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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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What?

[WELL GREAT now he's reading and oops there goes the whole losing his mind a little bit after all.]

There has to be a way of preventing this. We need far more intel.

We've made a fair amount of headway at least.

[ Even if Yzak would rather forget their little undercover hacking mission. ]

And we've got some smart people on this team; enough that I'm sure we'll make more. Toward finding a connection between the missing if there even is one, and more importantly, to get them back.

Still not nearly enough. Considering how little we know of where they may have ended up, and the known risk of mutations, it's already been too long. There has to be a way to get them back.

[The faster they solve whatever's going on, the lower risk that someone else will be taken next. ~~like Cagalli or~~]

No, but one step is better than none, even if our goal is hundreds more away. We will find a way to get them back.

There still hasn't been a ping from Ereshkigal's device, but since we're still working on sending things through the rift so LILITH can gather information about the fortification success, I'll make sure we adjust the programming to try and get a read on the others. Maybe we'll have more luck with those who have only just gone missing.

We should see about expanding the range on our signals. It could be that between the weaker signal and the sporadic appearances of these extra rifts, or even the energy leaking out of them, there's only enough of a link to confirm its presence but not fully connect and send or receive messages.

That's easy enough to do.

We'll ramp up work so we can get more in. We're still waiting for more solid results on the fortification tests with the kaiju parts, but more wouldn't hurt if there's a chance they're getting more time in there to try.

I can't help but wonder if this is something they were aware of, somehow. Ratio's research team priority was the plugsuit enhancements, so we could better study the rifts and maybe someday pass through them. The kaiju have demonstrated more intelligence than one would expect from a massive, mindless beast, considering the specific mental effects in Egypt. What if he was targeted?

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