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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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If you mean people dying, they don't just 'disappear'. It's not a mystery to be solved. Hermes sends their souls to the underworld and there they are judged for their life they had. And death is never fair. [Something Death himself told him, after mentioning how he took Frank's mother. In Frank's world Death is kind, maybe, but never fair.]

If you mean something else then yes, I am serious.

I don't mean people dying.

And I'm Catholic, so we take a different spin on it. [Not that he's a practicing one, but he really doesn't want to be subjected to Keeliai: The Greco-Roman Interpretation of existence between Life, Dreaming and Death. He's afraid that's where this would head.]

What, nobody ever gets abducted in your world?

[In Frank's world, everything is related. Everyone sees what they want to see in the underworld, so everyone is actually right. But he doesn't feel that kind of theology discussion would be appreciated, not when the man is actually making a point.]

Oh. Well, I guess they do, but... [Milyn would have told him about it. Or they would have noticed. Right? Suddenly Milyn's eagerness to learn about foreigners takes a new spin.] How do you investigate someone like that? Most times they don't even keep their memories if get back here.

We could maybe put a tracker on people, wait for someone to disappear and see where they go but that's... a little creepy.

Yeah, it's creepy. [This doesn't stop him from considering loading people down with tracking devices.] It wouldn't work unless you implanted the tracker. You can't guarantee they'll wear the same thing every day, and, even if they did, there's a chance they'd find it.

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