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Status report from the field teams? Same for the rescue teams. We have people out in both locations and from where I'm sitting you guys are moving pretty fast.

The layer itself isn't at a risk of collapsing just yet, but I don't really want to take a bunch of chances.

Also my office has since been taken over by Whistler's Mother and I can't get her to leave, so it looks like I'm temporarily moving. Again. Anybody else having this problem?

Report to me with anything you need. The map on my system's filling out as much as it can, but I feel like I'm missing pieces.

Keep each other posted. Oh, and heads up? Looks like tech had one more batch of testers they were going to bring in, so...if you see anybody new? Try and get them up to speed.

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Not that I remember? [Though that might change after this conversation.] But it makes sense that you would, huh?

So far I just remember playing it for fun with my friends, though. Or at least, my friends and my sister?

Well, using it for fun isn't bad. We are always looking for ways to make our entertainment more immersive, like 3D glasses and seats that vibrate at the movie theaters.

That sounds like it would be fun though.

I'd love to be able to experience games for real like that! I'm almost jealous of my past self's technology... if it weren't for the danger.

[Which brings up another topic...]

Actually, it seems someone used the technology to kill people. I don't remember if I was involved, or anyone I know, but... If I remember that it could be used that way...

[It's... pretty much guaranteed someone died from it, right?]

[That gets an eyebrow raise from Li-Na. Because, yes, that does kind of sound like someone might have died]

You mean that the technology itself, whatever they were using for the VR could cause a death? That's a little scary.

[and it raises a whooooole lot of questions on just how that could happen, but since Yuuki doesn't know, it'd just be speculation]

Yeah... Something about how if they removed the headgear or the player died in the game, it would kill them in real life. It was all this one incident surrounding one game, Sword Art Online.

[Well that is all kinds of horrifying. Li-Na leans back in her chair a little as she digests that bit of information.]

Yikes.

['Yikes' is such a great word, in Li-Na's opinion. Very versatile. If you have the emotion in your voice right, everyone understands what you mean.]

But don't avatars die all the time in video games? And then you either go back to your last save point or you have to start the game over.

[It kind of makes Li-Na think that maybe more than one person might have died...]

That's how it usually is, yeah. Especially in MMOs - big online games. You just respawn in the last town you were in or whatever.

Having to make sure you didn't die in the game would be really tough. There's a lot of bosses that you have to feel your way through and experiment with different strategies, and usually the whole point is to have someone on hand to heal or bring people back while everyone whales on the boss.

Having a healer around is definitely the preferred strategy.

[Elliot is like... okay, maybe not her most favorite person in the world, but he ranks pretty high. Not counting family though, he ranks right after Noah.]

I can't imagine what a shock that must have been. Realizing something you were doing for fun could kill you. It's one thing when it's your job to do something dangerous, but it's something else when it's a game. Games are supposed to be fun.

Right? It's just so twisted. Taking something that's meant to bring happiness and killing people with it instead...

I don't remember if I got involved or anything, but there had to have been casualties if I remembered that much.

Whether you got involved or not, I hope someone was able to put a stop to it.