video;

[wegotlucky]

[Neal looks tired, but serious. His hair is a bit of a mess right now and he clumsily brushes his hand through it before speaking.]

I've got a question.

When glamour failed a few months ago and things... things got messy, did anyone try and see what the world looks like outside of the tower?

[He's really dreading what sort of answer he's going to get, but he has to ask anyway.]

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[keepscalm]

I suppose it depends on your definition of "phony". He's definitely real enough to do destructive testing of his own, though how real the testing itself is might be up for debate, given the sad state of our bodies.

Did you notice the girl had a number?

[wegotlucky]

He's real, but he's apparently not the "real" Jason. The big question is whether he knows himself.

Yeah, I did.

[keepscalm]

She isn't the only young girl with a number that we've heard of around here.

[wegotlucky]

There have been others? Other videos?

[keepscalm]

Not other videos, but other files. They're no longer posted, and I'm afraid I don't have the computation skills to go digging for them, but back in the autumn of last year, a few files found their way onto the network.

One of them was another test. Subject 037.

They made her state her given name.

[wegotlucky]

[He has a bad feeling about this.]

What was it?

[keepscalm]

Ruana.

[WELP]

[wegotlucky]

[Welp. He was afraid of that.]

She was some sort of experiment before us?

That's awful.

[keepscalm]

That's what everything seemed to indicate.

She answered questions for a bit. The whole post is gone now. It was foolish of me not to record everything, but you may be able to find someone with a better memory. She did often allude to the presence of other people when talking about the time that the audio was from.

[wegotlucky]

But this doesn't make sense.

What would she gain from kidnapping us? That can't be about "saving" us from our dead worlds.