sirenspull | 0.001

[ There's only text. That's all she feels comfortable with right now - the swirl of confusion and emotion in her head makes her doubt her ability to speak publicly right now, provided that function of her cell phone really existed like the "Greeter" had said. And, deny it though she may, she was on the edge of panic. Kurisu didn't want conversation right now. She wanted answers.

Science always helped to calm her insecurities. ]

Hello. I just arrived. A few questions:

1. What determines who is "pulled" to this place? Does it involve deletion from the victim's original world line? If so, how do we retain our memories of that past time? Compressing memory data into a transportable size for just one person requires extremely powerful machinery; the concept of doing so for a whole city is unrealistic at best.

2. On that note, how many newcomers exist in this space? How long are we expected to live here?

3. What is known about the disappearance and reappearance of the [ the hesitation she takes before writing the next word is obviously not noticeable by the time she posts this, but boy, was it there when she wrote it-- ] "monsters" overnight?

4. Is there any public data on the mechanism of the Core at all?

[ the post sits for a few moments, and then the following is edited on. Honestly, she doesn't know what she's hoping for. The chances of any of them being here were infinitely small - quite literally, if anyone from any world and any timeline could be snatched. But where the hell would she be without hope right now, anyway? She bites her lip, invisible behind the wall of hastily-chosen words. ]

5. Is there anyone from Akihabara here?

Please answer. thx.

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Yes, somebody linked me to a comprehensive list of them. No one knows how they appear like that?

One of the theories I've heard is that new monsters show up based on things in someone's world, back home for all the Newcomers.

Then they're potentially victims of the Core as well?

But that doesn't explain the nocturnal aspect.

No, not really. They're not being pulled from anywhere. They're being created by the Darkness. That's why they're only out at night. The Darkness creates them.

And what makes you say that? You can't just create something from nothing, especially something living.

They're not being made out of nothing. They're being made out of darkness.

Darkness isn't anything. It's the absence of something! That still doesn't work, unless you mean there's some physical substance to the "darkness" here.

That's exactly what I mean. The darkness here as a physical quality to it that creates monsters. They are created at night, they live for the night, and then they disappear as soon as the light touches them in the morning.

I see.

But they always come back, so it's not like the darkness is being destroyed. I wonder where it goes.

That I don't know. But I'm trying to find out.

Have you made any progress?

A little bit. I've collected a lot of samples. Problem is, the darkness disappears as soon as it's light out, so... you can't work on them during the day.

Everyone has to pull all-nighters once in a while.

Are you a researcher?

Not formally. I'm a programmer, actually.

I see. A friend of mine was a programmer, too. But I'm a neuroscientist. Programming would probably be more useful in this situation. I should have paid more attention to what he was doing.

Maybe? A lot of people think the Core is actually alive, so Neuro-Science might be the right way to go. But if you ever want to see something, I work at Violet Systems, and we're always looking for more people.

[ boy, getting job recruitment offers within hours of arrival. ]

I don't think I'm ready to work anywhere at all right now.

Keep it in mind? When you've slept in that apartment for a night, you desperately want a job.

Are you seriously trying to recruit me when I only just got here?

Better me then one of the companies.

[ gununuuuu... ]

Actually, it's not. I'm not in the mood to deal with this. Step off.

I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to be rude. And I wasn't really trying to recruit you, either. It's not my company. I'm just saying, we're always looking out for people. After you get settled in, if we can help in any way? Let us.

Right. We'll see about that.

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