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[killerapp]

WHO: Yuuki and the app
WHERE: The app
WHEN: October 1st (forward dated)
WHAT: Yuuki has Some News
WARNINGS: Yuuki swears

[The video opens up and--yeah, this is Yuuki's first video post. He appears to be in the process of packing things up, if his Pod (with Chibi as the driver) going around and doing just that behind him is any indication. Wonder what's that about.

Either way, it's not the subject of this video as Yuuki looks pretty serious.]

Shinomiya Yuuki aka Azalea with POKEGO. We've got a problem.

[He manages to make this a split screen thing so he can pull up and show off what to everyone else is just a bunch of numbers, letters, and the occasional recognizable word.]

Some time ago, Mikleo aka Wisteria got permission to borrow the tech Zodiac uses to monitor the Spirit Realm. He passed it off to me so we could get our own version of the program and tech and not have to rely on them for this shit. It's meaty, and so I don't bore everyone with the details, the T-L-D-R is with this we can start picking up on the gates and their locations. We can even pick up where the isekais will show up. That's the good news.

[Yuuki reaches over for his water bottle (filled with soda) before switching over to what's basically an image-map of the Spirit Veins.]

The bad news is all of this. This the vein in the sky. It shouldn't look like this. [He switches to a couple of charts. One chart has a fairly flat line with a few small peaks, while the bottom one has extremely high peaks and a slowly rising baseline] The top one is the energy readings for the Spirit Vein over Ireland. That's a pretty standard reading, all things considered, and Ireland's one of the bigger hotspots. [Nobody ask about Bermuda. Or Florida.] The bottom one is Kaisou.

[He takes a drink.]

I don't think I need to say it, but I'm going to: the Spirit Vein is torn to shreds. We got the first readings back and everyone started looking into it. Plants are growing way too much, we're noticing non-native-to-this-realm species of plants and animals, and there's weird-ass energy readings around some of the places that are more like the isekai arrival points than anything else. Blue Fish Lake is a big storm of spirit energy.

[Because of the fae in March, but he missed that.]

So, another T-L-D-R: good news is we can do readings on the Spirit Vein, locate the gates ourselves, and get to the isekais before Zodiac does. Bad news is the Spirit Vein over Kaisou looks like supernatural confetti at this point. POKEGO can't do this on our own, and I don't know if we trust Zodiac to do anything about it either, since this is their tech. Anyone else got any ideas?

Comments

[prunedworlds]

"So someone would have to research that I guess..."

A pause, then something else suddenly occurs to her.

"Though wouldn't researching everything about the spirit veins help anyway?"

[killerapp]

Yeah, which is what POKEGO is doing. Are you new here?

[prunedworlds]

"Kind of, I guess?"

Depends on your definition of 'new', she's only been here a few months in any case.

"But I mean... I don't think Zodiac knows what they're doing, and if you guys haven't had your version of the equipment for long there hasn't been a chance to research other Spirit Veins yet, right? So wouldn't it be better to do that first before trying out other ideas?"

Unless it's a true emergency situation where the choices are certain doom for delaying and only maybe doom for taking a chance, but it didn't sound like it reached that point yet to her.

[killerapp]

Did you not see the graph? We don't have time to do things one at a time like that. We have to start figuring things out now, not after we start looking into possible past incidents.

[prunedworlds]

There is absolutely a part of her that thinks to quip that looking into how other veins work IS figuring things out for this one but, frankly, she lacks any real expertise in this stuff and knows it. So, she just blinks briefly and moves on to the other thing she thought of.

"Well, it wasn't damage by someone just flying up there and doing something, right? So maybe doing the right things in the places where the stuff that damaged it happened could help to repair it."

[killerapp]

[A Look.]

Such as?

[prunedworlds]

On the one hand, Ritsuka's aware of her own limitations in terms of expertise, and generally leaves this stuff to the actual experts.

On the other hand, the state of the Spirit Vein and how to repair it is of considerable interest and no small importance to her, and one doesn't need expertise to see that this conversation is going absolutely nowhere.

"I don't know, you guys are the ones with the equipment now, right? Maybe try taking it there to those places and see what you can find, then let everyone who knows stuff about magic look it over together. You just said we have to start figuring things out right now, but to do that you need to actually do something. Like get readings at the damaged locations. Or get data from other intact Spirit Veins to compare.

"I don't know much about how this stuff works, but I knew people who did back in my world, and those were the kind of things they did. Get as much information as possible, then do something with it. If there's really no time at all, if the Spirit Vein was going to destroy the world tomorrow or something, then even just asking for ideas would be a waste of time, wouldn't it? Things are bad, but it sounds like it's not that bad yet, which means getting more information is probably still important.

"If you're going to ask for ideas, usually that means at least thinking about it a little instead of assuming it's no good if you don't know why someone's saying it."

[killerapp]

[Yuuki could snap back, but it's at this point that his Pokemon recognize Yuuki's starting to get annoyed, so they went and got Kyendiss.

The normin has confiscated his phone now.]