*The video opens up on a single long elven ear. Then the owner of the ear sits back and arches an eyebrow at the screen*

I have had this...device explained to me, and yet it still seems like magic. It was certainly magic that brought me to this place...or that destroyed Thedas. *he frowns* I'm not going to think about that.

The fact remains and is, I am here. In this strange place. With these strange people.

...least there are no slavers.

[So tower, you're now being treated to bursts of Merrill and Fenris arguing-- it's staticky, of course, but they are definitely arguing! Over what? Well, how to use text.]

--"technology." No doubt their name for blood--[Static.]--tell you again if I must, it--[More static.]--watching to be certain no demons emerge from the glass.

I don't think--[Static.] magic, Fenris. There doesn't--[Static.]--magical about this. If a demon--[Static.]--fight it like we--[Static.]--do.

[Eventually the arguing dies out and words begin to appear on the screen instead of a voice file playing all of their bickering.]

hello/
oh, i got it to work fenris1 ;)
i'm not sure how to get these symbols to work, though. ;(
the words look a little odd without them there properly.
anyway... i thought i should ask.
has anyone else recieved a note saying something about a group/
i have one that says i am supposed to be in group c.

I really don't want to do that again

Purrhaps I could just stay in the tower purrease.
Oh this is good

Hah I figured out these weird things!

Anyways, maybe this place could not send me home?

That would be nice. Home is sort of a
wasteland

Signless? Psi? Are you two okay?

This is so much weirder than just talking

[More images of tattooed hands, the same as in his last post. He's still working on that "positioning himself in focus" thing.]

I've no desire to use this technology any more than I have to. It's only more magic by another name. But I have a question, and it needs to be asked.

[He finally moves himself properly into focus, leaning over the terminal.]

I've seen complaints about victims of the tower who share their names, but this is different. Has the tower been known to alter memories? If one man remembers one path of events, and his friend another, could that be the doing of the demons and mages who control this place?

I cannot be the only one so afflicted. Tell me. Does this place change a person before they even arrive?

1. What the hell is up with that one new floor?

2. You troll people, no one cares about that blood color thing here and there are more than one of some of you so it's really stupid to post entries like OH MY BLOOD IS A BIT MORE PURPLE THAN YOURS OH YOU ARE TYPING WITH THE WRONG COLOR over and over.

3. Maybe we should make a movie or something to give to new people so we don't have to keep telling everyone.

4. Did anyone else fill out some weird survey without wanting to?

5. Can we go back to that new floor thing, because WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH THE BLOOD AND THE SCREAMING.

[The terminal comes on to video of tattooed hands flickering over it and then a form in spiky armor pacing irritably in front of it.]

Two weeks and I have found no exit. Only stairs, magic, and demons. Or creatures that might as well be.

[He stops pacing and finally leans over the computer to bring his face into focus. From his voice, it shouldn't be much of a surprise that he looks distinctly displeased.]

So I resort to this "technology."

Who knows how to remove these collars?

Ignore. ♥