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[betterlogoutand]

So what is this, some kind of secret forum? Looks like I just cracked your password LOL, maybe you should get better security than typing a random number into a search engine.

Seriously, though, what is this? Some kind of roleplay board? My guess is either that or you're all crazy conspiracy theorists, going by what I've seen so far. I mean, come on, alien invaders trying to take over the planet? A spooky old guy in a cave going on about magic gemstones? You guys could at least TRY to be original here.

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2/2 handwritten from here on out

[betterlogoutand]

[okay time to pretend he's still totally cool and not freaked out by this]

Can you see this?

Suddenly video

[icy_heavens]

[You know what? Because you were such a jerk, he's gonna freak you out more. Video reply from a small, frowny blond kid coming from your sheet of paper. Deal with it.] Of course I can see it. I told you, didn't I?

[betterlogoutand]

But you can't see me, right?

[he might be hiding partway under his desk now oh god spooky video notebooks don't spy on him]

There's no way anyone actually believes this crap the first time you say it, give me a break.

Permavideo

[icy_heavens]

No, not unless you switch the function yourself.

People don't necessarily believe it at first, but most have been considerably less assholish about it than you.

[betterlogoutand]

Well sorry for thinking this is the stupid RP board it looks like.

[icy_heavens]

Your assumption wasn't the problem. It was the attitude you've been giving everyone when we've been trying to explain what it is. Surprise, people get hostile when you make fun of something that's nearly killed some of them.

Yeah, yeah. You didn't know. Doesn't mean none of us can be pissed at you for it.

[betterlogoutand]

Then maybe you should've done a better job of explaining. I just reacted the same way I would to any other idiotic forum.

I take it everything in that FAQ is true, too. [surprise, despite all his asshattery he actually did read all the important info before posting]

[icy_heavens]

[He doesn't believe for a second that you would have listened no matter how someone explained. But you know what? He'll drop that topic because now at least you acknowledge there's something serious going on. Maybe you're a jerk, but that's not a capital crime.]

Yeah, it is.

[betterlogoutand]

Well, okay then.

Good luck saving the earth I guess.

[icy_heavens]

Good luck not dying.

[... What? That's totally tactful!]

[betterlogoutand]

I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure my chances are better if I don't get involved. This is way out of my league.

[icy_heavens]

I'm not going to tell you to get involved. [Believe it or not? He's not that much of a brat. His words might have been tactless, but they'd also been sincere.] Whether or not you have much of a choice in the matter kinda remains to be seen, though.

[betterlogoutand]

[The "line" goes quiet after that. It's an hour or so before he pops back in, apparently having thought about this some more.]

About the pulses. They can be anything, right?

Does anyone know what they're supposed to mean?

[icy_heavens]

[Hm? Oh, he's back.]

Seems like it. Objects, "memories", languages . . . super-powers.

We don't really know for sure, no.

[betterlogoutand]

So no one knows if the memories belong to us? Creepy.

Maybe we were all part of some secret government experiment and had our memories erased after.