text | @poker - late afternoon of may 5th

[stonehearts]

Ratio's missing.

And not just in the "they've left this world" way people tend to go missing, someone took him. And if I find out that it's one of you--

I'm finding him and there is nothing on this backwater dying planet that will keep me from destroying whatever is between me and him. That's your one and final warning.

Comments

@mr. viper

[penaltypoints]

Thank you for sharing your findings. I'd like to contribute to the search.

I concur that it may be worthwhile to determine whether there are any unusual energy readings to detect in the area.

[busternaut]

Agreed, but we'll probably have to reach out to LILITH's science team for that. They're the ones who are usually keyed into this stuff.

[He tries not to think about how Ratio himself IS basically a part of LILITH's science team....]

[penaltypoints]

Yes. Considering that our own newly-established research team's projects will support LILITH, and Dr. Ratio is the team's leader, I would hope that we have LILITH's support in turn as we investigate his disappearance.

[ As well as Ereshkigal's status. ]

[busternaut]

They damn well better. Guy probably does more for them than anyone else here, on the non-combat end of things at least.

[Fuck. He seriously hopes he's alright.]

@justish

[lostdestiny]

... did we bring this tiny Rift crap back from Alexandria?

[penaltypoints]

We have no definitive evidence to conclude that a similar pattern of spontaneous Rift activity has begun to affect Neo Tokyo since our return from Egypt. Or is there some basis for this supposition?

[lostdestiny]

Isn't that why you want readings?

[penaltypoints]

To ascertain whether there is in fact Rift energy present in this instance, or traces of anything else to note, for now, yes. I would prefer to avoid speculating beyond that.

[lostdestiny]

What else would it be if there's not video of the guy leaving and he doesn't teleport

[ Or if Ratio does teleport does it was really weird to be asking about teleporting in Alexandria. ]

[penaltypoints]

I do not disagree that it seems likely. I simply mean that we must collect additional data before we consider any hypothesis confirmed, be it an explanation for Dr. Ratio's disappearance or a correlation between this incident and our time in Alexandria.

[ Admittedly, what Yesod also wants to avoid is hasty speculation regarding whatever connection Dr. Ratio and Ereshkigal have in place, since there seems to be enough of that already happening. ]

[lostdestiny]

It's not like there's a better explanation

Unless he fell asleep in a spare room