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[playmisere]

[Neat handwriting in blue ink, written on the back of a takeout menu. (Mexican, if anyone cares. Look, they have sopapillas!)]

[Looks like the writer is trying to decode their access number: There's some basic ciphers, rearranging/reversing the order, etc. On the left there's a column of different area codes corresponding to some of the numbers, and some scribbled notes on ZIP codes. (There's an aside comment: limited to systems that don't use letters, probably. All of these attempts pretty much end up in gibberish.]

This is getting awfully 'a beautiful mind'-ish :(
Hit the library tomorrow? Gotta check how early it opens.

nnnn maybe I just fell asleep listening to a numbers station or something.

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[Text | Cellphone]

[reckless_fire]

Somehow I don't think you'll find much about this in the library.

[playmisere]

[she promptly drops her pen on the floor. after she's scrambled after it and gone back to the desk... yup, the words are still there.]




??? Excuse me
Who is this?

[reckless_fire]

Kenji. Which probably doesn't mean anything to you.

Hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, and all that, but it looks like you just got drafted into the Numbers Club.

[playmisere]

What are you talking about?? How are you seeing this? Wh

Oh my god. it really is like a beautiful mind. I knew I should have gone to a doctor.

[reckless_fire]

Dunno how we're all seeing it, we just do. Just part of the gig, I guess. Looks like somebody sent you the link to the newbies guide. You should probably take a look.

[Yeah, he peeked into some of the other threads.]

text {iphone}

[ursoreckless]

[more people are showing up on the network. since this one looks like a doodle on a menu, he was going to not be an ass and use text]

it's a little bit more than that. sorry, but if you can see this, then you have joined the secret numbers club.

[playmisere]

[considerate! since if a menu started talking to her she really would think she was having a hollywood movie hallucination]

Can you really see this?
Oh no that's a silly question... OK, um
Please tell me what's going on?

[ursoreckless]

yup. i can see this and the fact you're writing on a menu. hasn't anyone given you the guide about what we do know so far?

[playmisere]

[scrambling through the responses popping up all over the paper]

I don't know I'm sorry, there's a whole crowd of you people and this is very confusing
I've never heard of this kind of thing before!

[ursoreckless]

that's okay and no one knew about this until after it has happened. we're all in this together and i guess most of us just want to make sure that no one is left behind because of some serious stuff happening.

( text | laptop. )

[jests]

City library: 09:00 - 20:00, m - w; 09:00 - 18:00, th - fri; 09:30 - 17:30 sat; 12:00 - 16:00 sun.

You're welcome.

[playmisere]

um. I'm starting to think this isn't going to be covered in a book, but thank you, whoever this is? :/

Where are all of you people coming from??

[jests]

You're right: it won't be; Luke.

The same place you are, give or take a few miles, I suspect.

[playmisere]

I'm Pandora. Nice to meet you. I think.

You're all from Locke? So the whole city is in on this, or...

[jests]

Originally? No, but currently yes. Though the effects of whatever this is are limited to Locke, the entire city isn't "in on it", no — which makes things a little more difficult.

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[testsonseashells]

Should read this.

text

[playmisere]

[insert appropriate pause while she reads, squinting because let's be honest it's a lot of text on one sheet on paper]

I suppose it's a relief to know I'm not crazy!
But WHY is this happening? and for how long now?

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[testsonseashells]

Unsure how we've been connected - however, recently contacted by organization with basic goal of invasion, under claim of previous occupation.

Here. Should examine when you have time. Might work better on computer - ctrl+f for "garden" to see what I'm talking about.

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[playmisere]

[She'll give it a closer reading later when her mind is not full of fwhen she's less overwhelmed]

I don't really know how to react to this. But thank you.

It looks like this forum was from last month-ish. Has there been anything from whoever-they-are since?

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[testsonseashells]

Not that I've heard. Others running investigations, however.

( handwritten )

[argents]

[ Since there's not much space left, he tries to make his note as tiny as possible. ]

Nothing about the #s at the library.

( handwritten )

[playmisere]

[seriously, if her notes looked like crazy-people writing before...]

I'm beginning to realize that :c
Someone showed me an info thing. It sounds like I shouldn't ask around about it at all...

[argents]

It's not that you shouldn't, we just don't know anything yet either. I work at the library and nothing so far.

[playmisere]

Well, yeah, but like... if the police are in on it, then who else is watching? I don't know, I thought I was solving a strange puzzle and now it's a city wide conspiracy or something.

[argents]

It's true that no one can tell who's really involved or not. Or who's... an enemy, I guess. Which is probably why this network exists in the first place.

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[mightymegatron]

I'd suggest something about cryptography.

Although I think you might have just become one of our new members.

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[playmisere]

To be honest everything I know about decryption I learned from the usborne's spy guidebook :x

Yeah. It's a lot to take in at once. It doesn't feel real.

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[mightymegatron]

Well, you're a step up on me, I don't know a thing aout it.

And yes, I quite agree. It is rather surreal. At least until things start changing.

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[playmisere]

Yes um
With regards to the changes
I think I've made a headstart on those possibly

Is that normal?

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[mightymegatron]

Nothing is really normal anymore. Although suppose by a certain definition, they are normal.

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[thepiisatruth]

[Next to the ciphers.]

Got "GIRAFFE" outta mine. >:3

[Text | Handwritten]

[playmisere]

:P so does that mean you'll be turning into one?

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[thepiisatruth]

Cat eyes + ??? = 1 FUNKY GIRAFFE!

Maybe I could dig it if it was the right kinda weird.

[Text | Handwritten]

[playmisere]

!! Your eyes changed too?
OK that makes me feel an awful lot better about this suddenly.

Well, not if this is going to become a island of dr. moreau nightmare. That would be pretty bad.

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[thepiisatruth]

Oh yeah?

What you got?