untraceable audio

[maskormods]

[Without warning, a transmission appears on the imPort network. It has no ID or other identifier.]

—nyone there? Can anyone hear this? Shouldn't be here have to try but I'm dead if they find out, I'm dead anyway because it's all gone wrong—

[Several panicked breaths, and then several longer ones, forced.]

She's coming. The organization wanted power because why should you all be the only ones who have it, we wanted to break through to other worlds and this was they way—if Atropos was summoned here, she'd shatter the barriers, walls would become doors, but that's not happening, everything's just falling apart.

I've tried to call it off, this experiment's a failure, we'll do something else but the others won't listen. They've glimpsed something beyond and it did things to them...or maybe they're just that committed. Maybe I'm the weak one. I don't know.

Listen. LISTEN. She's going to come, the process has already begun. Can't be stopped. Calculations say she'll arrive on the full moon and if she's alone, god help us all. But if you can summon her sisters, they'll bring her here with them, and there'll be balance. Vulnerability. No guarantee.

Don't know how. Don't know if it's possible. But you're heroes right? Do something. PLE—

[The transmission cuts off abruptly. The speaker will not make any replies, although imPorts can speak to each other.]

Comments

[viciousmaukery]

Panicking won’t help either. There’s a problem in front of you, fine, and it’s potentially world-ending, but you have the time and you have the people who can help solve it. Freaking out and jumping ahead of yourself won’t help anyone, it’ll just hurt you.

[adamantlyardent]

Clearly. If keeping myself relegated to static text isn't enough to keep from adding to the din, then I may as well have offered nothing of myself at all. I'll remember that for next time -- if there is such a time at all.

[viciousmaukery]

There is going to be a next time. [He sounds like he's trying to convince himself of that.] All I'm saying is, save the breakdown, in text or in anything else, for later. The world's not ended yet, don't treat it like it's already gone.

[adamantlyardent]

Very well. You'll hear nothing more of me again.