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[Jaunt] Shape-shifting, murdering Program on the loose

This is a warning to everyone Investigating. One of the Program’s here can copy the appearances of others. I know not how except that they are currently wearing my face.

Stay alert, this Program is malicious. This warning Extracting 24-08-16eq.zip those in the Wastelands, that’s 6.20136475299. I don’t know where I am now, one of the many caves or crevasses.

Gods it hurts.

It is looking for Centoquattrquattromila, sessantuno morti e centotrentasei mila, cinquecentoquattro nascite grabbed me.

I cannot breathe

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What?! Please, try to hold on, I'll see if we can send someone to...

....oh. [That... did not sound like it ended well. At all.]

Do you have a way to find her?

My overlay is with the ship's crew. I could pass along word to send out a search party, or to look out for a Program that copies others... but I can't find her directly.

If she's de-rezzed... and I really think she is... then it might be best to wait for her to reappear in liminal space.

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[He's silent for a few long moments, before he speaks. There's an intense feeling of cold rage to his words.]

Well, now. I suppose it's time to go hunting.

Do you have a way to find out where that happened and who did it?

Not directly, but I know someone who might.

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Q'uila?

Q'UILA!!

What-

No... nonono..

Prompto, we're going to go get her. If something happened to her here, she'll pop up again in liminal. [Eliot's voice is surprisingly calm, he's working very, very hard to keep it that way. There's a difference between logically knowing people don't die here, and actually understanding it on a gut level.]

B-but what if she's still out there somewhere? -=he's trying to keep himself calm as well. Even understanding that she comes back doesn't make dying any less horrible, but it would be worse if they just left her out there alone=-

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Oh. This again. Fan-tastic.

If anyone can find this person, do so immediately. If no one can, pray for a swift execution and resurrection in Liminal Space.

What I really want to know is what that Italian is all about...

More births than deaths. A... growing population?

I suppose. It sounds like statistics. Like it came out of an official report. Is this something the victim was researching? Something relevant to us as Travelers? Or is it information the culprit was gathering that somehow intruded onto the victim's mind like, I assume, the garbled mechanical notations?

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... She doesn’t know Italian, I think. Feliciano does, and I’m not sure who else other than me.

Fortunately, Feliciano seems to be chiming in. And I believe we have an explanation for that part of the mystery.

Q'uila we're coming to- [pause, as it seems she's ... died?] Get you in liminal space.

[To the investigators in general, voice terse] That's what happens when we die here, isn't it? We go back to liminal?

That is what happens. Often, there is a delay of hours or days - if you cannot find her right away, do not fear.

Good. All right, then Prompto and I can go get her and find out what happened. Who is going to be looking into it from this side?

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...oh... oh no...

Q'uila...?

Ah... I thought- I thought the disc would be enough to kill her, not...

...she's using it on other people...!

[There's a growing edge of frantic hysteria growing in his voice.]

[And now she sees where this is going.]

...what exactly did you do, paisano?

I... she stole my disc, but I- I thought that if... there was a thief, stealing these things- she was dangerous, the way she acted, I...

I thought if I just let her try to open it, it would... it would kill her easily...

...she survived...?

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What's going on- what's happening- that tongue? Numbers-

[And then the signal ends.]

UILA!

Hells! Someone- anyone- can anyone track her? At all- anywhere, anything!

[Oh no. Oh dear. She recognizes that voice... and she knows what that last burst of binary meant.]

...I think she might already be gone, Felih. I'm sorry.

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Felih.

[He's angry, but he's trying to rein it in.]

Felih, we will track her down. We will find her. It's time to hunt, not cry.

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maybe if felih has enough comments he can learn teleport

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oh boy jumpy catte

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[Panicked, clearly Monx thinks this death is Real(TM).]

Q-Q'uila? Is that you? W-what's happening? ... Q'UILA! ANSWER ME DAMN IT!

[A pause, she's very clearly in distress.]

...What's happening? Why isn't she answering?

She might be too hurt to answer. Or she might be de-rezzed.

[Time to be as comforting as she can manage, again.]

We'll find her. And if she's de-rezzed... er, if she died? She'll be brought back to liminal space. We travelers can't permanently die, here.

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