Text: This is a public service announcement

[lighter_flick]

[After he wakes up from that weird dream, it takes him a few more hours to realize that Eikichi is, somehow, missing. And...that was it! That was the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back! Because by mid-morning, there is an angry-looking text post from Tatsuya on the network, with only these words of warning.]

ATTN: HINOTO-RI

PHILEMON WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE

[That's....it. Maybe he should elaborate.]

Comments

[text]

[prototype_blues]

Not on the network.

But give me a second, I can type up the speeches for you if you want them.

[The joys of being a robot, Blues remembers everything he's seen/heard.]

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[lighter_flick]

They're humanity. They're where all Personas come from. That's what "I am thou, thou art I" means. They're us.

[What about that wasn't clear to you. :|]

[text]

[lighter_flick]

THAT'D BE REALLY HELPFUL, THANK YOU. ARE YOU SURE YOU DON'T MIND?

[mysteriousvoice]

WOW GEEZE, CALM YOUR TITS

[lighter_flick]

NO HE WILL NEVER BE CALM!!!!

EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gigglesnortpriestess]

I'm sorry but can you explain?

[Already worried since some of her friends went missing. And after talking with Nick too...]

[derwunderkind]

ARE YOU KIDDING?! THIS IS THE BEST THING TO EVER HAPPEN TO ME!

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[selfgodded]

But, but how can one be humanity? Are humans not humanity themselves? I was unaware that there was an entity that presided over it!

[THIS WENT AGAINST EVERYTHING HE KNEEEEEEEEEEW]

[text]

[prototype_blues]

If I minded I wouldn't have offered.

That and I don't care for either side.

[And Tastuya enjoy the first ping, the Anoli Leader's speech written word for word. Unedited, but also under a Privacy Filter. Blues may not like either side, but like hell does he want to get in trouble for this.]

[text]

[lighter_flick]

YEAH I KNOW.

I SHOULD PROBABLY GO FIND WHERE HE WENT.

I JUST THOUGHT I'D NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN AND THEN I SHOWED UP HERE AND HE WAS THERE AND NOW HE'S GONE AGAIN.

[text]

[pastalishe]

I find it impossible to take any of your statements seriously. If your intent is to spread awareness, you've failed miserably.

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[lighter_flick]

[SIGH okay maybe if he breaks it down it'll make more sense.]

Philemon is the part of humanity that wants to evolve and become enlightened while Nyarlathotep is the part that wants to destroy itself.

Does that make more sense now?

Privacy filter->[text]

[lighter_flick]

COOL, I'LL GET TO READING IT.

THANK YOU AGAIN.

[lighter_flick]

EVERY TIME PHILEMON MEDDLES WITH SOMETHING, EVERYTHING BECOMES TERRIBLE AND NOTHING IS OKAY.

IT'S A LONG STORY.

Privacy filter->[text]

[prototype_blues]

It's not anything to thank me for, pretty sure someone else has this information too.

And the mayor's speech starts with a lot of fluff, you want that or just the crazy part?

[Because Blues doesn't think the whole "MAN WEREN'T THESE GAMES AWESOME" part is important.]

[lighter_flick]

YOU'LL SEE.

YOOOOOOUUUUUUU'LL SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[text]

[lighter_flick]

GO AHEAD AND DON'T BELIEVE ME, I DON'T BLAME YOU.

I WOULDN'T BELIEVE ME EITHER CONSIDERING EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENED

[gigglesnortpriestess]

If this involved that dream then I have time.

Privacy filter->[text]

[lighter_flick]

PROBABLY ALL OF IT JUST TO BE SAFE.

[He wants to see how it goes from fluff to crazy, to be honest.]

[text]

[greatseal]

You think we can do that?

I mean... I'd like to find them too, but it didn't sound like that was possible.

[text]

[ineedthemforanalyzing]

It doesn't really sound funny, no...

Privacy filter->[text]

[prototype_blues]

Alright then. The games he mentions are that tournament thing, fyi.

[And here we go, including the crazy part..]

I found the claim of the Anoli being nazis to be quite the unique touch, if going a bit overboard.

[lighter_flick]

OKAY I DON'T KNOW WHAT WAS UP WITH THAT DREAM SPECIFICALLY.

BUT BEFORE I CAME HERE PHILEMON WAS AROUND TOO AND HE MADE A BET WITH NYLARLATHOTEP ABOUT WHAT HUMANITY WANTED, IF WE WANTED ENLIGHTENMENT OR SELF-DESTRUCTION.

THEY DECIDED TO TEST THIS WITH FIVE KIDS.

THOSE WERE ME AND MY FRIENDS.

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[selfgodded]

Hrmm, I am unsettled by this. It was my understanding that humanity is entirely under the domain of humans, with no representation by any entity, god or otherwise. To learn that Philemon is indeed a manifestation of it...

[Long pause]

If Philemon is the part that yearns for evolution and enlightenment... ah, that is why things go terribly wrong when he meddles.

Privacy filter->[text]

[lighter_flick]

[....Oh. Nazis, eh?

Takes, deep, calming breaths...]

JUST SO YOU KNOW, NYARLATHOTEP'S M.O. IS TO DISGUISE HIMSELF AS A REGULAR HUMAN.

I DUNNO IF THIS GUY IS HIM, JUST KEEP THAT A THING IN MIND FOR WHEN YOU'RE TALKING TO PEOPLE.

THIS GUYS SEEMS NUTS THOUGH, I AGREE.