[ After a whispered string of (very English-sounding and) colourful swearing, the device finally turns on to reveal a very cranky (and confused!) looking young lady who seems to be quite convinced that this is all a big bad joke. Anyone who recognizes her may notice she's actually much younger again- and may have a bit of a different air around her. ]

... normally I'd believe that they were messing with my head again, but the longer I look around-

[ They couldn't have possibly created memories so confusing and elaborate. She's not even sure what to think, but she looks back at the device, as though attempting to consolidate whatever memories she's recalling here with the ones she arrived with. ]

I really was here, wasn't I? Once before... [ She doesn't sound very certain, but give her a bit. ]

No... surely it was a dream, but- All these faces- [ she pauses, moving a hand over the side of her head as she begins to murmur names... ]

Vivio... Cain? Rosella... [ So many names- ] Lloyd... Ky... Jun... Demyx? Natalia... Guy..... Peony... Alexis...

[ She quickly shakes her head, turning back to the device and staring at it, her expression firm. ]

If anyone by those names are here, then speak up! Was I really here once before?!

[ She has to know for certain- even if she's remembering it all even as she speaks. She finally glares at the device and grabs it, looking quite annoyed. ]

Oh, don't give me the silent treatment after all of that! This is too elaborate even for them- none of this is adding up, so whoever is listening had better have answers!! What the devil is going on?!

[ She's very, very confused, but hey, welcome her to the City again? :D She'll be wandering around near the fountains. Because water. Why else. ]

They're doing what?

They want to set up a door out of the City? Are they--are they completely mad? They can't do that! Not if they expect the entire metacellular structure of this entire place to remain stable! Any kind of interference at that kind of structural level will result in nothing less than every last sub-sub-atomic particle turning to its inversion and thereby completely dematerializing the City. I don't mean we'll find ourselves with left-handed molecules but the entire chain will come undone.

They have absolutely no concept of what they're meddling with! They've met with some small success in the course of their tests and now they think that they've found a safe passage out of this place? That's impossible! No, absolutely not!

The possibilities of escape are rendered absolutely null in a situation such as this one where the vibrational resonances of the present organisms and reality only extend as far as the fourth dimension. It's technically impossible to present an avenue of escape at all without the presence of these vibrations in the fifth dimension--at least the fifth dimension. Lacking that kind of reach, there's absolutely no way that door will open anywhere except immediately behind itself. It's a doorway and not a door at all. It opens to nothing. It's an arch. And so far as I know, they've not addressed their means of navigation even if they could obtain the proper vibrational frequencies needed to break on through to the other side. Positing for the moment that they have managed to reach the proper vibrational frequencies, because we'll imagine that they've managed to make a diamond quantum circuit, this is rather like opening a door in a house one doesn't know: there's absolutely no telling where the door might lead and if one might want to pass through it. And it may be impossible to tell where it's leading before passing through it. Furthermore, the infinitude of potential worlds means that with only one door, either everyone will be forced to evacuate to the same world, good or ill, or everyone will have to wait a literal eternity until his own world appears in the doorway. Or perhaps a world only very much like it without being that world exactly. There isn't any telling how the City manages to open and close its portals as it does and these people are completely made to try and replicate that kind of sophisticated movement and vibration across the infinite variety of worlds!

To say nothing of the fact that one of them is a dog!

[ooc: What's going on? Better see this post for more!]