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[ Okay, what have we here. This is so not the site she wanted. ...Sophie thinks, anyway. Let's just let the reader tell her what's what - holy crap why aren't there any labels or anything what is the content of all this? She's going to have to listen to it all isn't she. Or at least the most recent posts. With any luck there'll be some sort of "hey this is what we're doing" blurb in at least one of them.

>Audio of something that sounds like it's meant to be philosophical. Moving on.
>Audio about a missing person. ????
>Audio from someone equally confused, with crazy talk about whiteboards and user interface. Doesn't seem immediately useful.
>Video about witchcraft. ??????????
>Some sort of image. At least, she's assuming as much: she gets the number of the person posting (no usernames, Sophie guesses) but nothing else in the body, so it must be alt-tagless. And then when she fast forwards into the comments, she hears something about someone going somewhere with the poster. So it's probably some sort of invitation. Moving on.
>Her screen reader sort of hates this. Moving on.
>Okay this one translates fine. It...sounds like a high school student's journal entry. Is this some livejournal alternate??
>A video file! Sophie exits it at the mention of a stolen crayon. Journal site is looking pretty likely. A journal site full of teenagers. Her interest is waning, weird layout or no. Still, not like she has anything better to do.
>Another video, natch. ??? What is a flashback echo thingy? And laughing water? It sounds like someone who isn't a teenager. Okay, something about a gym, nothing to do with her, moving on.
>The video roll continues. Back to teenagers, and - ...surprise shankings?? What.
>Audio about the water again, what. Should she be worried about the water? Is this a conspiracy theory site?
>Another image (?) with no description, if her detective skills of "hey a number and a post" followed by "absolutely nothing read" are anything to go by. Moving on.
>Audio about numbers. Okay, that probably refers to the numbers she's been remembering and was fiddling around with immediately prior to this. Secret club??
>Text about a...talking cat.

...Okay, Sophie's trying, but absolutely none of this adds up to anything that makes remote sense and she can't find a directory or anything so she can either shut this out and go back to browsing the web where things make sense or post in the multimedia forum or whatever and see if someone can explain what the hell she's stumbled upon.

Yeah, there's no way she's not asking, this is too bizarre. ]

Okay, I give. [ You've won, guys. She's completely lost. ] What am I even listening to here? I was pretty sure it was a journal site for a few posts there, but now I'm thinking you're all either roleplaying or talking about some show or book I haven't been exposed to. [ Maybe?? All her guesses are really not working out here. Maybe she should have tried to listen to the comments on things, but none of the posts seemed that relevant to her. ]

Or if not I should apparently be very seriously concerned about surprise shankings and the water? And also should lock up my crayons, I guess. [ which is not an immediate concern but if she liked crayons maybe she'd care more. ] Not that I own any, but if I did. But the talking cat part sort of screams "hey Sophie, guess what you found? A roleplay site about talking cats" which I guess is cool and whatever but what's with the number key bullshit? That's what happened here, right? [ That's how she accessed whatever-this-is, she's pretty sure. ]

Also, you guys need to work on this site's navigation like whoa. Is a home page not a thing anymore? I thought that was pretty much always a thing. Like "hey, welcome aboard, here's what you're actually getting into here". Although the lack of any content tags or something to indicate what's going to be in whatever I open is probably a sign this place does not do things that are normally things.

...Also, if anyone's going to clear up what this is, could you do me a favor and not respond in the image spam you lot apparently like to do? [ She's referring unknowingly to handwritten replies and entries; they don't show up as readable text to her reader, and she's assuming they're pictures that aren't being registered because of a lack of tags or...something. She may sass anyone who replies in that manner. ~~Or in any other manner if she feels like it, honestly.~~ ] And avoid the chatspeak, for the love of god. That'd be just swell.

Or if you don't want to explain what's going on, give me recs for movies or shows to watch or something so this isn't a total loss. My criteria are that they have to have explosions or something exciting happening but can't have a bunch of montages or huge music sequences with cool action shots but not a lot else because no. ...Well, if the music is really cool I guess I'll give it a pass, though. Also don't you dare rec me a romance.

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[ Her parents would probably murder her if she did, but it's tempting.

In a trainwreck kind of way.

Sophie decides not to go into it. ]

I'll take your word for it, dude. Pretty sure that's on the "non-approved" list the parentals have. I mean, not that specifically, but I imagine they'd ground me in five seconds flat.

Okay, so where do talking cats fit into this, Professor? [ As nicknames go this is pretty low-key for her. ]

[The thing is, Mordin could totally be a professor in this life, and actually was in a previous one.

Oh, yes - various animals also obtained network connection, became sapient and gained ability to speak. Still not sure how, but have gotten good at suspending disbelief.

Also, should mention: network code generally linked to some sort of alteration: physical change, discovering new item, or gaining new memories. Alterations occur often afterwards. Trend seems to be after contact with invader's tools and forces, such as grues, but not sure, only have self to examine. Have been called "Echoes" by others, theorized to be reflections of a past life. Still skeptical about that one myself, but seems to be catching on.

Uh. I guess I did figure out my numbers right after the thing at the Natural History Museum...

[ ughhhh, this actually gives weight to the crazy alien thing. gdi she was really hoping this was elaborate trolling. ]

Hey, I notice your cliff notes also didn't cover shanking. Is shanking a thing? Should I be worried about being shanked, here? 'Cause some chick said something about shanking and that seems sort of important.

Will check.

[There's a short pause before Mordin returns.]

Appears to have been one of her memory alterations. Don't need to worry about that, thankfully. Will probably have enough on your plate.

[ You know what, SHE LIKES THIS GUY. Professor can stick around, he's like google only human. ]

Thanks, Prof. I guess I will continue to walk to and from school without the niggling fear of being shanked. That is honestly a load off my mind.

[ she's not even being sarcastic, the mention of shankings actually really worried her. ]

I'm Sophie, by the way. [ since she likes you, you can have her name. It's the best name, she knows. ]

Dr. Mordin Solus. Work at LSR clinic, if in need of medical attention and can't go to a regular doctor. Good to meet you, Sophie.

Sounds a bit ominous there, but I'll keep it in mind!

So, do you watch movies?

[ safer topics? ]

Not often. Enjoy musicals, though.

Oh, musicals.

[ ...Well, not all of them are bad... ]

Which ones?

Liked the Pirates of Penzance. Sound of Music also good.

Don't know the first one, but anything with pirates in it can't be all bad. Are there ship fights?

Between two ships? No. Fights on a ships,though.

Huh. Well, that's good enough for me. Maybe I'll give it a go!

Thanks, Professor.

No problem. Hope you enjoy.

I'll let you know! Later.

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yet another movie i'm talking about without having seen

happens to us all

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