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Anyway, now that the copypaste part is out of the way! Jim here, requesting you guys make your secret meetings a little more exciting. It's not like you're not trying with the whole "let's meet off the network!" dealio, but I have some serious concerns. For one thing, no secret handshakes or phrases? Not even dramatic meeting locations? The trying rating is about half a star if that. And I'm almost bored to tears with the whole back and forth about what's going on. Not bored enough to give you a cheat sheet, but still. I can't get myself taken off surveillance duty, so at least try to make it a little more exciting!

You guys might like this wikihow. Later!

Jim Halloway
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At various points throughout the day users will be sent images of themselves from behind, regardless of where they are. There doesn't seem to be any way to catch whoever might be taking and sending these, however, especially since being alone in a room doesn't seem to be a deterrent.

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Unfortunately no.
Everything seems to be copypasted. What i mean is any information about horses has simply been edited in a slipshod manner.
A sentence like horses have many different colours of coats just says chocobos have many different colours of feathers.
This even includes more uh. Unlikely aspects. Like apparently chocobos can birth mules now.
Colour me doubtful.

Our world was a messy copypaste.
I want to say that makes it worse but.
I mean.
That means whatever they did, as insane and impossible as it is, it was...limited?
They didn't rewrite a whole branch of animal development.
They just messily shoved their idea ontop of it.

Yeah i think its a dubiously good sign?
Its far reaching but it didnt rewrite the foundation of the universe at least.
I think what troubles me most is where the horses have gone.
If we continue the copypaste idea... its possible theyre saved in another document so to speak.
Or that might be too optimistic.

That's...

I don't know what that is.
Horses filed away somewhere waiting for us to rescue them just makes me sad.

Me too actually. I dont know if its better or worse than horses being gone forever...
I like chocobos well enough but i dont want to lose horses for them. It feels weird to tradeoff.

Better.
I'll take the option of saving them over not.
As awful as everything is, if we stop being optimistic we've already lost.

Youre right! And it would be a true shame to lose an animal like that!
The fruit is a... stranger case. Theyre not actually different fruit. Or they dont seem to be.
But they are frankly unsettling. Yet for me since i have a memory of them theres a sense of nostalgia too.
Which is even weirder.

They still taste and cut and cook like apples.
Aside from the dancing.

You've seen them in your memories?

Yeah after jade showed them off it triggered something in me.
I was in some sort of old... ruins? Im not sure.
I used some gadget to make the fruit huge. Then i used the same thing to shrink a massive globe thing?
I really have no idea. There was a huge pit also.

Huh.
That's certainly strange.
I wish my memories were that...coherent.

Not sure id call it coherent but if it is compared to yours well gosh.
What are they like if you forgive my asking?

It's...

So it's kind of like.

Dark rooms made of metal and wood, mostly.
Sometimes I'm a little kid.
Sometimes I'm my age now?

There are people in animal masks attacking me and I'm fighting them.
And there's someone else there.
But I don't know who.

Huh. Sounds like a horror movie.
Erm. Sorry probably not what you want to hear about these things.
But theres something frightfully unsettling about the way that all sounds.

No, believe me. It really does feel like it sometimes.
Especially when I think about it.

Like, in the memories themselves, I'm not scared.
I'm...usually I'm angry?
Like, really angry.

At least, the ones when I'm not a little kid anyway.

Sometimes horror wears off and gives way to anger.
And if we hazard a guess that this happened for years well...
It might be perfectly logical to be angry.
Or perhaps you learned something about your attackers that caused it.

That's what I've been assuming.
But
Since nothing I've seen has actually explained anything, I just have to try and guess.
And I don't have enough to guess anything!

So.

It just ends up feeling surreal.

Boy youre telling me.
Ive been trying to piece together whats going on from my own bits and bobs but its too surreal.
Its like seeing a movie trailer for one of those weird arthouse films.
If theres a plot its whizzing right over my head.

Exactly!
I barely even ever hear anyone talk.
Just this one woman who

i don't know

she's really familiar but otherwise
just angry people in masks and metal tunnels

It's stupid

Ive heard talking and even remembered conversations but frankly i cant make heads or tails of it all.
Some of the people in mine i recognise as friends here and others i dont although im certain theyre friends in those clips.
Also some of them arent human.
So where do you stand on all this malarkey? Do you think theyre memories?

I haven't seen anyone I know.
And from the things people tell me...what they see doesn't match what I see at all.

I don't...
I do think they're memories.
Somehow.
But I don't think they're mine.
Or at least.
I'm not the girl who did those things.

Thats what im struggling with myself.
Even if there ARE memories... i dont think thats me? Or maybe...
Its better to say it feels like this is all happening to someone else.
And if they are my memories... what am i supposed to do with that?
What are any of us supposed to do about it?

Nothing?
For now, I mean.
At least not until we know more.
Or...see more, I suppose.

I suppose youre right but boy does it russle my jimmies that all this is just being forced on us without our consent and with no explanation.

Rustles your jimmies, huh?
Still talking like that, I see.

Ugh yes.
Im getting used to it now though. Its still embarrassing but it isnt the end of the world i guess.

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