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[lucetimods]

Who: EVERYONE
What: Event stuff happening!
When: RIGHT NOW?? Can be starting on the 27th and onward.
Where: EVERYWHERE
Summary: Creatures and creations and whatnot from the Battle Dome are appearing all over. This is for the sake of having a mass log available for everyone, so have a free-for-all~
Rating: ...Unrated, too many people 8

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[semper_cogitans]

[Robert's probably not going to be much help. But unlike last time, he isn't upset to see Ami - Mercury - fighting.]

D - ... Sailor Mercury, is... i-is everything alright? [He's never seen these strange creatures before - stumbling, growling menacingly - but Mercury fights them with a practised ease that suggests she's seen them many times before.

... Knowing by now that they're probably simulations makes it a lot easier to accept the possibility of having to hurt them himself. It's almost empowering in a disturbing sort of way.]

[no_use_running]

Stay back!

[It comes out sharper than she intends, the moment she realizes it's Robert. He's a walking victim, a liability, right now. He needs to stay back where it's safe, and let her destroy the youma.

The youma she's far too familiar with.]

I can fight these. Don't get hurt.

[semper_cogitans]

[He understands - in a situation like this, he's a problem. An extra weakness.

So he keeps a wide berth.]

These b-beings... are they, are they from your w-world, Sailor Mercury?

[They certainly aren't something from his planet, at any rate. He's already seen some of those.]

[no_use_running]

[Worse: she used to control them, use them as her servants to push the senshi into the situations where she wanted them.

She won't think about that now. Mercury doesn't answer while she cuts down the last few foes. Then, and only then, does she turn back to Robert, still alert.]

They were used by the Dark Kingdom there. Ones like this were created from the planet by Metalia.

[semper_cogitans]

[He mouths the words slowly, as though they're foreign.] Dark Kingdom...?

Some of the ones who... threatened the planet? As you... told me before?

[His gaze sweeps warily around. He doesn't see any more of them - yet? - but knowing this place's conditions, it probably shouldn't take long.]

[no_use_running]

Yes. But no member of the Dark Kingdom is here, now.

[The closest to it is, well, herself.]

[semper_cogitans]

... I have seen non-human sapients from Terra here... so perhaps it is linked to specific multiverses that people here come from, rather than specific planets.

[That's what he's assuming so far, anyway. Though he honestly can't be certain, with this place.]

[no_use_running]

That could be. [She'd like to believe so, at least.]

It must be something related to the Malnosso. I don't think these creatures could be created here otherwise.

[semper_cogitans]

Simulations...? Ms. Daisy and I thought it might be so, what with the Battle Dome technology and the fact that Luceti is an artificial enclosure...

It is only a hypothesis, but... I think it may have merit.

[At the least it explains why things just... disappear.]

[no_use_running]

If they're simulations, why are they outside?

[It's not an argument, it's the next step: If these are simulations, how, and how to end them and get the dome functioning as normal again?]

[semper_cogitans]

That is the most... pertinent question.

I would think it depends on the technology that powers the Battle Dome... do you know anything about it?

[Robert peers into the area around them. It hasn't distorted yet, but that could easily change soon - he's trying to get hints of what might be powering them, though.]

[no_use_running]

I know enough to use it. I don't know it beyond that.

[Which makes her unusually useless in this area, when it's usually Mercury who has the information they need.]

[semper_cogitans]

If it is powered by Shifts, like so many other forms of... Malnossian technology, then... well, we already kn-know that Shifts can affect the entirety of the village... perhaps there is something s-similar at work...?

[It's all conjecture, and Robert doesn't sound that confident about it, but it's a hypothesis.]

[no_use_running]

Another experiment.

That doesn't make it less dangerous.

[semper_cogitans]

Injuries seem to be... m-minor, though. But you are right - they are still dangerous. Even minor injuries could, over time, p-prove debilitating.

... And at the very least, all the sudden environmental changes are... extremely disconcerting.

[no_use_running]

After this, you should be sure to stay somewhere secure for your safety.