Kagero blinked as Artemis vanished before their lips even met.  At first, she thought the other girl had logged out, or perhaps been forced to log somehow.<em>I swear that I'm going to give whoever interrupted us a piece of my-</em>Then vertigo set in, and it was possibly the worst sense of vertigo she'd ever experienced; as if her body was reacting to it in real life as badly as her avatar was suffering through it.<br/><br/>When she reappeared in the courtyard, with not just Artemis, but dozens, then hundreds of other players appearing, she wrapped her arms around Artemis' arm.  "What if going on?"  was what she asked first....which naturally prompted the blaring alarms and flashing red signals.  "Oh.  A system announcement?  Why do all this for..."  Her eyes looked up at the bloody red light and strange liquid coalescing into a monstrous form above them.  "...an announcement..."<br/><br/>It clearly wasn't intended to attack them - that would have been silly.  She looked at the others, who were trying to shut off warnings and turn down volumes everywhere.  Then she started noticing unusual expressions.  Confusion.  Worry.  Anger.  Panic.  Things that made no sense, because they were all people lookign at their control panels, not the sight above them.  She called up her own panel and studied it.  She managed to turn the alarm noise off, though the System Announcement sign wouldn't go away.  One thing<em>had</em>gone away and it took her a moment to figure out what it was.<br/><br/>"Artemis," she said loudly enough to be heard over the crowd, "something is very wrong with my control panel."