful, individualized illusions based on desires and fears. Meanwhile, people were suffocating from the lack of good air. In the middle of the illusions was a bright rainbow light similar to the Void. They spoke loud and dramatically. It appears we will cross paths again once they find a home as we made an enemy of them.

Anan--[ Mort squeaks. ]--and Chiff are going to investigate further about any entity like what we met and contact us if they discover anything helpful. A non-Void active world called Diagad was mentioned by the illusionist, but records do not seem to match what was said by them. I don't know much about that, better to ask someone else for more details.

To help protect us, the train brought us to a world near a Void Nexus to build our defenses against illusions, both through trials and creation of a pendant. Some of us earned a few extra crystals, used to make the pendant, in hopes of helping those who couldn't complete the trials or arrived after. Won't work as well, but it's something to help against someone who fights will illusions.

We got more Reds, and the double booth in the quiet car has been converted to a lab. The transgates have been linked up across the train for ease of access, and as Otoha already said, he and I offered ourselves as points of contact for Red while you were away.

[ He leafs through the pages in his notebook again, looking for anything he might have missed. ]

I think that covers most of it.

[enthunder]

[ She's bracing herself the moment Thanatos opens a physical notebook. She knows that look-- but it turns out that the report is succinct and easy to follow. It takes her a moment to process the whole thing, thrown off by how much she's missed, but at his conclusion she nods promptly enough. ]

.. Right. Good work. [ There's a lot to unpack here. ] Anan, was that the pilot from the last world?

[controlsthedie]

[ Thanatos never has time back home. He has learned how to give quick, informative reports to Lord Hades or Mother Nyx before zipping off to his next assignment. No one has time for long meetings.

Or at least he doesn't. ]

She is, and Chiff is her robot friend.

[enthunder]

She some kind of investigator? Mm, on second thoughts, never mind. [ It sounds like a long story. She can get it from him or someone else in person.

Arms folding, she assesses. ] So... all these illusions are from one entity. Makes it simpler, one target. How're the new reds doing? [ Since he's been the point of contact, it's worth asking directly. ]

[controlsthedie]

For matters of personnel, I would prefer to talk in person. May we meet?

[ Lord Hades might be fine with holding performance reviews and reprimands in the Great Hall in view of everyone, even if he only has a little to actually say on it. ]

[enthunder]

[ Consider her chastened. Another nod, coming straight from the mission, it's hard to shake the reliance on the SCA communication. ]

Let's. Pick a car, I'll meet you there.

[controlsthedie]

[ He's about to say that it would be faster for him to meet her as he can shift to her, but with the installation of the transgates, that's not as big of an issue now. ]

The standard car? One of the gates has been set up there.