Message 05. This Totally Isn't Suspicious or Anything

[unrecovered]

[This is Wash, in Twilight Town, standing in front of a very large crack in a wall. Through the crack, there's trees and grass visible - the beginnings of a forest. He gestures towards it.]

Does this look familiar to anyone?

[Oh, look, he's fishing for information and baiting the Keycast all at once. Must be Tuesday.]

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[video]

[alwaysfaithful]

Is it supposed to be?

[Yeah, guess who hasn't been checking the network lately.]

[dork_of_keys]

[Sora has noticed that the hole in the wall is back. He's not quite sure what to make of that. And after Riku's post a while back, Wash ought to know that it does look familiar to a couple of people. Sora doesn't say that, though. He does't want to find out the hard way is Wash would shoot him given sufficient provocation...

Still, he had been thinking of poking around the mansion and it seems like doing so alone might be a bad idea.]

That's the crack in the wall that wasn't there when it should have been. There's a run down mansion though the woods.

[Run down mansion with some interesting things added to basement sometime after it was abandoned... But is the world dreaming of then or some time before that?]

[unrecovered]

[...where have you been?]

Yeah, there's supposedly a wrecked mansion back there. Several people have brought it up.

[alwaysfaithful]

[Hey don't judge him Wash, he's been busy kinda.]

... I'm going to have to check the comms more often from now on...

Has anyone checked it out yet?

[defrostedpride]

That's something that was flagrantly, noticeably not here before, isn't it?

I hate this place.

[eternalfrolicbond]

[Lea peers at the monitor.]

Looks like grass and trees to me. We have those at home.

[Who's trolling? Lea's trolling.]

[video]

[seasaltkeys]

[Roxas takes a long time answering. He's scared. That crack wasn't there and now it is and that crack leads to the mansion and...]

You shouldn't go in there.

[whoseesbynight]

Should it be? It doesn't look like anything spurrcial.

[unrecovered]

Congratulations, you're the fourth person to have told me that. Over the course of two weeks. Over a public network. Good job, Caption Obvious. Keep up the good work.

[raisethemoon]

[...she may have seen that in a dream or two. But she's really not at liberty to talk about those.]

Art thou considering an exploration?

[dork_of_keys]

Well you're asking about it like you don't already know that a few people here know about it. Which I'm pretty sure you do, actually, so why not just ask for people who know what's in there to answer some questions or come explore the place?

[Yeah, he's actually kind of not in a good mood lately.]

Speaking of what's there, it might depend on what point in time the world is dreaming about.

[unrecovered]

Probably a good idea.

Not that I know of. That's why I brought it up.

[unrecovered]

Yes. It is.

Join the club.

[unrecovered]

Good for you. I'm sure your gardening club will be excited.

[video]

[alwaysfaithful]

There could be a clue on why it suddenly appeared in the forest.

If you go, mind if I come?

[eternalfrolicbond]

Hey, you asked.

[unrecovered]

[That...doesn't look good. Looks like he'll need to tread with caution on this one.]

Why?

[defrostedpride]

Have we considered the possibility that our consciousnesses are being deliberately confined in a shoddily-coded virtual space by a malign yet only middling competent programmer for some reason as yet unknown?

And if so, can I request a transfer to a solitary subzone?

[unrecovered]

[Okay, she's relatively new. She gets a pass. Kind of.]

It wasn't there before, for one. There's a few people here who noticed it was missing. There's supposedly a wrecked mansion back there.

Is it cool if I invite threadjacking?

[seasaltkeys]

It's just. It's bad, really bad. The mansion's haunted. You shouldn't go there.

[It's the best excuse he can think of. Better than explaining his history with that place. Or the stuff he knows goes on there.]

[unrecovered]

[There's a bit of a pause before that - Wash can say for fairly certain that this is not a computer simulation, and he doesn't feel like explaining why, so instead, Even gets his next response.] No. Because that's stupid.

[defrostedpride]

As compared to what?

[whoseesbynight]

If it wasn't there befur, it might means there's something impurrtant there, now.


Or it means someone dreamed it there.

[unrecovered]

Everything. It's stupid compared to the fact that we're in a dream world with fluffy rainbow animals. [Not really, but he is Making A Point.]

Go for it! Wash is screening this thread starting now, though.

[unrecovered]

["Haunted" is bullshit. No such thing as ghosts. Still, if that's the best that Roxas can come up with, he's probably desperate, so Wash keeps his voice quiet and tries not to be too invasive - at least, not yet.]

Something bad happened in there, didn't it.