savetheearth | first rock. voice; headset hooked up to her computer.

[ 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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Wouldn't be the first time I've been called that.

I like that. You're okay, wiseguy.

[ congrats, you have the dubious approval of a thirteen year old girl you don't even know, for...being stubborn?? ]

... Alright. [Marvel at his unparalleled enthusiasm.]

Nobody making a big deal about your age yet?

Professor tried to link me a murder video, so I don't think he cares. Raimu's about the same age as me, if I'm any judge. And Sunshine seems more upset about the fact anyone's here than about the fact I'm like thirteen.

[ Sunshine hasn't given her his name yet. ...She might still call him that even without it. ]

If they make a big deal about anything, it won't be that. What's my age matter, though? Someone made a big to-do about yours?

I'm eleven and there are things out there that want us dead. It all adds up to people worrying too much.

[It's not like he just showed up when they were going werewolf hunting or anything and just sprung the age thing on everybody. Oh, wait. That's exactly what happened.]

Ehhh. I'm used to people trying to coddle me every so often. Not the parentals, but you know, other people.

[ Although really, she'd have to agree with most of it for the moment. Blind thirteen year olds are not actually that useful in a fight, if they don't earthbend. ]

...Yeah, so, do these things that want us dead just attack whenever or...?

It's still annoying. [Spoken like a true eleven-year-old, yes?]

... People close to some of us on the network have been mutated or possessed or something by them. And then tried the whole killing thing. And died themselves. I think it's safe to say it's possible for it to happen at just about any time.

Though I don't think they know who all of us are, yet. Pretty sure that whole drugging the water mess has been to make us identifiable.

[ ..................

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Well, great. ]

...This sucks.

[ she's going to have to find people to walk her places, isn't she. ]

[He likes to make sure people understand how serious this is. He's not in the business of being comforting.

[A huff of commiseration.] Yeah, it does.

Man, I haven't asked my parents to drive me to and from school in eons. Or to walk me there. They're going to ask why if I do.

How do you go about not getting jumped by stuff, wiseguy?

I've probably just been lucky, to be honest. Outside of actively trying to figure out what's going on, I haven't really been jumped.

[That somebody lost their mom to this disturbs the hell out of him, though.]

So it's not a super common thing?

Maybe not yet. Just saying it's possible.

Real encouraging, there. Any chance they'd be polite and just not jump the blind girl?

[ she knows this is a giant NO, but come on. She can...hit things with her cane??? She guesses??? ]

You want encouraging, talk to someone else. And I'm thinking you know the answer to that question.

Yeah, someone not on this, to start with.

So what's the point?

Not of finding someone else to talk to, I mean: what is the point of this network thing and the numbers and whatever. Is everyone playing superhero? What's actually the plan here? Is there a plan here?

As long as you don't tell them about any of this, maybe.

We don't really know what the point is; it came out of nowhere, and we're not sure why the people who get the numbers actually do. Anyone with any sense isn't playing anything. We're starting to get organized, but people are paranoid about sharing personal info.

Oh, and we did intercept a shipment of the stuff they're dumping in the water a few days ago.

Well, yeah.

Oh, did you? Now why didn't anyone mention that? I take it this was something you helped out with personally?

Maybe because we only stopped it once and are still working on finding the source? Until we do that, it's probably just going to keep coming.

I was there.

Yeah, but hearing that there's a truck dumping chemicals in things is a lot more informative than "hey don't drink the water, you might get drugged"? I dunno, more details.

Anyway, thanks for that.

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