handwritten

[unwakingwaters]

[this is written in dark blue fountain pen on nice paper with a close cursive hand]

7/19/2013

Right, so, starting out in my usual way of warmups with too much exposition as to my exact circumstances at current -- trying to remind myself of the dream I had when I was thirteen exactly by exactly copying out the contents of the journal I made that night.

So...

#2027952

February 7, 1966

Dear Diary: Last night I had the strangest dream, the most wonderfully clear dream, about a golden room with great stained glass windows, and a test I had to take to--

[there's a great big ink stain here and then actually some significant time passes as Maya reads all the text suddenly in her nice new notebook. At least an hour.]

Well.

If it weren't for the fact that this fully navigable website appeared in a perfectly ordinary leather-bound notebook, I would dismiss it as a particularly inspired ARG. But as it stands, this appeared in a notebook. I normally consider myself quite a skeptic but well. This, I believe, qualifies as extraordinary proof.

I think I met some of you at the convention the other day. My name is Maya Aaronson. I've at least gathered from your entries that this is a secret network of some sort, that some of you are experiencing physical and mental changes that seem impossible (but again, you've provided extremely compelling evidence) and that there's... something out there.

Could someone provide me with a little more detail?

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[argents]

Skepticism is hard to try and keep up with when the world suddenly changes. [ Boy did he give it a fighting go. But no dice. ] And you change along with it... in ways that seem just as extraordinary, I mean. Is there anything you want to know specifically?

audio;

[unwakingwaters]

Well, the newbie-guide mentions grues, which while a cute reference to old text adventure games, doesn't tell me very much about what we're facing. How can we identify these creatures and avoid them? How much DO we know about the enemy? What are institutions to avoid? Is there anything I can do to help..?

[argents]

Identifying... someone was talking to me about how they might have ranks. The "grues" you've heard about look like little dandelions. They infect animals, I think. Just normal ones, but they stop looking so normal after that. Birds with human teeth or fingers, cats with hands. They mostly just watch us, though. It's when the larger animals get taken over that they start — targeting us.

Other than that, the police are involved, and the military. I can't imagine city officials wouldn't be either, with the gallery.

[unwakingwaters]

I've heard something about Thunder Corporation being involved as well -- they're the ones funding those strange statues? I do remember reading about the statues in the papers, and thinking they were some of the tackiest things I've ever seen.

[argents]

They're... well, something else in person, that's for sure. There's something about them that just hasn't made any sense to me though.

[unwakingwaters]

What's that then?

[argents]

Those changes that we experience? The statues can cause those. If they're meant to make us stronger, or prepare us for... a war, or something like it, then why let us come into contact with them so easily?

[unwakingwaters]

Hm. It sounds to me like it's accidental, as though they didn't realize the statues would have those effects on some of us...

[argents]

That would be something, if they knew as much about us as we did about them. It'd make sense for the network to exist like it does, in a way.