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Accidental Video

[ The video opens up to a view of shaking scenery and rushing lights and color, as it the device recording it has just been dropped from a significant height. The movement ceases when the device lands on the floor, still recording with its camera pointed upwards.

The foyer it shows is clearly familiar to everyone in Wonderland as the front of the mansion. What's not quite so familiar is the giant glowing UFO now hovering and weaving up near the ceiling. Green lights shoot out, scanning the surroundings, sweeping over every surface with an eerie glow.

Even the fallen phone gets scanned, although once it is, the UFO goes suspiciously still overhead before swooping down towards it with a startling speed. There's a voice, one that sounds suspiciously like a young girl, that gives a quiet exclamation. ]

[ ...And then a metallic-looking tentacle snakes out from the bottom of the UFO to press the button that cuts the feed off entirely.

Just another day in Wonderland, right? There's totally nothing to see here, and certainly not a floating spaceship hovering in your entranceway. Carry on. ]

Audio

[ Although a short while later, a number of phones across the mansion might receive an audio transmission as someone tries to figure out and manipulate the strange network in this place and how to filter it to where she needs it to go. Hopefully she finds the targets she's looking for, but other inhabitants might pick it up accidentally as well. ]

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[ She likes this plan. Hurry it up, Fox. ]

Yeeeeah he seems. Really well-informed.

...Panther thinks he's from the future.

[ I'M COMING I'M COMING. heading towards the mansionnnn. ]

The future? . . . How?

How should I know? But apparently, he thinks it's November? And he's talking about going through a palace with us that.... we definitely don't know about. Yet? I don't know. This doesn't make any sense. This is even more out there than Psience.

Hmm. He was talking about the school festival as though it had already happened to me. — ah, by the "big house," you mean the mansion, correct? I've arrived.

[ and at that, he pushes the door open, stepping in, immediately inspecting his surroundings for her. ]

Do you see any other big houses in the immediate vicinity? [ She sure hadn't but this is Fox and she never understands how he sees things anyway.

Still, the UFO spins around to face him with he comes through the door behind her and the floating craft practically bounces in place. As much as a UFO can bounce, anyway.

She's excited, shut up. ]

Fox! You found it! [ Because yes, that had been a little in doubt. ]

Of course I found it.

[ If only because it wasn't that far away. He tilts his head over at her . . . or rather, at Necronomicon. ]

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.

[ ... ]

By which part? Finding the Palace or being in the Palace?

[ She doesn't understand. ]

— yes, about that. Is this really a Palace? My clothes haven't changed . . .

Neither did mine. Not until I summoned my Persona. Did you try that?

[ Because like hell was she going to be caught inside some strange person's house looking like herself. ]

The thought had not occurred to me yet. But I could certainly try. Persona—!

[ whatever he expected, it probably wasn't this. ]

— ah, you were right.

Don't sound so surprised, Inari. Of course I was.

Better?

[ She doesn't know about him, but having her Persona summoned had made her feel at least a little safer. ]

It feels more natural, at least.

Now we just have to find Panther and Mona and we'll be all set!

[ Even if that might be easier said than done... ]

Yes. Mona appears to be out on the grounds somewhere. Near a fence, perhaps? Though he claims it to be just out of reach for one reason or another. As for Panther, she said she felt she was getting close to the surface.

Yeah, I'm trying to get her out of a cave. You didn't see either of them on your way in, I guess?

Oh! There's a pamphlet over there. [ A beam of green light directs him to a table along one wall of the foyer. ] I hoped it would give us a map of the place but the information in it... it's even weirder than we thought.

No, I did not.

[ He steps over to the table, picking up a pamphlet and flipping through it quietly. ]

— is all of this true?

No clue.

[ She's super helpful. ]

But that's what the people here pointed out for information. They all seem to think it is?

Then I suppose we should trust what they have to say . . . to some extent, at the very least.

[ frowns at it. ]

[ She thinks that's debatable but she doesn't argue with him about it. For now, anyway. There are more important things happening. ]

Alright, I've got Panther and Mona incoming. Still no signal on the others.

[ Other than Akechi, but she wasn't sure he counted. ]

Not even Joker?

[ He frowns, concerned, and crosses his arms. He was equally concerned about Noir and Queen, of course, but that was a bit more understandable — if anyone were to split off into another unit for infiltration, Queen would be more than up to the task, and Noir seemed more than capable of being a reliable back-up. Joker could do it all, of course, but something felt . . . wrong about him not being with the rest of them. ]

No.

[ And boy she sounds glum about it, too. Although there's a noise and when she speaks again, it sounds more determined. ]

I'll keep looking, though. Maybe I didn't just scan the right sector yet.

[ That was a possibility, right? ]

Yes, do. Surely he's somewhere . . .

[ His voice trails off at that. He doesn't want to even consider the possibility that their leader wasn't here with the rest of them. ]

Accidental Video + Partial Audio Transmission

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