The World

"Why is he scared?" Hector asked, pointing at Elk.

"We just killed him, and now you're pointing at him," Noct said, "He probably feels threatened."

"You killed him," Hector replied. "I didn't touch the poor guy. Or his friend."

"When I say 'we' rest assured I'm not grouping myself with you," Noct said.

<People, people, we're all friends here!>

*Monudon smiles, then turns back to Mia*

<Oh, I see. That's quite a unique avatar. How'd you get it?>

*Mia was already descending the staircase.*

Mia: Come along, Elk.

Elk: Umm...okay!

*Elk runs after her.*

<Wait!>

*Monudon turns to the others*

<Should we follow?>

OOC: MIA IS THE CAT PERSON! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!

Noct shrugged.

~Because I somehow linked to the wrong music earlier~

Euryale: I'm a bit curious about the bracelet. Maybe there's something we can trade her so that she'll tell us?

Thiera: Maybe, but weren't we going to think of an area to go to, in order to level up?

Zalera: I dunno, I'm waiting on you guys to tell me what's going on.

"I'll let someone else attempt that," Noct said.

Mortal and Sab obviously don't consider themselves to be that person.

*Monudon shrugs, not knowing the full story himself*

Zalera: ...Anyone?

Euryale: I'll explain it in Whisper Mode. In the meantime, you guys come up with some place we can go to level up.

Thiera: It looks like the highest level area on the board is level 23. We could go with that. Though if we find something just a few levels higher, it might go faster.

<Sounds like a plan!>

Noct shrugged, "Sure."

Thiera: I'm not sure which thing I said that you're agreeing to.

*Zalera looks at Aroma, & then back at them all.*

Zalera: ...You seriously expect me to believe that she's an AI?

"The higher level thing, and she is an AI," Noct said, "You obviously have not seen what we have."

<Yeah, she's definitely not a player.>

Zalera: What could you have possibly seen that proves that she is neither human nor NPC?

Aroma: Do humans lie a lot? Mother lies all of the time. She's supposed to have learned it from you, but you all seem so nice.

<Some humans do, some don't.>

*Monudon smiles*

<And I suppose it's the fact the she seems to recognize us and then earlier today she appeared from a cocoon over the recorder.>

"I find it difficult, though I suppose not impossible, to believe she is a hacker doing this for kicks," Noct said.

Thiera: It doesn't seem like Helba would be interested, if that's all it was.

Zalera: Helba? Really? ...Did my brother put you guys up to this?

<I'm confused.>

Hector listened.

"I could fwd the pm to you if you want," Noct said.

Zalera: ok

Euryale: In the meantime, if we want a higher-level area, we're going to have to do a search for keywords. Which means we're probably going to want to do it in Dun Loireag, since that's where we're going to have to depart from.