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I would advise against using the network, but given the circumstances there are no other options.

[ Have a Gandalf appearing on the screen- He looks dead serious, yet somehow calm. Anyone paying attention could notice he looks quite tired as well. ]

I need to know what happened in this tower before my arrival- From the first day people were ‘saved’. If there are people who could give me any relevant information, this would be highly appreciated.

I’m most interested in a child who has been mentioned a couple of time yesterday, I believe his name was Zo. From what little I have read, I assume something terrible must have happened.

[Text – Filtered to Princess Zelda, Fi and Xion]

I need to see the three of you as quickly as possible. Please come to the library as soon as you can. You know which one.

-- Gandalf

[ It is sent right after the video feed, and he won’t reply- What he has to speak about with them is too important to be discussed on the network. ]

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He did, however, give answers that we should think on very carefully, you Grace.

[Xion grimaces. She didn't like the reminder of the network post yesterday - both the conversation itself and the slip-up she'd made. Still, she couldn't help but agree. She turns to look at Fi.]

What do you mean? I... left before I could hear much.

[Ugh. She would've been scolded back in the Organization for missing that much potential information... she was slipping.]

He did say many interesting things, but 'careful' is the good word when it comes to analyze his answers.

They were riddled with incoherence and many of them didn't match-up with facts and past-events. He lied, and there may truths hidden between the lies.

For all we are aware of, it may very well have been yet another "experiment." With how little he seems to care about our well-being, I would not put it past him.

I will agree that analyzing what he said is a priority, though. It is the closest thing we have to a lead regarding the mysteries of this place.

[Yeaaah, uh. She kind of left before she could accidentally destroy the terminal in frustration.]

I was tracking every possible conversation that appeared to have potential for important information. I will be able to provide exact wording on any subject you wish you discuss.

[Xion stiffens. E-every conversation? So then... No, no, she cuts off that train of thought. She needed to remember why they were there.]

Right.

[She pauses for a moment, thinking]

What kinds of things did he talk about?

I have tracked every conversation as well. They mentioned their motive, who they are and what's happening, vaguely. Fi will be better than I to explain.

[Xion's anxiety does not go completely unnoticed, and some of Zelda's agitation melts away into concern for the younger girl. But, likewise, she knows she needs to focus right now, so she sets those thoughts aside for later.]

He still insists that they are "saviors of the multiverse" - I know that much. However my own conversation with him was also rather short.

[Though she's not going to go into detail as to why, precisely.]

Everyone is most upset about the experiments, of course, but... if we wish to stand with them on equal ground, we need greater understanding on how and why this place is the way it is. Did he speak at any length about how the tower functions, or how we are brought here?

The information I gathered includes information this tower is a protected world. However, the conversations I monitored indicated that even Jason and his companions lack a complete understanding on how it works.

With each world that is destroyed, only one person can be rescued. That would mean that nobody here is from the same world, and it would explain why each person is from a different point in time. I cannot explain how exactly we were brought here, however.

[Xion tries her best to push back the unease at the idea that two of the people here heard what she said. For the most part, it works.

Especially as the conversation shifts to what is said. She frowns, trying to shift herself into the way she'd think while out doing recon for the Organization.]

It seems strange... If they don't really understand how their own world works, how do they know so much about us?

[Call her a skeptic, but...]

...

[ Gandalf listens calmly to them... ]

They can erase memories- We can suppose they have access to our memories. This way they gather information on us. Obviously all of this is only possible thanks to the collars. They are how they control us.

[ He pauses. ]

As for how we are brought here... The child, Zo, is the one with the power to bring us here.

[ This part wasn't in the Jason Q&A though. ]

[... Oh. Oh, wow, this is... quite a bit more to take in than she expected. No one is from the same world...? But the question is if one should believe it.

No matter. For now, it is just another piece of information to be stored away.]

The collars... [She touches her own (indigo, in contrast to the others' violet) in thought.] The collars, and the oatmeal one must consume before anything else upon arrival. They must be connected in some fashion.

[But now she's getting off topic. She shakes herself out of that thought process, giving Gandalf an inquisitive look.]

Zo...?

That collars appear to be the only thing keeping us alive, if one of the conversations is to be believed. Without it, we would die. And on the subject of death, we apparently never die while here. Our bodies are recovered before we actually die, and are repaired.

[Fi tilts her head towards Gandalf.]

The name 'Zo' is not currently part of my data. Please elaborate.

[Her hand unconsciously reaches up to rub the collar on her neck. Access to memories... just hers, or Sora's too? The Organization messing with Sora's memories was bad enough. She didn't want this place adding to that.

Zelda does seem to be onto something though... those things being connected...]

Not being able to move when we first wake up, too. A lot of things are probably a part of it...

[She hasn't heard of Zo either, but... if he could bring people here... And just overall, what they were saying...]

He's one of the people in charge of the Tower, isn't he? Or from here or something like that, at least...

While the collars keep us alive, they are also how they control us. Unfortunately, removing them without dying is an impossibility.

[ For now. As for the oatmeal... Gandalf had not considered it, but yes yes. They're gonna have to search in this direction. ]

Indeed. He is one of the five in charge, or at least he was. He is the boy whose fate worried many residents. ... I have talked to him earlier today.

[ With a move of his staff he closes the door of the library. No spies allowed. ]

I have protected the library against eavesdropping, but this would be safer if you had a spell of your own to cast.

We never die...?

[That sounds... utterly impossible. Even more impossible than the idea of revival. She's felt her life give out three times now, how could they possibly--

Goddesses. With every "answer", it feels like another ten questions pop up. At Gandalf's urging, however, well, she doesn't know anything that would conceal their conversation but... she holds her hand out towards the door, and a golden barrier shines into being. No one's getting through that without a lot of magical power backing them up.]

That is the most I know how to do, I am afraid. But... you spoke with this "Zo"? Did he elaborate on anything Jason may have said?

Not being capable of moving was mentioned as well, though not in relation to our initial arrival. He claimed it was a reacclimation process, our paralysis.

[Oh good, Zelda knew spells of protection. Convenient, considering Fi only knew spells necessary for guiding the Hero. Though, perhaps she'll ask Zelda later for a lesson.]

Reacclimation? What was it reacclimation for?

[At Gandalf's words, she shakes her head.]

I don't think I have anything that would-

[A thought occurs to her, and maybe an echo of a memory, and she trails off. She looks down at her hand, then summons her Keyblade in a flash of light. It could lock and unlock anything, right...?

She points it at the door, where a shimmering figure of a keyhole appears. A beam of light shoots from the tip of the key into the keyhole, and there's a sound not unlike a lock clicking as both keyhole and light fade. She lowers her Keyblade slowly.

It actually worked.]

I... might have to let us out. But... that should work.

[It's all she can think of, at least.]

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I don't remember him mentioning what reacclimation was for. But it's true he said we never die, and I am ready to believe this. It makes in a way, and it fits with what the boy told me.

[ He smiles as both Zelda and Fi protected their room- It was impressive magic. He was curiously of Xion's, Keyblade, but for now- ]

It's obvious he is under their control, what Zo said has to be taken with a grain of salt as well. I got close to the truth, but the boy's mind closed before I could obtain answers.

[ He pauses and breaths deeply. ]

But what he told me, and Jason said- I reached a conclusion. It is only an hypothesis, but it is a viable one.

I believe the people from our homeworlds are alive. All of them, they still exist and are prisoner of a state between death and life, not unlike the paralysis we suffer of upon "dying" in this tower. But they are alive, and the boy's punishment may have resulted from one of his attempts to wake them up.

[ Because this conversation obviously needed to have a good new. ]

[Likewise, Zelda is intrigued by the strange blade Xion wields, but still, she frowns in thought. Reacclimation? To what, and why?

Gandalf's words snap her abruptly out of her reverie, however.]

You truly believe so? What are we to do then?

[Even if she still doesn't truly think the worlds are gone, she'll grab onto any hope she can. There must be something they can do, right?]

Souls can be awakened with the appropriate methods. Her Grace, the first Zelda, was capable of awakening as the goddess, Hylia, by cleansing her body in the water of two temples before she and Impa retreated to the Temple of Time.

I believe there may be a similar method possible here, however altered it must be.

Our worlds... really are alive?

[Up until Fi's assessment that there were different worlds, Xion had never doubted that the idea that their worlds were gone was a lie. How else could Riku know about her future, what happened? It made no sense, that a world could be destroyed in different times for the same world.

As it was, the information was coming in fast enough that the full implications of any one idea hadn't had the time to sink in yet.

Fi sounds like they have an idea, though what she's talking about doesn't make much sense by itself. She bites her lip, and another thought occurs to her.]

The people Tower might have some way of doing it, if it's like the paralysis. They can wake us up from that, right?

[It'd probably be much more difficult for a whole world though, let alone dozens...]

The worlds, I do not know. But the people, it is a quasi-certainty. The boy tried to wake them up, probably with an alternate method as Fi said. But they stopped him and now they control his spirit.

[ Indeed, there is too much information, too little time. They can't do that alone. ]

There is much that could be said. I have information, you have information as well. Study them, find answers. The four of us alone cannot do it, but we can start a movement that will.

[ To answer Zelda's question: ]

It is time. The free people of this tower have to unite and work together. There is a reason it is the three of you I have called. I need you to find and recruit those with the will to stand against our hosts, those who desire to revive our worlds and leave the tower.

[Fi's story pique's Zelda's interest like nothing else (awakening Hylia... could that be possible?), but again, it's something she'll have to inquire about later, it seems.]

A movement...

[Because that prospect is one that she needs to dwell upon, for she knows what role Gandalf has her set to play. For all her bravado during the experiment, she's still quite uncertain about it all. She's failed so many times, and this is such a monumental task...

Pardon her, she needs to retreat into her own thoughts for a moment.]

If it is possible for them to revive us, it should be possoble to awaken others.

I am not sure how others will react to a construct such as myself attempting to recruit others to a single cause. I will however assist in any methods you deem necessary.

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