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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

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[unwakingwaters]

Ah. I'd assumed it was just a quirk or some such. You meet a lot of folks with various differences at sci-fi conventions, honestly, you get used to it.

I'm sorry that what's been going on has caused you trouble like that.

[handwritten]

[moarnomsplz]

Its OK. I've pretty much gotten used to it.

Your number popped into your head in 1966?

[handwritten]

[unwakingwaters]

Yes. I wrote it down in the very notebook that I used to write down the dream that inspired The Starheart Saga. In fact, the number I think was part of the dream... or at least, they seemed connected.

[handwritten]

[moarnomsplz]

I don't remember if my number was part of the dream but I sure had it stuck in my head after.

That's pretty amazing that the books started out as a dream. I don't think my vision things would make enough sense to be a book!

[handwritten]

[unwakingwaters]

It... worries me, actually. While the visions I've had since then have been quite different from the books, they're close enough to be troubling. The thing about people in stories is that their lives tend to be very unhappy, and... well.

It's also just. It's all very strange. but you'd understand that.

Anyway, my first vision wasn't even THAT coherent, to be honest. In the original everyone wielded giant keys as swords, for instance. Very silly.

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[moarnomsplz]

It's funny, I thought this whole thing seemed like something out of a book too when I first got the numbers and found the secret network.

It stopped seeming cool pretty fast once I got that it was happening whether I wanted it to or not. Like, there's no way to stop reading, put it down, and be safe again.

Giant keys is pretty funny though.