video.

[fremde]

[ Jonas has never shown his face while addressing the network at large, but he's doing it now so that he can hold up a handwritten copy of a text he just received. Printed neatly on a scrap of paper, it reads: ]

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m-s-o•-h
u-a-i-m
a-m-b-h
r-t•
r-t•-b-b-p-l-s-s•
h-r-e-,-t-d-d•
o-e-c-h
h-l•-n

[ For the benefit of anyone trying to grab a screenshot, he'll keep holding it up while he talks. ]

I'm not interested in playing this game, but maybe this means something to someone here.

Comments

video

[made_up_names]

... Whoa. I totally got one too. A different one? But still.

[fremde]

I hope it's not meant to be personal. If they wanted me to read it, they should have coded it in German.

[made_up_names]

Pretty sure it's not. Looks like a ton of of people got something.

Text

[moonlitpath]

I got one too.

m-i-w-t
f-c-p-e
b-a-r•-e•
e-s-t•
e•-s-a-e•-’
t-o-c-d-f•-d•-e
t-b-i-t
t-l-y•

What do you think it means?

[fremde]

I think it means someone likes fucking with us.

[hatestrashcans]

It really might be someone fucking with us.

Make it uncrackable and not say anything, and tie up our attention.

[fremde]

What makes you think it's uncrackable?

video

[anathemic]

[ She'd almost scrolled right past this post, but then her own communicator lights up with a cryptic message and it suddenly becomes far more relevant. And Anathema, very quickly, sits upright to attention. Conspiracy theories!! She's all about them. ]

Who says it's just a game? Could be something bigger.

[fremde]

It's a game either way, if they're giving us a puzzle. And if it's big, I still don't care about it.

voice

[fauxmarth]

You have my gratitude for sharing. If we are lucky, it may not mean anything at all, but it appears to be something many, many people are receiving in some form. Smarter people than I may be able to decipher it.

[fremde]

It would do no good to keep it to myself. I hope everyone else has fun with it.

video;

[bifroster]

[Jane shakes her head.]

I don't think this is a game. A lot of other people have been getting these messages.

[It has to mean something, though.]

This one is mine.

[She then holds up her own copy:]

m-s-o•-h
u-a-i-m
a-m-b-h
r-t•
r-t•-b-b-p-l-s-s•
h-r-e-,-t-d-d•
o-e-c-h
h-l•-n

[fremde]

It can be a big game.

[ The level of paranoia around here amazes him, and he's the psychotic one. ]

Ours match. I wonder if that's intentional.

text.

[marxionette]

I received one too.

>

t-r-i-h
m-i-r-e•
s•-o-n•-r•
a-d•
s-e-e-r-n-a
e-,-a-w-w-p
r-,-i-l
c-e•-e

[fremde]

Someone really wants to be noticed.

video

[deadthing]

[Noah is really only responding because of that familiar face. His own is off-center and only partially in frame, like he's not used to video chatting.]

Oh, I got a text like that too. I thought it was a spam robot.

[fremde]

[ Oh, hello, dead friend. ]

At first I thought so, too. But when I looked closer, it seemed too organized to be randomly generated.

video

[girlybruiser]

I received something different.

I don't know if it's a game or simply something to distract us given how wound up everyone is about it now.

[ Sketch. ]

[fremde]

A different code or something different altogether?

text;

[crassidy]

u no how ppl warn u not to open random links or files u get sent on teh interenet?
yeah
i thnk evry1 forgot thats a thing

[fremde]

You think it's a virus?

all video, all private, ALL GERMAN

[leatherboots]

That's the extent of it?

[fremde]

Yes, that's it.

text;

[pillz]

evil corproations & goddesses taht like to make teleportin boxes
this world is a cluster. and im sayin this, that means something.
r u interested bcuz oyu like puzzles, or you interested cuz youre hoping theres an ending that u want?

[fremde]

[ The sounds like gibberish to Jonas. ]

I'm not interested.