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@LELRIC; text

[armoured]

[Al doesn't judge the terrible grammar, he just assumes this poor new person is not very familiar with tablet technology and made a mistake. He can definitely empathise with that.]

I'm afraid we still don't really know why, but we're trying to figure it out and we're getting closer all the time.

[0thingsonmymind]

*He sees nothing wrong with his grammaring, thank you.*

what do you
know?

there is aloton this net work.

[armoured]

I have been making a list of information and clues that have been found, but it still doesn't tell us too much. Hang on, I'll send it to you.

[There's a brief pause as Al fumbles with the tablet touch screen, before this file pings over to Brian.]

[0thingsonmymind]

iwas sent that
@standardissue

*That meant this guy was one of the useful usernames to watch, though. And hadn't it shown up in some other list?*

you have b e e n here?

[armoured]

Yeah, I've been here since the first people woke up. I know there must have been others before us, but we haven't seen any of them properly.

[Creepy videos and possessions don't count.]

[0thingsonmymind]

you have seen them
notproperly?

*...That was totally the word for that, right? It seemed like the correct word.*

[armoured]

[Poor guy, he must be so new to the tablets, that is clearly the explanation for the disjointed and rubbish typing.]

I'm not sure, but I think so. A few days back several people acted like they believed they were other people, ones that lived here before.

[0thingsonmymind]

*You sure it doesn't remind you of anybody, Al?
Okay, that's interesting.*

they were notthem? different people
inside?

*But 'ones that lived here before,' that doesn't fit. What could that mean.*

they had pasts? faces?

[armoured]

[This is, sadly, not as weird as Masky was yet. Al will realise his error soon enough.]

Right, inside the people that lived here, using their faces but with different memories. It didn't last long, just a couple of days.

[0thingsonmymind]

*Give him time. He's yet to make a creepy video, after all.*

not di vi si on
re place ment?

*No, that wasn't like what the Operator did to people. Then what could it be?*

they are
the orig inal s are BACK?

[armoured]

[It takes him a moment to parse that, this typing is getting worse.]

That's what it seemed like, but it's over now and everyone is back to normal.

[0thingsonmymind]

watch them
watch them c l o s e l y

normal does not come back.

[armoured]

[Okay, that... that was not a normal sort of answer.]

What do you mean?

[0thingsonmymind]

even ifit looks thesame does not meanit IS the same

[armoured]

Do you have experience in something similar?

[Because all useful knowledge gratefully accepted.]

[0thingsonmymind]

yes, i know.
i have SEEN it

*Seen it, been it, same difference.*

i do not know the
answers

yet

i do n o t know if this is
the same

but i know that
normal
is temp o rar y

[armoured]

[Why is he starting to get the impression that this particular newcomer might be a few loaves short of a picnic?]

The abnormality was the temporary state. Please trust me, the people you meet here are their normal selves.

[With the possible exception of Tim sometimes.]

[0thingsonmymind]

*Why however could he get that impression 8D*

how can you be
SURE?

[armoured]

Because it's not the first time strange things have happened here, and none of them have been permanent.

[Hallucination thundersnow, he's looking at you.]

[0thingsonmymind]

*Sorry Al, he's not convinced.*

it can take
time

ask @marblehornets

*He's not sure about there 'the operator did it!' theory but he's watched Jay slowly develop symptoms of...whatever it is.*

[armoured]

[Whoa-- hold the phone a minute!]

You know Jay?

[There is an implied 'and what's wrong with him' but he doesn't say it outright. Could this be a friend of theirs from home? Or is this Tim having another episode with a somehow different username?]

[0thingsonmymind]

yes.
and @TW
and @AK.

notyou.

[armoured]

Are you a friend of theirs from home?

[Careful questions, because from what Tim has said people from home that he knows aren't always the most sane.]

[0thingsonmymind]

from "home" yes

*Not so much friends, despite what Tim said.*

[armoured]

I'm a friend of Tim and Jay here, I was with them not long ago.

[Until dumb Tim ran off in a fit of guilt.]