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For those who do not know, several Outsiders have vanished into rifts. The first was Ereshkigal, during the kaiju battle in Egypt. As far as I know, no contact has been established.

Since then, three other Outsiders have also vanished: Ratio, Godzilla, Tsurumaru. I have been investigating but coming up mostly short.

There were no witnesses for Ratio's disappearance, but Nyuu and Hayakawa have confirmed that a rift opened and took both Godzilla and Tsurumaru. Only they were taken, despite not being alone at the time.

I may have a clue as to who is next.

I do not wish to cause panic or alarm, and I am not sure what can be done to prevent anyone else from being taken. I will bring these findings to LILITH as well.

During the mission in Egypt, we were inserted into the dreams and memories of other Outsiders. I saw one of Ereshkigal's. In this memory, she was speaking with several other Outsiders. Seven to be exact. Among them were Ratio, Godzilla, and Tsurumaru.

The other four were Yzak, Hiyori, Kabru, and Silco.

Kabru is already gone, though his name is gone from the network, a glitch. Those taken by the rifts are still listed, but unable to be contacted.

I would encourage those others in then memory to not be alone until this is solved.

If you have any other information you would like to document in this post, please do. We need to share what we can in order to get to the bottom of this. I pray you all stay safe.

[OOC: Raidou's theory on this player plot might be shot very quickly, but he doesn't know that. Go wild with the speculation in the meanwhile!]

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Don't have to tell me twice.

[And then like a full minute or so later,]

thanks.

[For being proactive. And for showing that he cares.]

It's nothing. We're a team here.

[If it was Cagalli, he'd be losing his mind at least little bit, so he gets it. (It could still be Cagalli. He's been trying not to think about that while also thinking about it a lot.) Plus, like. He is also legitimately worried about Yzak now.]

Yeah, but still

Just

You know.

[Right now he's just. REALLY GLAD ATHRUN ESPECIALLY? IS HERE TO HELP? But even after all these years, he's still too embarrassed and emotionally constipated to just say that.]

I appreciate it. [....] A lot.

[But, back to business!]

Obviously the ideal is to prevent anyone else from getting taken, period, but I'm trying to think of ways we can prepare for the worst case scenario. Can we maybe put together some kind of rift survival kit?

I know.

[He'd trust Dearka to do the same for him - for Cagalli - anyway.]

We still have too little information on what's on the other side. Dr. Ratio was organizing a team to research multiple projects last month, one of them being plugsuit improvements. I can check on the progress of those upgrades, and while it might be cumbersome, it'd be smart if there was at least one plugsuit per group until this is resolved.

People who have the fashion upgrade downloaded into their Ocular might be able to replicate the upgrades if they're given the specs to install in the program... Assuming they don't have some property that nanobots can't replicate. But if they can, that might cut down on the cumbersome aspect.

My first thought in the meantime is that maybe we could equip potential targets with kaiju leather gear or something. Not refined, but it'd be better than nothing, right?

I haven't though much about getting an upgrade like that. It seemed [nnnnnnot gonna call it vain since Cagalli got it, but] low priority for me. You've got me rethinking it now. We should see if there's a safe way of testing the theory.

We can test kaji gear as well. Maybe approach a rift carefully with each type of gear, not so close to cause ill effects but enough to get trace readings and the differences between. If one is more effective than another, that's the route we should pursue and perfect until we find each limit.

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