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

[deployed]

( I don't think it's a prank. But I don't think we should answer it with any real information. )

[ When in doubt, stonewall the intruders. ]

[vocalis]

Well of course not... even if it's not serious.

[ There's a soft mantra of please don't be serious, please don't be serious playing in the background. Pranksters he can deal with. Actual threats, though... ]

I've seen something like this before. We need to be careful.

[deployed]

( Tell me what happened before. )

[vocalis]

[ A quick clarification, just in case- ]

It's nothing that happened within the Nest.

[ -before he continues just as seriously. ]

I was baited by someone sending me a game, over and over until I opened it. The game showed my grandmother being kidnapped. When I got home, she was gone.

[deployed]

[ Well, that's disconcerting. ]

( They might keep sending questions. ) [ Though Bellamy doesn't expect any direct, physical attacks. ] ( But I think it's the same. I think they're trying to bait us into telling them more about ourselves. )

[vocalis]

[ Aoba doesn't expect any physical attacks either. Not while they're still engaging this troll, anyway. But he does fear them being attacked eventually. It already happened at the gaming parlor. ]

I hope it's just questions. Those we can avoid answering... I won't let myself be baited again.

...

Good luck.