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?

Comments

[text; computer]

[caosgo]

We still don't know how they're being distributed, or if it's even a deliberate thing. If it were, you'd think whoever it was would have tried to organize us by now. But so far, nothing.

I'm not entirely sure what organizing would accomplish, either. Right now we need to figure out the scope of what we've stumbled upon, and keep everyone safe while we're at it. That's difficult enough as it is. I'm afraid I don't have a good answer.

handwritten;

[unwakingwaters]

Organizing would help keep us together and perhaps prevent more deaths. We could pool our information... but I imagine someone's already working on that?

[hopefully????]

[text]

[caosgo]

Yes, if you look back a few posts, someone's organized a meeting at the local arcade. I think the general idea is to be as discreet as possible, so it's under the guise of some sort of gaming group.

[not that he knows much about that kind of thing, but he's thinking he'd better learn soon.]

[text]

[unwakingwaters]

I might see about going to that. I was pretty good at PacMan, back in the day.

[text]

[caosgo]

I might be attending, depending on what my schedule allows. If so, perhaps I'll see you there.

[man, when was the last time he touched an arcade game? It's been a while.]