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[Text, Friday afternoon]

[Lyall's been meaning to get on the network again for a while, and now that he's finally got a few things to say, it takes him a minute to actually get started. He does finally, though, after a couple false tries.]

Lyall here. I've been in the gallery, and I think a lot of the rest of us have, too. I've even been by that forum, though I didn't post anything. I find it a little disconcerting that whoever was replying kept referring to people as "humans", as if he or she was not one. Given what we've seen thus far, I do not think that is impossible.

Also, I know at least one other person has heard howling sometime at night. I heard it, too, Wednesday night. It wasn't those mutant dogs, the smell was entirely different, and no one else around me seemed to have heard it or even noticed something was wrong.

[He isn't sure whether or not to mention the dream, but he does say:]

I keep thinking it's something connected to all this. That howl, and the feeling of being watched a few others have mentioned, and that wolf statue, with all these visions and changes we're all going through.

Has anyone else heard it or felt anything strange?

[Private text to students, pre-students, and former students:]

I know a certain one of my students has been joking about a club. I was thinking of making it official, if you really wanted to have an after-school club of some sort for those of us on this network. All age ranges, so long as you're still in school of some sort?

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Wouldn't surprise me if it's all connected. I haven't had anything else weirder than usual go on for a bit, though.

[Student Filter]

Might not be such a bad idea.

Edited 2013-05-11 05:16 (UTC)

Oh, I think I heard something like that the other night. It was right as I was drifting off, so the next morning I thought maybe it was my imagination.

I heard it too. I'm thinking -- that third statue, the one with the murdered wolf, that was a message for us.

I'm wondering if that wolf was more than just symbolism.

As for referring to us as... as humans, I'm not actually sure they're even right about that.

Tuesday. After the gallery. Like one of those things had enough soul to turn into a ghost.

[[And in reply to the other text:]]

Going to bring snacks? ;)

[Kenji hasn't seen or heard anything--yet, so he just replies to the Private text.]

I'd have thought you got enough of us during the school day.

Edited 2013-05-11 13:42 (UTC)

The thread of it all does seem pretty firm, doesn't it? Wolves and snakes and influencing our minds and abilities.

Do you have any days that you couldn't show up at the high school after school? I think the local middle schools get out a little earlier, not not earlier enough to make it a problem.

It might not have been. Did you have any strange dreams or any feelings like you might have been being watched or followed?

It obviously had to allude to something. Either the wolf was us, or the wolf was those mutant dogs, or the wolf is whatever we're all hearing and sensing.

[It feels dumb to use the word "sensing" in this, but he doesn't have any other word to use except "feeling" which is even worse. He cocks his head at her last sentence, though, and then goes private by typing in her number before:]

What do you mean, not being right about being human? Did you get another vision?

[Because he can relate. Wolf visions, and all.]

Exactly. Like there's a ghost. That didn't even occur to me. So did the maker of that statue, or whoever is behind him, kill a wolf? A wolf who was important and wanted to save the world?

[He doesn't know, he's just guessing, and he stops himself from typing further guesses.]

Yes, I will bring snacks :P Do you have any days where you couldn't come?

I can never get enough of my students :P

[Blatantly untrue, but this is a special case.]

Are you interested, then?

I don't do after school stuff so any day's fine.

[[and a pause. Because thinking about this makes him angry]]

Those bastards who killed Paul think that they're doing what's best. Why wouldn't those police dogs think the same?

Busy Tuesdays and Thursdays. Any other day works.

No one believes themselves to be evil. Or very few people do. I'm sure they DID think they were doing the right thing, whether to save themselves or their families or even everyone else. They are just deluded or fooled or don't have all the information they need.

[Lyall in this new life is, on the whole, positive about humanity in general.]

And I doubt anyone will want to stay after school late on a Friday. So Monday or Wednesday. Let me speak to a few of the others and see what works better for them :)

Of course they do. With no thought to anyone else but themselves. That's always how it works, isn't it?

Maybe. Know what day it's gonna be yet? I've got cross-training on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but if it's any other day, I can make it.

I wouldn't mind it, but then, I'm hardly normal.

[Weekends are for kids who don't like school and have a lot of friends to hang out with. He's neither of these things.]

I think the wolf is both us and what we're hearing. I'm not sure but I feel like the thing we're all hearing is related to... whatever's causing these hallucinations.

... given how that... whatever it is on the forum is referring to us? I'm starting to think that maybe we're being used by something bigger. Something that doesn't want whoever that is winning. Dunno how to feel about that.

Anyway, yeah, I did, Monday night. I was... being born. Well, not me, but whoever's memory I was getting? Except now I think either it WAS me, or I'm becoming that person.

Born is the wrong word, I was manufactured. I was a machine in a machine factory, and my creation was being overseen by other machines? They didn't seem to have total control over the process. I know that I -- he? -- had weapons, and something called a "transformation cog." I'm not sure what I was for, but I don't think any humans were even around. Like, I know whatever machines those were? They weren't made by humans. I mean they're bipedal and have two eyes, a nose, and a mouth, but something about it all was fundamentally alien.

And the weirdest part is that when I woke up it was... it was me who felt alien. Everything felt wrong, I could hear my heartbeat and blood in my ears and for a long time I just felt disgusted with myself, like, why am I full of nasty fluid and salt and protein? Gross.

It's between Monday and Wednesday at the moment. Do you have a preference between the two?

Sometimes. Sometimes people think they ARE thinking about everyone else, and think that what they're doing is best for the most people. Maybe they killed Paul because they thought that would save more people in the long run.

Note that I do not actually agree. No one should have to die for the so-called greater good. But I can see how someone might think that way.

[[a long pause. Pardon him, this issue hits a little too close to home for a 3rd of his soul]]

They're only thinking of a very specific "everyone else" no one thinks about the sacrificed.

[It takes Lyall several long minutes before he replies to that rather long message. There's a lot to think through there.]

You dreamed about being a machine, and you got yourself cybernetic eyes first thing. And I have had visions of being a wolf and interacting with wolves, and I now have a phenomenal sense of smell. That does seem to point towards becoming whoever we are having visions of, doesn't it? That is not a particularly reassuring idea, for some of us.

Are you all right now? Do you feel comfortable again with being a flesh-and-blood person? Or is that feeling still lingering?

[Lyall knows how it is because there's a part of him that's as eminently practical as someone who weighs a few lives against a lot of lives-- and so extremely loyal as to strongly favor the lives of those close to him over anyone else. So he can see it.

And to be honest, that horrifies him, that he can think that way. He doesn't know if that's a change, part of these visions, or if he's always been that way, he's just never had to think about it before.]

Agreed. And that's why we have to, since they aren't.

I know some of my students would :) Do you have any preference between Monday and Wednesday?

Making it a regular thing makes it seem even fishier, Mr Lyall.

[ Short and to the point, yep. She's not sure what to make of the first part - she hasn't dared to even type in the forum's web address at all, and is wary but ultimately uncertain about what's going on with the weird hauntings - but she does have an opinion on the privated matter.

... One that is probably to nobody's surprise, really. ]

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