text; @Goldilocks, after April fight

[likemybooks]

[Everyone has to know. Some saw what happens to Ereshkigal during the fight, some only know that she disappeared. As the one responsible, Taryon feels he's deserved the position on breaking the bad news to ll Outsiders.]

It is with a heavy heart that I must relay to you all that our friend Ereshkigal is not with us any longer.

She was thrown into a Rift by the kaiju and vanished.

She fought valiantly and tried to protect me even in her last moments.

I'm sorry. I wish we didn't suffer such a heavy loss in this fight.

- Taryon Darrington

Comments

[likemybooks]

I haven't.

[He could spend several minutes going through the entire backlog of messages to find exactly what Yzak is referring to, but he can just ask and save time.]

There are kaiju on the other side, I'm aware of that. It reminds me of the time when my friends traveled to the Shadowfell, only they were prepared and deliberately investigating the plane.

Did you find anything on how we can communicate with her? Or travel there safely?

[coordination]

There are more than just kaiju.

[ Attached is basically this stuff/information here. ]

And the fact that a fortified drone managed to make it through in Greece, regardless of how long it lasted, means that something is possible.

Your own report about kaiju parts as well as Raidou's regarding a cloak made of kaiju skin helping with the nightmares imply that the key to getting through a rift is using the very thing it seems to create when one is exposed to enough rift poisoning, considering those mutations are similar to the kaiju themselves.

Ratio also mentioned using this knowledge as a means to upgrade our plugsuits and fortify them better against these effects. Which is a good idea.

But this all requires study as well as well as trials to confirm it's safe to do. This is the perfect opportunity for that. Many of you on the team possess those bird drones, don't they? LILITH likely has more than just those in their arsenal. Even raw experimentation with kaiju parts and anything expendable we can send through a rift - perhaps the one near Mt. Fuji, but through any we happen to find - might prove worthwhile.

That drone from Greece managed to send something back. If we can program something into a bird drone that could try to ping her location and confirm that she's somewhere in there to send back to us, it would be a start. It would prove that she's not lost to us and it would provide data that could help advance our own endeavors to get through rifts ourselves, eventually.

[likemybooks]

I have my roombas and Doty.

[One wish Taryon can't bear to be destroyed, ever, and the rest do not make ideal exploration drones.]

There's the rift near Tokyo we have to investigate. Or we find another one here. We need to at least peek in and try to figure out what's going on. I could work all night on making leather armor.

[coordination]

So long as you're willing to part with them, as I'm not expecting anything we send through there to make it back.

So that Doty ... that's the big machine that I see around you all the time, right? I wouldn't take the chance with it, if it's important to you.

Thankfully, replacing those roombas will be easy, so I have no qualms with using mine.

Otherwise, I plan to reach out to others who want to work with this idea. If you actually know how to make leather armor out of that stuff? That will be incredible useful, because that sure as hell isn't my area of expertise.

[likemybooks]

I know, Doty's pretty great. I think he'll be a lot more help out here than in a world of horribleness and monsters.

But I'm not an armorer. I'm more of an enchanter, but I could make it so that the leather is sturdier or doesn't get in the way of your arms. Or whatever else. It's a good quality material that can hold strong magical protection.