[network] @jwatson; text [Night 367] [open/semi-open] [shadownet]

[jumpthegun]

[The second part of the message is OPEN. The first part is SEMI-CLOSED to anyone with access to the Shadownet - a text only app created by Winter. Winter is an NPC that you'll read about in the Survival Guide, but the basic primer is that she's a Russian AI who has been periodically contacting the Snowblind characters and trying to help them to some extent. She has been encountered in multiple events and aided characters in making private messages actually private.

Please see this post about Shadownet distribution. These are also characters who currently possess Shadownet. Anyone traveling with these characters will likely be able to read messages on Shadownet through their travel companions. We've found that a copy can be made for a character at the elementary school provided they have an existing copy and the keycard currently held by Ecks, which allows the characters to use the copy machine there.]


Shadownet Access Only
@dulcedeleche
Winter, it's John. I don't know what you did, but whatever it was, thank you. I honestly thought the Admin might be shutting everything down on us. I hope you can get back in contact with us soon and that you're okay. We did find Andromeda. Her body, at least. It's very likely there's a back-up of her elsewhere like you. I'm so sorry, but she was attacked and killed by the cultists. We downloaded some sort of program from her, though. We're trying to get it decrypted. Hopefully, that will happen soon. She gave this to us. Whatever happens when we make it through the bunker, she made it possible for us to keep going. We're going to make it to the center of Norfinbury and we're going to stop this for her and for you. I promise. Bullet points below covering Day 357 through Day 367.

Open to Everyone
This is Dr. Watson. Please find a summary update of recent happenings below. For anyone new, an archive of my previous summaries can be found HERE. I'm available for medical consultation as one of the medics here. Please let me know if you need anything. I'm running an on-again, off-again blood transfusion service for those with severe MN Poisoning. It's only a temporary reprieve from symptoms, but blood transfusions from healthy donors have proven to alleviate MN poisoning symptoms for up to two weeks.

• Every nine-to-eleven days we have new arrivals. The food situation remains stable, as far as I'm aware, but I'm afraid the medical personnel here are no longer able to prescribe medications. The pharmacy may still have repeat prescriptions, though. I have a supply of several varieties of painkillers. If you are in desperate need, please let me know, and I can see if I can get the Admin to deliver the supply to you. Otherwise, I'll need to arrange to leave it somewhere for you to find or meet up with you. If anyone else has medications available, please let us know. We're going to need to pool this resource now more than ever.
  
  
• Day 358, Junpei organized a meet-up for testing blood from a lot of different people under our shared microscope. The hope was that we might be able to see if there are any differences in the blood from people who have been affected by things like the red lines and the loss of their light. To my knowledge, there weren't any notable differences, but it may be a matter of the magnification power on the microscope being insufficient.
  
  
• Day 359, both Peter and Stephen came back from being killed with new memories. Years of them, by the sound of it. This has happened to me and Sherlock, as well as others. I don't know what to make of it. I gained five years the last time this happened and my body hasn't changed at all. It's like the memories just get downloaded into our heads, which, given what we know about how the nanomachines inside are basically us, that's not too far-fetched.
  
  In far less happy news, Ginger and her team found Andromeda's body in the cultist church. She was apparently killed and crucified by them, but I want to emphasize that we've heard from Andromeda before. There is some piece of her still out there, even if her physical body has been destroyed. She might be a back-up or she might well have escaped somehow, before she was killed. That's my sincere hope. Ginger was able to download a program from her body and we're working on getting it decrypted. If you have any programs or skills that could help with this, please let Ginger know.
  
  Also in the church, people found SD cards that show how Samantha, the Prophet, died. I've attached those at the end here. Please be aware that they're extremely brutal and that Samantha is a child.
  
  
• Day 360, Tess rescinded her request for blood sacrifice when she came back to herself. If anyone was taking this seriously, please look at this. That includes Brian Thomas. I'm sorry to report that he attempted to kill Rhys in an effort to sacrifice him for Tess. If you encounter Brian, please be very careful. He has been known to attack others previously while not under the influence of anything here in Norfinbury. I've attached his picture to the end of this message, but briefly, he's a young man in a mask and hoodie who's non-verbal and has some level of severe mental illness related to, I suspect, his physical seizure condition.
  
  In happier news, we also had Kunsel return. He was absent some memories as his death price. For anyone new, this is a fairly common one. When you die and get revived, you temporarily lose something. It might be memories, it might be one of your senses, but it's typically significant.
  
  Alfie also led everyone in a round of joke-telling. I'm sure he'd still be up for hearing some if you'd like to chime in. I think all of us could use a laugh.
  
  
• Day 363, Mr. Mycroft Holmes made an ass of himself asking who ate his finger when we were all trapped in the cells. On a more pertinent point, it does raise the question of what exactly happened down there. A lot of us are missing our memories.
  
  Which Dr. Hannibal Lecter has offered to assist with. Dr. Lecter is a trained psychiatrist who has practiced hypnotherapy before to try to bring out repressed memories. Recent events sidetracked his efforts, but if you'd like to have him attempt to hypnotize you to bring out the memories, please let him know.
  
  
• Day 364, the ADMIN sent out a message that resources were critically low. chaos noted later that day that we seemed to be having a communication issue. Whatever universal translator is in effect now broke. A lot of us speak English, but a number of people don't. I'm not sure what to do if we have this problem again. Maybe for those who don't know English, we can start teaching you now? At least some basic phrases.
  
  Later that night, the ADMIN sent out another message and the network shifted to text-only. I started tasting blood in the back of my throat.
  
  
• Day 365, all the power went out completely and the taste turned into actually coughing up blood.
  
  
• In the morning on Day 366, Winter sent out a message that we were in trouble and she was fixing something, not that any of us could see it at the time she sent it, I think. I don't know what she did, but we're back to where we were because of her.
  
  
• Earlier today (Day 367), Mr. Graham sort of announced that he's returned. To my understanding, he's down in the entrance area. He seems to be somewhat disoriented, so if anyone is in that area, please assist him, if you can. He'll be near the police station, as that's where people revive.
  
  Angel also informed us what was on with the galaxy app that downloaded onto everyone's tablets. Apparently that's from the program that was downloaded from Andromeda's body and it contains some sort of key. The key also downloaded a video file that showed Andromeda's death. That's been included as an attachment below.

New SD Cards

• Sam #1
  
• Sam #2
  
• Sam #3
  
• Sam #4
  
• Sam #5
  
• Sam #6
  
• Andromeda #1

Brian Thomas
[Attached to the end of the message is a photo of Brian that John obtained when he asked for photos of everyone during the red lines event. It shows a person in a hoodie with a black ski mask that has a red frowny face drawn on it.]

Comments

[0thingsonmymind]

tim andjay could
from sa me
world







no one
here

[jumpthegun]

I'm sorry, Brian, but I can't take your word on things. Is there anyone here who could confirm that Clayton was working with Alex?

[0thingsonmymind]

iam NOT a L I A R


you trust oth ers a bout
their wor lds

[jumpthegun]

Other people haven't tried to commit murder and sacrifice people like you have. Or kidnapped them and thrown them in basements like you have.

[0thingsonmymind]

itwas exper i ment

*This place is big on those, right?*

hewas not in
base ment
wasin bath room

*Which clearly makes all the difference.*

[jumpthegun]

He wasn't a volunteer for it. That makes it murder. And wrong. There's something called informed consent, Brian. You need it before just trying to experiment on people.

And it doesn't matter where the hell he was. You kidnapped him, hurt him, and locked him up for no legitimate reason.

[0thingsonmymind]

it WAS leg it imate

hewas DANG ER OUS

*Ugh, why can't you get that through your thick skull.*

and i on ly hurt
once
to cap ture

[jumpthegun]

[He sees you didn't respond to that informed consent comment, Brian. HE SEES.]

The fact you hurt him at all when you didn't have a legitimate reason except in your own head is the problem, Brian. And why I can't trust you. Until you prove to me that you can step back and assess a situation objectively, your opinions aren't something I'm going to rely on.

[0thingsonmymind]

*Please. Who, except from House maybe, would consent to being killed? Even here.*

ido not think youare
ob jec tive
ei ther

[jumpthegun]

[John rolls his eyes at that.

'He's not entirely wrong, love,' Mary puts in. People in the room with John might see him shooting a glare at a nearby wall and muttering to himself.]

Everyone has an opinion.

[At least it probably comes off as being annoyed at Brian.]

When it comes to Clayton. Yeah. I've got a more objective opinion, mate.

[0thingsonmymind]

but notwhen it comesto
me

[jumpthegun]

Right. I've been biased by your past actions. God help me. My thoroughly unimaginable response to specific experience with another person.

@Enoch, text

[warriorscribe]

[It's been so long it hardly matters anymore, but it's still a spike of ice cold in his heart. He remembers that feeling, that he should never have left Clayton's side, that splitting up had been a mistake all around, that feeling that continued to be validated until Clayton was gone and the new mortality he had tried to ground himself in was suddenly unsteady, not him.

And now he clings all the harder to those he has left. It began with this.]

It was you?

@totheark; text

[0thingsonmymind]

*Oh hey, its Beckett's friend who he thought was kinda cool. Was he friends with Clayton?*

hewas danger ous
iwant ed to
talk

ihad to be
care ful

[warriorscribe]

Is that all? You wanted to be safe?

Why didn't you speak to him over the tablets? That would have been safe. He couldn't have hurt you from there.

[Whether or not Clayton would actually have tried to harm him isn't an argument Enoch wants to have. Not with something in his chest tying itself into a tight knot just recalling the day he realized he would never see him again.]

[0thingsonmymind]

it wasnot
good en ough

[warriorscribe]

Because it would have been too easy for him to walk away? You could have invited him to talk, and invited others there to protect you from him.

You might have insisted on having this talk during the day, which would have given you the time to leave if need be.

[He had said his goodbyes, acknowledged the way his death had even helped him find himself. Why is this bringing back all the hurt so readily?

He's not even angry, like he might have been when it was closer to the event itself. It just hurts.]

[0thingsonmymind]

it didnot in volve
oth ers

*Except for Tim, who wasn't nearby anyway.*

@guardian; text;

[phaseshifter]

Despite how erratic and straight-up weird he can be, I've never seen Brian lie. He's kind of dead set against it. I'm just saying.

not here

[0thingsonmymind]

*Holy shit someone is defending him? This is big.*

not here

[phaseshifter]

[ i-it's not like she cares or anything, BAKA ]

[jumpthegun]

I don't doubt he actually thinks this, Angel. What I don't believe is that it's the objective truth. It's his personal truth. There's a difference, particularly when we're talking about ascribing intent to someone else's actions.

[phaseshifter]

Fair enough
I just don't think you should dismiss his account of the Clayton thing outright, particularly when it happened so long ago. It's like assuming I'm nothing but a bandit because of the whole thing with the meds that happened around that time.
Brian's logic may be weird, but he does *have* logic
If Clayton was working with someone he hated, it makes his raging hate-on for the guy make a LOT more sense in retrospect!

 

It doesn't apply to the thing with Witchy Rhys, though, that's pretty effed up :\\\\\\

[jumpthegun]

Just because he hated someone doesn't necessarily mean they actually did anything. Part of his hate for Clayton is that he was trying to cure Tim, I think. [From what he's gathered.] That's not exactly a sensible reason to hate someone. Particularly if Tim asked for his help.

[John doesn't know that he did, but...]

[phaseshifter]

Okay, dude, I'm just saying not to completely dismiss it
But I didn't know Tim or Alex, so I can't really speak in regards to either of them so I'll leave it there :TTTTT

[ AND SURELY THIS WILL BE THE END OF IT AND NO MORE THREADJACKS WILL HAPPEN ANY TIME SOON ]