DAY :027

[onemind]

[A day after the new arrivals show up and before anyone has really had a chance to settle in, every member of the nest gets an Extranet message at the exact same time from an untraceable source. It doesn't show up in your inbox; instead it opens in another window - don’t mistake it for a pop-up because if you close it, then you won’t be able to respond in line. The chat window's cursor blinks at you as the words scroll across, line by line; the message is accompanied by an unblinking blue eyeball avatar:]

XSome kind of brain trust you areX.

XWe've seen you sticking your noses where they don't belongX.

XOf course, they're not really your noses, are theyX?

XRemind us again: what it is that you think you’re trying to doX?



((ooc: feel free to use this post to respond in-line to EXTRAAA, as well as chat with other hosts via the mental-link or personal interactions. please be aware that this post has a time limit and all responses from extraaa will cease end of day 8/19; this doesn't mean you can't continue to tag this post afterward, just that extraaa will likely have gone silent by that point))

Comments

mental link: ota

[erbier]

( Someone knows more than they should. )

[adamance]

( I wouldn't be so quick to assume. )

[erbier]

( What other explanation that they know to contact the members of our Hive? )

[adamance]

( They don't know the Hive. Only the false identities. It would make sense that those would become apparent after the recent public event. )

[erbier]

( How much separation is there between our falsehoods, our powers, and our true nature. They all lead to one another. )

[adamance]

( Why would they assume a bigger leap rather than a simpler one? )

[Although Lexa loves convoluted leaps, she does not believe this world is full of people who would assume aliens with symbiotes inside of their bodies.]

( Besides, they have latched on to the identity aspect. )

[erbier]

( How grand a leap is it after the events of the explosion? )

[adamance]

( Do you think they would pursue such a subtle method when we could be perceived as monsters? Ahsoka has to hide in this world because of how strange she is to others. )

[erbier]

( Some people have use for monsters. )

[adamance]

( They may, but they are not yet at the point where they've identified monsters. )

[erbier]

( I will leave it to you to discern it, I am not so comfortable conveying myself in text. )

[deployed]

( I don't know. They're asking questions. That doesn't mean there's any real knowledge behind it. )

[ yet. ]

[erbier]

( They know enough to know who to ask. )

[deployed]

( All we have to do is keep from giving them anything. Stonewall them, while we figure out what to do about them. )

[erbier]

( Why answer them at all, then? )

[ She really doesn't know, this game of internet espionage thing is utterly beyond her experiences. What the consensus of the Hive tells her doesn't have enough context for her to fully follow. ]

[deployed]

( To get them to tell us something instead. Find out who they are. )

[erbier]

( They must have an idea already of what they will and will not disclose. What are they waiting to hear? )

[deployed]

( People make mistakes. ) [ A truly hilarious statement coming from Bellamy. ] ( They can slip up. I don't know what they want to hear, but we shouldn't give anything away. )

[erbier]

( It seems they wish to know our goals. What if we tell them? The more pressing concern is they not know of our powers, it seems. )

[deployed]

( And if they decide they don't like our goals? )

[erbier]

( Then they do not like them. Perhaps we silence them. )

[decommission]

( Guess we haven't been as stealthy as we thought. )

[ he has literally been the least stealthy ]

[erbier]

( Our hands were forced, to a certain degree. )

[ That whole Kylo Ren freak out thing.... yanno.... ]

[decommission]

( They know we went to Ven Diagrams. )

[ So it wasn't just their presence at the blast site that tipped these folks off. ]

[erbier]

( I suppose the question is were we followed from there, or to there. )