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[promiselisting]

[ It'd kinda taken a backseat with everything else going on, but there's still something that's been bothering her a bit. She could just dismiss it as a kid making things up but... after everything she's experienced here, and back home, she's got a gut feeling there's more to it.

She can't search the internet like she used to but... well that doesn't mean crowdsourcing is off the table. ]

Hey, did anybody else run into a weird girl on their first day here? A little kid, blonde hair.

Also does anybody know what the name of this "linkshell" means? Kali Shashidhwaja. She mentioned that, along with telling me that "she" would try to hurt me if I ever lost it and was alone.

[ As a final note, she added the two pictures the girl had doodled, described as follows: " There was a crude drawing of a feminine figure with purple eyes standing over what appeared to be the corpses of a human and a moogle, looking a bit eerily similar to Futaba and her moogle even though the drawing was crude. " Along with "This time the figures looking like Futaba and her moogle were standing alive, and were surrounded by other figures. They faced toward the purple-eyed figure, who seemed to be fleeing."

And now, to see what information others might have... ]

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[masqueraid]

( regardless, it's something to go on.
you're doing good work futaba. even without the wifi. )

Still, it's something to go on.
It looks as though you'll have a lot of help, too.

text. -> private text;

[promiselisting]

Yeah, I guess so.

[ Crowdsourcing is both familiar and weird like this? Maybe it's having her own name personally attached to it. Although, on the note of "help" and "allies"... she switches the feed over to private. ]

Doesn't look like we'll be able to count on the locals as much though. Not to take us seriously, at least.

[ Jury's still out on whether they'll need to worry about locals outright undermining them or... other things. She's really trying not to be paranoid. ]

private.

[masqueraid]

Everything that's happened over the last few days seems alarming to them, too. Maybe they're just trying to cling to a sense of normalcy by trying to shoot things down, but...

( it's not really a great reason for them to be dismissive. maybe he's just feeling a little over-protective seeing as it's futaba... )

We have one another to count on, anyway. ( always. )

[promiselisting]

Yeah. We'll stick together.

[ Well if he's a little biased because it's futaba, she's very biased because she is futaba. ]

They're pretty lucky that things can still seem normal.

[ Not all of them have that option. Some of them don't even have the semblance of it. ]

[masqueraid]

( after all the shitty adults they've encountered, shitty locals aren't exactly out of left field, so... )

Rather than lucky they might just be scrambling for excuses. ( denial can be a hell of a drug, just ask the general population of tokyo 20xx... )

Just another reason for us to stay sharp.

[promiselisting]

[ Yup. And stay sharp she will. She doesn't trust a lot right now. Especially from people in some kind of authority. ]

Given what Connie said it sounds like it'd be a good idea to dig into who's in charge of this linkshell thing. Along with maybe some world creation myths.

[ Just passing along some potential leads for you there. ]

[masqueraid]

Those are both good places to start.
Good work, Futaba. :)