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Hey.

I know most of us have just been tryin' to keep the hell out of the Starquakes' way, but ... been back to doing a bit of investigating them. Well. Some of it's me, but Minako got something big outta it all that I figure people oughta hear.

This ain't natural. The Quakes, all the transformations, whether that's people or places... they're something's way of trying to reach out and grab people. Talk to them, or ... or through 'em, from some of the stuff I've been hearing. Got some stuff from Lupa that sounds like Harbingers are connected to the wills behind it all, and those things are huge.

But ... it's one big question. The thing that's making them happen, or the things... powerful, yeah, but ... they're lonely.

They're askin' who else ... or where else ... is out there.

It's all coming from ... somewhere beyond the rest of Questing Country. Like the cave people have been poking, but that ain't the right spot - good job, huh. Dunno if the thing's even trying to cause as much of a mess as it is, but all these ... these different dreams and layers of dreams, never mind what the hell that rock's doing... it's kind of turning into something like an avalanche. Throw one pebble and the whole damn mountain comes down. That's how it looks to me, anyway.

And it's still making me think about that thing that caused the Tachyon Storm. That big glowy thing. ...Am I right in rememberin' people talking about 'Starmovers'? Or am I gettin' mixed up with other star stuff?

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...holy balls.

Sounds like we need to at least let 'em know that it's great they want to reach out and all but they're scaring the bejeezus out of people. If they're lonely I doubt it's intentional, but.

Question is how the hell are we gonna get through to something like that? This feels a bit beyond sending them a song.

There's a way. There has to be a way.

Doesn't mean we know what it is yet, but.

Emotions. I may be able to hack together a thing, if I can get enough time. I've been slowly working on rewriting parts of my old code.

Unfortunately we don't have an internet to provide the emotional energy here, but if I can figure out a way to recreate the correct resonance, I might be able to do something.

As interconnected as these places are at the moment, do you think Liminal Intranet would help?

It might. It'll probably take a day or two to recreate the important parts... it's not going to be an elegant patch, but we don't have time for beta testing.

Not so much, no.

You need anything materials-wise?

I can show you the wires I'll need. I might need to put it on one of your computers to get the amount of processing power necessary for this, too. All I have at hand is a laptop along with my COMPs.

As long as it'll work from Liminal, shouldn't be a problem. Otherwise we can see what else Kanji cooks up, since he's... at least sorta talked to these things before.

It might, or it might not. But I can pull together the code I have. It'll be fairly easy to extract.

Fair enough. Still, we gotta try something, so it's worth a shot.

It is. If you want to look at the code... how familiar are you with summoning rituals?

Hey. Uh, guys.

I know I'm just the Signals guy and not some fancy hacker, but mind fillin' me in?

[Oh. Right. He got somewhat overexcited.]

Hm... signals. Depending on what you can do, you might be useful.

... Essentially, I'm going to convert emotions into data and transmit them, and the opposite process on the other end. Emotions are much less... subject to translation issues, as it were, than words would be.

Kanji's definitely going to be useful. Besides which, he's the one who's been chasing this stuff up to now.

And for the record, I don't know much about summoning rituals, at least not the kind you probably mean, and even less about doing them via computer.

[He's not surprised or disappointed, but there had been a chance, at least.]

Right. I'll just rely on you for the tech end of things. The coding won't make sense to you.

... Though if you could find a sequencer - the kind used for music - that might be helpful.

Maybe. I'll see what's around, or there's a chance someone else listening will have one.

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make that double-protected

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Heh.

If this is related to what happened on the last big Jaunt to this world, and I'm damn sure it is on some level...

I spent that whole trip tryin' to crack the code in the stars. Found a song in the heart of a storm. Might be the only Investigator here who's actually talked to one of these things without being - Harbingered at. One of my special skills is picking up ... messages where messages shouldn't be. Anything from ... radio transmissions to data coming back in time to exploding stars. Gimme a bit and I can read it.

Adversary skills, I can manipulate the strength of signals around me. Make someone across a crowded room hear my voice, or silence everythin' else. Sound, light, other data, doesn't matter. Been spending this whole Jaunt working on decoding everything.

So.

Y'know.

Pretty sure I can help.

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Excellent. That definitely will be useful. I'll tell you when I'm ready to begin.

...resonance, huh? I dunno if you wanna go grabbin' locals, but I know one'f them - or two of 'em, time nonsense - is runnin' around with that archetype. Could hit the guy up?