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[After a long month spent gathering information, pouring over the guide to the Tower he found, and generally just trying to gather his bearings, Mello decides to turn to the network at long last. He never did like the idea of a completely solitary investigation.]

How's it going, Tower? Everyone been having fun? Great. Down to business.

First off, let me say that you're just about the craziest bunch of kidnapping victims I've ever had the displeasure of living with.

I mean, come on. Weddings? Birthday celebrations? I know that people have an innate need to try and make unmanageable situations as normal as possible, but surely there are better things you all could be doing with your time.

Now, this might come as a shock, but I'm not content to sit here and leave myself to the mercy of my kidnappers. I've already read that guide that some of you have put together, so don't bother explaining how dangerous the place is to me, or how there's no way out, or blah, blah, blah. However, if anyone has info on hand that hasn't yet been added to the guide, feel free to cough it up. If our hosts have allowed you to write up that guide in the first place, I'm sure they won't mind my asking for a little more elaboration, right?

Information is key, especially in a place where nothing seems to make sense. I fully intend to make use of it and find a way out. You're free to join me, if any of you are up for it.

All right, now time for a question.

I've heard that we all come from different worlds. That isn't normally something I'd believe, but since I've arrived here, I've seen a ton of strange things, so I'll bite. In the interest of finding out which "universe" I'm from, give me an answer: have any of you heard of a mass murderer named Kira? He kills people - criminals - with heart attacks. Just in case any of you are from one of those "alternate timelines" and Kira hasn't yet reared his ugly head, have any of you heard of a detective named L?

Regards.

-M

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Fair point.

So, it sounds like you've been thinking about this for quite some time. How can you be sure that killing the administrators will get us back home?

[He doesn't think it's a bad theory, but he needs to push this guy a little to make sure that he isn't just making empty threats against their captors. Anyone can say that they'd like to kill someone else, but to actually go ahead and do it...

Well.

That, Mello thinks, takes more guts.]

You sound intelligent, I am not going to give you all the informations you could and should find on your own.

Look for the administrators related posts on this network. It should not be long.

[ Ganondorf was referring mostly to the part where it was mentioned that Zo is the one taking people from their homeworld and the destruction began around the time Ruana first entered this tower. For someone like Mello, finding these old posts on the network shouldn't be too hard.

It was easy to imagine that with these two admins out of the way, they would go back to their homeworlds and whatever was keeping their homeworlds destroyed would end. Worse case scenario, with the administrators out they could harness the tower's power and work on a way to go home.

As for actually going ahead and doing it, well Mello would probably be satisfied about Ganon's little attempt a couple days later. ]

You think I've been spending my first few days here twiddling my thumbs? I've already gone over every bit of information I could get my hands on from this thing.

[It's not a lie. He's spent sleepless nights raking through information just to score higher on a test - in a situation like this, which seems to be far more dire, the first thing he'd done was attempt to gather information. He'd poured over the network for hours, reading posts until his eyes hurt, but going over things that have happened in the past only get you so far.]

I've got my own theories. Now I want to hear yours.

They use "powers" or "technologies" to brings us here and keep us here. It has been shown before they accidentally send some of us back home- Apparently when they become inadvertent. If our worlds are truly gone, again they are behind it.

One can conclude if they were to die, we would be sent back home as their control over us and the tower would fade.

[ Well, that's determination, Ganon could admire that. ]

Of course this is but one of many theories, and a quite convenient ones. I have many else. Make your own.

It's an all right theory. Of course, it's operating on the assumption that they're actively holding us here with some sort of power that'll reverse as soon as they die. Pretty risky - if you're wrong, we could just get stuck here with no knowledge of where we are or how their equipment works.

Not that I'm siding with them. I'll agree that things would probably be better if they were dead, but I wouldn't just kill them without being more certain it'd either reverse the process, or we would be able to take care of ourselves here.

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