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[Despite being on the turtle for nearly six months, this is Rictor's first video post. He's commented with video and audio, but has largely hidden behind anonymous consoles in cafes. What with Malicant having Network access and not trusting this whole politely-worded mass abduction, it's seemed prudent.

However, this post is going up as an unencrypted video feed, because he wants people to actually trust and use the code that he's come up with to help them, and not disregard it as a potential virus from the enemy.

He's typing at the keyboard as he talks.]

I'm attaching instructions to this, walking you through how to set up your console to ping someone else's mailbox if you haven't used your login to access the network in a set number of days. It feels like there's been an uptick in disappearances lately, and I haven't been the first one to notice.

Do your friends a favor and set this up so they don't have to ask if anyone's seen you and break into your place to see if it's been cleaned out yet. If you don't have any friends, do the rest of us a favor and set it up to somebody's box so we can keep track. Use that radio guy - Kent, or whatever his name is. Shit, use mine for all I care.

This song-and-dance of "I saw the kedan cleaning her place" out is bullshit, and only covers one kind of disappearance.

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No, I want to know if there's a kidnapper so I can do something, hence the question. Bit uptight aren't you?

There's not, as far as I know, but the number of people that we've had individually confirmed as disappearing is significantly less than the number of people who've posted to the Network that haven't said anything in a long time.

Sure, if you swing by their apartments, they're cleaned out, but who knows how long they've been gone? If people don't have friends here, someone could take their sweet time emptying the apartment, and everybody just assumes it was the kedan.

I ain't uptight.

And here I was worried I might have to deal with another lunatic serial kidnapper. Now I can continue to sleep peaceful at night. Having a plan to actually deal with the other kinds of disappearances might be good though.

[Because as this guy already pointed out, not every Foreigner can be trusted.]

Alright, not uptight. Just broody.

If there was another psycho on the loose, I wouldn't be wasting everyone's damn time with a bunch of computer code. I'd've been grabbing a torch and leading the pitchfork brigade.

[He isn't going to refute the broody comment. He's not feeling chipper.]

Good, because I'm fairly sure I ran into another one a few days ago.

[Ric straightens up in his seat.]

You what?

[Yeah, cause Keeliai needs another one. Shit.]

Tell me you're joking.

If it was I could at least come up with something better than that.

And you're gonna tell me who this guy is... when?

When I figure out who he is. Unfortunately he didn't give me a name while he was doing his villainous monologue.

Villainous monologue. Great, I love it when they're chatty.

[He doesn't. He really hates it and wants to cram his fist in their mouths.]

What's he look like?

It makes things entertaining at least.

[Because Hawke is pretty chatty too.]

No idea. He summoned up some kind of fog, but if everyone doesn't mind my dog sniffing them he could probably pick him out.

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