Togusa clears off a chair, and draws himself up next to the computer. He plugs the end of the cord from the dummy barrier into the computer's USB slot, and takes a deep breath. His own eyes gently close, as the computer's screen starts to move. A new folder, and it starts to fill up with photo and video files.
But apparently Togusa is still awake, because he starts talking. "Let's take us all the way back to the start of the summer, then. Each of us got a message from Jim, accompanied by a bingo card with odd tasks to do throughout the city." He pauses, and the computer screen opens up a few photos. Ardyn, Grell, Prompto, and Dante, standing beside a giant sand castle. The inside of Togusa's own apartment, with most of the objects in sight dotted with craft googly eyes, a laughing Koutarou on the couch.
"It's similar to what Retrospec has asked us to do a few other times, to keep doing activities in different areas of the city, like us being there is reinforcing the city's reality. But anybody who got a bingo got a QR code," Togusa pops one up to show Zee.
"Doing those actions seemed to generate something on Retrospec's end, that allowed them to tap into some unreality of their own. And Retrospec could apply that unreality to us. Granting some of us powers or defenses temporarily. Late July, an attack on the city happened, what we now know is an unreality storm. I don't know if this was directed by Vanderweele or not." Pictures of monsters, in particular the Stormbird. "The same groups of monsters have kept on showing up in areas outside the city."
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But apparently Togusa is still awake, because he starts talking. "Let's take us all the way back to the start of the summer, then. Each of us got a message from Jim, accompanied by a bingo card with odd tasks to do throughout the city." He pauses, and the computer screen opens up a few photos. Ardyn, Grell, Prompto, and Dante, standing beside a giant sand castle. The inside of Togusa's own apartment, with most of the objects in sight dotted with craft googly eyes, a laughing Koutarou on the couch.
"It's similar to what Retrospec has asked us to do a few other times, to keep doing activities in different areas of the city, like us being there is reinforcing the city's reality. But anybody who got a bingo got a QR code," Togusa pops one up to show Zee.
"Doing those actions seemed to generate something on Retrospec's end, that allowed them to tap into some unreality of their own. And Retrospec could apply that unreality to us. Granting some of us powers or defenses temporarily. Late July, an attack on the city happened, what we now know is an unreality storm. I don't know if this was directed by Vanderweele or not." Pictures of monsters, in particular the Stormbird. "The same groups of monsters have kept on showing up in areas outside the city."