The little drone bravely moves forward, slowly to ensure it does not trip again, and, despite the looming presence, finally arrives at the entrance of the village. At least, according to his GPS tracking system. The Mist is still too dense here for it to distinguish anything. However, as it gets closer, a large patch of dark, shadowy inside the fog betrays the presence of one of the first house.
But, suddenly, everything changes. As Waywalker step into the place, the fog suddenly lift, and his AR display, short of the camera and the audio sensors of the drones suddenly disappears. The change is so brutal, that Waywalker can not prevent the drone to trip and fall to its knees. As he stands back again, he is utterly surprise of what he is discovering. First of all, despite being hours away from dusk, it is definitely - as impossible as it may sound, night here.
Then, there is the gigantic mushrooms that seems to have populate most of the streets, giving a weird, fantastical look to the place. In between the giant mushrooms looking sort of tree, ruins of the French village remains, looking entirely out of place here. Behind the village limits, there is not longer any trace of the Mist. A large, improbable forest of gigantic trees, that no one ever seen grow in Brittany, spread to the infinite. Quickly, Waywalker realizes he's not in Kansas anymore. Well, if Kansas were to be Brittany, France.
He also then realizes that the connection, despite the lost of all his AR feeds, have become spotless... To the point that he seems to have merged entirely with the little drone body, and can't jack out anymore!
In the meantime, Rex, still sitting in the van, he also puzzled by the sudden disappearance of any AR feeds from the drone. The device does not even registered anymore. Over the matrix connection, he sends message to his partner, but his Persona ... appears to be simply gone from the matrix. Checking Waywalker in the meat space he sees that his partner seems to be still asleep, like he is looks when he is usually jacked in.
Before the dog shaped mage can do anything more, a blip on the sensor array of the van get his attention. Apparently, a vehicle is approaching their own. The traffic in the region is pretty much null and the vehicle appears to be moving at slow pace, and being also covered with some signature masking, making it hard to spot...
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@Haywire, sorry to railroading you into moving forward, as suggested by Rex, but I have to update now as won't be able before Monday.... and I wanted you guys to have a little "weekend spoiler"