[video]

[pheromonecoffee]

[TODAY EVERYONE IS TREATED TO A BEAUTIFUL VIDEO OF MATT WITH incredibly blue hair. He is relaxing at his desk and is completely serious looking.]

I am now a member of the cool hair club. If you wish to join, I will help with the dye. The drugstore down the street sells hair dye in blue, pink, purple, orange and green.

[He looks like he's going to say something else. Decides against it. Leans forward as if he's going to turn off the video.

Pauses. Leans back a little again. Looks kind of uncomfortable.]

Advice on not becoming a human sacrifice. Go. [And then he turns off the video feed.]

Comments

[pheromonecoffee]

Top secret government project to infiltrate the Numbered?

[dyingtohealyou]

As long as you help fight off the weirdass aliens too? I don't think I'd actually mind that much.

[pheromonecoffee]

I'll try to keep it up. Nobody wants the world destroyed by aliens.

... Alien project to infiltrate the Numbered? [Matt stop.]

[dyingtohealyou]

...If they did that, we might actually be screwed.

[pheromonecoffee]

That's why I'm good with people. No one expects a thing.

[dyingtohealyou]

Well, we might as well give up now. If we've got a bunch of people like you around, there's no way we can win!

[Pffft.]

[pheromonecoffee]

Maybe your plight has changed my heart?

[dyingtohealyou]

As long as you don't mind potentially sacrificing yourself for the good of humanity to make up for your past.

[pheromonecoffee]

I've done it before. I'll manage again.

[dyingtohealyou]

So the aliens are reincarnated, too-?!

[pheromonecoffee]

It's a giant misunderstanding. Brother against reincarnated brother.

[dyingtohealyou]

Damn, this got even more complicated fast.

[pheromonecoffee]

You didn't think this was a case of good against evil did you?

[dyingtohealyou]

Maybe not good, but preventing an alien takeover definitely doesn't sound all bad either.

[pheromonecoffee]

The aliens are people too...

Maybe not people but you know what I mean.

[dyingtohealyou]

People reincarnated as aliens?

Though I guess depending on the person, a lot of us might be aliens reincarnated as people anyway.

[Hmmm!]

[pheromonecoffee]

Aliens reincarnated as people, people reincarnated as aliens, robots reincarnated as people, people reincarnated as animals.

It seems like it does what if wants.

[dyingtohealyou]

Don't we have a couple animals that were reincarnated as talking animals around here, too?

Whatever caused all this in the first place isn't too picky.

[pheromonecoffee]

I wonder what ties us all together.

[dyingtohealyou]

You mean aside from "being dead", probably?

[pheromonecoffee]

Well, everybody dies. But why do we get the memories?

[dyingtohealyou]

Because we're the Chosen Ones? Some kind of cosmic link? Or something that doesn't sound like the start of a terrible movie?

I wonder if it's even possible to find out the reason...

[pheromonecoffee]

Maybe that'll be my next research topic.

[dyingtohealyou]

Where would you even start with something like that?

[pheromonecoffee]

Network poll. Sasha did one and it worked pretty well.