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[moarnomsplz]

[The text appears in the messy handwriting of a left-handed teenage boy. Off at the top of the page, the number that's been stuck in his head is scribbled a few times beside a doodle of a spaceship.]

OK, can anyone actually see this?

This is weird. But I think I've got it. Like, to send video, do you just

[A pause, then Alex is visible, looking curiously at what is, to him, still a piece of paper.]

--talk to where stuff appears?

Comments

[argents]

Just guessing, but less than 100. I think it's isolated to this city, but no one knows why.

[moarnomsplz]

Weird.

Well but theres weird things happening here. Aren't there?

[argents]

A lot of them. But if this thing works like a really intuitive internet then you'd think you could connect with people all over, if things like this were happening somewhere else. But so far, it's just us.

[moarnomsplz]

Yeah good point

Does anyone know anything about who set it up?

[argents]

Not really. The only info we got came at...

[ The time of a murder. ]

A really hectic time. And even that doesn't make much sense. Something about how we're supposed to be a resistance.

[moarnomsplz]

But I bet no one's bothered to tell us what we're supposed to be resisting right?

[argents]

That's just it. I feel like the clues we've gotten have all been dumb luck. But it's not even really luck when it comes at some kind of expense.

[moarnomsplz]

You know if this were the plot of a book I'd be all over it. In my real life? Not so much.

So someone doesn't want us finding things out.

[argents]

I felt the same way. Like I was in some really elaborate play or story, or something. The truth ended up being way weirder.

[ And dangerous. ]

The police are involved. The military too. But they aren't the ones in charge. They're acting for something else, but that's all any of us know.

[moarnomsplz]

And we don't know who's on our side and wants us to find things out, do we?

[argents]

No one besides each other.

This turned into a really bad welcome, didn't it?

[moarnomsplz]

Nah its OK. Better to know, right? And at least I have proof I'm not going crazy.

[argents]

Right. At least we ruled out mass hallucination a long time ago.

Still, be careful. A lot of people have already gotten hurt. I don't feel like we have a lot of knowledge, but even the small stuff can make a difference.