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[hr]Alex trailed behind Alja, lagging behind as he ruminated on her ideas. He expected his guesswork was going to be completely off the mark. Still, it was a bummer to have been shot down so fast. She was right, there were just too many bizarre things happening all at once in order for this to have been some glitch. Glitches were like... going through a wall, some weapon not working, individual things that were self-contained like that. He hated to think about this like some sort of conspiracy theorist, but such a complicated series of events triggering made a lot more sense if it was intentional, the more he thought about it. 

He took a seat near the others with none of the neat and awkward behavior he'd shown when they first met. Instead, he alternated between being splayed out to bouncing a leg whenever an interesting suggestion would come up. He wasn't familiar with the intricacies of dreaming, rather it was the possible chance at getting answers that perked him up. 

[color=#87c735]"Well..."[/color] he started, [color=#87c735][i]All we can do now is survive.[/i][/color]

He stopped before the words left his mouth. They weren't developers or moderators or anyone with any power above being just another player. Their insights, at the end of the day, weren't going to differ much, both among themselves and every other wayfarer they would cross paths with. It felt wrong to give in so quickly, however. His newfound courage wouldn't allow it. 

[color=#87c735]"There's gotta be some people who worked on this game logged on. There just has be. People like that one guy who gave alerts when this first started knew about this before we did,"[/color] he paused for a moment, as if he was trying to convince himself just as much as everyone else, [color=#87c735]"They could help us out."[/color]
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