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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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[graveyounglady]

A well-said summation, sir. It is our unity I fear is fracturing most in all of this. Mr. Steel's aims in threatening Ms. Nia must surely have been to unsettle all of us, to cause discord and destroy ADI before it could act against him. It seems folly to do as he so wishes.

[unnecessaryflourishes]

It is certainly not impossible. Men have done similarly before, when they find their position threatened. Not least of all for the fact that in the chaos that follows it is often easier to escape judgment.

Thus, I agree that it would be folly to do as he wishes.

[graveyounglady]

Have you seen such a thing play out in your own world?

[unnecessaryflourishes]

Time and again, yes. Though I will not deny I have seen more lifetimes than most.

[graveyounglady]

And how was it resolved? With life prevailing, it would seem.

[unnecessaryflourishes]

Sometimes. Were those who had sought to flee not caught up in the chaos they had chosen.

[graveyounglady]

I am afraid I do not follow. People... chose the apocalypse?

[unnecessaryflourishes]

I was speaking of lesser instances of chaos. Though it would not surprise me if some had chosen to simply attempt to weather whatever apocalypse had come. If not necessarily any currently here.

[graveyounglady]

I am uncertain how one could hope to weather any apocalypse, were one not a chosen child of the Entity taking over. I suppose apocalypse is a broad term, though, and it does not necessarily mean a mass death. Only a cataclysmic shift from what we already know.

I would prefer not to suffer such a fate, though. Whichever Entity might try to rule over this world. Few of them seem kind. Though, the End is the easiest for me to understand.

[unnecessaryflourishes]

Nor are other worlds strictly tied to the same Entities as this one, though all of them have the capacity for apocalypses, even should they not come be.

Though I agree. While I cannot say for certain whether we will be able to stave off an apocalypse here, we can at least make such attempts as we may. For both our own sakes and those who live here.

[graveyounglady]

That is to be our first priority. Glad am I to see that even those set upon leaving ADI have sense enough to see that as the goal to pursue in this moment. Even if some of us do fracture, I would hate to have Zyrian win for his wicked machinations.

Men who would toy with hearts and minds for so many years are the worst sorts I can think of. At least a warlord has the decency to be direct and plain in his aggressions.

[unnecessaryflourishes]

Indeed. Those same aggressions may not be what anyone wishes to see, but they are at least readily understandable.

Though I should likewise assume Zyrian has some underlying motive behind his own machinations. Even should they be ones only he believes to be beneficial.

[graveyounglady]

Power. Is that not the underlying motive of everyone who would reshape the world in the form of their own god? They would see themselves at the top, a favored son or daughter of the being they have devoted themselves to. Perhaps spared the worst of the suffering or granted even more power to inflict it.