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"Whomever I decided to accompany me is not important right now. Let's just take our leave and move on. Waiting here has simply resulted in the situation getting worse and I want answers." 
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Luca agreed. He took the arrow away from his throat, but held on to it, both for the meager sense of control it offered and for the sake of satisfying his curiosity. The pavise knight had referenced golems -- is that what this was? He'd never seen molecules turned to such a chaotic purpose. Mass reactions in randomized growth patterns, no discernible induction unless... Well. It was wild and disconcerting, especially since so much of the technology among these naturals felt so antique. There was something very wrong with this world -- and that made him question all the strangeness he'd written off earlier. Gravity fluctuations -- but it didn't [i]seem[/i] like an artificial well. The delusions, the multiplying corpses -- for the first time, Luca was really thinking about all of the oddness. He decided to get to the bottom of it.

He also decided that weaponized golems were the least of his concerns. If he was going to figure things out, it would be best to start from the beginning. This all started with a name on a plaque, now nestled in his pocket -- Platter Aesch. And after that name, the companions in the limousine, and the red-headed.....

[i]Shit.[/i] Where had that psychopath gone off to? He was just..... right there..... [i]Okay that's spooky.[/i] Luca imagined Donny smirking in a shadow somewhere, pulling a railgun out of his ass or something and gunning down the whole gathering of strangers with a smug one-liner and like a [i]ridiculously[/i] cool drag on a weird-shaped cigarette. "Donny!" he yelled. "Hey, we're, uh..... we're cool, right?  Let's, uh, let's get out of here..... without..... murder......" 

No sign of him. Luca looked at the rest of his gaggle. "Did anybody see where he went? I think Aesch is expecting both.... I mean, [b]all[/b] of us."