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[letoldthingsdie]

[As Kylo Ren (if that name could even be considered separate from him at all) he had never used the network. He hadn't bothered really talking to people other than the occasional response. He kept to himself. Perhaps if he had made an effort someone besides Rey might have cared when he disappeared a few days ago.

When he had left it hadn't been during Sanguis. Now that he was back, he was sitting in Rey's apartment - her plants hanging up and sitting in pots in the background. He had questions that needed answers.]

I haven't introduced myself before, though some of you I've spoken to may know me as Kylo Ren. Those who I've met can continue to address me by that name, though I'd prefer to go by Ben Solo. For those who I've yet to meet I can't say I'm terribly sorry for being so antisocial.

[There's a hint of a smile, just the subtle curl of his lips at the edges.]

I'm sure I'm not the first, but has anyone here been able to experience being sent away because of a lack of Chroma being generated? I feel as if I've come back differently, in some ways.

[He won't go into detail, but he's remembered things he didn't know before. For him a year has passed and now his scar is gone. He has experienced death. Part of him is still trying to process it all, how he spent nearly a year here and just like that he had returned home - or what he thinks is home. He's not entirely sure he can trust it. The memories changed him, though.

While his clothes were still the same black as usual, he looked and felt more at ease. His posture had become less tense. For all intents and purposes he was different but still the same.]

Private Message: Finn

Rey isn't here. I can't feel her anymore. Did she speak with you at all before she disappeared?

[He's hoping it's the same as his situation. He needed her to be back so that they could sort out a few things. It was also good that Finn was here too. He could ]

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[therewillbeorder]

So you're back as well.

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[hatejakku]

[ What the hell is going on here? Why did he look like that? What did he mean by Ben Solo?

Finn's familiar with people vanishing and sometimes coming back, sometimes very different. This, though. He never expected something like this... ]

No, not anything out of the ordinary. She left not long after you.

[ He'd been telling himself that he was just thankful he got to see her at all. ]

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[have_hat_will_travel]

Well, thank you for confirming that a lack of Chroma making me feel like I'm starving when I don't normally hunger has potentially horrific consequences, at least for someone like me for whom going home's a death sentence.

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[cadeuces]

( The woman on screen is clearly in some professional function, with her white lab coat and the relatively sterile-but-decorated setting behind her done in ivories and golds; the Second Nature clinic if he's ever been along the beach in level 2 and has seen it. But she's in a sweater beneath the coat, coffee in hand as she begins her reply. )

It's a pleasure to meet you now then, Ben. I'm Angela; I can't say I've been removed from this place myself, but having been of the first group to arrive, I've seen... quite a lot of people disappear, and some having reappeared, with memories of time having passed back home or no memories of this place whatsoever. I don't believe the reasoning is ever quite known. Were you told as such by the Scientiae? That it was for lack of chroma? And you've not crystallized or anything, have you...?

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[doingtalking]

[ Sorry, what did you say? She's a little stuck on that particular point; given. Well. Everything. Kylo Ren. The First Order.
Her sister... ]

You're Kylo Ren?

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[huaisang]

Lack of chroma can have funny effects, what were you like before leaving?

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[hearstheblood]

They say I went into stasis for most of last month, and my chroma was running low before that. I haven't seen any changes since I woke up.

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[zohvin]

[Zohvin has heard one of those names before, though he hadn't been told anything more beyond that Kylo was a Force user. That was all the more reason to say hi - and to see if he couldn't glean a few more details.]

You're lucky to have returned, you know. Most moonblessed that vanish don't come back.

I can't say that I've seen any rhyme or reason to why those disappearances happen. I've known people with perfectly steady sources of Chroma that simply weren't there the next day. The Lunatians will tell you that it's down to the whim of their gods, if you consider that theory useful at all.

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[arrowroot]

[Oh, these things do moving images as well! Fascinating! And they're not holographic, either.

Moments when Ana wishes she was an Asura so she could fully appriciate the intracacies of this place and what they've managed to do with tech.

But she's not, she's human and she has other things she's curious about.

Apologies for the too-close view of her bright green eye in the first few seconds before she finally realizes she needs to sit back.]

That seems a bit-- [a mumble of "oh, sorry" and she readjusts the camera] That seems a bit counter productive to this place though, doesn't it? I would imagine if they're in a constant deficit any chroma is good chroma and sending someone away for lacking wouldn't be helpful at all.

[A shrug as she tucks some hair away from her face.]

I am new, though, so I could be way off.