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[angelskills]

Hello...? Um, hello!

Is anybody there? I'm not really sure what this is but it just popped up on my phone. Am I supposed to be here? I'm really sorry if I'm intruding somewhere I'm not supposed to. It just kind of happened... I hope it's all right.

Oh! My name is Colette. It's nice to meet you, whoever you are! How are you doing today?

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[Texted]

[espigeonage]

Hello! Before anything else, Miss Colette, careful what you put on here! Paranoia's a bit of a watchword here in the special numbers club.

[angelskills]

Special numbers club? Oh! So this is a club website?

[espigeonage]

No, sorry! I was being facetious. I tend to be like that, lol. I'm using that because I have no idea what else to call us - people who live in and around the city, and know strings of numbers that let us in like this, and have had odd things happening to us.

[angelskills]

Oh, okay! You're right, it kind of is like a club.

Maybe we should think up a name for ourselves. Like... The City Squad! Or something better.

[espigeonage]

Haha, maybe! Unfortunately when I come up with names they tend to be a bit too pretentious for people to want to use.

[Text - Handwritten]

[scramasax]

[Here's to trying to do some good!] Hello, Colette. It's very nice to meet you, too.

I'm Anthony. I worried the same about these things at first... but it's getting harder to imagine that any of us here could have gotten to connect to this network by accident.

[angelskills]

It's nice to meet you, Anthony!

I don't understand... I didn't really mean to connect to this! Unless I did it on purpose without knowing it was on purpose?

[scramasax]

I'm sorry. I didn't put it very precisely... It is the numbers that we use to connect that it seems almost like we're meant to learn. (I thought it was only a phone number the first time I used it!)

[angelskills]

Oh! Thank you, I understand now.

So the number was a password? I always wondered why I never forgot it. One day it was just... there.

[text, computer]

[wordsgate]

Hello, Colette! It's nice to meet you. :) I'm Sam. Don't worry, if you could get here, you're supposed to be here.

This is going to sound a little strange, but don't tell anyone about this place. Things have been getting a little dangerous.

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[angelskills]

Hello Sam!

Don't tell anyone? Well... all right. What do you mean by dangerous though?

[wordsgate]

Someone that went to the police about what happened got himself killed. We don't have much information about what's going on right now, but we know that it's not safe to be open about it with people that aren't on this network.

[angelskills]

Oh no! He told the police about this network and they killed him?

That's awful... I'm so sorry.

If that's the case, we'll all have to be very careful indeed.

[Text]

[chalicejoker]

This is no accident, but it's not like I can tell you what's going on here, either. No one knows anything other than that it's crazy and it's not something you talk about to anyone unless you want to get killed.

[Text]

[angelskills]

Have people really been getting killed...?

[Text]

[chalicejoker]

You saw on the news about that family that got killed in the fire, right? The guy they're saying did it didn't do it.

The oldest kid was on the network. He tried going to the police with it. They offed him, and then they killed his family just to be thorough.

You can't trust anyone.

[Text]

[angelskills]

That's... that's terrible... I'm so sorry that happened.

But -- doesn't this mean that we have to work together to try to keep everyone safe? If we work together we might be able to keep something like that from happening again!

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[icy_heavens]

[He knows that name. He knows that bright attitude. Doesn't mean necessarily that it's the person he knows, but there's only one way to be sure.]

This had better not be the Colette that works at the tea shop.

[What, you expected a question? This is serious business, here. No time for questions.]

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[angelskills]

That's me!

-- Oh, wait, should it not be me? I'm sorry!

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[icy_heavens]

[... Just. Damn it. Maybe he doesn't know exactly what's going on, but a nice girl like Colette being dragged into it . . .]

It's not safe.

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[angelskills]

Ah, yes... from what everyone is saying, that's true!

But even so, I want to help everyone here.

( text )

[argents]

Colette? You're not intruding. This is just as much for you as it is anyone else, if you have that number.

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[angelskills]

Ah! I'm so glad to hear that. Thank you very much, Sir/Miss.

I'd hate to get in anyone's way.

[argents]

Um, I guess it's sir, technically, but I think that'd be kind of weird, since I'm only 17...

My name's Banagher.

[angelskills]

17? We're around the same age! That's so cool.

It's very nice to meet you, Banagher.