text, un: daylight.

[sunborne]

[ in the mid-afternoon, after trying and failing to get in contact with the others and with suspicions growing by the hour, daylight finally sends out a message to the network at large: ]

It looks like people are going missing.

Two of my friends, Okuyasu and Kiara, haven't been responding to any of my messages or calls since yesterday.

I've gone around th town to see if I can get a glimpse of them and nothing. Nada. Zip. Jackshit.

Coupled with other faces not being seen around town anymore - Have you guys noticed anyone else not popping up? Or noticed your friends not responding to messages?

Let me know so we can keep a track of everyone's status.

Comments

@erwinsmith

[13thcommander]

do you know how to make these private

[No capitalization, no punctuation. Either Erwin is imitating Sans and Papyrus, or something is wrong.]

1/2

[sunborne]

I can do one-on-one at the very least. Give me a sec-

2/2, erwin & daylight only.

[sunborne]

There we go. Should work like normal whenever I send a message to only one person. No one else can read or reply to this.

Something happened, didn't it? What's wrong?

[13thcommander]

[Thank goodness one of them knows something about technology. Erwin has complete faith that Daylight managed to make this private; he has to, because he sure as hell has no idea how that works.]

[Someday, he'll have to ask Daylight to teach him how it's done. But not today.]

Levi and falco are both missing too
they've been gone since yesterday

@lilmonix3

[peninhand]

Kiara has disappeared...?

I'll keep an eye out. Do you think perhaps they were sent back to their true home?

[sunborne]

Yeah. I've been trying to message her since another friend of mine, Okuyasu, wasn't responding. She hasn't answered anything I sent and trust me: I've sent a lot.

I was thinking that myself, yeah. Maybe they could have gone home or escaped. I think there are signs they're still around.

[ okay. let him explain this bit. it's a bit messy, even for him, but- ] A friend of mine had a house buddy but they vanished sometime back. I got curious about that. Asked the people from here if they noticed my friend's partner going missing or leaving.

They all claimed to never have heard or met them. Some went as far as to say my buddy has always been single to their knowledge.

When I asked for my friends, I would get shrugs or suggestions maybe I missed them. Stuff like that. It's only three examples, I know, but it's all I got so far.

text; un: wrathion

[blackscales]

Anduin Wrynn is missing.

[sunborne]

[ oh fuck- he knows that name- ] I'm sorry. I'm going out now on my bike to check one last while I pedal around town. Can you let me know what he looks like so I can keep an eye out for him?

[ as daylight hurries out of the house, he manages to shoot out another message when a thought/question comes to mind: ]

Getting no help from the locals if you try to ask for anything, right?

un: weiwuxian

[weifinder]

Do you have descriptions of these people? Or images, those what are they, photographs, are popular here, right? That may help if there's anyone else missing, too. I don't know those names, but I'm, ah, recent enough myself.

Do you know where either of those people were last seen? Or any of the rest, if more of our ragtag band of abductees have gone missing. Tracking people across realms is one thing, but if they've been taken away to some part of this one, we might be able to find signs, tracks, something.

[sunborne]

[ oh man he's going to sound like a total creep but: ] I made a few sketches of Okuyasu and Kiara. Along with some others I met in person. It's to practice my sketching.

If you want, I can show them to you if you're at your place right now. Making my way back to the neigbourhoods.

[ as for where they've last been seen... ] I've only chatted with some of the missing people on this network. The last person I met who went missing is Okuyasu. We went to Uliveto's on the 5th, around the evening.

[ the day of the luncheon. after it, yeah, but the same day nonetheless. ]

@sans; text

[ribticklers]

papyrus and sayori are missing too
sayori's new, a kid who showed up at my house last month

[And Papyrus, as anyone who's spoken to Sans for more than five seconds would know, is his brother, and Sans has been hopelessly sullen since yesterday even as his mind works in frantic circles.]

[webdesigned]

( hey, this is a guy that has spoken to sans for 5 seconds!! )

oh god. are you okay?
do you know where either of them were last? maybe we can try and retrace their steps or something

[sunborne]

Oh fuck. I'm so sorry, Sans. I'll do what I can to help you out, I promise.

[ daylight already knows how much payprus means a lot to sans from their conversations a lone. and after talking to the guy, daylight can see why: papyrus is bright and surprisingly sharp, clearly striving to make friends with the others in their situation.

they spoke only a few times but the idea of the guy hurt in any way makes his stomach churn.

he pulls himself to a stop at blue moon diner, peering into the establishment now and then as he writes out his next message: ] I'll keep an eye out for him and Sayori or any signs of them. What do they look like?

@lilmonix3

[peninhand]

[ Monika replies to this message a bit after she's learnt about Sayori's fate, and while she's in the middle of running through the entire city in the hopes of finding anything that may lead to her. Thus her typing is rushed, far from what one would expect from her. Message is not addressed to her, but anything that may help localize Sayori. ]

plz lemme know if u find anything about sayori

ill let u know if i find anything about pap 2

[13thcommander]

Papyrus too?

[Fuck this; Erwin knows Levi can take care of himself and that he'll look out for Falco, but Papyrus is too sweet to have something like this happen to him.]

I'm taking a walk around my neighborhood, if you'd like to come join me. Maybe two pairs of eyes will see something one pair misses?

@PARKOUR

[webdesigned]

my... "dad"? is gone
like, everything is gone, pictures and all his stuff and all that

it's freaking me out because the neighbors act like he never even existed

is it like that with your friends?

[sunborne]

[ someone else went missing in the chaos- oh boy- give him a second to park somewhere bike-friendly before he writes something out: ]

What's his name? I can ask around while I'm going around town.

Right now, Okuyasu and Kiara are acknowledged when I ask about them. Get vague as fuck answers but they at least suggest I may have missed them or I should check their home. (Which I did, thank you very much.) [ daylight takes the time to read the text when he has the time to do so and he frowns, noting the bit about how the locals are acting like the 'dad' never existed. huh. like what happened to huaisang's house buddy some time ago...

he doesn't know if the missing people who are forgotten are somehow tied to the missing people but acknowledged. there's something fishier than usual happening, that's for sure, and it's a building headache for him as he tries to put the pieces together. ]

@gallica

[apodictic]

[ huh. interesting. ]

Has this happened before?

[sunborne]

Depends what you mean by 'this' because if you mean

Freaky shit: Yeah. A lot of times.
People vanishing: Kind of? A few of us have vanished, it seems, and no one but us acknowledges them.
People going missing but still recognised if asked: No. This is definitely the first time.

[ and daylight would like for this to be the last, period. ]

@mulberry; text

[fanoperator]

This is Huaisang. I'm still here and okay. I'll send out some messages to the others.

[sunborne]

[ oh shit- ] Glad to hear you're okay, buddy.

I was wondering if you're okay since I think you're by yourself right now. [ right? when asking around huaisang's house buddy, they kept mentioning he might have always been a single parent, to daylight's confusion. ]

@Cass

[feudalladyshandmaid]

My best friend, Rapunzel just disappeared, and she's not the only one.
There's at least three people I haven't been able to find.

[sunborne]

[ daylight doesn't recognise the name but, all the same, quickly jots it down. combined with the other names they know and the other one he knows from another message he just got- ]

There are nine people missing that I know of so far. Someone spoke to me in private about two of their friends being missing.

Can I ask who you know is missing? So we can compare notes?

@kipo, text

[purplejaguareye]

My dad, Bruce Wayne, disappeared too.

I don't like this at all.

[sunborne]

[ okay... so that's nine so far. ]

I'll keep an eye out for him while I travel around town. What does he look like?