⇨ AGENTS HAVE ARRIVED [CLOSED PLOT]

[ringleaders]

Who: Tamaki, Childermass, Carly, Susan, Peridot, and Sherlock. And AGENTS.
Where: Inside The Matrix.
When: D28
What: The Agents have been watching your activities over the last week, and they’ve decided it’s time to act.
Warnings: Violence and most likely body horror.

THE ABDUCTION↴ The visitors have not be subtle in their intrusions, and for a time the Agents have held back, analysing the true effects of these new entities before deciding to make a move. But now, their patience has run out. The source of this infection must be found, and eliminated, or else the whole system could be dragged apart. These aren’t just the rebelling humans. These are something else. [OOC: Tamaki, Childermass, and Carly were selected from the danger raffle to be fully abducted by Agents. Susan, Peridot, and Sherlock will be attacked by Agents, but will escape when Resistance members intervene. Please make a top level below with your characters doing something in the Matrix that is relatively secluded from big crowds of people, as that is when the Agents would most likely strike. You can bring other characters along if you like for the initial confrontations, though only the selected characters will actually be captured by Agents. Any injuries sustained in these fights will equally damage character’s real physical forms, no matter how damage resistant they may normally be. Unless they are bending the Matrix to use their powers or to alter it with One powers, they will be as vulnerable as a normal human. Agents and Resistance members will be played by the mods in this log.]

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[puddingemote]

It's not quite clear when he started to do it, but after watching other carnival workers manipulate the Matrix to their will, Tamaki had started to do it, too, perhaps through sheer force of want. He doesn't use this newfound ability for much, other than jumping really high and running really fast; things that are fun and exhilarating. He hasn't done anything that he would consider too ridiculous, but it might have been enough to attract some attention...

At the moment, though, he notices nothing amiss, walking alongside Mitsuki down a mostly deserted road near twilight. He's munching on some candy he got from somewhere, and musing on how eating fake candy can make him feel full. It's a strange phenomenon.

If there's danger anywhere near, he doesn't know it yet.

[OOC: Porto wanted Mitsuki to be involved in the kidnapping thread so I've written him in. We don't need a real set tagging order though I would think. o/]

[npcarnival]

Out of seemingly nowhere, a gun will cock right behind Tamaki's head. If he turns, he will see the barrel of a handgun pointed directly at his face, and the man in sunglasses and suit that's holding it. His physical appearance is entirely unremarkable, and almost supernaturally forgettable, but the entire ensemble has something intimidatingly stern about it.

"You are coming with us."

[otokogi]

Mitsuki's involvement with the Matrix has been largely limited to keeping an eye on Tamaki. He's got enough of his own concerns with the changes starting to happen to his own actual real body to bother trying to mess around with a virtual one but he's not about to let anything happen to his friend. Besides, Tamaki's his best friend here in the Carnival. He can't just let him wander around this place on his own.

He's a little nervous when their surroundings start to drop away but he also doesn't know how the Matrix works; maybe there's nothing suspicious about the place seeming so desolate and spooky.

Then he hears a sound he's only ever heard in movies and it makes him stop in his tracks. "Tamaki, did you h--"

And then there's a voice to go with the sound and Mitsuki's turning around. "Hey, what're you trying to do!?"

[puddingemote]

At the sound of the gun cocking, Tamaki does indeed turn around to see what it is. His eyes widen when he sees the gun pointed at him - something he's only ever seen as a prop in one of IDOLiSH7's dramas.

"What? What!?"

He looks in confusion from the man with the gun to Mitsuki. What's going on? Is this some kind of elaborate prank? Or is this real?

"I'm not going with you!"

[npcarnival]

If they try to escape in the opposite direction, they'll find themselves cut off by another similar man, with an equally threatening gun trained on them.

"We have some questions for you, Mr 'Tamaki'," he says, with a certain kind of vindictive satisfaction at having a name for the creature.

[puddingemote]

Tamaki jerks around, looking now at the other man who has a gun up. This is definitely not a joke, but then why are they doing this? Just to ask questions? Why can't they just ask him nicely?

"What? What questions?"

He tries to edge closer to Mitsuki, toward the comfort of his friend. If he tells them what they need to know, they'll leave him and Mitsuki alone, right?

[npcarnival]

"Come with us," they say, "and we can discuss the matter privately. I'm sure we can come to... and amenable agreement."

Which is all fine and dandy to say when you're training a gun on someone. Maybe this is how they do diplomacy around here?

[otokogi]

"Oiiii, he's not going anywhere with you! He's just a kid, you can't take him without accompaniment." Plus saying Tamaki can be impressionable is being kind of generous so the idea of him going off to answer questions with somebody whose idea of a conversation opener is pulling a gun is completely out of the question.

"Whatever you want to ask him, you can ask it here. I might even be able to help with the answers." Mitsuki moves as Tamaki does, trying to put himself between the slick looking man with the gun and his friend. The idea of fighting someone with a gun is terrifying but maybe he can just knock him down and they can both make a run for it...

[puddingemote]

Tamaki isn't sure exactly what "amenable" means, but he has a feeling it's not anything good, considering the strange men are still pointing guns at himself and Mitsuki.

When his friend speaks up, Tamaki edges even closer, looking back at the second man. It's eerie how they can talk at the same time, like it's rehearsed. Or like they're really the same person, just copied. Maybe this is just some sort of trick, and there's only one?

Somehow, Tamaki feels like it's not quite that easy.

"Yeah, we'll answer whatever, so put the guns down!"