What's the difference between a god and a devil?

[For the first time, you get a voice post from Jacob. His voice is on the low-end of tenor, with a very light Irish accent, and he sounds rushed and worried.]


All of you researchers out there? Need to watch your backs. Everyone's on high alert here, now.

Listen, you... There's a reason I'm not telling you people anything. You're better off not knowing. Just...okay.

Christ- okay.

Look- Fuck, I don't even know how to say this. I know you can't but...just...just trust that we- that I know what I'm doing.

Take the two laptops you all found from the ruins site; there's an adapter for them in one of rooms close to the entrance down in the tunnels. Just take them into a room and plug them in, it's not hard. Only keep one on at a time, and only use the adapter to charge them. You don't want them feeding off the power supply longer than they have to. When you turn them on they should bring up an electronic journaling system; you can post from these things and they'll show up on the journals, but they're encrypted so we won't be able to read them.

Do not use these laptops as your personal little toys. Every time you make a post, you raise the chances of us finding the posts, so make sure they count. If I catch wind of you doing that, you better believe I'll correct your stupid mistake. And you artificials, don't try and interface with them; I dunno what they set up against intruders in there. Could scramble your brains beyond repair.

Do not take the laptops from the room; they don't care you have them now, but if they notice you getting all organized and find the laptops gone, they'll figure out what's going on. John's managed to mess with surveillance in the tunnels so they can't see what's going on down there -for the most part- but Jesus, don't push your fucking luck.


...Also, take a moment of silence for the weapons storekeeper; that might be you five years from now, hero-types, dying a shitty death while nobody even knows your name. His was Tyr.


[[ooc: For an explanation on the laptops, please see the modpost here!]]

As you can see, experiments have started again. I'll try to get you some kind of warning next time.

Now, whoever's involved in that crystal thing, keep information regarding their whereabouts and where they'll end up off the journals as best you can. I've been told to track and report any mention of them.

Also, I see you've all met John. He's a bastard, don't take it personally. However, if I'm a bastard to you, you should probably take it personally since I'll mean it. He's not really trustworthy, but he's useful as hell; we're going to try and work something out that benefits all.

Mark, don't do that again. It was a good try, but it's only because you aren't so good at encrypting that they couldn't derive my own sequence from that.

Here's the plan; if you need to contact me, come up with a key phrase. Something that sounds natural, but not something you'd say on a daily basis. I'll reply to your entry with my filter, and it'll be a lot more secure that way.

Post your phrases here. You can't all use the same one; it'd create a pattern, and they'd notice.



...look, if I could teach you all this encryption sequence over the journals, I would.