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[sinningsaint]

Okay, I've done my best to lurk around here and figure out what's going on in this 'Network.' Let me see if I got the facts right:

-Some of you enjoy goofing off here, but there's some serious stuff going on.

-Those of us with 'numbers' can slowly start getting weird things like weird languages and randomly appearing scars and useless skills with toys and memories for things we haven't experienced. (Extras? Is that what we're calling them? That's the most creative thing you guys could come up with?)

-Those creepy statues at the art gallery are using magic or something to convince people to like them, to buy from Thunder corp, and are sending us to some weird forum where aliens(?) talk about us like we're weeds and want us to agree to leave them alone so they don't kill us.

-People are getting haunted by...werewolf ghosts? I really hope I got that part wrong.

-Child spies? Vampires? What??

-A cat somehow randomly got on here.

I'd think this was all some weird ARG I stumbled across, like I Love Honey or something. But I can make my hands glow for some reason, and I can't imagine how an ARG could pull off THAT. This is some of the weirdest things I've ever heard of...Last Legend fans would call this contrived.

Comments

[entertainaplanb]

Not a bad idea. I might when I go home.

[sinningsaint]

No need to put it off, I can do it. I'm not really doing anything right now other than lurk around here.

[entertainaplanb]

Hey, you can go for it too. No reason we both can't. I'd just rather not get into it here.

The statues are distraction enough, really.

[sinningsaint]

Yeah, those statues are really weird. Particularly once you can tell that they're implanting thoughts in people's heads. It's like some sort of demonic...mind-control...thing.

Anyway, brb, I'm going to go archive trawling.

[entertainaplanb]

Mind control? That doesn't sound good.

Have fun.

[sinningsaint]

[About 30 minutes later...]

Oh my god...the archives, they go all the way back until the time of the Roman empire! There's LATIN messages!! I can't believe this, how long has this been going on?!

[He's pranking, actually--the archives seem to start around April 1 of this year. But if the world is going to play a weird prank on him, he might as well spread it around.]

[entertainaplanb]

Do they really, or are you pulling my leg?

[sinningsaint]

Man, that's no fun. You could've at least pretended to play along for a little while.

No, they just go back to April 1. Like this is all some weird April Fool's Prank.

[entertainaplanb]

I work with young children. Wouldn't get very far if I couldn't see a prank.

As for this... I think if it were an April Fools' thing, it would have stopped by now. Since it hasn't, I think it's safe to rule that out.

[sinningsaint]

are you calling me childish?!

oh yeah, this is definitely something more than a prank. It's got to be some sort of supernatural thing, or magic, or something. The timing is just odd.

[entertainaplanb]

I'm just saying I know a prank when I see one.

It is, unless it's... I don't know, something that had to start at the first of the month or something.

[sinningsaint]

Oh. Well, good.

Had to? Did Nostradamus foretell that on the first day of the fourth month of the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Thirteen a dated blogging site would be reborn as a mix between an ARG, a Cold War era sci-fi film and Jumanji?

[entertainaplanb]

[Not that it comes through in the text, but Becky gets a good laugh at that.]

That's awfully specific for Nostradamus. But then, I think he was mostly trolling everyone anyway.

[sinningsaint]

If he was, he was a downright EPIC troll.