[voice] IS ♞ EVEN ON THE NETWORK'S CHARACTER MAP XI: color coded for your convenience

[beknightedheroine]

The first voice that boisterously sails from the terminal's speakers is clearly recognizable to those who know her as Sayaka Miki, formerly erstwhile agitator back in.. what seems to be totally unaltered spirits.

"Yo, my lovely towerlies! I hate to interrupt our monthly cycles of being really really sad for a while after getting stupid things done to us, but I wanted to point out something that I thought was very fascinating, actually."

The second voice (that of Jin Shirato) cuts in quickly, unable to resist the comment.

"I don't. Everyone's whining over stupid shit anyway."

Sayaka plods onwards, despite the interjection.

"And for any of those upper - hm, lower, actually - echelons listening in, hey, don't be shy, I'm okay with you hearing this, too. Turn up the volume, put it on a couple extra screens for added effect.  Anyway. Just listen to me a for a second. You know what all this information pumping means? All these horrible things you were forced to give away? It's not just random torture, no way, I know what that looks like. They're scared. Of us. Of what we might be doing."

"Make that what we are doing. It's not like they've made habit to be preventative before, after all-- how many blows to their sanctuary do you think is too many?"

"Or maybe just one special guy in particular is the one who's afraid. After all, it was his turn to man the wheel this time. And why not? Buddy, you've got every reason to be nervous. You're the predictable one, and you've already gotten in hot water before. "

"Maybe he's just afraid of turning out like Dax."

"-Exactly. It's just going to be a matter of time until you're complicit in some great final blunder. And I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for it."

The sounds cuts.

Comments

[ audio ]

[hemoeroticism]

[ Childish giggling. ]

Sad? Why would I be sad? ✩

[text]

[morituramfides]

[Well Sayaka was probably going to hog the voice function soooo--]

It's about that time of the month.

[ audio forever ]

[beknightedheroine]

_{[oh boy, it's one of these. creepy giggles are practically a national sport here.]}

Could debate the meaning of sadness with you, if you really want. So, did you stop listening at the third sentence?

voice

[terreifying]

So how long do you think we can strike another blow?

voice

[beknightedheroine]

'How long?'

That's practically a rhetorical question. As long as we keep getting new blood, as long as people like us that have these cute collars slapped on 'em exist here, it's going to keep happening. It's not a matter of how long we can hold out.

[voice]

[gradosfinest]

I've never met you before but I think I already like you. [You can hear the smirk.]

[text]

[morituramfides]

Name's Jin, nice to meet you. The loud one is Sayaka, official advocate for the rise of anarchy against science.

Now we've got pleasantries out of the way.

[voice]

[beknightedheroine]

That's the famed Miki charisma for you. It gets to everybody, I promise.

[Voice]

[colorfulbrilliance]

So you think this is just a fear reaction?

[text]

[morituramfides]

We've been here for who-knows-how-long. He's never had to pump us for information like that. It's such a dirty tactic, it's almost impressive.

[voice]

[beknightedheroine]

..well, its not 'just.' Maybe I'm making it a huge deal, but that's the thing. We're getting a reaction. That IS a big deal!

If you can make someone react, that's controlling their actions before they even get to choose them.

[text]

[caliginous]

IS THAT SOMETHING YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE, OR JUST A HEAP OF SPOONFED OPTIMISM TO GET EVERYONE TO STOP MOPING?

[voice]

[beknightedheroine]

Oh, sure. I just recorded myself all fired up so that I could get some people to stop sniffling faster. Magical girls are all about spreading hope and destroying despair, after all.

_{[Sayaka Miki not only believes it, it's the main fire in her heart, the scent of blood on the water that sets her in motion. And that's the truth.]}

[text]

[morituramfides]

Well, I'm not a magical girl, and that's dumb.

You really think he was ONLY trying to fuck with us this time? I thought you'd think more than that!

[voice]

[keepscalm]

Brilliant, actually. [There is a hint of surprise that indicates genuine praise.] Optimistic, but damn therapeutic to think about.

Particularly if her table manners haven't improved.

[It would be more painful if it was messy.]

[text]

[morituramfides]

Maybe she absorbed some nicer manners when she chomped the last guy up. She'd even use a knife to eat him next time!

It's at least enough to stick a fork in his fun.

[video]

[warriorscribe]

You're right.

*A retrieval unit passes by somewhere in the background. Seeing it in the feed, Enoch looks over his shoulder at it. Did someone die?*

They've never done anything like this before. It means we haven't, either.

*...was that the same retrieval unit that passed by, farther in the background and heading to the stairs, not a single body to be found? Enoch looks over his shoulder again.*

...And clearly, he's worried.

[text]

[morituramfides]

[Huh. Retrieval Unit. Interesting.]

Finally someone who actually gets it!

He's probably betting on all of us being distracted by all this bullshit too. Their backs are starting to press up against the wall-- they can't sit on their throne forever.

[permatext]

[ocariness]

wait

i dont understand they forced me to go back home what happened to dax :(

[permatext, meet permavoice, make friends]

[beknightedheroine]

Oh. Um.

_[Awkward.]

The digestive system happened to him.

[voice]

[floreatnoctem]

[She is so tired of this. When she speaks, Chidori's voice is as sharp as it ever gets.]

Are you two going to do something besides be inflammatory children painting ever-growing targets on themselves, or should I just resign myself to the fact that you're not going to know when to stop until it gets you into more trouble than you can handle?

[voice]

[morituramfides]

[Whoops, sorry sis, at least he designs to steal the voice function privileges from Sayaka.]

Probably the latter, if you wanna save yourself a headache. Ain't much more trouble we're really scared of anyway.

[He knows she's probably pissed at him but nope, completely unfazed.]

[verismo]

[He wanted to say something, but his angst period kinda disabled him in being anything but this:]

Shut up.

[Yep.]

[beknightedheroine]

...

_{[Well, Sayaka seems to have quite readily shut up. Point one to Kyousuke.]}

[miseris_socios]

So what're you gonna do about it?

[Please just have a plan and not be blowing hot air, guys. :| ]

[text]

[morituramfides]

[but hot air is so great]

The plan is to not puss out now that we've established multiple times that we can do something. Waiting for an opportunity without waiting too long.

[starofpleiades]

Eh? Did... something happen?

[Sorry, Kazumi was too busy being traumatized and killed this event to really hear about any of the group A stuff...]

[voice]

[mustnotfalter]

[The girl's voice isn't at all familiar to her - but she could swear she's heard the boy's somewhere before... Jin? Perhaps. She doesn't quite know. But even if it's not Jin, what these two have to say is compelling enough for her to reply anyway.]

It would certainly make sense for him to be afraid. There's so many more of us than there are of them.

If anything, the fact that they're trying to break the trust between everyone here tells us that there is something that we can do to change things if we all... cooperate. They simply don't want us working together long enough to figure out what it is.

[voice]

[morituramfides]

Kirijo?!

[Oops, he left the voice function on, so you get a pretty incredulous sounding exclamation.

Oh great. She's here now. He continues speaking at least, but he doesn't sound too happy about it.]

Right. There's always been more of us than them, but they've always been able to control us enough that they've gotten cocky. If anything, this just proves they're pregnable, if we put our heads together.