USER: #DC143C - QUESTION FOR EVERYONE

[lonered]

[ USER: #DC143C ]

Hey. So...

...

Question for anyone. Or for everyone I guess.

How sure are you that you're still alive? Back where you're from I mean.

Like on a scale from 1 to 10. Where 1 is "I definitely died" and 10 is "I'm definitely still alive" and everything in between.

Thanks in advance. I know it's a weird question. I just... I gotta know.



[He's asked some folks, but the results so far are mixed. And Keith needs to figure out one way or another if this is just some weird unexpected afterlife, and he's at a solid 2.5 on his own scale so he's wondering.]

Comments

[dreidels]

The first part is understandable. But the latter? What, are there deities here or something? Everything dies.

How about this: if you find who they are before me, let me know. I'll do the same. They won't see what's coming.

[lonered]

Yeah, some of them. That's what they've said anyway.

Hey, that sounds like a deal. Just. Careful what you say on this network. No knowing who's reading it. Even whoever brought us here could see it.

[dreidels]

I have to wonder whether that's bullshit.

Shit, I can't believe I didn't think of that. It looks like there's a messaging option on here, but I have no idea whether that's encrypted. It could be viewed by Them too. Future discussions about it should probably happen in person.

[lonered]

Could be. Not sure what the point of lying about it would be. And I've seen enough weird stuff to not assume, lately.

In person is better. Who knows where they have ears in this place, but at least in person isn't right on the network they provided us with.

[dreidels]

Dude this is the limit of the internet. People get bored and trolls are a thing.

The houses or laptops could easily be bugged, but if we have music or something loud, that could drown out what we're actually talking about.

[lonered]

I suppose that's a possibility.

Not a bad idea. Drown out the actual important information with background noise. Though do we have anything to play music with?

[dreidels]

We can see if someone has any instruments. If anything, there's banging on pots and pans.

[lonered]

Maybe. That might make it hard to communicate in general, if we can't hear each other either.

[dreidels]

I'm confident we'll figure something out. It's a matter of figuring out what resources we have.

[lonered]

Resources are a good start. Figure out what we have to work with. Who we have that can work with what. You're right. We will figure this out.

[dreidels]

Yeah. We should make a list to keep track of stuff as we find out what we have.

[lonered]

We should. Already looking for something to do that in -- off the network.

Low tech, less hackable.

[dreidels]

I'll look around for paper and something to write with. I don't know how much luck we'll have, depending upon what shade of grey it is or whatever.

[lonered]

It could be tricky. But we can give it a try anyway.

[dreidels]

It's worth a shot. If it doesn't work, we'll figure something else out.

[lonered]

You've got a good point. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.