∞ 65: Upon the smoldering battlefield [voice]

[chikaidestroyer]

Status reports, everyone. Let's try to account for as many as we can.

If you know of any casualties or disappearances, please note them as well. They need to be kept track of in case the Malnosso decided to act while we were ... preoccupied.

Congratulations are in order. We've survived without losing the village. Now it's time to recover and aid the wounded.

If there are still any able bodies available, I would like a sweep of the perimeter done for any signs of the intruders. Feathers, clothing, armor -- if it's available, it must be studied.

...Please also be aware that the New Feather cycle, if it has returned to normal, will occur beginning tomorrow. Explain the situation to the best of your ability. Newcomers need to know that this isn't the usual state of the village.

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[chikaidestroyer]

[He sighs contemplatively.] It's something none of us currently understand. If no one is willing to give us a straight answer, we must keep collecting information.

I do not currently recall if I had mentioned it publicly... [And by publicly, he means over the locked network.] Perhaps the General was referring to the fact that we are not originally set in the barrier. The Malnosso actively take us into the barrier upon our arrival in this world.

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[inabook]

So they're responsible for our captivity... even if not our arriving here.

[she shakes her head.] I asked what was so different between us and them, and he said it was only "knowledge." [a pause...] I was going to leave after that because I didn't seem to be getting anywhere, but he called me back and said that if we really want answers, we should ask the person who sent Mr. Jacob to die.

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[chikaidestroyer]

Correct. And their fluctuating goals are quite suspicious, as we have already ascertained.

Before the intruders--well, outsiders now that they are no longer upon us--attacked, that's what John said as well. Our lack of knowledge makes us very valuable to the Malnosso, and we are sought by the outsiders because we are a threat and a resource to them without knowledge.

From what you have said, it sounds as if the Malnosso's goal to "finish" us is the threat to the outsiders.

The entire situation certainly holds to the "Knowledge is power" adage.