Find out more about the space manipulation mod she got from Sapphire. While she explains things lets see if we can find a intact space station to land on.

If she is willing to trust us "ha ha" we could interface with her and have Loviro take a look at her mods. Or just ask his advice without having a look.

If the space mod lets you make instant portals we could try something like making a ring of the portals and then accelerating our super gravity through it at ever increasing speeds. If you set the portals up right the gravity of the next portal could continually accelerate the gravity ball until it reached light speed. Might get some interesting effects then.

I think our first stop should be to refuel at any station we can find intact. Testing stuff will burn a lot of jetalium and we have no real way to resupply right now.

Honestly I think the only reason she has not taken the chance to finish us off is her lack of logs going forward. She has followed those stupid things forever and now she has to decide stuff herself instead of following the advice of a long dead incarnation. Might be able to prove to her our ways are the best but do not let her get into a position where she can take you out again.

Find a safe place to plot first preferably where you can restore mass. Then inventory all your mods. Then survey the destruction and see if there are any holdouts that are avoiding the apocalypse. Technology and resources are about to be scarce so stock up now.

While we move see if Sevener has a engineer of her own in there. Letting them and Loviro chat might get us some ideas.

>>"What were our ideas again?" Sevener asks. "Make sure the planet is blown up the entire way?"
Well, there's that, the harvest sim maybe, if any of that survived, or trying to find a way to break the simulation with the space-time module.

...if we could locate or communicate with our native allies who made it into orbit, they might be able to help, actually. There's no Empire holding them back, now. We certainly found enough ways to break the rules of our situation, maybe if all the surviving science here puts it's mind to it, they can do.

1/3 Alison 2014/03/17(Mon)21:45 No. 566816 ID: d470e9
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"Sevener, you're asking me for ideas, which makes me think that you aren't holding much hope for the space module to be of much help."
>"It's a disappointment. All it does is create wormholes for short distances. Theoretically it can do more, but there's a million to one chance we'll just collapse in on ourselves, so, no."
"Another idea is to try to get past the speed of light by using my gravity for an extended period of time, using that wormhole."
>"Yeah if we're curious how accurately this place treats relativity. It'll cost a lot of your energy anyway."
"I don't know of many ideas."
>"Fat help."
"I'm trying."
>"Like you even have reason to! You're done, Naga, we won, and you're out! It's use who's stuck here, as far as I can tell, you just have more reason to stick around here than stick around dead!"
"Don't talk like that. I'm still trying. If we could destroy EIN, too, that may be enough to tell the simulation that it's done and over."
>"Yeah, now how do we blow up the planet?"
"All the superweapons we would've been able to use seem to be getting blown up."
>"Yeah. Except for our wormhole. You stick a chunk of jetalium - no, just a ship or something - between two wormholes. You speed it up to the planet for a few minutes, and it'll be going.... well, fast, right? Then I take out the wormholes, and that thing flies down to the planet. That should hurt, right?"
"Probably. Do you have an engineer or some equivalent?"
>"No, I don't. Unlike you contestants, we don't get breaks. We're at work, either administrating the safe zones or the stages. We don't have time to read books."
"You really do want to blow up the planet?"
>"You got any better ideas?!"
"We can go somewhere else and plot. There's a couple of terraformed planets planets that would have taken a long time to get to, but I can super gravity us there in some decent time, energy permitting."
>"Well whatever we do here, we do it here now, before we start going! You better start working your ass, Naga, because I'm only keeping you alive under the assumption you might be useful."
"Please don't take your anger out on me, I want to get out of here as much as --"
>"Alison. Get back in the lobby. Duelist, take over Unity." Recluse says.
"Hold on, please, Sevener."

2/3 Alison 2014/03/17(Mon)21:45 No. 566817 ID: d470e9
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"Recluse, what are you doing?"
>"After our lobby computer turned worthless, we've placed all of our focus on how to break the belenosian world. If I am not underestimating him, then we have had the capacity to break the world inside of us all along."

3/3 Alison 2014/03/17(Mon)21:45 No. 566818 ID: d470e9
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>"Over four thousand of us, and we only now checked to see if his glitched inventory would persist with us. We know how unpredictable glitcher's items are supposed to be when used outside of their parameters. This button started the simulation. We can't know what it would do now."

>>566818
...it's been so long since we used that thing I forgot it existed.

PUSH BUTAN.

Well, there's one way we could lower the risk. Sevener and the admins built their own switch(es) to activate CAI battles. Ask how they work. If we assume Glitcher's button and their switches work on the same principle...

Of course, pushing the button could kill us. Or it could implode the whole sim. Or it could get us out. We don't know.

We'd probably need to link cores to take Sevener with us.

First up though: there's something we need to clear up. Sevener, nevermind who's to blame or who has more to gain. What happens if we do get out. Both of us, not one or the other. That puts all of us and all of you together again in one system bracket. What happens then? Do we start trying to kill each other again, or are you willing to let us walk away, or to cooperate to try and end all this? How far does this truce go?

After we get that out of the way, we can tell her we might have a way out. It might kill us or break the simulation but... we still have Glitcher's item in inventory. We might be able to just switch it off.

Safe practice says we should try to interface or supercore in case the button only lets one group out. Don't try to backstab her and leave without her unless she tries to kill us and take it or something crazy (mostly because we'll look really stupid if we try to leave her behind and the button turns the sim off, letting everyone out. Then we'd be right back to a bloodbath).

...also, I don't know if we have time (or Sevener would let us) but it might be nice to try and rescue more people before we bail. The Slither and other guys should be in orbit- we might be able to take them too.

well the worst case scenario would be that it just kills us, but seeing how the alternative is just waiting in this sim until we run out of battery power or the system restarts all it would do is speed up the inevitable and let us avoid a few weeks or however long it takes for the restart without all the angst.

So the way I see it is it will either
A) give us a way out
B) make things in the simulation worst or maybe just restart it but not really to big a deal seeing as we're kinda screwed now anyways
or C) flat out kills us but again, we're already kinda screwed so not that big of a deal.

The only reason I'm seeing to not push the button is maybe see if we could find the slither guys and take them with us. Just tell sevener you might know where to find a ship. If we find it we can fill Sevener in then because if she finds out we can do this now she'll probably just try and make us leave now instead of trying to save more people. Also be wary of backstabs.

Ask Sevener if she's feeling lucky today.

Explain the situation and propose to merge. No harm in it anyway and it'll probably only affect you both if you do.

Do it Do it Do it Do it Do it Do it Do it Do it

Suggestion 2014/03/18(Tue)06:46 No. 566835 ID: f44ca3

She just said she is only keeping us alive because we might be useful. The second she knows she has a advantage she starts trying to bully you.

We can hit that button almost instantly so lets talk to Sevener. She might have the upper hand in jetalium but this might only bring out everyone in our core.

So propose that she joins us in our core and we all get out of here. If she tries anything we hit it and whatever happens happens. Assuming she does go for it and does not try something stupid we might be able to blackmail her logs out of her while she is in with us. Could always threaten to put her back in her core alone after everyone moves over.

Do not just go for joining cores and hoping for the best. We have the possible way out so if she wants to join us its on our terms. Never mind the fact hitting that thing might do any number of things.

Tell her that your team just got on the line with Glitcher and he is ready to pull your team back out. So if she wants out she has to join you in your core. But seeing as she is not trustworthy the only way you are letting her in is if she ejects her core so you can pull her in. Tell her you would rather not leave her but if she makes a move you can leave instantly.

Second option is we tell her our "useless" engineering team has a plan but we will need lots of power. Find a place that looks safe where we can get back up to Seveners level of jetalium and then we have our final climactic fight. You win and force absorb her then hit the button.

Hitting it might do any number of things but if it ends up just knocking us both out of the sim we need to do it on our terms. If she leaves without us getting the info we want from her we might never get it or get it to late to make any difference.

Honestly I do not think she will react well to surrendering to us so might be best to make the offer after we restock our supplies. If she tries anything just hit the button and see what happens.

Alison 2014/03/18(Tue)18:18 No. 566894 ID: d470e9
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"I might have a way out."
>"Don't just say that."
"I have the button that triggered the CAI fight to begin with. I can press it, but it's in the lobby. I don't know if it would affect you."
>"... you want me to get in your core, don't you."
"Yes."
>"Why don't you get in me?"
"Because I can push the button at any time. I don't need to do it with you, but I would like to."

Sevener sits still for a minute, while Alison assumes she is taking place in some internal dialogue.

>"I'm willing. I don't think you'd backstab me so blatantly. Not here. Some of the other admins, though? They aren't so keen on it. We'll split. Some of us'll join your core, and the others will take our body and go our seperate ways."
"I was going to ask you to shed your core."
>"No will do. We just interface. Last I figured, you've got the advantage there, so fuck if I know what problem you'd have with that. So we interface, and the people who move to your core, move."
"I'm going to want to stay around for a little while anyway, just to save who I can."
>"Whatever, long as we get back with some time to spare. No longer than midnight, belenos time. You ready?"

The current time is 18:91.

Yeah. Let's head to Cloud Slither and pick up anyone notable. We can split up to gather as many real AIs as possible, then try to meet back here at 22:00.

huh, I'm surprised she's actually willing to work with us. But yeah we did tell the slither guys to run so if they did manage to get off world they'll probably be in orbit but if not then I have no clue where'd they be since they did scatter after the bombs drop.

>admins will split up
Fair enough. They might be left behind if it works, or they might still be able to look for a way out if the button glitch-kills us. ...Or maybe it'll still take everyone. There's no way to know.

>who rescue
We can make an appeal to slither, and Emerald's guys who bailed from the ship. ...actually, does Emerald want to come, or us to keep our promise to let him go?

I'm all for saving some more people, but here's a little something for everyone to consider. Judging by the fact that we're merging with Obliterator's and Swordsbane's brackets next stage, there's probably only going to be 4 contest and administration brackets. If we leave as soon as possible, then we might have time to take over the Upper Echelon this stage and do whatever that lets us do before those 16 administrations die.

Oh, and maaaybe we should warn the administrators that the Corruptor invaded their brackets. You know, just so they know what they can look forward to when they get out.

>maybe we should warn them
We don't actually know that Corruptor acted on that, do we? And in any event, maybe we should wait until it's clear we're not all killing each other when we get out.

I guess this is about as close as we can get to a compromise. Just keep a eye out for anything suspicious. Right now she is unhackable and could disconnect from us at any moment during the process. Even if she does go along with it the people staying here might decide to do something crazy after they get control of the body.

As for rescuing people I would say try Cloud slither and the harvester sim first. We may have pulled most of the simulation into us but the people running it seem like they are a fairly decent group and that place might be full of refugees by now. With a large protected area they might be a prime disaster recovery area now that all the emperors are dead.

Ask her if she wants to help out. Gives her something to do while we wait and might be interesting for her to watch us work. We either have eventually convince her that our way works or end up locking her up somewhere she can not get in our way later on.

Be honest that you can't be 100% sure this will work. Or that it won't blow up horribly.

>"Why don't you get in me?"
I can think of one reason that might actually be a good idea: her core is the one with the win flag. (Although migrating everyone over to her core, including all the what, millions?, of frozen people we took from the harvest probably makes moving the system side to us a lot easier).

>>566923
I doubt we can move the dreamworld over to her.

I doubt she would try anything funny during our interface... you have the numbers anyway, and she seems truthful about her group's intentions. The risk is that without Sevener the other admins left would be... less friendly to us, relatively speaking. We could just stand on guard, have divisions watch over us, or...

It may sound a bit grim but... does anyone want to... stay? Anyone tired of the stages, tired of fighting, or just wish to remain here in the sim? There's a higher chance that the other group won't find a way out, and best case scenario is that we fail, the cycle repeats, and they get to live here forever. And if we succeed then maybe the sim just... keeps going? Runs alongside the stages or something like that. I remember there being a small minority within us that wish to screw the stages and live in the sim, although they may have changed their minds by now. Ask if anyone would like to transfer to the other core instead. The true purpose is twofold, one to watch the other admins and make sure they don't turn on us, and two to have a higher chance of staying here in the simulation forever, if that's what they wish.

1/5 Alison 2014/03/19(Wed)19:29 No. 567014 ID: d470e9
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"I'd like to ask our lobby something, first. Some of you had the idea to stay here. I wasn't going to do that at the time, but now that we have Sevener's core, if you want to stay here, then you have a chance to. I know that this idea came up before the apocalypse, and there's no guarantee my button won't destroy the simulation and everything inside of it. That, and I don't know how good of company the admins keep. But if anyone wants to absolutely refuse to go back into the stages even though they can die and live on in the dreamworld, and risk what's going on here, there is the option."

There are only 7 takers. Alison didn't make a compelling case for staying, but she also didn't think there is much compelling around here anymore.

"Yes, I agree with that. I also have another request."
>"What."
"7 of my friends would like to move into your core. If the admins can't find a way out by the time the stages continue, they'd like to live here."
>".... yeah. That's fine with us. Enough of us, anyway."
"Alright."

The interface starts. Sevener and the admins don't try to do anything tricky, and neither does Alison.

2/5 Alison 2014/03/19(Wed)19:29 No. 567015 ID: d470e9
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The remainder of the belenosian day is spend scouring the planet for survivors. Unfortunately, most of the survivors have become thralls of EIN, which has treated Alison as a hostile entity. She still interfaces with them and is able to forcibly save them one at a time, but it gets difficult to do so when it doesn't appear that the thralls regain their sanity, and must be restrained.

A great deal of ships have also gone well out of orbit, and Mathematician is relatively certain that they're heading for colonized planets.

3/5 Alison 2014/03/19(Wed)19:30 No. 567016 ID: d470e9
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It would be a tragedy if everyone got this far, just to get blown up by a stray EIN bot, so Alison hits the button.

>ERROR - SYSTEM CORRUPTED. RESTART INTERRUPTED. REGENERATING SIMULATION. EXTRACTING FOREIGN ENTITIES. PLEASE TRY AGAIN MOMENTARILY.

>"This had better be a good thing, Naga!"

>"DUPLICATES FOUND. LOVIRO/UNKNOWN. FELIX/UNKNOWN. VINYL/UNKNOWN. EMERALD EMPEROR/SWORDSBANE. UNKNOWN/UNKNOWN X 8. UNKNOWN/HEALER. TEMPORARY PLACEHOLDERS CREATED UNTIL NEW CYCLE."
>1,572,241 UNREGISTERED CAI CONTESTANTS FOUND. DUMPING TO SOURCE: STAGE SEVEN SAFE ZONE. NEW ENTRANT ESTIMATION COUNT: 1,600,000 -- EXITS: 10

4/5 Alison 2014/03/19(Wed)19:30 No. 567017 ID: d470e9
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Alison is out.

Back at the spot where she hit the button.

It takes her a moment to recall where this spot is. And what she was doing here, for that matter.

It was for Arbiter's keycard.

5/5 Alison 2014/03/19(Wed)19:30 No. 567018 ID: d470e9
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That may not be happening.

So Healer was another extracted simulation AI, as well as Emerald. Swordsbane is his alternate...

Anyway, see if you can contact Arbiter. Tell him to claim to be the Diamond Emperor so that he can recruit the influx of contestants. Also apologize, because you failed.

So um are we stuck here until the next cycle or are we getting transported again?

Well wherever we end up we have a lot of harvester people who are going to be very confused shortly. We still have Corruptor being silly somewhere and it would be nice to tell him we have no hard feelings but he really needs to start ignoring those logs. Dang things are causing more problems than they are helping. I am betting Seveners probably have little use by this point and are mostly full of stupid plans to kill us.

If we get the chance it might be best to absorb most of the harvester people before its to late. Rescuing them from a somewhat normal life just to force them through a giant death maze seems cruel. Having them live in our dream world might lesson the transition shock.

Looks like one of the people we pulled out has 8 duplicates somewhere. Seems to be someone we have not got the name of but they might turn out to be important. Will want to find out what the system means by Temporary placeholders.

so how much time do we have left before the stage starts? Because I think the best thing we could do with non-combatants of the CIA battle would to be to dump them off at our house and it's a good thing we have a city around because we just picked upped a city's worth of people.

We should also check back in with the guys we left behind back in the stage and we should just get out of here in general. I mean with everything that happened with the corrupter and what not we really don't have a reason to be here anymore. Plus with, what, how many hours we have left, and all the new people we picked upped which have NO IDEA what's going on as we've had them frozen this whole time... yeah we have a lot of things to do and almost no time to do them. I think for now we should just get them back to our base/city and just tell them that they are in a temporarily simulation (not totally untrue) for the time being. I mean most of them knew they where in a simulation they just never said anything about it. And if they buy it then we can wait till after we finish the next stage to deal with all that.

>>567021
Personally I think it's time we stopped giving Corruptor second chances. He cannot be allowed to backstab us again.

Its not like we can do much right now about him. As one of the "special" contestants we might need his help later on. He is doing the same thing Sevener has been. Mistrusting us because a log told him to. Just because we had issues with each other once long ago does not mean we have to now.

Like Sevener we just do not give him any direct chances to back stab us if we can avoid it.

1/4 Alison 2014/03/19(Wed)20:53 No. 567028 ID: d470e9
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Alison is not sure what's going on with her death animation now. However, she notes that Sevener and the administration units that came back are not dissipating, indicating that she did, in fact, lose, and is in the middle of actual death.

Despite being in that state, she uses ghost talk on Corruptor and Arbiter.

Corruptor does not reply.

Arbiter shows up. His expression quickly turns into dismay. Alison tells him that he's the Diamond Emperor. If he hurries up and claims that name in Stage 7, he may have an unfathomable amount of allies. Or 1.6 million, depending on his fathoming capabilities.

Arbiter asks why she looks like she's dying. All Alison does is apologize, but despite that she's been getting backstabbed recently, she still has faith in Chief, Arbiter, and everyone. She requests that he pass that info along, and not to worry. She reminds Arbiter that there are still 3 resurrections for each person that clears stage 7, so just make sure everyone tries their best. And to be wary about the Corruptor, not just was he able to intervene in the CAI fight, he made Alison automatically lose. She hopes he had good reasons for this.

2/4 Alison 2014/03/19(Wed)20:53 No. 567029 ID: d470e9
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Just before her death process is finished, and before Arbiter has a chance to say any more, Sevener comes by and yanks the stage keycard that drops from Alison.

>"Thanks. And thanks for telling me Arbiter was the Diamond Emperor. I think I'll invite him over, now, and check out his logs too. I heard that's what you came here for, so hey, everyone wins."

3/4 Alison 2014/03/19(Wed)20:54 No. 567030 ID: d470e9
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Alison wakes up some time later. She knows that time has passed, but she isn't sure how much.

Iso runs up to Alison. He thought he was dead, because he is.

Alison gives him a hug, as he asks where they are. Alison suspects within Sevener's dream, as she senses her approaching fast, and all of her friends she senses around her are also dead.

Unnatural Selection - Belenosian Interlude 3 (Thread 9) END Alison 2014/03/19(Wed)20:55 No. 567031 ID: d470e9
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Sevener comes to a fast halt in front of her.

>"Alison." She catches up, grabbing Alison's shoulders. "Arbiter accepted my invitation to check his logs."

She pauses another moment, enough for Alison to notice that there is the slightest hint that she's shaking.

>"I may have made a mistake."

OH that was her death animation? I just thought that was some side effect from using glitcher's device... What? don't look at me like that. Alison only died once way the hell back in the, what 2nd 3rd thread

well, shit

We got tons of info about the different simulations and people that have been pulled out of them over the cycles. And honestly dying is well worth it to make Sevener realize how misguided she has been. We really need everyone we can get on our side to find a way out of the loops.

While Corruptor threw a wrench into the works I think we came out way ahead. If we had won who knows how long it might have taken to get Sevener out of her funk over loosing and work with us again.

>>567035
kinda think it's a little to early to say that. I mean it really comes down to how useful we can be from beyond the grave.

>"Alison"
>grabbing someone's shoulders is kind of like a hug
>Sevener's hugging Alison and is actually using her name
Just what do those logs say?

>>567037
>it really comes down to how useful we can be from beyond the grave.
Pretty much everything Alison can do can also be done either by other people or by Alison through Ghost Talk.

Hug her quick before its to late!

>>567039
yeah but until sevener showed up we're kinda in a hibernation were we couldn't do anything, kinda like how it was for the people we absorbed into our dreamscape before we turned it into an empire in the middle of the city. I'm mostly just kinda worried that we'll only be able to act whenever Sevener finds the time to come and see us more then anything. But again really to soon to say

 

>>567031
>I've may have made a terrible mistake
Cue Iso playing this song

Now kiss.

I hope the next chapter starts relatively quickly. Edge of my seat here.

...I don't suppose their Invincible traits let the former Chompers survive that?

>millions of new CAI entreats
Well, at least the people we rescued didn't die with us. That's something. Poor Polatt, though. He chose Alison only to be separated.

>Duplicates: LOVIRO, FELIX, VINYL, EMERALD/SWORDSBANE, HEALER
Huh. Someone busted Loviro, Vinyl, Felix and Emerald out before. And healer was a CAI battle native too. I guess she was a jetal? (I wonder if she was ever in a background shot somewhere and we missed her. ...great, Now I've got a reason to double check 3 threads worth of images).

I hope the doubles didn't just get obliterated. (It would be really cruel to save Felix and Vinyl only for them to not make it out because their spot was taken already). It would be really interesting if the doubles combined. Our prospects of actually working with Swordsbane go way up if he remembers his time as Emerald, and working together as a (reluctant) ally.

Easiest way to check it out would be to talk to Healer first chance we get. She should be here with us as a ghost. (Although her jetal double might still be alive in stage 7?).

>Alison suspects within Sevener's dream
Is Severer absorbed us, and didn't rend, that would at least mean we're available to our allies via dream as well.

>Alison
You're using my name. Does that mean you not mad at me, anymore?

>she's shaking
...do you, do you need a hug?

>>567054
>Chompers
Oh, geeze, I just realized their invincibility means we couldn't have got the Chompers backed up via glove duels. I hope a couple people thought to absorb them.

>doubles obliterated
>doubles combined
It said there were temporary placeholders generated for the doubles we were bringing out, meaning that at the start of the next cycle there'll be one contestant generated from each of their baselines, but that at the moment each of those baselines has two people associated with it.

By the way, if anyone was wondering, Swordbane looks nothing like Emerald. >>/questarch/423005 It wouldn't at all surprise me at this point if the other house lords were other emperors that the Corruptor picked up because he instinctively recognized them.

It kind of wasn't very specific as to the nature of the temporary placeholder, though. I'm not 100% trusting that means they're up and walking around.

>Swordbane looks nothing like Emerald
An interesting standout, when everyone else's self image seems to be something that survives every reset- that comes to them every cycle in their very first moments of sentience. Of course, it could be a great number (even a majority) of the contestants have more malleable 'selves'. If they look different, or have different personalities, in different loops, no one would connect them. You're only going to get noticed in logs if you're consistent, and you frequently survive long enough.

>It wouldn't at all surprise me at this point if the other house lords were other emperor
The fact that there was no duplicate Ruby made me sad. As an Emperor, he'd be a good target for someone to try and take with them. That very likely means Ruby didn't use his secret backup to upload himself to the harvest, and we didn't save him. (Or if we did save him, no one else has ever done so before).

>another thing to check next thread, wherever that happens
Did the people who tried to stay inside the CAI-sim stay behind, or were they brought along? (The fact we brought the refugees in our core with us suggests we left everyone outside our core behind, but we should confirm).

>[Corruptor] made Alison automatically lose. She hopes he had good reasons for this.
...he did. He knew we had the button. He rigged it so if we chose to leave the CAI sim, we'd die. We wouldn't be trapped if he made us the winner. He probably didn't expect us to sacrifice ourself to get Sevener out, though. And we still don't know why he turned on us.

>I hope a couple people thought to absorb [the Chompers]
I would assume the amassed system forces absorbed (or rended) everyone they could. Of course, we don't know how many of the system people stayed behind (if any), so it's impossible if there were enough absorbers to go around, or the odds of them targeting those specific people in the crowd (I suppose they had unique shapes amid a lot of our forces we had assume uniform builds? You'd think they'd target unique people first. More likely to have useful ghost information or abilities / boons to take).

>>567060
We didn't capture Ruby. He self-destructed and uploaded himself into a secret location we had no leads on.

>>567061
Yes, but we hypothesized that secret location might have been in the harvest, since we already knew he had a backdoor, there. And we scooped up the whole harvest. Unfortunately, we could never confirm or deny that hypothesis because we had millions of frozen rescues from the harvest to check and only thousands of contestants with which to search (and now that I think of it, there's no guarantee Ruby's emergency backup looks like Ruby).

>Pretty much everything Alison can do can also be done either by other people or by Alison through Ghost Talk.
The big loss is the dream house. Our allies can't now come and go out of the safe zone at will. Although if they can reach Glitcher via their own dreams, they might still have access to teleporters.