Username: XXXXX’XXXXX
Password: *********
Connected to the VKT Prime System.
Request for communication to DATA... ... ...
Request granted.
Listenconvo.exe-dci
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Alice: ...I'm so happy! I thought I was all alone!
Alex: I'm glad to see you too. I mean, I can't really see you, since we're not in the same place, but... You get it?
Alt.Alice: What do I get?
Alice: Huh?
Alex: Who are you?
Alt.Alice: Alice.
Alex: Which one? Alice D, Brown, Kurosawa?
Alt.Alice: Alice and what are you talking about? D, Brown and Kurosawa are dead!
Alice: WHAT?! I'm Alice and know, you impostor, that my friends are very much alive!
Alt.Alice: So... I... I... succeeded... The Rift...
Alex: A Rift? You're a Rift Breaker? Alice, you never told me there were RB on Earth.
Alice: There isn't any! I mean, I think so...? I'd never heard of them until I met you and A.L.A.N.
Denis: Hello?
Nuri: Hey! Can anybody hear me?
Taralise: I can hear you both. Where are we?
Chiko: It's... It's like in VR. I should be able to
CRASH!
Illegal manipulation of the VKT Prime System code by DATA Y-717-H1.
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> RESTORE
Chiko: BLOIDY FOUK! I crashed everything!
Alt.Alice: Bloidy fouk? Isn't it rather Bloody Fuck? Oh, I apologize! This is too vulgar!!!
Alex: Blood-what now?
Nuri: It must be a swear word.
Denis: Yeah! Like...
Taralise: Dirty bitch...
Alice: …fucking ass cum whore slut!!! And don't make me say that again! I don't talk filthy!
Alt.Alice: I'm so ashameeeeeeeeed.
Alice: It's nothing to be ashamed of. I'm the one who made the Dirty x5 Combo!
Nuri: Anyway, do any of you know where we are?
Alex: I haven't the slightest idea. The only thing that's clear is that I'm locked in.
Taralise: We all are. Who could have done this to us?
Alt.Alice: And why? I didn't do anything wrong!
Chiko: First and foremost
CRASH!
Illegal manipulation of the VKT Prime System code by DATA Y-717-H1.
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> RESTORE
Denis: Shit!
Chiko: Sorry, I was trying to locate you but it's crashing. Um... maybe if I...
Alex: Wait! Don’t!
CRASH!
Illegal manipulation of the VKT Prime System code by DATA Y-717-H1.
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> RESTORE
Alex: *sigh*
Chiko: Fuck...! Why am I only a Level 1 CW? WHY?
Taralise: ???
Alice: Before we do anything else, we... we should... introduce ourselves...
Nuri: Everything okay?
Alice: Yes, I... << They are Others... I must remain calm... >>
Denis: !!!
Alice: << This other Alice, where does she come from? >>
Taralise: I can hear your thoughts.
Alice: W-What?
Alex: I can hear them too. How does this communication system work? Is it like a chat room, where our words are displayed on a big screen... with our thoughts as well?
Chiko: << Test... test... this is a test. Can anyone receive me? >>
Alex: Yes, I hear you. << Crop! We can't hide anything from each other then. >>
Taralise: Unless we're careful. << They'll never know... Celeong. >>
Alt.Alice: Cele-who?
Taralise: NOBODY !
Alex: That's an excellent idea, Alice. Let's introduce ourselves.
Alice: Me? Okay. I'm Alice Lorange. You know... like an orange. I'm 16 years old. I'm a redhead with green eyes. I'm from planet Earth and, after an adventure with Alice D, Alice Brown and Alice Kurosawa, I'm sharing my body with Heather. Heather is a supernatural creature, a Trace, and I can't communicate with her anymore. I hope she's all right. I travel beyond worlds using the "Rifts" and hope to return to Earth one day. I'm also autistic... but that's not important. When the Others are ignorant, I suffer less. I'm sorry, it's just... Most Others are mean to me. I met Alex and his friends when I arrived in his world, at the end of my adventure in Adelan Alarie's Domain.
Alt.Alice: M-Me? If I must... I'm Alice Lorange. You know... like an orange. I'm 16. I'm a redhead with green eyes. I'm from planet Earth and... I've lost my friends. Alice D, Alice Brown and Alice Kurosawa. They are dead. I'm the only survivor of the Domain. After discovering a book called "Lorange Journey", I heard about "The Rifts". I... I thought... I could find my friends if I took one... So I took one and I ended up here. Another Alice. It's incredible. So there's another D, another Brown and another Kurosawa. But they're not the people I knew. I never thought about what I'd do if I found them. Kidnap them? You have to understand. Their deaths upset me so much and... I wasn't thinking clearly. Now, I... I need to concentrate. I've got to get back to Earth.
Alex: Me? Okay! I'm Alex. I'm 8 years old. My hair is blond and my eyes are green. My planet is called Ionas. I'm the leader of A.L.A.N., a group of RBs. RB stands for Rift Breakers. They are children with the power to fight monsters emerging from "Rifts", mysterious cracks of light. After meeting Alice and her friends, we discovered that Rifts can be used to travel between worlds. The Alices used them, and I... was sucked into one. Since then, I've been traveling from world to world, searching for my comrades... and Ionas.
Denis: Me? Anytime! I'm Denis. I'm 18 and my hair is brown. I come from Medocorilia and I'm a very ordinary person. My life's pretty normal... apart from the time I freed some evil fairies. Oh, I have a girlfriend, Lena. She's probably worried about me.
Taralise: Me? Uh... I'm Taralise. My hair is red. My planet's called Somelody. All I can tell you is that I'm very different from other Somelodians. << Sister... where can you be? >>
Chiko: Me? Okay! I can't give you my Real Name, but my User Name, Chiko, can be used. My appearance must also remain a secret, but my Virtual Avatar has red hair. On my planet, Xirian, VR is widely used and it's easy to have your identity stolen. That's why I keep my Real Name to myself. However, I can tell you I'm a Level 1 Code Wielder [a hacker], since we don't come from the same planet. << All these crashes... >>
Nuri: Me? All right. I'm Nuri. Apart from the time I ended up in the evil version of a hotel, my life is pretty ordinary. My world is called Amorasin. I'm non-binary. There's not much else to say...
Taralise: Now that everyone has introduced themselves, we need to find a way to free ourselves.
Chiko: I'd like to try, but
CRASH!
Illegal manipulation of the VKT Prime System code by DATA Y-717-H1.
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> RESTORE
Chiko: Listen! We're not really here! It's like the VR in my world. We've been digitized!
Alex: What?
Alt.Alice: How?
Chiko: That's what I'd like to understand, but every time I try something,
CRASH!
Illegal manipulation of the VKT Prime System code by DATA Y-717-H1.
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Chiko: See what happens? If only I had more experience in wielding code...
Alice: I want to understand. Digitized how?
Chiko: When I connect to VR, my body remains in trance in the transfer cylinder liquid and my consciousness is in my Virtual Avatar. If this process is the same, our bodies would be in containers somewhere and our Avatars would be talking to each other via this communication system.
Denis: So, to free ourselves, we'd have to disconnect from this… virtual prison?
Chiko: Yes, but
CRASH!
Illegal manipulation of the VKT Prime System code by DATA Y-717-H1.
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> RESTORE
Chiko: I'm trying to force the disconnection
CRASH!
Illegal manipulation of the VKT Prime System code by DATA Y-717-H1.
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> RESTORE
Chiko: I just can't do it. Plus, the word DATA in the crash reports worries me.
Taralise: Why?
Nuri: It's obvious. If we're nothing more than mere data for our kidnappers, they could easily kill us by deleting them.
Chiko: Exactly. They must not like me trying to fiddle with their system.
Alex: Um…
Chiko: Alex?
Alex: Why don't you try communicating with them?
Chiko: Send them a message? No. It'll crash again.
Alt.Alice: But they're going to address us sooner or later. They can't keep us prisoners without telling us why!!!!
Denis: Oh, they can keep us waiting a long time!
Alt.Alice: NOOOOOOOOOOOO! My schedule...
Alice: I'll be fine.
Alt.Alice: My meal times...
Alice: You can get used to it. We're in an emergency situation.
Alt.Alice: No, no, nONonONoNonOnOOOOO.
Alex: Alternative Alice!!!
Denis: Is her Avatar buggy or...?
Alt.Alice: NOnOnONoNOnONoOOOOOOOOOO
CRASH!
Emotional overload on DATA AL-026-F1.
Repair in progress... FAIL!
Repair in progress... FAIL!
Repair in progress... FAIL!
Repair cancellation.
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Alt.Alice: NONonONoNonOnOOOOO!
Alex: PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER, PLEASE!
Alt.Alice: No… no…
Nuri: We need to change our approach. What's your schedule?
Alt.Alice: Breakfast, 7am. Lunch, 12pm. Supper, 5pm. Bedtime, 9pm.
Taralise: Is it like this every day?
Alt.Alice: Every day.
Chiko: Ok.
Denis: Don't you sometimes eat a little later?
Alt.Alice: No.
Alice: << Oh! I have an idea. >> Even if your favorite show is on TV?
Alt.Alice: ...
Alice: I have one that comes in on my lunch hour at the weekend so
CRASH!
???? on DATA AL-026-F1.
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Alt.Alice: I'm better now. Thanks.
Denis: What exactly happened?
Taralise: No idea.
Alex: Chiko, can you try something else again? We REALLY have to get out of here. << I don't think a Rift can appear here. >>
Chiko: *sigh* Okay, here I go!
CRASH!
Illegal manipulation of the VKT Prime System code by DATA Y-717-H1.
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> RESTORE
Request for communication to DATA... ... ...
Request refused.
Chiko: Come on...
CRASH!
Illegal manipulation of the VKT Prime System code by DATA Y-717-H1.
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> RESTORE
Request for communication to DATA... ... ...
Request refused.
Chiko: Come on!
CRASH!
Illegal manipulation of the VKT Prime System code by DATA Y-717-H1.
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> RESTORE
Request for communication to DATA... ... ...
Chiko: YOU WILL OBEY ME, YOU STUPID CODE!!!
Request granted.
Commudat.exe-dci
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???: It worked. Your Code Wielding forced an authorization to my request.
Chiko: !!!
Alex: Wha--?
Akito’Tryon: I'm not supposed to talk to the DATA. Among my people, the Vis’koï’ton, I am only a Reviewer. My name is Akito’Tryon
Denis: A Reviewer?
Alt.Alice: Like people who make video game reviews? << It's so cool! >>
Alice: I don't think so.
Akito’Tryon: I evaluate whether the DATA is useful or useless.
Nuri: If they are useful...?
Akito’Tryon: They become Tools.
Taralise: Tools?
Alice: I think he's talking about slavery.
Akito’Tryon: Correct. If they are useless, the DATA are destroyed. It's only a matter of time before my boss orders me to destroy you all. All these crashes…
Alex: Then help us! We all want to go home!
Akito’Tryon: I want to, but it's out of my Functions. Freeing you from your Virtual Cells is one thing. Giving you access to a spaceship to flee, it's another thing.
Chiko: If this spaceship works like in the Virtual Games of my planet, I can fly it.
Denis: You sure about that? You're only a Level 1 Code Wielder, after all.
Chiko: It's better to try my luck than to die here!
Alt.Alice: I agree with him!
Akito’Tryon: …Very well. Yamato, you will work with me.
Alex: Yamato?
Chiko: ... He's... He's talking about me. << They know my true name now. >>
Akito’Tryon: I will insert a code to free you after an overload. While I'm going to hack a ship so you can fly it, you'll crash the VKT Prime System non-stop to overload it. Your other friends will also be released.
Alice: Our other friends... Alice D, Alice Brown and Alice Kurosawa... Are they there too?!?
Alex: With Aimé, Lily and Nana?!?
Akito’Tryon: Yes. Their Avatars are inactive. That's why they did not communicate with you all.
Alex: WOW!
Alice: That’s... convenient...
Alex: We free ourselves; we find the space ship, we fly away and we can all return to our respective planets.
Alt.Alice: But... and me...?
Taralise: That’s true. You come from a parallel world
Akito’Tryon: The space ship I'm going to hack can go into other dimensions and parallel universes, so there's no problem.
Alice: That’s... even MORE convenient... << But I'm not complaining! >>
Alt.Alice: WOOOOOW! COME ON, CHIKO, WORK!!!
Chiko: Ok! << It's time to...! >>
CRASH!
Overload: 15%
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> RESTORE
Alex: Again.
CRASH!
Overload: 35%
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> RESTORE
Denis: Again!!!
CRASH!
Overload: 35%
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> RESTORE
Nuri: The overload has not increased.
Chiko: I have to send more complex codes than those I know... or... QTE TIME!!!
Successful QTE!
CRASH!
Overload: 65%
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> RESTORE
Alice: YES!!!
Alt.Alice: Don't stop!
Successful QTE!
CRASH!
Overload: 95%
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> RESTORE
Chiko: Once more and we’re done!
Denis: Freedom, here we come!
Akito’Tryon: Good luck to you, ATYPICAL DATA.
Successful QTE!
CRASH!
Overload: 100%
DATA Release in progress...
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> RESTORE
In the hours that followed, anger rumbled among high-ranking Vis’koï’ton. Some DATA was able to escape by stealing the new spaceship HENGUI’TON, a ship at the cutting edge of technology. An investigation will be opened and the culprit, if found, will be put to death. Akito’Tryon has fled.
Meanwhile, the five Alice, Alex and his friends, Denis, Taralise, Nuri and Chiko were able to return to their worlds. As Xirian is the planet with the most advanced technology, Chiko has volunteered to keep HENGUI’TON hidden, out of sight...