video; iPhone

[earnedmystripes]

[It's been a couple of weeks since his little freakout over the network. To those who might have seen him in the immediate aftermath, he looks a lot better by now. Still a little tired and stressed, maybe, but who isn't these days, with everything going on?

He's settled at a desk today, with some handwritten notes and post-its scattered around, though they're not legible from this angle.]

So, uh, can I ask you guys a kinda weird favor?

I've been thinking a lot about what to do in case I up and forget everything again and I'm still in town. I don't think I can convince myself of any of this crazy stuff without actually remembering, or that I can't trust my coworkers, [well, except Nick. But he's not about to out him as a cop if the other doesn't actually say it himself.] so I've been leaving myself notes around the house to either call in sick or insist on desk duty if I can't remember a password of some sort.

Think it'd work better if it wasn't one I came up with, just in case.

[He's thought about the numbers, but he doesn't know if it's risky to just...leave a connection open somewhere. Some word or phrase that would be meaningless out of the context of the numbers club would work better, he thinks. And most of the people on the network don't know him well, so it wouldn't likely be something he could connect to his own life and ignore if it came up.]

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[Audio]

[shiromadoushi]

[[The word you get doesn't sound like any word you've heard before, Kotetsu, because it's in Late Egyptian.]]

Think you can remember that?

[Audio]

[earnedmystripes]

...I'm not sure I can pronounce that.

[Let alone remember it.]

[Audio]

[shiromadoushi]

It's not too hard! Just--

[[And again, only broken into syllables]]

[Audio]

[earnedmystripes]

[To his credit, he does make an attempt here. But it is horrifyingly butchered, sounding nothing at all like the word Bakura used. He groans.]

Can we go with something in English....

[handwritten; private]

[detectivetroll]

If you wanted, we could keep an eye on each other.

[text; private]

[earnedmystripes]

Sounds like a good idea. How'd we do it without getting the network busted, though?

[handwritten; private]

[detectivetroll]

I like the password idea. If one of us is acting like - well, like we used to, we can mention some password, and if it's not recognized, we'll know. Then we can, I don't know, make sure the other one doesn't do anything until they remember?

text - handwritten

[entertainaplanb]

Unless you'd find Ben Franklin's lightning rod helpful, I don't think I know anything specific enough to help you out.

You forgot everything while you were still in town? That's... troubling.

text; iPhone!

[earnedmystripes]

whoa

Ben Franklin like founding father Ben franklin?? And you know its his?

I don't know if it would work as a password thing for me but that's still pretty cool. And yeah, a couple weeks back. It was pretty messed up.

[He basically lost his shit on the network and sort of had a panic attack in front of a coworker who luckily turned out to be part of the network as well, w h o o p s.]

[entertainaplanb]

Oh, I don't have it or anything useful like that. I can tell you that it enhances the conductivity of anything you hook it up to, but that's it. I don't even know why I know this.

I can imagine. Is everything all right now?

[ handwritten ]

[fatherssins]

So you want us to write notes about you, to you?

iPhone text!

[earnedmystripes]

Not exactly. I'm looking for a word or phrase or something that I'd only really remember the significance of if I remembered the network. It's probably better for it to *not* be about me, really. If I can't connect it to my life outside this stuff it's more likely this'll work.

[fatherssins]

I think I understand.

That's quite a bit more challenging though.

text

[ex_purity762]

You've forgotten without leaving the city?

text

[earnedmystripes]

Yeah, about three weeks ago. I still don't get what happened and it's not happened again since.

text

[ex_purity762]

That sounds like a disturbing experience. I'm sorry you went through something like that.

So the password would be a test of whether you remember?

Text. Cellphone.

[flamberge]

You lost recollection of the network while still in the city?

Text. Cellphone.

[earnedmystripes]

Don't really know how or why, but yeah. Last month, for a week.

Text. Cellphone.

[flamberge]

There had been nothing that you recall which may have prompted the forgetting?

[espigeonage]

You think so? I don't know, is there anything odd you remember being significant that never was before?

[earnedmystripes]

If someone else does it, it's less likely I'll be able to connect it to my life outside of this and not be able to catch myself if I forget.

And there is, but I can't think of anything in particular I'd believe without remembering everything.

[espigeonage]

You think setting a password to "Top Mag" or whatever that outfit read wouldn't work? Sorry, you are looking for passwords, right?

v o i c e

[rivalize]

[It's no coincidence that Tyler stumbles upon this. He's been specifically pointed in this guy's direction, although the video itself is troubling enough that Tyler can't quite address his own concern just yet.]

What'd you mean, you forgot everything?

v o i c e

[earnedmystripes]

[...Oh, you must be new.]

I mean exactly that. I just randomly went back to the way I was before I got the numbers in my head. We know it happens if you leave town, but last month it just happened on its own while I was still here.

v o i c e

[rivalize]

[New indeed, and still relatively clueless.]

Wait a sec. You mean... if I leave town, I'm gonna forget... what, exactly? The numbers? And whatever I've been doing here?