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Is This Thing On?

(cw: reference to skin-related body horror)

The message that pops up on off-worlders' ADI-issued phones phones likely comes as a surprise given that the network has been down since May 25, along with all of ADI's other fancy tech. It's similar to other network notifications at first glance and looks like an official notification from the higher-ups saying that the network has been restored, but anyone who clicks it will find their phone redirected to automatically download a new app from a shady-looking URL that ends in the phrase "its-ya-boy-pyre".

Upon loading, the app turns out to be a private chat program with most of the same features as the ADI network, though the user interface is much, much less polished. It immediately shows a longer, less deceptive message from a user named "thecolepackage":

Sorry for the trick guys but I don't know if I can get the old network to do like back and forth and I wanted to send something you'd all click open on the first shot. And like if you know someone who's better at cyber security than you and didn't open the message maybe let them know it's okay? It's ya boy Pyre and I figured out how to get this app linked up with your phones, it should be private and safe and all that stuff. I only sent it to you offworlders for now, I'm still not so sure ADI'scool with the whole ex-desolation monster thing. But I thought maybe you could use this and also maybe I was getting lonely because it sounds like y'all have a lot going on right now

And Bonnie's telling me there's all kinds of arguments about what to do?? That's rough man I know what it's like to find out you're kind of doing the wrong thing and maybe feeding something that's going to end the world. And maybe it'll be good if you can all talk about that and figure out what YOU want to do without your bosses telling you since Bonnie says none of your bosses are agreeing on anything and it seems to me like its maybe important to figure out if you're still going to be in the apocalypse disruption gig. Youre in a tough spot and I'd say I don't envy you but also I miss having skin so I do envy you a little bit.

Anyway like I said have at and let your friends know this isn't a virus. Or it's a friendly virus I guess. Also I kind of want to go by my name Cole now instead of Pyre? So if you could call me Cole now I'd like that.

Peace.

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Comments

[abrightboy]

Are you an Avatar?

[ferriswheelsandfootball]

[Wow buddy way to call him out

Though you’re not wrong]

Of course not! And even if I was, do you think I’d be stupid enough to admit it while trying to convince everyone to work with an Avatar?

[abrightboy]

You just seem really, really keen on them being okay if they're here to battle the Entities.

[ferriswheelsandfootball]

I am keen on them being okay if they’re gonna fight for good

[abrightboy]

Isn’t that antithetical to what they fundamentally are?

[ferriswheelsandfootball]

Kinda. But good in this case pretty much means ‘less bad’ or ‘less deadly.’

[abrightboy]

If that’s how they appear, it’s probably a trick.

[ferriswheelsandfootball]

At this point we’re just splitting hairs. I’m willing to work with someone evil if it means us having the same goals, if those same goals will save lives.

We don’t have the luxury of waiting around for good.

[abrightboy]

Sounds like an argument that evil would make. Who have you been talking to?

[ferriswheelsandfootball]

Nia, obviously, but I mean—that’s just me. I worked with a space vampire because we have the same goals. War is ugly, Malcolm. Souls get ruined in them. You do things you’d never thought you’d see yourself doing. The question is how many people do you end up saving in the end.

[abrightboy]

How many do you end up losing?

[ferriswheelsandfootball]

we usually aim for the least amount as possible. I hate to say it but collateral damage is inevitable. I don’t like it. I don’t want to leave people behind. I do everything in my power not to.

This is the trolley problem and I’ve never been a fan of it. Really, there’s got to be a third way out and I’d do everything in my power to find it.

[abrightboy]

And what does your ‘power’ entail?

[ferriswheelsandfootball]

[Certainly not anything avatar related, for sure]

i meant my ability, not a literal power.

[Did u tho john]

[abrightboy]

You know that’s how they get you, right? They make you feel like you need their powers to be better than you are somehow. But that’s not what ends up happening.

[ferriswheelsandfootball]

If any advantage can be had in this fight against them, it should be taken. And I know--I know what you're gonna say, that it just ends up corrupting you, but that's a sacrifice some of us may be willing to make.

[abrightboy]

And how do some of you think you’re going to be able to fight them with THEIR OWN POWER?

[ferriswheelsandfootball]

For one, the Hunt doesn’t need to be fought, not right now. And two, for the other Entities, other people with different affiliations would take the lead on that.

Kind of like Pokémon.

[abrightboy]

You're going to fight the apocalypse with made up rules you got from a children's game? It doesn't WORK like that!

[ferriswheelsandfootball]

if those made up rules actually work then yeah, I am!

[abrightboy]

They’re not going to work; you made them up! You’re not actually in charge of… whatever we do next, are you?

[ferriswheelsandfootball]

No, of course not. And I don’t wanna be

[abrightboy]

Then who is?

[ferriswheelsandfootball]

everyone, I guess. We’re all in this together

[abrightboy]

I’m not sure that we are. Some people are in it with the Entities now.