savetheearth | episode 03 [Video

[Oh, looks like Thomas is posting again. However he and the wall behind him look far less than good. He's pale, sweating, and the drawings that had been seen on the walls during his previous communications are ripped up. The room in general just looks like it's been turned over.]

I hate that water. Besides the migraine that ...

[He trails off, counting on his fingers and using the same hand multiple times.]

Jesus, around twenty something years’ worth of memories popping in your head gives you. I realized something. I called my brother after getting all that in my head and talked to him before looking at old posts I made on Facebook and other websites before all this started. I'm not me anymore.

All the drawings, all the cartoons I've been watching and all this. I didn't use to be like this, but these new memories are changing how I view things. I mean, I talked to some guy during my first few weeks in the club about how cute animal crossing characters were. I wouldn't have even touched that game before coming into town.

There's one thing worse though. From the echoes I've been getting, I realized someone on the network is from these memories. I'm not going to say who, but if they're who I think they are and more people I 'know' about show up, we might have other problems besides an alien invasion to worry about.

[Thomas rolls his eyes at that, but the implication certainly seems to worry him.]

One last thing before I go insane, we wouldn't happen to have any doctor's in the house would we? I think I'd like to try and deal with this please.

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Here's an idea, take those people that might be problems and aim them at the aliens while we find a way to get rid of them.

Might give us a few minutes to run for it.

Eh, might not be a bad idea. I just hope none of them show up. One alien invasion is bad enough, multiple might make things sort of tricky.

Yeah, not too sure if I wanna sit on several invasions and wonder if the insta-death aliens are better than the enslavement aliens.

Yeah. Well, here's hoping we only have one invasion to worry about. Never thought I'd say that.

Considering that most of us are kids and some of those kids don't even think that this is real? Yeah, I know what you mean.

That's the worst part. Kids shouldn't be getting dragged into this. Well that and the terrifying changes in body some people are going through.

No one should be.

As much as it sucks, we're probably the front lines on some kind of invasion counter-attack and all these enemies of ours might just have to wait in line until we've got that part under control.

Unless they're the type that rather watch all of us burn.

With the way people keep getting pulled in and the fact we all have no real idea of what we're doing, it seems to me like waiting and watching is their best bet. I don't know if we'll ever get it together.

I think we'll figure it out. It might be slow, but once we actually get some idea where to start, we'll figure it out.

Of course, getting started is the hard part.

Yeah. It looked like we hard a start there during that whole cave thing. Who knows how much of that was true.

So, what do you think of that whole "we're superheroes" talks that's apparently going around?

We won't know until we check out that story, right?

I think the poor kid that started it has some really high hopes of using it to jump-kick her dreams. I think we're just a bunch of poor slobs that haven't a clue as to what we should be in this place and time.

I suppose, but who knows what's in that cave now? I'm not exactly eager to go back.

Their dreams? Someone is trying to profit off of all of this? Are they insane?

More traps, most likely.

A few people still think we're being insane believing that this is real.

That's what I was thinking. The gem talk was probably just insurance to get us back there in case we escaped.

Then they must be new. Or else they'd know it isn't after what happened in the cave. Hell, a friend of mine here turned into a giant cockroach man. That was no rubber suit, that's for sure.

Makes me wonder what they are trying to do with the whole gem thing in the first place. There's gotta be a reason to come up with it.

I've met him. Poor guy, I mean, turning into a giant bug? Like some kind of stupid horror novel or something.

They're just trying to get us back into an unstable abandoned mine. If it collapsing again wouldn't kill us, they might still have those black things in there. My money is on complete fabrication.

Oh you've met Hajime? Yeah, I feel pretty bad for him. He isn't the only one getting physical changes, but he's the only one I've heard of getting a full body change.

It's a little elaborate, isn't it?

We talked a little and I met him after that poor woman was changed.

Slightly more believable than there actually is a magical gem in that mine. Either way, it's still probably unstable and has those black things in it.

Yeah, I heard about that. Not pretty stuff.

They might as well put up a huge sign that says it's a trap. They might actually catch people that way.

Yeah. It wasn't.

[They would probably catch Thomas that way.]

I'd ask who would be stupid enough to do that, but yeah probably.

I still can't believe that's happening to anyone at all.

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It's something people do. I don't know why but put a huge sign saying 'don't push the button' usually makes people push the button.

I think a lot of us don't believe it has. It just has.

I once read an article about them testing that and, based on the number of presses compared to the people in the area, people wouldn't just do it once, but multiple times.

I can understand them not wanting to. All of these echos and monsters are freaky enough without people turning into monsters.

Sounds like something this group would do too.

I hope they stop acting like it's not real. To some of us, it is.

I can guarantee you that more than a few of us would do it out of defiance rather than curiosity.

Well for alot of them it hasn't hit home. Or they just haven't seen the evidence yet.

Screw the Man, is it?

A lot of them are still just kids. I know I don't like acting responsible over anything, but I still know how to accept the evidence that I've seen.

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