Image| Anon; username--PhantomThieves

[codeoracle]

[This post is not only being spread over the network. If anyone were to check their private messages, they would find this post in their inboxes as well. There is no avoiding this one. It consists of the image below and a modulated voiceover of the text. Enjoy, MoM. Enjoy.



[And to aid your reading: Count Dooku, a great sinner of greed. Your obsession with power and influence has led to the corruption of genuine calls for change & innocents that believe in those ideals. That corruption cannot stand and so we will steal the heart of your aspirations and make you confess your crimes with your own mouth. --The Phantom Thieves]

Comments

Anon text

[generalgrievous]

What is this?

Anon text

[codeoracle]

We are the Phantom Thieves of Hearts. We steal the hearts of the corrupt and bring the truth from their lies.

The Count is on notice. Consider this the first public calling card we have delivered here.

text / please set to a montage of monitors scrolling DOS really fast

[hellrisen02]

And people complain about my aesthetics.

[Still, he's interested. Very curious. A ping eventually appears to Futaba, a spambot-like message that leads through a hyperlink rabbit hole (including a lot of posts, flagged as regular forum spam, on abandoned or inactive corners of imPort fanfic/discussion boards??? look, don't ask). The one thing they all have in common is that the links appear as a garble of seemingly unrelated text, all signed "-02". This continues until the final link reaches a plaintext site that simply reads]

I like your style. Let's see what you've got.

text / hacker music: I'm in.

[codeoracle]

[Oooooh. Now, this was interesting. She didn't expect anyone to actively engage her, to send her on a chase through cyber-space. It's been awhile since she had any type of challenge. Very nice.

It takes a bit of work, given the proxies present, but she attempts a pingback. The easiest route is to simply send her message upstream--let it retrace the route she was sent on. A message will eventually come back, a simple pop-up like image, one that could easily be dismissed as spam, that reads:]

Impressive. I like your style.

[pummelgranite]

QueenoftheDayum rebweeted this and adds:

💀👀💖🗝🕵???

[cognitivism]

@akechi comment:

Translation?

[Text]

[axeboyfriend]

Huh? What the hell is this?

Anon; username PhantomThieves

[lempereur]

This is our calling card. Consider it a preview of things to come.

text »

[eloquentness]

And here I thought he was just famous for being a former metalhead...

[ given the place they're in, literally stealing someone's heart seems to be the least-weird thing she's seen this week. ]

Whatever you do, try not to let anyone die.

text » anon

[crimeboy]

Absolutely no one will die this day, not to worry.

[text]

[calltheundertaker]

You got any proof or are we just going to have to wait for him to confess after you steal his heart? And how do you steal someone's heart? This is one of those metaphor things, ain't it?

Anon; same username

[lempereur]

You will not be waiting long.

text;

[vanto]

What happened and why are people from my galaxy involved? Again.

Anon; username PhantomThieves

[lempereur]

The warmonger will tell us all shortly. It was not enough for him to spread corruption and distort the truth in his own world, he had to spread the same lies here, with new lives to damage.

We will not stand for it.

[izanyagi]

[Well uh...that is certainly a callout. And yet.]

Do you have proof? Sorry I'm knew so I haven't even heard of this Count Dooku.

text > Anon

[crimeboy]

The proof will be coming straight from the perpetrator before long.

[voice]

[carbonfrozen]

Again?

[why this]

[voice]

[vanto]

Again.

It's lucky we're not, uh, Force involved.

text

[yaaas_queen]

with a name like Count Dooku you don't need to drag him like this

his parents did the work for you 🙄

text;

[9544]

haaaaabuuuurn

text

[discountstarscream]

Well, that's being proactive.

Good on you for doing good, I suppose.

text; Anon| Same UN as above

[codeoracle]

This is what we, the Phantom Thieves do. We aim to rid the world of its corruption.

text;

[pickledturncoat]

Dooku the Clone Wars relic? That Count Dooku?

[Okay, this place just got a little weirder.]

Anon; username PhantomThieves

[lempereur]

A relic, indeed.

[Reaction]

[sleight_of_hand]

[ Holy shit. ]

[ When they said they were going to take care of Dooku, he didn't think this was what they meant. On one hand, he should totally be publicly speaking out against this for his public image. On the other... Nope, this was too cool. He knew there was a reason he liked these kids. ]

text; network ID is just a moon emoji 🌙︎

[dragony]

Please unsubscribe me from your eyesore vigilante mailing list. I don't know who this is, who you are, and I don't care to know either.

text; Anon| Same UN as above

[codeoracle]

It is not a mailing list. We are not always so public with our efforts, but this target required it.

voice;

[aberrant_type]

[A late response; Hange talks to Dooku first and then reads backwards.]

Well, I'm impressed. You make him seem like a changed man. How long will that last?

text; Anon| Same UN as above

[codeoracle]

[She isn't sure how to respond to this one, so it takes awhile for an answer to come through.

Where we are from, it was permanent. Here, we aren't sure if it will remain the same.