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[synchronous]

[ About half an hour after his conversation with Roxy, DJ tries inputting the string of numbers in a text document on his computer. Wonder of wonders, it works again. Intriguing. He looks around for a while before typing anything, but after a while... ]

I tried converting it to binary, octal, hex, decoding it from any system that even remotely made sense, switching the digits around, inverting it, multiplying it by 42, you fucking name it, and in the end this string haunting my every waking thought turns out to be a god damn public key for a secret message board hidden in my plate of mashed potatoes? I'm just glad this works on my computer, too. Can't go around writing in my food whenever I want to chat.

I must be going crazy. There's no other explanation.

Anyway. I went through some of the archives and found what appears to be a writeup for newbie forum-goers. Extremely helpful, would read again. Looks like a whole lot of shit's been going down for a few months now and I just happened to stumble ass-first into what outsiders must assume is some increasingly bizarre LARP campaign. But I think I've got the gist of it. People who aren't part of whatever this is can't see the forum, people have been experiencing weird memory alterations and physical changes, and animals are mutating and maybe trying to kill people. Is there anything else I should be aware of?

Also -- Roxy, nice timing on the fake hacking attempt. It was really cute.

Comments

[somesayinfire]

Whoa, whoa, there's nothing philic about this. I just keep running into a bunch of cool people, including you, who happen to be high schoolers. In one case almost literally.

[synchronous]

Literally which part -- running into, cool people, or high schoolers.

[somesayinfire]

The first and the third, unless you ask Tavia in which case it's all three. I have the sneaking suspicion you've already encountered her ego and her, in that order.

[synchronous]

I wouldn't know. Plenty of rude-as-hell people ain't given me their names yet.

[somesayinfire]

I guess I can understand that? I mean, a lot of people seem to think code names are a good idea, but it's still pretty rude if they're not even giving you a code name. Like Carlos Danger or something like that.

[synchronous]

I could actually happily live the rest of my days not knowing how to address someone rather than having them tell me their name was Carlos Danger.

[somesayinfire]

I don't know, sounds like the name of someone with whom one should not fuck.

That was funnier in my head.