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[viciousmaukery]

Anyone else find it a little unsettling that someone sent every single one of us a bizarrely cryptic puzzle?

[Molly is definitely unsettled. His hand's shaking as he pushes it through his hair.]

I mean, the bizarre messages are one thing, but whoever they are, they somehow got their hands on everyone's numbers. And by everyone, I mean specifically imPorts, I showed this to a local and she thought I was fucking with her somehow. So it's just us.

It's creepy, right? I'm well aware everyone's excited over the chance to solve a puzzle, but this wasn't just a network post, this was a personal message. That's the strangest part about all this: why not just use the network? Why go through every single one of us, one by one, and send a private message?

[He scrubs his tattooed hand over his face, and lets out a mirthless chuckle.]

I hope I'm overthinking this. I really do hope I'm overthinking this. But I just—I feel like this is cursed, somehow.

Comments

[hordinglife]

[At least Lonnie wasn't the only one who thought about this.]

The government here is really boring, but they probably have people who hacked their network. We can't trust them to have all that information and not have someone else end up with it.

[viciousmaukery]

How’s it boring? I just thought they weren’t the most trustworthy people.

Probably. It’s a little early to tell for sure, though I’d buy that theory.

[hordinglife]

You can't trust them but it's not like they're out there doing anything that bad either. It's like they can't commit to what they want because they want to act like they're nice and helpful, too. Fake.

[viciousmaukery]

...aren't they supposed to act like they're being nice and helpful? Means they can have more backdoor deals that way.

[hordinglife]

That only works if they're doing it good enough people don't question it. And they aren't good enough at it for that. They're just boring at it.

[May as well be up front about wanting a imPort army, in her mind.]