[WORLD TWO | THE OTHER HALF]

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Who: Others not on the list of the Chosen 12
Where: Around Shehui
When:
Open/Closed: Open to All, though top levels shouldn't be made by Chosen 12 members -- however, direct telepathy links can be sent to Chosen 12 members, and Chosen 12 members can respond to open telepathy prompts. This post is meant more for those who aren't part of the Chosen 12 so they can react with others or plot their next move.

[ While your name isn't on the list that has been circulating, it doesn't mean that you're unaffected by this issue. Did someone you know -- someone you have a fondness for, perhaps? -- wind up on that list? And did they manage to evade the monitors or have they been captured?

You may have the resources to do something about it, or you may want to stay out of harm's way. Either way, changes are on the horizon -- and that horizon is now looming closer than ever before. ]

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the dream team in action

[apatheia]

[This is more familiar. Having a threat, having to do something about it. As much as she's enjoyed being able to explore what it's like to have free time to spend as she likes, in a sense, this is more comfortable. She knows what she has to do here and now, even if the coven is still in the middle of forming a complete plan.

There's a familiar sense of restlessness too, although that's much more unwelcome. She thinks back on when Adam had taken 9S, how she ran everywhere she could to find him. Even though they have a good idea of where the others were taken, they can't just run straight there as much as she'd like to. If they're to stay here in Shehui, this won't be as simple as rescuing them and destroying who took them.

She arrives not long after A2 in her new clothes as well, her baby blue t-shirt from 9S peeking out from underneath the collar. With such little time to waste, she simply nods at the two of them as her greeting.]

Let's head out. [Having seen 9S pacing, she imagines he'll feel slightly more at ease once they get to work. As she thinks all of them will, really.]

Re: the dream team in action

[deem]

Right.

[With a tap at empty air, 9S prompts a holographic monitor to appear in front of him. Various environmental readings crowd the edges of a map of Shehui, a trio of tiny orange indicators signifying their location. He trails a gloved finger along the map, pausing over a distant location]

Let's start here for the perimeter sweep. It should give us a good vantage point with the elevation there.

[They have a lot of populous ground to cover, and being tasked with investigating the outskirts first is something of a relief. The world they had known was yawning, vast, and largely empty. As much as he enjoys learning and exploring all that they've been exposed to, he can't deny that at times it's nearly overwhelming.

And so this familiarity is a comfort, as is taking action. He couldn't wait around any better than his fellow units]

[precedents]

[ A2 feels it too: that sense of restlessness, the need to be on the move and do something, even with a half-formed plan. it might have not happened to her personally, simply a fragment of 2B's memories, but it's not a feeling that she wants to dwell on. ]

Got it. [ there's more rural areas flanking the city, woods that may be easier to lose the monitors in. but she doubts that would deter them from pursuing if they do break everyone out. ] We'll take the high ground.

[ mostly because A2 isn't keen on travelling through the streets, the last thing they need is for anyone else to find out about their plans. they've met on the roof of the apartment complex, so getting outside of town shouldn't take them very long.

with that said, she makes her way to the edge of the roof, jumping onto the next one. ]

SCREAMS I THOUGHT I TRACKED THIS

[apatheia]

[She follows easily, dashing through the air and jumping from rooftop to rooftop. Her daily life of jobs in the city meant she mostly spent it on the streets among people, but this is what she was made for. The movements come as easily as swinging a sword.]

About how many people are in the coven now?

[She directs it to both of them, although she'd guess that 9S is more likely to know. Combat models like her and A2 just weren't designed to prioritize data like that. The outskirts and woods seem like they'd be good places to hide out, but if their number is too large, that might not be as feasible as they'd like.]

[deem]

[9S follows easily enough, and following is a more comfortable thing than leading was. When they were shopping it was just as well, because he had a better of idea of where they were going. But out in the field he had always trailed after 2B, and it's cemented in his mind as the natural order of things.

Not to mention, it's easier to monitor the status of those ahead of him like this, and watch out for anything that might be cause for concern]

Let's see...some have left... [And he still wants to get to the bottom of how that works] I'd say around sixty?

[It's been a fairly consistent number in the time he's been here, though there had been more for a time. He only hopes that like Julius they're safe, wherever it is they had gone]