route 01; text via laptop

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All right. I've spent the last few days lurking on this network trying to get an idea of what this is and the only definite conclusion I've drawn is that it's best not to ignore it.

Apparently I'm going to be getting a lot of "flashbacks" to an alternate-universe or alternate-timeline or pre-incarnation self's life and sometimes I get souvenirs from it. Also there are people trying to find and cause trouble with the people in this network and Thunder Corps is to be watched out for? That's the general idea I'm getting.

Anyway, I'll go by Shin here. I'm a week in to this "Numbers Club" thing and all I have so far is a memory of beating some stranger at a 1P shooter game. And possibly a bottle of Coca Cola. Nice to meet you all I guess?

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Who even knows. It just showed up randomly before Christmas. I thought my dad left it out without the cap or something, but nobody in the house remembers it.

Thanks for the welcome Vaughn. This really is like a club huh?

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that's weird. idk i guess it probably must have been important to the other you! but that's just even WEIRDER.

but that's about it, yeah! a club where we're always getting cool stuff!

it's exciting!

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maybe it's a symbolism for something really bizarre. I hope old self wasn't too much of a weirdo.

It does sound exciting but it also sounds dangerous.

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i don't know. i don't think i've met anyone yet whose old self wasn't weird too! but that's good, it'd be no good if we'd all been boring!!

.......but yeah, i guess it is kinda dangerous too.

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Most people aren't boring.

You don't mind that it's dangerous?

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they shouldn't be!

but i don't know, i guess not? or not that much! it just means we've got to be careful, right?

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Well, that's true, but it sounds like there are some things where being careful won't really help you much either.

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maybe! but that makes them more exciting.

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you're reckless! absolutely reckless!

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[He does get ocassionally called reckless...]

i guess so?? but i'm fine!

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you are fine now! don't get in trouble!!

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geez! i'm not gonna!!

don't worry nothing's gonna happen to me

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the fact that you have a number at all means something has happened to you!

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aww come on i'm fine!! i've gotten a few of those weird pulses, yeah, but they haven't been anything bad!

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yes well mine was fine too! and I'm going to assume they'll be okay, but you can't rule out the possibility that meteors are going to fall on our houses either

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[It's... weird. Suddenly the idea of meteors going and falling on their houses seems all too real and it's... weird.

Aw, come on, rude, he's supposed to be eternally optimistic.]

what??? you really think meteors are gonna fall on our houses??? because we remember things or because of the bad guys?

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It's a hypothesis! I'm not saying it will happen, but it can and is just as likely as it not ever happening.

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what???

but isn't that everything??? anything else could happen!

[Which... does sound about right, yeah. Nothing's impossible and all that.]

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Yes, well, that is the point! There is a lot to worry about!

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i don't know!!! a lot can happen but that doesn't mean it won't be okay in the end!!

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Well, that's true, I guess...

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yeah so even if meteors fall on our houses we should be fine!!

though it'd be better if they didn't

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if meteors fell on our houses chances are your entire neighborhood will blow away. maybe even the city

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[Shattered dreams.]

that'd be really bad. we'd have to find some way to keep it from being so bad!!!

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i know. we do. so let's... hope. and work on it somehow.