[Network; Text] @dissect; friendly neighborhood spider fish; Morning 74 [open]

[circumsutus]

A small group of us conducted an experiment that had an interesting, yet unexpected outcome.

[And here’s an attached video.

There’s something undeniably wrong with the recording, a weird sort of tearing or distortion at the bottom of the screen, and occasional distortion of the audio. But it’s never enough to really conceal anything that’s happening.

A pale, long-haired man (Beckett), looking very wet and very cold (and wearing basically just his underwear, how scandalous) emerges from the pitch-black, freezing cold water in the basement of house 21. He’s helped out of the water by an extremely tall man with glasses, wearing a blanket as a bulky hat (“Doctor Stitches” is what Stein’s been going by on the network), who doesn’t seem too concerned at all.

Beckett’s report is mostly useless (he is currently dying of hypothermia, after all) and there doesn’t appear to have been much to find anyway. Just more darkness, and empty water. Stitches taps out a message on his tablet, and then steps back up out of view. Beckett just lays there, not even conscious anymore. But something is coming through the water, something silvery and flickering, moving as quickly as the fish it vaguely resembles until it reaches Beckett. There’s a brief pause for the totally-not-a-spider to do whatever it’s doing to the vampire, before the recording shakes a bit as the person holding the recording throws something. It’s a bottle, trailing smoke as it spirals into the room and explodes.

And that’s when something interesting happens. The recording goes to static.

Ordinarily, that wouldn’t be interesting. But the odd tearing and distortions of the video continue, and the buzzing hum occasionally skips and cuts out. It’s almost like the video is recording the static, as if it’s an actual, physical thing in the room.

The next text confirms that.]

The static visible at the end of the video was actually present in the room as a physical sensation. Has anyone experienced anything similar before?

Comments

@zd; text

[swatsflies]

There seems to be static around death.
Do you know @totheark? He has footage from the hospital, which shows some static.
Don't think it's anything as bad as this.

Is Beckett okay?

@totheark; text

[0thingsonmymind]

the static is notthe same
in the hosp ital it was only on film


heis fine hewas healed

[swatsflies]

[Why is he not surprised to see Brian there?]

Alright. Think they can make us see things that they want to censor?
Like get inside our heads to make us see the static in place of someone or something being there?

[It sounds...nuts when he types it out. But the illness they went through just recently is supposed to be perception based.

[0thingsonmymind]

*Hm...he hadn't thought of that. He was so used to static it was just normal by now. But he knew other people didn't (usually) have that issue, so them having it here was odd. Unless Tim and Jay's theory of "The Operator did it!" was actually correct...*

idonot know
if @admin can con trol here
may be

but if thatis so
we cannot trust
any thing
we see hear feel

[swatsflies]

That's pretty depressing, man.

Did you get hit with something weird a couple days ago?
A friend contacted the @admin about it.
And they said the error perception-based and the source is likely environmental.

[0thingsonmymind]

hit with ?

a few days a go there was

jump ing
things people would stop
then jump to new places

oth ers said iwas gone

not sure if just perception issue

[swatsflies]

A couple of my friends had that, too.
I lost my sense. It was frickin weird.
It felt like something was moving under the floor.

Wonder if it's related to your physical static.

[0thingsonmymind]

under thefloor?

i donot think donot remember if sta tic
came from
some where or if it just
was

[swatsflies]

Whatever it is it's pretty freaky.
Think there is a way to catch it?

[0thingsonmymind]

ca tch it?

idid not try
it was there then itwas gone
if we put itin some thing it may still havebeen
gone

idonot know
it didnot look
str ange
tome

[swatsflies]

Might be best not to. Who even knows what it's capable of.
What did you do to lure it out?

Strange distortions and static are normal where you're from?

[0thingsonmymind]

itcame when i threw bottle can bo mb

yes
ithink

*They're normal for him, at least.*

[swatsflies]

So it's protecting the spiders
Well, I guess a fish?
Medical Bot. I'll just call them Medbots.
It's protecting them.

[0thingsonmymind]

ei ther that or the hou se
notus

*He assumes, or else they wouldn't be allowed to do things like this in the first place.*

i won der how many oth er forms they comein

@dissect; text

[circumsutus]

@totheark was kind enough to record this for us while Beckett went swimming. He hadn't mentioned anything about seeing static before

Beckett is at least as healthy now as he was before he decided to dive into a flooded basement.

[swatsflies]

He says it's not the same.
Did you guys feel sick? Any nose bleeds?

That doesn't sound very reassuring.

[circumsutus]

We suffered no apparent ill effects from the static, or from anything else that happened.

Where have you seen the static before?

[swatsflies]

That's weird.

Usually around places connected to death.
There are a couple entries about the park with static. Also the hospital.
Brian told me he knows someone who records everything. You can probably check with him if there was anything of interest.

[circumsutus]

I'll have to go do further research. Unless you want to volunteer to run over to the park and take a few videos for me.

[swatsflies]

Can't. Heading to the hospital to pick up a friend.
I'll send you videos of that if you want.

[circumsutus]

I'm heading that way soon too, but I won't complain about a second set of eyes!

[swatsflies]

I don't know how long we're staying in the hospital.
If you get there and we're still there, I'll help you look around.

[circumsutus]

You can look around on your own too. Just send the video.

[swatsflies]

I can do that.
I'll let you know if I find anything.

[circumsutus]

Thanks!