text;

[andeatit]

[Once his exploring was done, he needed to get down to business.]

Somehow, it seems we've all ended up in a very strange place. I would like to figure out how as well as a way out, but as one of us is dangerous, it's best if we all meet first. If you see this, please reply. Once we have enough people to make it safe to meet, we'll agree on a room. Until then, pleasre be careful not to venture out too far alone.

[It obviously wasn't safe for just two people to meet, so it would take at least three.]

Comments

[eraser_rain]

How clearly do you remember the circumstances before or during your kidnapping?

[andeatit]

The events before were typical enough. There were no strange occurrences, nothing that I can link back to as being suspicious, even in hindsight.

And then I woke up here. Somehow, I didn't wake during transport which seems to suggest drugs.

[eraser_rain]

Does anything else suggest drugs, such as a mental fog or unclear memories?

[andeatit]

No. Even when I try to focus on being moved, there's nothing there, which is lack of memory rather than unclear memories. I do live in the midst of a large city rather than a smaller island as this seems to be, so transport would have had taken a bit of time.

Yourself?

[eraser_rain]

Moving you from the middle of a large populated area without so much as a bruise and without waking you would take a massive conspiracy or near supernatural powers. If you're certain there was nothing strange when you'd fallen asleep, not even an unusual fatigue, even more so. What about the security in the place where you were to access you to administer the drugs in the first place?

[andeatit]

Impressive, but I'm very cautious to label it as supernatural. Intelligent, yes, but not supernatural.

As we discuss this, the laundry room comes to mind. I don't want to devote too much attention to it as it could just be something to distract us from the real threat, but have you found any clues to the combination?

[eraser_rain]

Then a conspiracy on a governmental level?

The spaces are entered as the visible code, but when I tried other codes those particular spaces weren't required to be spaces. It's not impossible that somebody else tried it at random, but with the number five being so prevalent, I don't think it's a mistake to assume it was left as it was deliberately. I returned it to the set of zeroes and spaces it was on.

There seem to be five sections of it, and everything suggests there are five of us. I assume the letter you woke with had the same information, but there may be differences to be decoded.

Alternately there might be something in the five bedrooms.

[andeatit]

Variations are a good place to start. What did yours say?

[eraser_rain]

[File Attachment: MikamiLetter.png]

[He used the web cam to take a picture of just the intro letter and cropped out the desk it's sitting on to keep his location obscured.

No written comment, assuming the visual speaks for itself.]

[andeatit]

The Note does have a few confusing lines, doesn't it?

[eraser_rain]

Any differences from yours?

[andeatit]

No, it seems identical. But something in it could be a clue anyway. It's addressing someone here more directly than the rest of us.

[eraser_rain]

I want to see yours.

*wink*

[andeatit]

Attachment:Letter.png

[It's the same as Mikami's, including the cropping.]

It's good to handle everyone with precaution Mikami-san, but I am on your side. I'd like us all to be on the same side.

[eraser_rain]

[Is there any way for him to be sure it wasn't just his picture sent back to him? Wrinkles on the paper different, a different background or floor? A fingertip?]

Pleasantries come second to survival.

[andeatit]

[He had folded it well enough to fit into his pocket. He had cropped everything around it to hide his own location.]

I'm not trying to win in popularity. Mutual cooperation is a key element in survival.

[eraser_rain]

Agreed. When you have enough people to feel secure in meeting, let's. I'll check back at sundown for a time and place.

[andeatit]

I'll reply with a picture, time, and place. Please do the same. Even if I can't get a third person, there's a little safety in knowing others will know we were meeting.

[eraser_rain]

Understood.

[andeatit]

Message sent at 18:03

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10:00 P.M. in the laundry room.

[eraser_rain]

Message sent at 20:00

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Confirmed.