ROUND 6 - INTRO

[foundationmods]

[After so long a trip, you're all finally here. Taken through a hidden passage inside of the very mountain itself, you find yourself standing in front of a field of flowers, growing well due to the open roof above it. If you look up, you can just make out the shimmering colors off of the barrier - looking almost like the shine off of a soap bubble.

Try not to trample on the flowers as you approach the open, purple gate, where it looks as if someone is waiting for all of you just inside. And remember to wear your masks, now that you're here!

...Still, the sight of the yellow flowers waving in the wind....such a cheery sight fills you with determination for what's to come.

Welcome to the Underground.

You have the universe to save.]

Comments

[sageking]

[ Maybe it's made from a different energetic source—not entirely impossible for a Servant to manage, he supposed. ]

Obviously.

[ He'll leave explanation up to Sherlock. Thanks, detective you're useful!

Now, Gilgamesh will be looking around in the area to see if there was anything besides the math scribbled all over the walls. He had some doubts that the man would leave behind obvious items or anything like that; the math could in fact be the only thing. But, best to be thorough.

He'll touch along the walls to also see if there were any hidden mechanisms—also likely to be a waste of time, but see above.

Presumably neither one of those yield any interest, he'll step back, and cross his arms, waiting for the other to detail any messages from the math; what he'll do next depends on how useful the message was. ]

[foundationmods]

[Well, the first thing Sherlock will notice - is that there's Code also strengthening the equations. It doesn't seem to be Moriarty's work, either, but it's definitely why this place feels different than normal Bounded Fields.

The second thing is that the wall math has nothing - but the math on the papers seem to be saying only one thing:

GO TO SNOWDIN ONCE YOU'RE DONE SNOOPING, SHERLOCK AND / OR YOSHI

...Yep. There's also Nothing hidden anywhere Gil looks, sadly.]

[improbablenotimpossible]

He wasn't the only one here, there's another code here, that's giving this hut's effect of being unnoticeable more strength....

[He started as he looks at the papers]

As for your question, Mr. Amamiya - A bounded field is... to put it in simple terms is a barrier that a Magus or Servant like ourselves can mark out the area as separate from the outside.

Normally it'll function as a kind of alarm system, to alert the one who set up the field of intruders, weaken anyone unauthorized who enters or to make people simply not look in the direction. They are more effective against those who do not have the ability to defend themselves magically or detect such things. So your abilities as a Phantom Thief was likely the reason why you even noticed it in the first place, or given this area, an exclusion is set in it's construction: a condition such as: 'Everyone except X should not notice this hut'.

It is possible to weaken the barriers, but long as the maker wishes it, it isn't so easily destroyed as they can just expend more magical energy to reinforce it. Destroying them would require finding and breaking the sigils used to make it and prevent said sigils from reforming.

There are far more things about this subject I could elucidate on, but that should be good enough for now - and by the by, He wants us to go to Snowdin as soon as we're done snooping around.

[le_mat]

[He arches his brow at the 'obviously' comment, but decides not to bicker- he has a feeling Gil isn't someone he wants to argue with unless he has to, from watching the Winchester event]

I see... and considering I could feel it, and he left a message for us here, I have to assume it's meant to keep out monsters specifically. As for the other code... can you tell me anything about it? I want to hope it's from Red, since computer code has a lot to do with how her powers work. But if it's someone else better we know now.

[sageking]

[ That was generically enough to get the message across, so for the moment he's elected to do nothing else.

That said, he's more interested in the code, but, hmm. ]

If it so happens to be from her, it's obvious that they'd have congregated in here together before.

[improbablenotimpossible]

[Time to check...! What can he tell about the code?]

[foundationmods]

[It's Coding that seems to overwrite / effect the world itself - like someone imposing a module on top. It's definitely the source of the conditionals - there's a switch clause directly specifying that 6350's or humans are allowed into, and can see the place.]

[improbablenotimpossible]

Fascinating... it's almost like a module that's inserted into the "code" of the world itself, and it's the one that sets the conditions - humans and 6350s are exempt from the effect.

[sageking]

A 'module'? Then it sounds as if this is something from that woman after all.

[ Since Ren mentioned that utilization of computer code and all. ]

What a clever usage of technique, suffice to say.