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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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hah. Thanks, kid

yeah, if you say so. Skin's pretty optional where we're from though

skin-optional is not the kind of party I'm used to getting excited about

you're pulling my leg though, right?

nah. I mean, most people have it
or fur or feathers or scales or something

but no one's really gonna be surprised when someone doesn't. That just happens sometimes

huh. I probably shouldn't be creeped out by that all things considered, and yet

you probably shouldn't. But people around here have a really low tolerance for weird, huh?

I mean it's not normal for people around here to not have skin. It's a skin-on world.

It must be really scary coming somewhere that's so different to where you grew up

yeah, a little. But I've been coming here since I was young

well not here here. My version of the Human Realm

pretty similar, though. Fear gods aside

wait so

you're from another world...in another world??

sure am.

My version of the Human Realm is a lot like this

but I'm from the Demon Realm. The Boiling Isles to be exact

it's a giant skeleton, you guys usually find that weird too

uh, YEAH.

you should have led with demon realm that's a giant skeleton, that's metal as hell

yeah, I guess it is.

The Demon Realm isn't all a skeleton though
that'd be silly.

The islands where I lived are

I guess that's slightly less cool but it'd have to be a really big skeleton to be a whole world. a bunch of islands is still a bit skeleton though

no it is, the Titan is pretty dang impressive

in my version of things we're where you get all your myths about witches and demons and fairies and whatever.

And where you got giraffes
I'd apologise but idk if they come from somewhere else here

Huh. I wonder where we got them here if we dont' have a you with your skeleton islands.

we give you anything cool back or is it a one way street?

no idea! But I don't think there's any way they're native

[The giraffes, that is. She's not so sure about anything else.]

you give us a LOT of ocean trash.
Some of it's cool stuff, though
there's even people who collect it

or make a killing off cleaning it up and selling it

[Well, maybe not a killing. But a reasonable side hustle.]

oh shit I'm sorry
cool cool we're fucking up two worlds with that instead of just one

but you don't have the fears where you come from, do you? I kind of thought all the things going wrong here were them

to be fair, you've still got it a lot worse than us

we don't have 'em as far as I know, anyway. Pretty sure you guys can mess things up all your own too

that's

oof

I guess we are good at making messes, just on the whole

maybe it's a good sign the Fears aren't responsible for everything?

Or some kind of a sign anyway

some kind of sign. I'm not sure if that makes me feel better or worse, knowing that the world can still get screwed up just from people being awful

if we get to pick then I'm gonna feel better. At least it means it's not all out of our hands

or something like that anyway

yeah

a lot of stuff has always been out of my hands though. So I'm not too sure I feel good about knowing I'm still part of the problem

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