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???: Hello? Is this thing working?
???: I am concerned because my previous attempt of contacting you has failed.
???: Which leads me to believe that we may be unable to communicate. If that is the case, I will need to go through and find you.
???: Come in, Rase.
RASE: Sigh. What.
???: There you are. Why the irritable tone?
RASE: I was kind of trying to avoid mentioning anything important, you know. Like our names?
RASE: It was... kind of the point of the signal disruption you experienced earlier?
RASE: I mean, come on. You should have known. I'm pretty sure nothing else uses the exact same disruption signature that I do.
???: Rase, you are fantastic and all, but I think you over-worry about these sorts of things. A first name alone won't let anyone track us down.
???: I mean, think about it. The three of us have already personally wiped all information concerning us from all databases we know of - and even if we hadn't, there are bound to be countless individuals throughout the multiverse with the same names.
???: It's really not that big of a deal.
RASE: Yeah, sure. May I remind you how many times my "excessive caution" has saved our asses in the past?
???: Feel free, just as long as you also acknowledge the overwhelming amount of times it wasn't necessary at all.
RASE: Alright, alright. I fucking get it. Can we stop beating around the bush already? This is extremely unprofessional.
???: Right, sorry.
RASE: What did you even want.
???: A status check, of course.
RASE: Oh. Well, there isn't much to say. Certainly not what I was hoping for.
???: Elaborate.
RASE: I'm just going to pretend you asked nicely and didn't just rudely boss me around.
RASE: The place is... surprisingly primitive, and seems completely empty.
RASE: I have yet to see anyone else here. The only form of defense on the site was a pathetically early model of an Atherian Guardian, which seems to have been recently destroyed.
RASE: I also found a room depicting the immediate runelink setup. Assuming it's up to date, it is underwhelmingly small.
???: That's unfortunate.
???: Please poke around a bit more, regardless.
RASE: What could POSSIBLY be worth the time wasted here?
???: It's just suspicious, you know?
???: Why would an abandoned, disconnected planet have suddenly reconnected to the grid just last year?
???: When universes are disconnected from the grid, information regarding runewarps is strictly prohibited and hidden from anyone living there.
???: And even if one was found, nobody would even know how to activate it.
???: So I believe there must be a reason behind this. I think this universe may be home to a hidden base belonging to the Evoker's Ascendancy.
RASE: Oh, bullshit. We've dealt with their bases of operation before. You know as well as I do that the damn things have an insanely high level of security. Plus, the runewarp wouldn't have been so laughably easy to hack into, in the first place.
???: Our experience with them could be my point, exactly. They must surely be aware of us on some level, at this point. It's possible they may have lowered their security to make their presence less obvious to us.
???: I mean, your immediate surroundings could be a fakeout designed to discourage us from exploring. Their true base could be elsewhere on the planet.
RASE: That's a really big risk for a group like them to take. And I don't think they'd be so clever to begin with - their solution to everything is "blah blah something something bigger guns."
???: Why do you have to be so insufferably stubborn? Look, just take the ten minutes necessary to deduct whether or not my theory is true.
RASE: ...Fine, sure. "What's the worst that can happen," right?
RASE: Isn't that the thing people say in fiction, when they decide to throw caution to the wind and do something, then they do it anyway, and something really really bad actually does happen?
???: You were literally just arguing that it would be "boring" because you thought this was nothing more than an abandoned, primitive planet. Now you're suddenly getting worried?
???: It's like you specifically change your beliefs just to be as annoying to work with as possible.
RASE: I try. Anyway, I'll let you know when I figure something out or get shot at or whatever.
RASE: See ya.
???: I am concerned because my previous attempt of contacting you has failed.
???: Which leads me to believe that we may be unable to communicate. If that is the case, I will need to go through and find you.
???: Come in, Rase.
RASE: Sigh. What.
???: There you are. Why the irritable tone?
RASE: I was kind of trying to avoid mentioning anything important, you know. Like our names?
RASE: It was... kind of the point of the signal disruption you experienced earlier?
RASE: I mean, come on. You should have known. I'm pretty sure nothing else uses the exact same disruption signature that I do.
???: Rase, you are fantastic and all, but I think you over-worry about these sorts of things. A first name alone won't let anyone track us down.
???: I mean, think about it. The three of us have already personally wiped all information concerning us from all databases we know of - and even if we hadn't, there are bound to be countless individuals throughout the multiverse with the same names.
???: It's really not that big of a deal.
RASE: Yeah, sure. May I remind you how many times my "excessive caution" has saved our asses in the past?
???: Feel free, just as long as you also acknowledge the overwhelming amount of times it wasn't necessary at all.
RASE: Alright, alright. I fucking get it. Can we stop beating around the bush already? This is extremely unprofessional.
???: Right, sorry.
RASE: What did you even want.
???: A status check, of course.
RASE: Oh. Well, there isn't much to say. Certainly not what I was hoping for.
???: Elaborate.
RASE: I'm just going to pretend you asked nicely and didn't just rudely boss me around.
RASE: The place is... surprisingly primitive, and seems completely empty.
RASE: I have yet to see anyone else here. The only form of defense on the site was a pathetically early model of an Atherian Guardian, which seems to have been recently destroyed.
RASE: I also found a room depicting the immediate runelink setup. Assuming it's up to date, it is underwhelmingly small.
???: That's unfortunate.
???: Please poke around a bit more, regardless.
RASE: What could POSSIBLY be worth the time wasted here?
???: It's just suspicious, you know?
???: Why would an abandoned, disconnected planet have suddenly reconnected to the grid just last year?
???: When universes are disconnected from the grid, information regarding runewarps is strictly prohibited and hidden from anyone living there.
???: And even if one was found, nobody would even know how to activate it.
???: So I believe there must be a reason behind this. I think this universe may be home to a hidden base belonging to the Evoker's Ascendancy.
RASE: Oh, bullshit. We've dealt with their bases of operation before. You know as well as I do that the damn things have an insanely high level of security. Plus, the runewarp wouldn't have been so laughably easy to hack into, in the first place.
???: Our experience with them could be my point, exactly. They must surely be aware of us on some level, at this point. It's possible they may have lowered their security to make their presence less obvious to us.
???: I mean, your immediate surroundings could be a fakeout designed to discourage us from exploring. Their true base could be elsewhere on the planet.
RASE: That's a really big risk for a group like them to take. And I don't think they'd be so clever to begin with - their solution to everything is "blah blah something something bigger guns."
???: Why do you have to be so insufferably stubborn? Look, just take the ten minutes necessary to deduct whether or not my theory is true.
RASE: ...Fine, sure. "What's the worst that can happen," right?
RASE: Isn't that the thing people say in fiction, when they decide to throw caution to the wind and do something, then they do it anyway, and something really really bad actually does happen?
???: You were literally just arguing that it would be "boring" because you thought this was nothing more than an abandoned, primitive planet. Now you're suddenly getting worried?
???: It's like you specifically change your beliefs just to be as annoying to work with as possible.
RASE: I try. Anyway, I'll let you know when I figure something out or get shot at or whatever.
RASE: See ya.
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