[ChicletPrime]

okay. onward!  (i dreamed about Sylus on his motorcycle off and on all night, it was weird.)

Prologue to Tomorrow
Eyes of the Storm
Chapter 1: Imbalance

• 334.2mb. booyah! on the quest to run out of space as fast as possible
  
• (i am still amazing how big the Deepspace Tunnel was, you know, as i sit here and watch this thing download. it was creepy and beautiful at the same time)
  
• oh no, not THIS backdrop again! i just got out of this place, why do i have to go baaaack.
  
• okay, shady guy with shady poker chip money as protocores are being traded and sold.  why infold didn't spring for a nice wallpaper behind this, i don't know. i feel sullied being back here again.
  
• all the news on ze dark webz is about aether core speculation. scanning the pages that popped up but its all pretty generic.
  
• an infinity symbol, encoded login.. this guy is from EVER. i would guess the fancy guy that gave the mysterious jewelry sized box to Rafayel that we didn't get any closure on come to think of it.
  
• people talking about a heavy wanderer attack, queries about the "protocore field" collapsing in the N109, protocore smugglers being tracked...
  
• okay, some sort of location jump
  
• following some sort of protocore smuggler into a hotel which is not THE hotel from last time. 
  
• or maybe this is a Hunter raid? who is Simone?
  
• this VA is very unpracticed. but apparently this is my current partner. and we're following the smuggler into the fancy new hotel it seems for "Operation Aether Ordeal."  who comes up with these names?
  
• "Simone has the Micromodification Evol." well, that was specific. everybody, take notes! 
  
• oh, she made my gun better at some point so now i like her. She probably has Sylus' very distant and faint acknowledgement of existence as well.
  
• ah, timeframe.  it was two months ago that the events of yesterday actually happened for the main character. are we still resonating with Sylus? i can't see my wrist, damn it. probably not. i find that personally distressing.
  
• "... and i even managed to... " even managed to WHAT, Simone? squirm my way into Onychinus' ranks by looking devastating in a black dress?
  
• (she's probably talking about my power upgrade. into the N109, got myself a manicure and a several hundred new rank levels, and right back out escorted by two deferential men in bird costume. i am just that good.)
  
• oh apparently i haven't told ANYBODY that i have it at ALL. well, go the hell me for keeping my big mouth shut for once.
  
• oh sure, right out loud in this elevator, lets talk about my maybe aether core. are you sure you disabled ALL the bugs?
  
• the auction for the half of the aether core wasn't a big secret? i mean, yes it was, but it was all over the N109 if you had the money to buy into it the game, which means that anybody who was anybody was at least aware of it. why is Simone trying to make like this is suddenly a new thing?
  
• oh, hang on. two month time skip. N109 is now buzzing again about a possible new a-core(n)?
  
• more than one aether core, yup yup. i have one, Sylus has one, now a third is out there, or rumored to be.
  
• yeah, deja vu flashback going up this elevator to the top.
  
• ooooh delicious Sylus voice. hello, darling. jog my memory, do.
  
• no, wait. really. what did i forget? i am forgetting SO MUCH STUFF.
  
• oh, once again, we are the same. but how, Sylus? how are we the same and why am i seeing Philos again?
  
• okay out of the vision/flashback, back to work
  
• what the fuck?
  
• "the moment you meet up with the target, Evol will be transmitted through your contact lenses device to alter his memories".  nani?
  
• 1) "Evol" will be transmitted? its not a fucking laser beam! admittedly Xavier flashes as fast as one 2) through my CONTACT lenses? what the hell is powering them to transmit anything at all 3) to do what now? i am going to stare at somebody and rearrange their brains long distance?
  
• that is one fucking hell of an Evol if its being channeled remotely from whoever actually has it. maybe we're all just mind controlled minions this whole time.
  
• ITS MY EVOL!? dude, i resonate to boost power levels, not alter memories!
  
• shit, do i alter memories of people around me? WILD. unless thats my new aether core skill?
  
• i have to be misreading this. so Simone seems to be implying the Inspector Very Gadget lenses are her creation and.. my evol is mentioned again? maybe i shouldn't be playing this story when i'm this tired. this really doesn't make sense and i'm usually faster to figure out what they really meant through the awkward sentence structure. coming back to this maybe it'll make more sense the second time around. (EDIT: no implication that the mind altering Evol has anything to do with me in specific, apparently we're just a... conduit through the lenses?)
  
• protofield disruptor, check.
  
• yes, Sylus would be pleased at me for picking up at least marginally better bluffing skills, i agree.
  

• the ethical implications of this contact lens technology are going to bother me all night, i just know it.