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[masqueraid]

Just in case anyone was concerned... Futaba Sakura is, well— sleeping. I know that she's made quite a few friendships since arriving here in Vaikuntha, on top of all the information she's been archiving for all of us otherworlders, so... I don't think she would want any of you to worry if you've noticed her absence over the past few days.

It's sort of like— needing to recharge her batteries. It might last days or weeks depending on how much rest she needs, but this is just the norm. She wanted to make sure that anyone who might be anxious about disappearances knew that she was still here and not— gone, since it seems like that's happened to us again recently with some familiar faces.

If there's any message you'd like to pass a long for when she wakes up, feel free to leave it with me. If we haven't met yet, call me Ren.

Alternatively, you know... press "F" to pay respects.

Comments

[spaceforged]

Sure. We haven't been secretive about it.

Hard to keep it a secret when the Lions are so massive.

[Attached to the message is a photo of the mechanical Lion, massively drafting any nearby houses at the edge of Arito.]

We have two of the Lions present and bound to have the rest eventually.

[masqueraid]

!!!
I didn't know that you also had your mech!
You can fly around in them and everything?

Wait, don't tell me
There's no way they combine into one gigantic robot, right??

[spaceforged]

Sadly they can't fly right now. Something about this world is preventing that.

As for combining, yes but we need all five to do that. We only have two of them. ...and only one has their pilot.

[Hunk is gone.]

[masqueraid]

( it's a good thing this is over text, so that his unhinged, open wide jaw is mercifully concealed and his dignity is protected.
for the most part. )

...

It must have something to do with the technologies interacting with the world. Maybe in the same vein that Futaba's laptop didn't work to its full capacity, either.

Still pretty cool, though.

[spaceforged]

The Lions are pretty cool. It is possible it's a general kind of interference with anything not of this world.

My arm was working just fine, but it couldn't be used as a weapon like it could before. It had about the same strength of the other.

I've heard talk from people who used to have added boosts, their natural speed and strength have changed.

[masqueraid]

Your arm?

( he doesn't really get the reference, please forgive this clueless boy. )

Was it— enhanced somehow before you came here?

[spaceforged]

My right arm was an alien tech prosthetic. It had greater strength and could be imbued with energy to serve as a weapon.

Neither of those things was possible here. Sorry, I should have explained that first.

[masqueraid]

Ah, I see...

( he can only imagine what the need for it might have been, but those are questions, and if he's lucky— perhaps a story for another time. )

If it runs on tech however, there may be a chance to restore it if we try hard enough. That... would probably be Futaba's area of expertise, though.

My skills are mostly limited to electronics from the last decade or two.

[spaceforged]

There's a chance, it was a mixture of magic and tech...

Magitech is the closest thing. It's likely I could recreate the skills but, it's best to focus on what we have right now.

I do know with Magitech Knight we can get our armor working again.

[masqueraid]

Hmmm.
That actually... makes a lot of sense.

I agree though, making the best of what we have on hand is a good course of action, for now.

( oh, crap. "on hand"? this time, he really didn't mean to... )

Ah, that's, I mean—
What we have access to.

[spaceforged]

It's alright, it doesn't bother me.

So yes, what we have on hand is a good course. Besides some of these jobs are pretty interesting. Dragoon and Paladin have been fun and useful.