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The busy bee lobby was commonly known for being the place where everyone seems to stop by, be it for food, to take up a mission, or even just meet up with someone. It was in essence, the center of the life sphere. And a certain player was there now, pondering what he was even doing there. After all, there had to be a reason, there had to be a reason as to why he was in such a strange version of the game. And this time, he didn't even have missions being given, what gives?! Irritated the teen flipped his phone open, still no mission. He didn't even have noise attacking him, despite not having a partner!

"Everything about this game is screwy, the people here can see me, there's no noise, and I was supposed to be banned from ever entering again in the first place. Not to mention how weird the NPC's in this game look. What kind of twisted version of the game is this? Is it some kind of purgatory for those banned from entering the game?" Neku shook his head as he looked at his meager handful of pins. They weren't the best pins, but they weren't exactly the worst either. "Nothing about this game makes sense..."

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Jill guided the Drill Dozer into the room, waving off anyone who tried to yell about her bumping into them, if they got out of the way, she wouldn't have to make a little room for herself!
She could feel looks upon her, most of them seemed to know she was a troublemaker, she probably stole something from them. Come on, a little coin theft never hurt anyone, right?
"If Dad or the others were here, they wouldn't let them look at me like that." She whispered to herself, swallowing as the remainder that she was completely alone reasserted itself in her mind.
She settled near the edge of the crowd, unknowingly sitting next to another loner, a strange boy with even strangers pins.

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Neku couldn't help but take notice of Jill's approach. Then again, how could he not, that was a huge freaking machine! Aaaaaand of course she parked the hulking monstrosity right next to him. Well, she was there now, was there any reason to make conversation? Well, it wasn't like he could figure much else out to do, it could be somehow prove to be worthwhile. So, he started with the only real conversation starter he could really think of. "That's one heck of a machine." Who said he could come up with anything original?

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Jill startled at the boys comment, almost expecting an insult of some kind, but it was almost...a compliment?
"Thanks," She murmured, "Dad gave it to me." She could vividly remember riding around with him before the Drill Dozer was even hers. "It's amazing, it can do pretty much anything, like fly, swim, and...and..." She stopped, most people didn't seem that amazed when she explained the features of her robot, and she doubted this stranger would be interested.
She cautiously eyed the pins, were they some sort defense mechanism, weapon? "Cool pins, are they bombs or something?" The idea of being sitting next to someone who held a bunch of bombs didn't worry her at all, even though common sense told her to be.

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Neku, in all honesty, wasn't too interested in the drill dozer. It was hard to be considering the situation he was in. He vaguely listened, in case it somehow came into play at some point, although he doubted it. Then she asked what his Pins did, and he glanced at them. He wasn't even 100% sure if they still worked. But hey, what better time to find out? He quietly put on a pin with a bright B on it, the Sexy B pin, and a familar glow engulfed his hand as he focus on a near bye chair, which had an unfortunate Toad sitting in it as he shifted his hand to the right, sliding it clean out from under him.

Neku smirked a bit. "Still got it." Although that did raise a question, why could he still use his pins? He didn't have a partner after all. It just kept getting stranger... But, he figured she had a general idea of what his pins did. "I assume you've got the gist of it. I'm not interested on showing my other pins, for the record. Although, out of curiosity, any idea where I can find something that's well, important?"

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Jill gasped wonderingly when the chair moved as if someone just pulled it away, it almost looked like something the Diamonds could do!
The next question was almost as confusing as what the pins could do, "Important?" She scoffed, "In case you haven't noticed, everyone's trying to survive here, there's something called Starvia that gets everyone. There's nothing "important" till someone figures out how to get rid of it."
She almost looked slightly irritated, how did this guy expect to find something "important", like her thought this was a video game or something!

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Neku looked away from Jill when she seemingly was upset at him. Although he found it hard to 100% care. Then an idea came to him, what if THIS was what Joshua wanted him to do? Hell get rid of this Starvia nonsense? That'd explain a lot, while it didn't fully make sense, he was making progress. It also explained why he was able to use Pins without a partner, Joshua was ensuring there wouldn't be too many roadblocks that didn't come from the objective itself. Now he was getting somewhere! Although he didn't have the details yet... Well, he clearly had a source right here. "Hey, do you think you could go into a bit of detail on Starvia? What it does, and if people are closer to stopping it yet?"

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Jill tilted her head, why'd this guy want to know so much about it? She tapped the Drill Dozer as she thought, all her walking around the Life Sphere had let her catch snippets of Starvia.
"Um, well, it takes over your mind." Her tapping became more frantic as she thought harder, "Once it's in you, that's it, you're infected." She could recall nothing about fixing it, so there was probably nothing, "They say they're trying to make a vaccine, but until then, don't be infected." She had seen the infected, no matter how many times she saw, it still scared her.

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

{sorry if I am being jerkish in entering this thread kash.}

It was a good thing that there was off time in the point that Ragna was keeping himself focused on his meal, he knew firsthand what was beyond the boundry of the Life Sphere and had hoped not to go beyond the task of fighting an uphill battle like the last time, especially since the second time he was out there, he was at the worst possible location on the planet and felt it necessary to only go there with a major group.

And if you were wondering why he had a belt around his waist, his fight with Dante was the only thing he could keep in mind. "looks like I'm not the only one worried about this crap." Ragna said as he looked at the two newcomers to the city. One look and people could tell that this was a guy who knew some things but was not inclined to tell because of his carrying the moniker of the 'Grim Reaper' and the fact that he was carrying a sword that can turn into a scythe.