Digiport 05

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[Takeru's looking considerably less composed today. It's not that easy to keep yourself held together when you already have a rather tenuous grasp on sanity and are seeing... things. He's walking around, muttering to himself. Or to something no one else can see.]

Go away. Stop staring at me. You're not there.

You're just codewalkers. Fragments of data... but you can't possibly be here.

Leave me alone.

[He's wandering from place to place on the Plane, not staying in one place for very long.]

[[ooc; Experiment start!]]

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[lamb_of_gold]

[Aw shit] See who, Takeru?

[digitale-daten.livejournal.com]

The codewalkers. They keep following me.

[lamb_of_gold]

Apparently not here.

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But they are here. They're right over there. [He glances over to his left.]

[lamb_of_gold]

...Are you well, Takeru?

[digitale-daten.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm fine. I'm not sick or anything...

[lamb_of_gold]

And uninjured? [He may have bonked his head or something :S]

[digitale-daten.livejournal.com]

Yes. I haven't gotten hit or something like that.

Codewalkers aren't unheard of in the Digital World, but I have no idea why they're following me here. And usually other people can s -

[He backs up as one of them gets closer, and his face goes white.] Hikari?

[lamb_of_gold]

You're hallucinating, Takeru.

[digitale-daten.livejournal.com]

But... she's right there.

[He points to 'her', right in front of him.] Why can't you see her?

[lamb_of_gold]

...There's nobody there, Takeru.

[digitale-daten.livejournal.com]

But she's...

[He backs up again, seeing more codewalkers coming near him.]

Stop. Stop it. No. ... I killed most of you. Is that why you're following me?

I did what I had to do. Stop it.

[He looks at Mu, panicked.]

Mu, make them go away! Please!

[lamb_of_gold]

Takeru, there....[he sighs] Ignore them, and focus on me. Just look at me. They do not exist.

[digitale-daten.livejournal.com]

[He tries to calm down, and looks at Mu. Suddenly, the codewalkers seem to vanish.]

I... [Deep breath.] You're sure? ... Thanks.

[lamb_of_gold]

I am. See? They're gone for now.

[digitale-daten.livejournal.com]

[He doesn't take his eyes off Mu.]

I don't know why they've suddenly become so much more active, or how they can follow me... maybe it's an anomaly in the coding of the Digital World...

[lamb_of_gold]

[That's fine. Glamour Illusions hold better when he's in the area] Likely it's this place.

[digitale-daten.livejournal.com]

[Mu said to look at him and he doesn't want to see them again so.]

What do you mean? Is it one of those... experiments I heard about? But I don't remember anything...

[lamb_of_gold]

It might be. Often we're caught unawares by them.

[digitale-daten.livejournal.com]

[Growls a little.]

That's. Really really annoying.

[lamb_of_gold]

To put it very lightly.

[digitale-daten.livejournal.com]

So what am I supposed to do about it?

[lamb_of_gold]

Ride it out.

[digitale-daten.livejournal.com]

Great... I hope it ends soon.

[lamb_of_gold]

Somwhere between a week and ten days seems to be the normal length of time for these things.