>>@QUICKSILVER | @ALL

[millimeter]

[ 1 | Like a week before everyone finds out they're going to Jhashch:]

hey, what kind of stuff have you guys seen? anything photo worthy?? i wanna see your pics!

[ 2 | And like an hour later, he adds another message. Yes, these are technically separate posts.]

quick question!!
where are you guys from?
bonus points if it isn't earth (but earth is ok too obv!)

[ 3 | And then again, though this one is at least a few days later:]

ssssssssooo
informal poll time!
is it normal for people not to remember joining cost
i mean like
do you remember?

jw bc i've met a LOT of people who don't remember

[ 4 | And at some even later point:]

OMG LOOK

[ATTACHMENT: LOOK.png] [Pretend the background to that photo is more BASE appropriate.]

SHE'S SO CUTE
WHAT DO I DO???>>
😩😩😩😩
someone help how do you take care of a chocobo in omnispace

[I'm sorry for everything.]

Comments

[mylawn]

We had to put it on hold for a while.

[You know, to stop the robot war.]

It's possible that a lot of important things will happen on Earth, but given the nature of our missions so far, it seems pretty disproportionate.

[millimeter]

idk enough about earth to tell tbh
aaand gallipoli was the first mission i went on
i heard a little about paris but that's pretty much it

where else have you been?

[mylawn]

The Middle East, then it was Paris. Don't remember anything before that.

[millimeter]

[These sure are words that mean barely nothing to Prompto besides, he guesses, probably being really literal. The Middle East...probably in the middle of the east (the east of what??? oh well not worrying about it).]

what makes you say it's disproportionate?

[mylawn]

Given the size and scope of the universe, and assuming the amount of possible times and worlds we could be traveling to, it seems strange that the last three missions have been on Earth.

Or maybe these missions have been the outlier. It's not exactly a large sample. Wonder if Grothia would let us look at some AARs from past engagements.

[millimeter]

maybe? can't hurt to ask
and idk if there's any other way to find out

when you say you don't remember tho
does that mean you've been with cost longer than that?

[mylawn]

Supposedly I was here six months prior to the first mission that I actually remember.

[millimeter]

omg does ANYONE here remember joining?????

[Prompto has met like...two people who remember. Excluding himself.]

[mylawn]

Yeah, a few. If they recruit in batches, though, it makes sense that the glitch would affect a lot of us.

Or we could just be brainwashed.

[millimeter]

wow, that's a positive thought

idg how the glitch works really, but it's creepy to think we could forget everything so easily
some things just seem way too important to forget

[mylawn]

I'm trying to be realistic.

[It could be fine. It could be horrible. There is probably an equal chance of both.]

I think I would have signed up if they asked me, but I was a little busy with some important things back home. Not sure I would've left it behind unless there was a good reason.

[millimeter]

do you think you did everything you had to do and agreed after that then?

i mean
possible brainwashing aside

[mylawn]

No, I don't.

[Largely because there's another person involved, and, well. She isn't here.]

[millimeter]

why's that?

[Don't just leave him hanging.]

[mylawn]

There's someone back home I wouldn't have left.

[millimeter]

[That's definitely something Prompto would have thought if he didn't remember joining COST.]

so then
do you ACTUALLY think it's brainwashing??

[mylawn]

I have to entertain it as a possibility.

But if I was brainwashed, maybe I wouldn't be able to wonder about it. Who knows.

[millimeter]

wow
that's dedication dude
that kind of recursive thinking would give me migraines for days

[mylawn]

I do it so you don't have to.

[millimeter]

thanks? i think

idk this conversation has probably already made me more paranoid

[mylawn]

A little paranoia is healthy.

[millimeter]

ok, but where do you draw the line between that and TOO much paranoia?

[mylawn]

[there is no such thing.]

I don’t know. Depends on the person.

[millimeter]

somehow this isn't very reassuring

[mylawn]

If you've never had someone try to kill you, you probably don't have anything to worry about.