compnetwork | one. text. locked to the visitor's network. march 16, early afternoon.

Before our great leaders or some overly sanctimonious citizens decide to deep clean for the sake of some city beautification program, let's get a little proactive! Has anyone had a chance to grab photographs of the lovely murals around the city? Please don't say you grabbed video of one on this network. We all know it has a rather biased set of viruses. (Not a knock on you, Miss *Hyun-ae; we all know you try your best.) Since I'm sure that this skirts the line between legality and the no-no line (encouraging terrorism? Moi? Oh no, never!), let's keep this more or less sanitized. Please don't be stupid enough to upload your picture to the network. Instead, a location and a description of what you saw there will do. Discussion of the symbolism is all right, if you think you can get away with it. If you don't think you'll be safe communicating through this network at all, but you'd still like a description of your mural here for posterity's sake, please feel free to contact me through my inbox and I'll arrange something with you.

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A beautiful set of white flowers in Libra with clock-like images and the number 13 on them. Didn't recognize the species, but I don't think that's important.

I'll take a look for myself and see. Thank you for your generous contribution, stranger.

Meetra Surik. I prefer not to be a stranger.

Admirable, I'm sure. It's a pleasure, Meetra Sutrik.

You're new-ish here, aren't you? Or did you show up while I was in the Tower, maybe?

I've read about the mass exodus, yes. Must have been quite the adventure.

You could say that.

And so I did. Was I supposed to take more from the experience, or was there more to it than what one could read?

It was a terrible place run by terrible people. Something else came with us, too, and caused even more problems for the people there and us.

Sounds complicated to me... Mind elaborating for the class?

Where to begin... Imagine a Tower floating in the sky. You arrive there - normally - to be told by aloof administrators that your world has been destroyed and you're one of only a few survivors. You proceed to live, stuck in the Tower, like a refugee with inadequate food, intermittent electricity, and wandering monsters scattered throughout your new "home" that try to kill you - not to mention half the architecture doing the same. You're also fitted with a collar that allows these administrators to control your actions and bring you back from the dead should you be killed by their whims or one of the wandering monsters. Then a whole bunch of other people (whose existence proves your worlds aren't dead, except perhaps in a hairsplitting quantum sense) show up and disrupt the routine, bringing with them some abomination from beyond the stars that starts driving you collared locals insane and summoning the undead. I think he might have also killed one of the administrators. Then the whole thing ends in an inconclusive mess when all the Hinoto-Ri people are abruptly sent back without even a clue whether the people in the Tower are alright. I mixed up my point of view in there somewhere, but it was fairly upsetting.

I suppose you have reason to be. The lack of a proper denouement is what concerns me the most... I suppose one would look for a "happily ever after" here, mmm? Are you expecting one?

I know better than that. I'd settle for figuring out what's going on, exactly.

Tying up loose ends on a pickle like that sounds like an awful lot of work to me, especially when no one here seems to be forthcoming with answers. I wouldn't bother putting up with it, personally.

Going back there doesn't seem to be possible, so I'm focusing on learning more about the situation here. Hence my interest in these Anoli graphics.

Driven, aren't you? It's not my style, but as long as it works for you...

If you want to learn anything in any world, you can't just wait for someone to tell you. You have to ask.

Hmmm... a frequent flyer, are you?

Normally just planet to planet and not galaxy to galaxy, but you start to notice patterns either way.

Interesting. Is intergalactic travel uncommon where you from, or are you a homebody?

As far as I know, I'm the first person to ever leave the galaxy I was born in. The space between galaxies is just too empty and chaotic, even with hyperdrive. Moving around within it is another story, and I've traveled a fair bit.

A pioneer, then? Exciting stuff. Wouldn't like to be in your shoes, though. We're rather stuck here, as you've probably noticed.

Supposedly, we actually can return. I just don't have a particular reason to, since this place's problems seem more urgent than the one I was looking for when I arrived.

Pretty magnanimous on your part, I'd say. I'd say more than a few people in your position would shrug their shoulders and move on.

I'm just a habitual meddler, I guess.

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