α [audio] [backdated to the 15th]

[thatisnotmyface]

This is Navigator Layer with the Maverick Hunters, broadcasting on all frequencies. Maverick Hunters, please respond.

I am unsure of my present location and require assistance.

Miss, I'm not sure that will work. Your friends might not even be here.

Well I have to try. I repeat, this is Navigator Layer, Maverick Hunters please respond.

Comments

[audio]

[canifixityesican]

I mean what I said. We're not on Earth, it's called the Digital World and it's probably more accurate to say that it is a very complex computer system that seems to be able to bring in living matter into itself since there are organics here and not just reploids.

[He's trying to not give a big long explanation here.]

Think of it like the cyberspace areas during Maverick attacks back home, only a whole world like that?

[audio]

[thatisnotmyface]

But...that makes no sense. I wasn't patched into a network, and this place can't possibly be self-sustaining, let alone able to pick and choose who to bring in.

[audio]

[canifixityesican]

And yet it can, Navigator. I have no clue how it works outside of the supposed "god" of the world seems to be the reason for why folks end up here.

[audio]

[thatisnotmyface]

God, huh...

[Layer sighs.]

This shall take some getting used to. Who else is here?

[audio]

[canifixityesican]

It's not an active one, from what I can tell.

[Oh yes, telling who is here. Ha.]

So far, just myself, Alia, Zero and now you. [again, but he doesn't say that.]

[audio]

[thatisnotmyface]

Only a handful then. How long have you been here?

[Audio]

[canifixityesican]

There were more but... eh. And how long? Hum.

[a moment please as he figures this out.]

Over a two years now.

[Audio]

[thatisnotmyface]

T-Two years!

[Layer is silent for a moment.]

That...that's quite a long time to be here.

[Audio]

[canifixityesican]

It's not as long as Zero and Alia have been here.

[Audio]

[thatisnotmyface]

I'm...almost afraid to ask how long they've been here.