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rekindlenpcs ([personal profile] rekindlenpcs) wrote in [community profile] touchscreens2014-08-01 12:52 am

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[For fourteen seconds, all any can hear is a faint static coming from all devices connected to the city network. Cellphones, terminals, communication devices of any kind... Perhaps a whisper or two in the background, but nothing that could be truly made out behind the din. However, fifteen seconds after midnight, the flames of the candles all mysteriously light themselves if they weren't already lit, and the voices become clear as crystal. It is all one: male, judging by the bass tone and, for those watching, dark silhouette amidst a blindingly white glare.]

Good evening, guests of our most... esteemed science division and citizenry. Many of you may question why it is that suddenly, a thin veil has overtaken parts of the town since the annual summer festival. I am here to answer that question and more.

[The figure bows deeply before raising to full height.]

Unfortunate as it may be, there are but few means to enter the walls when they have been closed. This much has been true since the days when the gates between districts were wide, and trade flourished. For all its talk of community and friendship, these traits the leaders have always kept exclusive to those within than those without. Therefore, we who remain in the wastes forced our way in.

[The figure lifts his arms, a pompous air about him as he speaks.]

Yes, it was those of our number a small band of you located three months prior. The young ones, who left the writings on the walls. I, who first successfully hacked into their networks. All for the sake of this day, that I might speak to you all freely without the censorship of our most esteemed scientists.

In the many months of our silent vigil outside these grand walls, we have come to realize a simple truth: the leaders and this society have little interest in educating any of its so-called "guests" in any means other than simply lengthening your lifespans as well as their own. A state of stagnation, rather than slow death. Those from the shrine, like your sweet High Priestess can do aught but leak that which they are "allowed" to by the heads of the different science divisions. Or perhaps none among you found it odd that rather than Rhea responding to our more zealous members, it was the one who wished to silence any attempt to speak out against their own agenda?

[he bows deeply once more.]

As the leader of this band of mischief makers, I do apologize for their disruption of your daily lives. However, we of the Rangar do not believe in stagnation, but in an active course against the pseudoscience these defectors and skeptics practice. With how many candles were lit of the listener's volition tonight, I need not ask what it is you seek.

The door is open for all. The seeker need only speak.

[The feed then ends, but so long as the candles are lit, there seems to be no reaction in order to silence this apparent leader.

But when the flames go out, only the following text can be seen:]


THIS ENTRY HAS BEEN FLAGGED AND BEEN REMOVED FOR FALSE INFORMATION AND SLANDER AGAINST THE RULING PARTIES OF THE CITY.

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[personal profile] demimaudite 2014-08-07 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Justice? You have hit one of Shura's favourite words. She may want to subscribe to your newsletter, mysterious stranger.

"I can definitely get down with justice for the deceased. How do I learn more about your ideas?" Yet she's not ready for a decision right away. She needs more information. All the Reasons she had heard about sounded not so bad on the first explanation before they all veered into crazytown.
arnhaid: (Yeah I don't even get this shit no more)

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[personal profile] arnhaid 2014-08-07 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
So they nuked it. Basically. That about right?

You're gonna have to be a little less cryptic if you want me to get what you're sayin' here.
smallspot: Dia-Story Time (Story Time)

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[personal profile] smallspot 2014-08-07 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't had to yet. Father takes good care of me.

[Oh, but there is the night that is missing from his memory. Who knows what happened then and why he isn't allowed to remember...]


But it doesn't matter if I'm not suffering when others are! I am a knight and it is my job to protect everyone. It doesn't matter if they are rich or poor. I don't understand why that matters to some people.

[Ah...the innocence of children.]

Maybe we just don't understand each other enough. The messages your people were leaving didn't help much. We couldn't understand them!

[He pauses to reach down and pull a slip of paper out of the pouch he always carries when he leaves his room. There is some rustling and then he holds it up to the camera so the man can--hopefully--see it.]

'Return.' 'Liars and thieves.' 'Take back what is ours.' What are they trying to say? And what does this symbol mean?
heretic_hamlet: (Sidelong)

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[personal profile] heretic_hamlet 2014-08-08 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
I would hear it, then, if you profess to be our ally.
alley_kit: (Bundled up)

[personal profile] alley_kit 2014-08-08 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Kit had lit her candle as the message had directed... then immediately had ducked under her blanket with her lion plushie. With all the spooky goings on, she was half convinced that some thing would jump out of the candle when it was lit, like the ghosts had come out of the wood from the Forest of Magi Oar when it had been burned.

But nothing happened. Nothing except static over the terminal and then a deep voice speaking over it when it cleared up. That drew Kit out of hiding, and to the terminal to listen. Well, mostly out of hiding. She still brought the blanket with her.

She listens, her expression one of deep thought. There were a number of words there that she didn't quite understand, but she thinks she's got the basic meaning. And while she doesn't know the word 'stagnation' the bit about 'lengthening lives' brings to mind something she's noticed since she's been here, and she finally speaks up, if a little tentatively at first.]


Is... that why there's no other kids here? The magic here just makes everybody live so long that they don't need to have them?
readytobe: (by the merciless eyes of deceit.)

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[personal profile] readytobe 2014-08-08 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
[He is totally listening in to everything this dude is saying. Also probably trying to hack into the locked threads. TELL HIM ALL OF YOUR SECRETS...]

The Rangar...

I hope that you will understand that I have many questions for you. After all, as you have said, our captors do not seem interested in educating us.

You are natives to this planet?
arnhaid: (All the things we might've done wrong.)

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[personal profile] arnhaid 2014-08-09 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
And that's... what they're keepin' out there.

If it's so dangerous, how's a wall supposed to keep it out?
lightstrike: (Didn't care to look like anyone else)

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[personal profile] lightstrike 2014-08-09 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Then I'll be there before the day ends.

[And she definitely will be there at sunset, wearing on of her darker, less showy outfits so she wont bring much attention to herself.]
shadowsgambit: (Comfortable - Another face)

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[personal profile] shadowsgambit 2014-08-09 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
Information, huh?

[Information is never just information. Information is valuable. It's interesting, though, that he's so ready to volunteer the fact that he has someone on the inside. Or, more specifically, that they do.]

I have more questions first. That scrap of paper, that design's like your badge, right? Care to tell me why you're asking us for help when you guys attacked us with those snowmen?
smallspot: Dia-Look Up (Look Up)

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[personal profile] smallspot 2014-08-09 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, Father says that people will often act the way they are expected to act. If you were treated badly, then it only makes sense that you will start to act badly. What is the point of acting any other way?

[Diarmuid lowers the paper and looks at it thoughtfully.]


An omen of destruction. Just like in the stories Father tells me. I bet you have so many stories to tell. No one should keep you from telling them to us...but what do you mean children of over a hundred years old? Humans....don't live that long, do they? Is it different because you are outside? Or...is that what you mean by lengthening lifespans?
heismymission: lurks in your kitchen ominously (c: hiding)

anonymous text (although he's no tech expert)

[personal profile] heismymission 2014-08-09 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Although he's not one to question orders, he also recognizes that the people in charge of this city are responsible for abducting him and likely will be responsible for the memory he'll lose in the future.

And if there's one thing he's gained from his leave from HYDRA, it's curiosity. If he can get information from this man, he'll do it.]


what are they hiding
heretic_hamlet: (Pointing)

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[personal profile] heretic_hamlet 2014-08-09 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Curiouser and curiouser, and the promise of parley was a tantalizing one.

He would take note of the coordinates for now, But he could not always afford the luxury of trust, nor so easily leap to embrace it.]


You wish no ill upon us for true? Were the snow fiends this past winter not your doing?
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lightstrike: (i feel your wisdom burn in me)

[personal profile] lightstrike 2014-08-09 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
[He'd said that it'd be someone else, but it looks like he might have thought it's better to meet her in person instead of letting someone else handle it.

Or maybe it's his twin, or a relative who closely resembles him. She might not know until he speaks though.]


I'm searching for a door, and was pointed to this gate instead.
heismymission: did i finally kill him or (c: watching)

[personal profile] heismymission 2014-08-09 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Can't you just tell him everything and make things easy? God. Fine.]

what do they want from us

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