[ChicletPrime]

WU 11 Frontline Hunter
fluff about the Hunters and XavMC as seen from the outside

• nice to see a little 'inside the chaos' in the Hunter's Assoc Dispatch Centre.
  
• ooookay? we have a unknown good samaritan stepping in before the actual Hunters can arrive.
  
• hah! okay, so the victims were robbers, who ended up nearly being robbed of their lives by a wandering Wanderer. well, good thing Miss Samaritan was there, on her way to get her gun checked. if i lived in Linkon, i'd carry a gun around too. oh, she was the attempted robb-ee. retired Hunter, ID 10041. so... 10,000 Hunters whenever she started? "old lady with groceries" so i would guess there's even more of them now. hang on! what is my ID number?
  
• /dives back into Baby's First Screenshots. bah, internally inconsistent lore. my ID number is 003817.
  
• random lore note: "Type A" Wanderer = "bestial class"
  
• So... retired Hunters get to keep their duty guns? REALLY?
  
• Wanderer activity is tied to a "Deepspace Tunnel anomaly" or "protocore malfunction". huh? I get if the Tunnel is displaying a pile more energy than usual, there's more Wanderer incursions but "protocore malfunction"? what does THAT mean.
  
• commentary that Alpha team (that's my team!) is out in the field a lot and that they have "grueling practical assessments". aw yeah, best of the best bay-be. i'm a military seal (mine's made of snow and never melts).
  
• introduction "Orson" who smuggles protocores (hi N109 reference!) who's called dispatch to.. get arrested. oh. dude goes straight to the source now and goes for the Wanderers directly. however he's grifting now with selling things that vaguely look like protocores to the... gullible, i guess. no way that rock candy ACTUALLY looks like a core. unless he sticks an LED light in it or something. "A crime syndicate involved in Protocore smuggling has marked him as a target." heheheh. i wonder who THAT is.
  
• Another mention of protocores weapons (/vague flashback to the weapon in the hands of the drowned man/skeleton in one of Rafayel's segments that the researchers found)
  
• nice! another confirmation that the UNICORNS team is not to be trifled with. a rescue mission needing five regular Hunters. only need two! (if those two are reckless and fear no evil).
  
• hey, Dispatcher Colin has never even met any of them. i guess i've underestimated just how big the Hunter's Association actually is, as we only ever see, like, one floor depicted in the official background.
  
• "One rumor claims a UNICORNS Hunter once blew up an entire subway station just to take down a Wanderer."  that was Xavier. i had nothing to do with it. mostly.
  
• "Xavier! Stop eating the evidence!"  oh god. muahahahaahah! PERFECTION.
  
• alright, after work and there's another Wanderer attack near the grocery store Colin's just shopped at.  this one is specifically noted to have "jagged black crystals".  man, i hope that gets explained to my satisfaction at some unknown time in the future.
  
• go go gadget Colin! saving the little girls, one frantic grab and roll at a time.
  
• We Have Arrived. i am noted to be clear and authoritative. i also appear to be ordering Xavier around. as i should be.
  
• Xavier is a 'glowing blur'. I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. (all of my boyfriends are exceptional)
  
• " The two Hunters kill the Wanderer before it can deploy its Protofield."  so its a CONSCIOUS choice on the part of the Wanderer? not  something that just happens?
  

okay, really enjoyed that outside perspective. even the initiated are properly in awe of what we can do.

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WU 12 Fractal Library Q&A
lore heavy / pre Death&Rebirth lore / pre God of Annihilation lore

• just.. woah. okay.
  
• this is neat. random guy pulled off the street basically because the Library needed someone to answer the phone. bet nobody else saw/sees the damn thing.
  
• our narrator wants to rename it to 10-33 Library -- isn't that the Planck Length? /checks  bingo! i win. probably. its more more like 10-35 but fucking close enough.
  
• the Singularity Library, awwww
  
• where the fuck in Zayne, anyways? this guy has never met the Library's "owner".
  
• at least our guy gets paid. ... how does this guy get paid? does somebody deposit gold ingots at his bank using the overnight slot or something? (i kid. sort of. Angru was a computer, I'm sure the Library deals in translated currencies just fine)
  
• oh. Zayne hasn't arrived here yet, as Doctor Zayne. our administrator is just filling in, in this reality.
  
• oh WOW. that's... brutal. a world where everyone fell prey to the virus, caused by (the search for?)"immortality" turning everyone into energy, doomed to fall with their planet. everyone dead or stripped of humanity, save one man. who took it upon himself kill anything remaining of his people and then guard their remains until absolutely nothing remained. "a prisoner of time, the embodiment of loneliness, forever the last person."  King of Dark Night?! (or even Zayne himself, in another iteration, but honestly Xavier's new myth seems a perfect fit for this)
  
• "Could they have been just experimental playgrounds for some god's whim."  YES. PROBABLY.
  
• "A lot of things here aren't what you'd call books, but let's call them 'books' for the sake of convenience. When you want to read them, they'll take on a form that's easy for you to understand. Books are the ideal medium."  do they... do some of the stories look like protocores in the Library?! a contained world, operating under the laws set by the creator of them, each one a variation on a theme yet each one unique?
  
• are Wanderers a manifestation of alternate realities wandering around, bringing their worlds them? is the Library leaking stories?!
  

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WU 13 High & Low Culture
fluff about Thomas (RafMC adjacent)

• no notes, this is just cute. poor Rafayel, just completely forgetting he's got a body that needs care and attention while he's busy painting.
  
• Thomas wears "a jingling metal necklace". good to know i suppose!
  
• Who's Solana, in reference to Thomas? oh, wife. wait. Thomas is married? good for him!
  
• oooh, and a father to a daughter! awww