"If we're done talking about Namur's lack of a love life..." She didn't even want to think about Namur's love life. It seemed...surreal. "We need to discuss what we should do about CERES."

Grell took out her CereVice and tapped it a few times. "I hope no one was planning to receive any contact right now. I've scrambled to signals." Yes, Grell was pretty paranoid about CERES and this world in general, despite how much she may like the environment. "We're obviously missing a few of our crew, and a certain someone thought they could play with time and get them back."

She wasn't naming names, but they should know whom Grell was referring to.

"It's far more complicated than we anticipated. So now we need a mode of action. What I've learned from Lilith was that the Auralia network is like a web." Grell fiddled a bit more with her device and projected a blue spiderweb on the floor for everyone to see. "If we step on one part, it'll send an alert to all the others." She demonstrated by having a string plucked, which vibrated, and then a red spider started crawling over the web. "Thatch suggested we just take apart ViViD to start, but it's...not that easy."

Virtual reality systems were new to Grell, and she could already tell that even just tampering would not only be difficult, but risky.