Editing City Series:Volume8a Chapter2 (section)

===Telyb’s Board Mode: At DT Yard===

'''<Telyb’s Over Reload>

You are in the Cafeteria, a Top Page of DT yard.

The current time is 1:20 PM.

You are seated at a long table.

Several Bodies are present. Your conversation is restricted to Fooblicky.

Fooblicky has shrunk to her high-performance form.

She is seated in a kiddy chair across the table from you.

You are eating curry with rice and she is eating sandwiches.

Telyb: “Those two have had 3 hours to catch up, so I wonder if they’re actually getting along now.”

Fooby: “You worry too much. They’ll be fine. This is the city of god. And did you read Nosrup’s latest Oracle Message Board? It was about the story of Joseph bravely accepting that Mary was carrying the Holy Spirit’s child.”

Telyb: “Yeah, the favorite story of every unfaithful wife in the city.”

Fooby: “It’s not like Yuo was cheating on him or anything. Are you really that worried?”

Telyb: “How do you see this going? Aoe is a Plus kind of guy.”

Fooby: “Someone too stubborn to accept anything fake, you mean? But Yuo isn’t and she wants to be with him. So it’ll be fine. A good woman can change a man for the better.”

Fooby: “And Yuo herself was as worried as she was excited last night. It must be nice getting your immortality early so you’re stuck a girl forever. You can get away with that kind of thing.”

Telyb: “If you ask me, your age setting is eternally stuck at absolute perfection.”

Fooby: “Yeah, yeah, yeah. You didn’t even Over Reload before saying that, did you? You aren’t very convincing if you don’t look at me first.”

Fooby: “Anyway, what do you plan to do about the case that Aoe kid brought us?”

Fooby: “That case could lead to a repeat of a past mistake.”

'''<Telyb’s Over Reload>

Fooblicky is wrinkling her brow without even a hint of a smile.

The sandwiches on her plate are untouched.

Fooby: “According to the data sent by Ikemaru of GASAS, Algo Everquest said he intended to eliminate Words Warn from the world.”

Fooby: “I doubt Ikemaru, Aoe, or Yuo have any idea what that means.”

Telyb: “…”

Fooby: “But there’s nothing we understand more. Since it’s related to our own sins.”

Telyb: “Don’t beat yourself up over it. That was all my responsibility. Now, aren’t you going to eat?”

'''<Telyb’s Over Reload>

Fooblicky’s expression changes in response to your words.

Her eyebrows droop, but she does smile a little.

She takes a bite of a sandwich.

Fooby: “Thanks, but I’m more worried about what that Algo guy wants.”

Telyb: “When we all gathered back in 1963, we all had our own desires while we worked toward the summoning of a great god. I wanted to eliminate discrimination from the world, you wanted an eternal partner, Akalabeth wanted a child, and Suedomsa wanted…to eliminate the Words Warn disease.”

Fooby: “That was back when we were working hard to remake the industrial city of Detroit into the virtual city of DT, wasn’t it? But I have to wonder how serious this Algo is compared to us and Suedomsa back then.”

Telyb: “If he’s as serious as Suedomsa was back then, then he’ll try to summon a great god.”

Fooby: “Do you think that would be possible?”

Telyb: “Not a chance. Things are different now. He can’t get all three factors needed for a godtact experiment:

“'''1: The Questron used to accept the great god’s Lives.

“'''2: The reactor used to power the Questron and the reactor used to extract the great god’s Lives.

“'''3: The body used to contain the great god’s Lives. An unsullied, immortal body.

“We know all this thanks to the data Switzerland took from Germany shortly after the war. The data on the Tristan tower built in Germania and the data on the plan to overload it. Nowadays, the royal castle gets you #1 and Babel gets you #2, but what about #3? Algo is a long-lived immortal after taking the rank of martial arts master, but he is sullied by the murder of his master. Is there anyone else out there willing to sacrifice themself like that?”

'''<Telyb’s Over Reload>

A large flag hangs on the wall. It is stitched with the city’s symbol.

The symbol is a white cross above a blossoming flower with a giant tower in the background.

Telyb: “I wonder how many people know the true meaning behind DT’s symbol.”

Fooby: “Hard to say. But even if Algo is desperate to save his lover who has come down with Words Warn, I doubt he came all this way without any kind of plan.”

Telyb: “Are you suggesting Kobayashi father and sister he mentioned might know a better method?”

Fooby: “My guess is he’s planning a terrorist attack. He threatens the city in some way and demands we perform a godtact experiment if we want him to stop. Was stating the time of the festival tomorrow preparation for that?”

Fooby: “Um, hey. You’re stirring your rice without putting any curry in.”

'''<Telyb’s Over Reload>

You pour some curry on your rice.

Fooblicky breathes a cold sigh.

Fooby: “That’s his likely scenario anyway. But I wonder if that Kobayashi father and sister really do remember the 2nd Godtact Experiment.”

Telyb: “Whoever he finds that remembers it doesn’t have to be them, does it?”

Fooby: “What do you mean?”

Telyb: “It might be one of the old NPC Bodies that Suedomsa made. Unlike the modern NPC Bodies, they have individual memories and aren’t externally managed. Their production was halted after the 2nd Godtact Experiment, but there are a few hundred living in the south amusement park. Most have broken down by this point, but they weren’t actively disposed of either.”

Fooby: “I really don’t like this. After 2000 years, I thought we could finally make all that a thing of the past by revealing the truth, but now someone wants to drag it all up again.”

Telyb: “He said tomorrow at 3, but I hope whatever he does isn’t too obstructive. We’re supposed to receive the proper blame for our hidden past then.”

'''<Telyb’s Over Reload>

Your rice with curry is gone.

Fooblicky still has three sandwiches left.

You grab one of her sandwiches.

She has not Over Reloaded, so she fails to notice.

Fooby: “These investigations are always such a pain. Nearly 98% of DT residents live under a screenname, after all.”

Telyb: “Even the 13 Demigods don’t know each other’s wild names. Including a married couple like us.”

Fooby: “I’ll tell you on my deathbed. Not that an immortal Demigod will have one of those. …We were already using these pseudonyms back when we were invited here in ’63, weren’t we?”

Telyb: “With the aftereffects of the war still affecting everything, we decided it was best not to know each other’s pasts. And then Suedomsa suggested we add on last names that would help us summon a god.”

Fooby: “He meant it as taking on the names of the apostles, but we all love irony a little too much and used demon names in reverse. In a way, that was when our sins began.”

Telyb: “Those sins end tomorrow at the open release.”

Fooby: “I don’t mind as much. In a way, I was already granted forgiveness.”

Fooby: “The other 11 Demigods are ready too, aren’t they? Suedomsa will Ash from Words Warn at 3 and then we all need to confess our sins to the outside world. And…”

Fooby: “Then Yuo, who chose to carry all of our sins, resigned herself to her fate, and lost her memories, will become DT’s new lead- hey, you ate one of my sandwiches, didn’t you!?”

Telyb: “You’re thinking way too hard if you only now noticed.”

'''<Telyb’s Board Mode has ended>