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[uzuki]

We've got to hurry! We have to find Shion!

[It might have seemed strange to someone else, Shion speaking about herself in the third person, but Shion had already grown accustomed to it. Her past self was outside somewhere, in the warzone that Miltia had become over the last few hours. Shion knew she had precious little time to find herself, and rescue her parents, but she had resolved to do it.

She sprinted ahead of the group, and raced out of the large glass doors of the Labyrinthos lobby, and into... Another lobby? this is where she enters Prospero. She staggers to a stop, and takes a moment to stare at the interior of the hotel lobby she now occupies.]

No... This can't be right...

[She hurries outside again, and this time makes it. But it's very obvious that she isn't on Miltia anymore.]

I don't understand... What's going on?!

[Feel free to welcome this confused and frantic woman who is now trying to figure out how she has time or spaced jumped yet again.]

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[uzuki]

So even you don't know what's happened?

[misplacedxsheath]

If I did, I would have put a stop to it long ago. As much as I've always dreamed of seeing this planet, I've no desire to be anyone's prisoner. Nor did I have any particular wish to be resurrected in the first place.

[uzuki]

[She stands there in thought for a moment... She has no reason to believe anything that Margulis says, but still, it's a pointless lie, if it is one. Without any other idea on what to do, she pulls out her trusty connection gear, and attempts to scan the area... Which proves to be pretty shocking.]

The UMN is... Gone?

[misplacedxsheath]

This is an era before the construction of the UMN as we know it even began. In light of that, it should come as on surprise that your connection gear is unable to access it.

[uzuki]

It really is... So far back? But why?

[misplacedxsheath]

I told you, we have yet to uncover any details as to the motives of our captors. All we know is that presumably, there's some reason they want us here in this particular time period.

[uzuki]

I don't understand why someone would want this. Why would someone bring us here and not show themselves? Why not tell us what they want?

[misplacedxsheath]

If we understood, we'd be in a better position to fight back, now wouldn't we? But there's no use standing around and idly wondering. Either put forth effort to find the answers yourself or stay out of the way of the people who are.

[uzuki]

[Oh because you're figuring so much out standing here having this argument >:O]

Well of course I'm going to look for answers!

[She scoffs at his ridiculous warning. She's going to be happy to put forth effort, once she isn't totally disoriented.]

[misplacedxsheath]

*At least he's not asking the same questions of the same person after being told that the answers aren't readily available.*

Good. If you'd planned on being totally useless, then I would have had to wonder why I was wasting my time trying to bring you up to speed.

[uzuki]

Well then, what exactly do you know, aside from this being Lost Jerusalem and you don't know who brought us here or why?

[Because if you don't have any useful information you shouldn't be chiding a distraught person for asking questions and hoping their dead fiance will pop out to answer them.]

[misplacedxsheath]

*That last part is just pathetic, alright?*

There's an extra hour at midnight during which the ordinary citizens here freeze and creatures known as Shadows that are as hostile as Gnosis, if far less threatening, appear in the city. During that period, we can summon entities called Personae that claim to be a part of us, and those are our primary weapons. Ordinarily, anyway. We seem to have re-gained access to a portion of our own abilities of late, when normally even the most basic of Ethers is suppressed.

City hall also transforms during that hour and becomes a maze filled tower teeming with Shadows. It's only possible to enter in groups, but there are occasionally useful items within it.

[uzuki]

[Hey, it's happened before... Kind of.

It takes Shion a little time to process this, and to discern whether or not she's going to believe it. She... may not, but still. She doesn't have much of a choice but to go along with it... For the moment.]

A maze? Has anyone completed it?