Me, too. Or that we'll have to do something like it all over again - like how everything reset. [ ... ] It was almost perfect. But I don't want that life.
This is the Atbash cypher. Also known as the backwards alphabet.
[ She'll just translate as she reads.
Even when she has a hard time telling what's real, she does know how to work. ]
"Normally when Players are erased, they are, for all intents and purposes, gone. Kept around on some frequency, maybe, but less tangible or aware than even folktale ghosts.
Which, of course, means that having them conscious elsewhere is very much not normal Game protocol. Not exactly against the rules, but those running the Game wouldn't be pleased to find out. So, it's important to hide this from them, and to err on the side of caution when discussing anything that seems out of place."
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Everything here feels real. Everyone feels real. But they did there, too, didn't they?
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Or it felt real.
At the time.] It only makes it harder to tell what is and isn't.
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...I feel a little bad, for not believing them. But it's hard to. It still feels like... like we could be deleted again, at any moment.
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Me, too. Or that we'll have to do something like it all over again - like how everything reset. [ ... ] It was almost perfect. But I don't want that life.
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[ The fall, the gun, the bullet wound. ]
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That does feel real. ]
Did you receive anything strange today? A message or something like that?
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[ at least there's that. while everything else is confusing and miserable, they might have that one bit of solace. ]
Just a text. No sender, so I thought it's just the mission thing. There's always one.
But it's encoded.
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Let me see it.
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[ he'll unlock the phone, open the text, and hand it over. it reads:
Mlinzoob dsvm Kozbvih ziv vizhvw, gsvb ziv, uli zoo rmgvmgh zmw kfiklhvh, tlmv. Pvkg zilfmw lm hlnv uivjfvmxb, nzbyv, yfg ovhh gzmtryov li zdziv gszm vevm ulopgzov tslhgh.
Dsrxs, lu xlfihv, nvzmh gszg szermt gsvn xlmhxrlfh vohvdsviv rh evib nfxs mlg mlinzo Tznv kilglxlo. Mlg vczxgob ztzrmhg gsv ifovh, yfg gslhv ifmmrmt gsv Tznv dlfowm'g yv kovzhvw gl urmw lfg. Hl, rg'h rnkligzmg gl srwv gsrh uiln gsvn, zmw gl vii lm gsv hrwv lu xzfgrlm dsvm wrhxfhhrmt zmbgsrmt gszg hvvnh lfg lu kozxv. ]
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[ She'll just translate as she reads.
Even when she has a hard time telling what's real, she does know how to work. ]
"Normally when Players are erased, they are, for all intents and purposes, gone. Kept around on some frequency, maybe, but less tangible or aware than even folktale ghosts.
Which, of course, means that having them conscious elsewhere is very much not normal Game protocol. Not exactly against the rules, but those running the Game wouldn't be pleased to find out. So, it's important to hide this from them, and to err on the side of caution when discussing anything that seems out of place."
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[ not sure if this is good or bad for confirming what's real or not. it still feels off. ]
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[Security, hacking, all of that. It'd be bad if she couldn't read a cipher this simple.]
It seems that way, doesn't it?
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[ though he has to wonder if it's worth trying. ]
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[Wolfwood. The real one. The one that was elsewhere and not with them.]
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But they're okay, right?
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I checked with Wolfwood. He seemed real... realer.
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[ he's still unsure about alex, sometimes. ]
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Alex... says things, sometimes, that are kind of similar to what she told me, after we were reset. It scares me.
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