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[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?

Comments

Typed up on an iPhone

[depolarized]

[It looks just like her autograph ;;. He's not sure how to feel about being recognized, though.]

Yeah, it's me. Plenty of people have been talking about seeing weird things-- Pink lights, getting stalked and attacked, and these [Pause in typing] swarms of Vermini, like these. It's like they're gathering.

handwritten

[unwakingwaters]

Gah

That's deeply troubling, yes.

[depolarized]

[Did his favorite author just say 'gah'? Yes, yes she did.]

They weren't violent, but something's up. We just don't know what it is yet.

[unwakingwaters]

I feel so useless here. I'm just a writer, I'm not sure what I can do to help.

It almost sounds like they might be testing our defenses and reactions, building up to something much bigger. Trying to find out what we're all capable of.

[depolarized]

[What is being reassuring.] ...People here are special. I don't know why we're here but strange things have been happening to us.

Maybe. I don't know what they're after. There was a forum to 'negotiate' once, but it's gone now.

[unwakingwaters]

Did anyone manage to take a screenshot of it, or at least keep track of what was said?

[depolarized]

Wasn't too hard. All it really said was "Let's negotiate." Then it got taken down.

[unwakingwaters]

And let me guess: the negotiations were disappointingly one-sided, and along the lines of "Do what we say or we destroy you." Yes?

[depolarized]

There'd have to be one, first. The site just went down afterwards.

[unwakingwaters]

How rude of them.

[depolarized]

Whatever it was they wanted, they got it. We just don't know what. Or who.