animus_network | HaVE a nICE daY. [Text] [Forward-dated to the evening of the 10th]

[There's an audible chime, like a cheery voicemail tone, from every terminal simultaneously, before text appears on the screen.]

Good afternoon, Tower of Animus. My name is The Observer. I've got a special message for you today, direct from one of our beloved administrators. Please read, listen to, and memorize this message, and reproduce it wherever you can!

Souls in our world are defined as the self. Even those without anything that can be considered a soul in their own worlds would manifest one here. Souls are extremely resilient - they can be torn out of their body and survive provided they are removed in the right manner. But they shouldn't be of course - the side effects might be disastrous in ways we can't quite understand. It's happened here before. Souls can be torn out of this world the same as in any other. Here though they can split - that's extremely important. They can split and merge if you have the right skillset. Never lose your soul in the Tower of Animus. None of yours are yet lost - but never lose it! They won't come back whole if you let her swallow them up. The power must have gone by now - she'll want to restore the tower. Everyone who ended up trapped on their own worlds is now in grave danger! She can't take souls as Zo can, but she can siphon them and she can squeeze all the energy out of them.

As soon as this message is decoded put it in as many places as possible! Put it on the network make copies and plaster them on the walls. Do everything you can so that as many people read this message as possible. There isn't enough energy to erase everyone's memories!

Remember - souls born here can be split and reabsorbed here. A soul born elsewhere can be split there, but there's no way to put it back together unless you can put it back where it's supposed to be.

Not everything is as fake as it seems. Your souls are here and you have all been drugged to keep certain aspects of yourselves contained but every part of you is here. You can use that against them if you can figure out how to unchain yourselves.

I'm afraid you'll have Jason as your first opponent as he's the one with the keys you need. Be careful! There is information everywhere though much of it has been nearly permanently sealed. I can make it possible for you to access it, although you will all have to unlock it.

Wasn't that a special little message? Now, copy it down in your notes so you don't forget it! No matter whom you're allied with, be it Pandora, Ganondorf, your friends from home, or just yourself! There will be a test on this.

And the first section of the test is this - I want you to place at least one copy of this message somewhere in the tower. No points for hiding it! It has to be visible to everyone! In a few days I'll tell you all how you did, and I'll repeat this message for you lazy people who didn't see or hear this today.

That's all for now!

- The Observer

[All characters with mailboxes will find a copy of the message in their mail as of this evening.]

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[What?! As far as she knew, Ryoji was the only one who called her 'Tohko-chan', and the writing style was rather like him. Smiling, she typed up a reply..all while thinking that she was talking to Ryoji.]

Oh, I believe you, Ryoji! I just wasn't sure of who you were before this post. I'm not sure how you got this information from a hiding place, and while I would like to know, I guess you can tell me in a safer place with less eyes. You're writing skills are much better than I thought though..the above post with all the info didn't sound much like you. It was good masking!

..Assuming, of course, that my deduction isn't wrong.

[wat]

This isn't Ryoji, sorry! I'll tell you that much~.

[..Oh.]

Ah..sorry about that then. I only know one other person here in the Tower that calls me 'Tohko-chan' like that.

[Alright, new deduction then. In Pandora-the people she knew were a part of it, at the very least-there were a few people who could have found research like this..but there was no way Dax would have left it out in the open or for normal eyes. Any sane person would have put a code on it..ah. She thought she knew who this was now. And while she didn't fully trust him now, that was an issue best left for later.]

..I think I know who you are now though. It's just a guess, but I suppose I'll find out soon enough if it's correct. In the meantime, I'll work on getting this spread around the Tower.

No giving away secrets~! Better to concentrate on getting the message out, ne~? o(^▽^)o

..I wasn't going to tell anyone who I thought you were right now. Don't worry though. I'll be able to pass your message along.

..On a different note though, you're really good at switching writing styles. I bet you would be able to write a really sweet story and fool people into thinking that it wasn't you if you took on a pen name. But that's just me.

Ah, the fabulous Observer has many names and many faces! Of course they'd be different writing styles~! ＿〆(。。)

Buuuusteeeeeeed~

OH MY GOSH GET OUT! (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Nope! (´∀`)

[Well..Tohko really wasn't expecting this, but she knew the person who was bothering the anon, so this was..interesting.]

Ah..I didn't know that you two knew each other. While I didn't catch your name, I hope you're doing alright now, Miss Crutch. (Pardon the nickname)

As for you, Observer..that would make sense. After all, if you were going to properly observe, you would have to make sure to hide your identity sometimes. A more fluid writing style would help with that.

Edited 2013-07-10 02:46 (UTC)

Eheh, my name's Asako. Nice to speak to you again, Miss Crutch Delivery! :)

And yeah, we know each other, unfortunately! This meanie clogged up my inbox with a whole load of nonsense once!
ｏ( ><)o

Edited 2013-07-10 02:49 (UTC)

Ah, nice to know of your name then, Asako! I'm Tohko Amano, the book girl!

Ah..I'm sorry to hear that! What sort of nonsense was it? Maybe it was an encrypted message or something of the sort!

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