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[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.]

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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.

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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.

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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.]

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Of course. Why do you think I'm asking this privately? I don't want them trying to push any agenda of theirs. I'm guessing House is going to panic about this.

So what's a good amount for an emergency stash? So 3-5 for a group, or should I go higher? They're high-dosage so most people'll be breaking these into quarters, probably.

[He sometimes feels bad about disliking Gabriel before.

And then he remembers the man murdered Dr. Suresh and probably a hell of a lot of other people without the influence of mind-control like Bucky. Still. After the argument with Sherlock, this is hitting a little at his double-standard insecurities that he does actually trust Gabriel--Gabriel, not Sylar--reasonably well.

'He's not a complete arse, which does help, love. And he's making an effort.' Right. Those things help and do set him apart from Brian.]

I appreciate the caution. It really depends on how many you have to distribute. I need to start doing that, myself. Five to start? If you start running low, we can reassess.

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[ He is trying very hard. It's been amazing getting that acknowledgment, even if just from Al. Of course, that's meant he's really ramped up his attempts at Trying to Help- who knows how long it'll be before it's more annoying than anything else. ]

I have a little under 200 tablets, so that'd be enough for about 40 people. So it should be enough to spread around, at the very least.

And of course you're welcome to take my prescription when it comes up in the pharmacy- I mostly left it going in case something like this happened, anyway.

[That's a lot, but considering John's own supply... Or the one he'd taken from Sherlock, really.]

Yeah, that sounds about right. I'll see about grabbing it if we're passing through the pharmacy, but I think we're gonna try to head for the bunker area after we pick up Mr. Graham.

I reckon a lot of people are gonna be headed that way once we get the door open and that's close based on Angel's message earlier today. Might be able to catch a lot of people at once.

Dr. Lecter wanted to head that way for his hypnosis things with Enoch, too.

[ Uhhh. Why is John bringing up Lecter? If Will is traveling with them...hmm. ]

Just be careful of overcrowding the place- even if I know you will be. Are you planning on meeting up with Dr. Lecter over there, too?

We'll be careful. And Dr. Lecter's with my group. He has been for a couple of days now. Sherlock and I wanted to try the hypnosis, as well.

[ Aw, damn. The next text takes a few minutes to arrive. ]

And Lecter's been fine with you both? What does Sherlock think of him?

[Oh, right. Gabriel was one of Hannibal's unintended victims.]

He's fine, Mr. Gray. All of us know that what he did to you, Royce, and Alfie, and what he tried to do to Sherlock was just his death price in action. I'm sorry for what happened to you. That's really not the man he is, though. We can make sure he stays away from you if you're concerned, though. I'm sure he'd understand.

That's not what I'm concerned about.

Please ask Sherlock what he thinks. And don't let him hypnotize you, okay? He's a helpful guy, but he's not someone you can trust. If he asks why, you can tell him I asked you to sit out.

Sherlock wants to try the hypnosis, too. What's this about? I've already confirmed we can have observers.

[He's not that naive.]

And Sherlock's not always a fountain of good judgment. One of you should sit out, at least.

[ Damn, he's going to have to say it, isn't he? And then what is John going to do? He doesn't want to set off a chain reaction here, but he's not seeing any other way than letting John get picked apart because Hannibal's getting bored and frustrated, and understandably so. ]

Dr. Lecter is a much more dangerous man than he's led people to believe. He's probably all right here as long as he goes unprovoked, but I still wouldn't trust him with your mind. He had to have picked psychiatry for a reason.

Are you seriously trying to convince me that Hannibal Lecter is some sort of psychopath?

['Culverton Smith, Jim from IT, Sylar... me. You're not exactly the best at spotting things like this, John,' Mary puts in. John casts her an annoyed glance.]

Dr. Lecter has been trying to help me and the rest of us. Also, pretty sure Sherlock or Mycroft would've picked up on it and mentioned if something was off about him. We're trying to get the memories from that time in the cell. Sherlock's going to be watching the whole thing when he hypnotizes me. What exactly do you think he's going to do?

Edited 2018-06-18 20:38 (UTC)

[ Gabriel takes a minute to sigh and roll his eyes. He really needs the time. ]

You do know that psychopaths are really good at being charming, right? I might have some personal experience in that area.

Is Sherlock an expert on hypnosis? 'cause I expect Lecter is. And hey, maybe he's trying to get memories out, just like you say. He's been pretty quiet up to this point. But maybe he'll also root around and grab some extra memories, too. 'Traumatic experiences tend to rise to the surface' or something like that. And maybe he'll use that to wrap you around his finger, because he's been stuck here long enough to get the same frustration we all have at being unable to affect the world around us.

When I hit that point, I murdered Dr. Suresh. I wanted to take control of at least one thing in my life here. I'm sure he's feeling the same way. And I want you to stay off his path, now that he might be looking for a victim.

But hey, you do what you want. You will anyway. Just don't get mad that I didn't warn you.

Edited (went a little more vague) 2018-06-18 20:55 (UTC)

I don't think you're that charming.

['John. Really?' Mary gives him a Look that the doctor resolutely ignores. He's getting keyed up again, defensive of Hannibal, much in the way he'd been defensive of Bucky.]

And you think I don't know how to deal with traumatic memories? Even if he does pull something up accidentally, it wouldn't be the first time and I know to do with myself when that happens. Not to mention I'm no one's puppet.

I'm sorry you were killed, Sylar. [It's a slip back to the old name, the distance becoming more evident.] But that doesn't make Dr. Lecter a bad person. Good night.

But you thought Zane Taylor was a perfectly nice fellow, right? And not dangerous at all.

Good to know I'm back to Sylar when you're annoyed with me. But I'm trying to be the good guy here, even if I know less damage would probably be caused by sitting back and letting him munch on you.

But sure, whatever. Ask Sherlock his opinion of Lecter, though. At the very least to prove me wrong. Talk to you later, Doc.

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