video;

[fuckcable]

[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.

Comments

video;

[fuckcable]

[... well she looks about 11, so he's not laying it out for her.]

The kind that I hope don't happen here.

video;

[soulstoker]

[She's fifteen, thank you very much!! And while she appreciates what she can tell is sparing her the truth, she kind of wishes he'd just say whatever it is. Ignorance isn't gonna help much when they're all stuck in this place together.]

I guess I'll just have to take your word for it. [a small sigh] But, the other kind of disappearances though. Is there any sort of pattern for when they happen, or why?

Re: video;

[fuckcable]

There's no proof of another kind, because nobody can keep track of all the damn foreigners. That's the point - we wouldn't know if there was, because we don't even know who is or isn't here at any given moment.

[soulstoker]

Seriously? [she frowns.] Jeez, for all their talk of wanting our help, you think they'd realize it might be a good idea to keep better track of us.

[fuckcable]

Maybe the kedan are, but they don't make the information public. There's no weekly update. "This person went home, that person arrived." I don't like being kept in the dark.

[soulstoker]

Neither do I. [Man, no matter how much they try to make it sound like it's for everyone's sake, she's never gonna like how things are run here.] Do you think it'd be possible to try keeping track manually ourselves?

[fuckcable]

I don't think so. I can't tell you everyone who is and isn't here. There's a lot of disappearances that no one announces, or a lot of people who are very good at being quiet.

[soulstoker]

[She hums in thought.] I figured as much... I understand and respect a need for privacy, but keeping track of who is—or isn't—is pretty important too.