[anonymous text]

[nodeviations]

I am a new arrival, however I've read through several pages of the data here. I am attempting to skip many common questions, however I apologize if I require clarification.

My world could not have been destroyed without the proper causation. I will assume nobody has bought this poor-excuse of a cover story, so this leads us move on to more pressing concerns.

What is available here, what do we have access to, and what are we limited on?
What have people tried and failed to do?
Are there any legends or rumors anyone has heard about this place specifically?

I will also assume this is being monitored to some degree, so I would like to criticize our captor's sloppy worksmanship. Honestly, this is amateur kidnapping at best. You should be embarrassed.

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[morituramfides]

Can't die, can't leave, can't damage shit, can't eat the oatmeal without puking up your guts. You've got a steady supply of crappy food and bullshit justifications at your disposal, go crazy.

You could figure all that out after a day or two though. After that it's hard mode.

le anon

[nodeviations]

[FINALLY SOMEONE WHO'S ACTUALLY ON HIS WAVELENGTH ironically]

Ah, so not unlike prison.

What exactly has 'hard mode' entailed, in your experience? Anything specific, or would you rather keep such to yourself?

shocking

[morituramfides]

From what I heard prison at least gets you three square meals a day.

I'd keep it to myself, but you would probably find out anyway. I can see OP's smarter than your average newbie, so is there anything I can get out of this before I spill?

ikr

[nodeviations]

With good behavior, maybe. It's hard to count meals between torture sessions, I'm told.

And I see you're not an imbecile. It all depends on how much your privacy is worth to you- I will keep your own troubles out of my line of sight if you can offer up someone else's information in exchange. Anything of use, really. I can't exactly afford to be picky.

Of course, you'll have to take my word for it. I can't exactly prove it either way, but I am inclined to honor my word.

[morituramfides]

Not sure how much privacy is worth period around here. I'll give you a tidbit that you'll figure out eventually if you found out the torture thing: we just had a big fiasco and there's some pretty personal crap up on the network for everyone to see. tl;dr, this place doesn't exactly give a shit about privacy.

You supposed to be an information broker then?

[nodeviations]

More's the better, then. It simply means people have more things to hide, and I can help bury the right information as well.

I am, but I dabble in a few other things. I don't like to put all my eggs in one basket due to situations like this.

[morituramfides]

Good luck hiding the info. I've worked on hacking the computers, but the network's a piece of crap. It's like someone's poking holes in the coding at random intervals for shits and giggles.

[nodeviations]

To be blunt, this technology is foreign to me. I only saw machines like these in very special places back home.

I still believe my ways will work to some degree. They simply require a bit more effort.

[morituramfides]

If you don't know how to work this stuff, you're not going to be able to do much in the ways of suppressing and obtaining info. They're buggy as hell, but a lot of people use them to communicate, even the administrators.

If it's a service you're hoping to offer and bargaining you want, I can offer you my skills in exchange for whatever you're putting up.

text ---> audio

[nodeviations]

[...hm. He could use some help with this- if this guy could do as he said, then he'd be a threat otherwise. Why not? After a moment, Jay turned on the audio.]

It'll be a pleasure doing business with you, I'm sure. You can call me Jay.

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[morituramfides]

Name's Jin. Just let me know your plan and we can get to work. Pleasure doing business with ya.

[nodeviations]

I hope that this will satisfy you as for my identity. I'm aware these things are able to record people visually, but you're not missing out. I prefer to work with professionals if I can manage.

[He paused long enough to give a sigh.]

However, let's get down to the point. Who is bothering you, if anyone, and how can I help take care of it~? It's the least I can offer in lieu of your provided help.

[morituramfides]

Works for me. I've worked for people without event talkin' to 'em directly before, so it's all good.

Not sure I got many problems you can handle right now though. Like I said, everyone's gotten their asses kicked by the last "game." I can point you to a few assholes I don't particularly like, but there's not much to be done about 'em now.

[nodeviations]

How frequent are this games, if you know? Does everyone participate, as well?

[At least Jay seems intent to keep this business-y and not get-involved-in-your-life-y.]

Maybe not now, but revenge is a powerful force. I may come across something of interest to you, if I have names to keep an eye out for. What you do with that information, of course, is up to you.

[morituramfides]

Trust me, I know plenty about revenge. It's kind of my business; but I don't mind taking you up on that offer. [He'd...never really bothered with it much before personally, but it was good to have stashed away for blackmail maybe.]

I don't know if there's a consistent pattern; if you give me a minute, I could probably take a scroll back on the network and check, but I've seen shit happen anywhere from a month or two to a few weeks. Not everyone participates though; the selection seems kinda random to me.