Control Room - Day 3 | 1st | AETERNUM Hx

Starting on Day 3, the first tribute to enter the Control Room will find this artifact.

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"One of the smaller console screens blinks readily back to life the first time a tribute attempts to interact with it, revealing a still-open messaging system. The top menu bar lists:

h.samatar - Inbox - Unread (46) - Drafts (2) - Sent - Reminders

The open page is a draft in reply to someone called p.phiri.

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Re: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Re: FW: Fwd: PLEEEEASE READ, URGENT!!!!

Petra, if you forward me one more of these I'm going to launch your basil out the airlock.

Who's even starting them? It's not cute. I don't have time to track dummy system accounts, considering

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The text ends abruptly here, with a still-blinking cursor, as though the typist was pulled away in the middle of deciding how to phrase what would have come next. Below sits a message in haphazardly multicolored text, with multiple poorly formatted blockquote lines on the left.

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WARNING, PLEASE KEEP READING! YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!!

I have been followed by mysterious knocking for weeks... We've all been so stressed lately, I thought I was imagining it. I thought I needed more sleep! But three nights ago the CREATURE came to me in a dream. I saw blood on her teeth and in her white fur and tried to run but soon I realized... this was BOTH of our nightmare. I don't know why the CREATURE chose me but I have to pass on her message: SHE. IS CURSED. and so are we!! She is a gentle and beautiful soul but if you don't forward this to AT LEAST EIGHT PEOPLE in the NEXT EIGHT MINUTES she will be forced... to devour you... I am trying to dream again to learn how to help her. She is doing her best but so far this is the only way we can speak. But for now, please STAY SAFE!! WARN YOUR FRIENDS.

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Any attempt to access other messages or h.samatar's profile results in a helpful alert reading, ""Your session has timed out! Please re-enter your personal login and authorization codes."""

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Written by WT