90. Walls

[corrinesbell]

This whole thing is giving me a weird feeling, but I can't figure it out.

Experiment or no experiment, I think we need a more organized patrol schedule again. Any takers? 

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[voice]

[devious-desian.livejournal.com]

Because it affects how I treat you little mice.

[voice]

[corrinesbell]

You're stuck here just like us now.

[voice]

[devious-desian.livejournal.com]

So quick to assume before you even see where I am.

[voice]

[corrinesbell]

Like I care.

[voice]

[devious-desian.livejournal.com]

Ahh, and I was going to give you some useful information while I was fixing a few viruses around here.

[voice]

[corrinesbell]

Why would you wanna give me information? ...What's going on?

[voice]

[devious-desian.livejournal.com]

Because there's nothing you can do about it and it's fun to watch you squirm.

I'm afraid someone must have caused a bug in the system, and it's caused an unusual chain reaction. But, never to fear, I'll soon have this sorted out.

[voice]

[corrinesbell]

What system?

[voice]

[devious-desian.livejournal.com]

My Luceti servers.

[voice]

[corrinesbell]

Servers?

[voice]

[devious-desian.livejournal.com]

You really are such primitives, you inferior beings. Magitechnology that stores data.

[voice]

[corrinesbell]

...You're not making any sense. Not that I'm surprised.

[voice]

[devious-desian.livejournal.com]

Shall I explain it to you in words you might understand?

[voice]

[corrinesbell]

[waiting]

[voice]

[devious-desian.livejournal.com]

Tell me. Do you remember the Derris Emblem? Surely you must have seen it when you murdered Lord Yggdrasill.

[voice]

[corrinesbell]

Of course I do.

[voice]

[devious-desian.livejournal.com]

Now, what if I told you its illusory effects can be replicated--even expanded--through magitechnology?

[voice]

[corrinesbell]

That it's a load of bull and you're just saying stuff to throw me off.

[voice]

[devious-desian.livejournal.com]

[creepy laugh] Such a suspicious girl!

But, come now, surely at least one of you has entertained the possibility. Why does this crazy world you call Luceti have to even exist? You accept a planet that kidnaps people from different universes and times, and yet seems to pick people who know each other from each far more often than it should. You accept an impenetrable barrier and droids that none of you, champions of your respective worlds, can scratch at best! You accept a mysterious power that overrides and restricts all the varied abilities of your own! And I have only begun to list the mysteries that the "great minds" among you cannot begin to comprehend.

Yet you have seen the technology with your own eyes that would make all of this unnecessary to explain. It must have crossed your minds at least once.