he might be losing it juuuuust a bit

[frostythehitman]

i know we've all got enough on our plates right now but we've got another problem now
someone's been stalking me and leaving me messages for the past few days
i don't know if they're on the app or not but they must at least know about it bc they're leaving me messages in places i haven't been since i died
and no one who's off-app has noticed them
they're probably a serial killer judging on how much blood he's using
whoever it is they must be a threat to all of us
the faster we figure out who this is the faster we can get them taken care of and get back to dealing with vanderweele
if anyone recognizes the handwriting or who it might be, speak up

[ He attaches a series of photos:

One of a plain brick wall taken in an alley.

One of the front wall of City Hall.

One of the wall above a toilet--a few may recognize it as being from inside Eren's bathroom.

One of a door to a patient's room in the hospital.

One of the Recolle High School dumpster.

There is absolutely nothing notable or out of the usual in any of the photos. There is no handwriting to judge, and no blood in sight. ]

Comments

[standalonehuman]

What have you remembered recently?

[frostythehitman]

pff what HAVEN'T i remembered
a weird terrorist cult run by a captain america lookalike
stealing cap's shield
fighting the guy who actually came up with the idea to make me cap in the first place
tracking down a rogue sleeper agent who murdered the second bucky and left a message for me in his blood ooooohhhh shit

[standalonehuman]

There is a lot to take in there, but okay.

...

Okay, no. Second Bucky??

[frostythehitman]

i think it's tradition for someone new to pick up the mantle when the person holding it dies
like how i became captain america when the first one died
except this one must have become bucky after i died
well the first time i died in ww2, anyway, he was really old so it must have been back then
i think the sleeper agent was targeting me bc he killed the second bucky and wrote "only one bucky left" in his blood
shit what if that guy's here NOW

[standalonehuman]

If only you can see it, that screams illusion, since nobody can hack your eyes.
I’ll keep an eye out, but what if this is our good friend?

He got access to Retrospec, they have to have kept some kind of a record of what we’ve seen. So now he knows how to specifically target people.

[frostythehitman]

shit
but why me
is it just because i'm his favorite punching bag

[standalonehuman]

I think the rest of us might be either targeted or next. Some people might not have had the courage to post publicly about it.

Far as I can tell, I'm not seeing things.

But I'm extra vulnerable to that happening to me.

[frostythehitman]

what
why you

[standalonehuman]

With the cyberbrain, I’ve had memories of machines that can copy someone else’s vision. It’s not so hard to imagine someone could change what I’m seeing with that same access.

[frostythehitman]

damn
yikes
it makes sense though
if you've got a computer for a brain then that means you can hack it too
what do you remember about that vision copying stuff

[standalonehuman]

Yamaguchi was injected with a second set of micromachines, it created another computer network, that just copied all his visual data and sent it to someone else. Creative way of spying, they were designed to die off after a few months.

[frostythehitman]

how did he get injected with a whole new set of micromachines without noticing

[standalonehuman]

He's a cop, we've got to go in for annual physicals. Whoever was responsible slipped them to his whole Department like that.

[frostythehitman]

[ Cripes. That sounds like some Department X shit. ]

jeez
well
just don't get injected with anything then i guess

[standalonehuman]

I'll do my best.

But okay, if this is Vanderweele messing with you, what do we do? There's got to be something.

[frostythehitman]

you tell me
every time i had my head messed with it was usually fixed by a magic all-powerful cube
or it was drugs that i just had to wait to filter out of my system

[standalonehuman]

Cube what.

Wait.

No. No, I feel this is where I have to not ask.

Okay. Can we check with Zee, Retrospec has been the people dealing with Vanderweele's illusions so far.

[frostythehitman]

sure i guess i can try asking zee when i get the chance

[ ie. when he kidnaps him. yup. ]

[standalonehuman]

In the meantime, I guess this, right here, is the best thing to do. Just keep checking in on each other. Which is terrible, in a way, but not far off from what we have been doing.

[frostythehitman]

great
more waiting games
as usual

[standalonehuman]

And, seeing if there's a pattern to what's happening to us.

But, when the time comes to stop waiting and start setting things on fire, at least I know who to call.

[frostythehitman]

you've been saying that for like the past two years

[standalonehuman]

Which isn’t entirely fair, you haven’t set anything on fire in a while.

[frostythehitman]

yeah but only because i graduated from fire to murder

[standalonehuman]

And here I was trying to keep the tone light. I'll keep reminding you that you haven't actually killed anyone as many times as you need it, James.