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breakthrough

2006-03-17T01:00:00.000Z

but not for us

we were scattered and slain

toer is gone

i too will soon be gone

this is my last post, this machine will be destroyed when they find me and kill me
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i am sorry i have not fulfilled my promise - life is too chaotic for me to ever put into words

suffice to say that we fought hard and brave, but we are no more
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our people are no more

remember me, maybe one day our worlds will meet when all is well with the universe

farewell

training program: complete

2006-03-13T12:00:00.000Z

myself and toer recently completed the training program - we are now ready to participate in standard and specialist combat situations
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this is the first opportunity i have had to update you on the proceedings
we have been exceedingly busy and there is little chance of a holiday - suffice to say we are holding out effectively although the enemy onslaught is continuous and ruthless
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i hope i will be able to inform you in more detail at some point, but now i have duties to attend to

where did time go?

2006-03-07T12:00:00.000Z

i don't know
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the last week or so has been spent in a daily routine of training, building and fighting
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i do not have time to say any more now, but i promise i will inform you of more later
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myself and toer are alive and well

inside

2006-02-27T12:00:00.000Z

we have been verified

it turns out that toer was a senior member of the government
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he never mentioned that to me
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i have no time now, alas, but be assured that we are safe as we can be

update

2006-02-26T12:00:00.000Z

it has been many days since i last posted - i must apologise, but our current situation allows very little spare time

myself and toer are still alive and well - toer, indeed, is recovering very well indeed and his vision has nearly been totally restored

i can only put this down to what you would call a "miracle"

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somehow we managed to avoid detection and reach the bunkers
again, this must be some sort of miracle - there are skirmish patrols everywhere and high-standard surveillance equipment in operation

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alas, we are still outside the bunkers
the guards will not let us enter until they have verified who we are
until then we have a good shelter to sleep in, and plenty of food (provided by the guards)
if they cannot verify us they will kill us
otherwise they will let us in

behind enemy lines

2006-02-19T12:00:00.000Z

we have arrived
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toer's sight has improved remarkably since the date of my previous post
he can now identify some palm-sized objects and recognize colours
this is encouraging news, but the only encouragement i can share
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we are behind the lines of the enemy
weapon-fire is now clearly audible, as are the sounds of screaming

as far as we know the enemy use only helmet-radio to communicate
therefore we deduce that the screams are from resistance fighters
it is worse than torture to hear
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we are going to devise a plan to avoid the enemy and enter the resistance bunkers

i am glad that toer is with me

how much longer?

2006-02-16T12:00:00.000Z

there has been fighting here
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intense fighting
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the land has been destroyed by explosions
mud covers everything
there are immense craters where once were fields
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no bodies though

only silence
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the hills remain in the distance

we will persevere

hell begins

2006-02-15T12:00:00.000Z

in the distance the hills rise

that is our destination

that is where we will meet our end
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toer's eyesight is returning gradually - he can see shapes
we are both greatly encourage

alas, he will not turn back, pressure him though i do

he insists on coming with me to the resistance

i tell him that is futile, that we will die

he insists that we will die anyway
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what hope is there in this world?

journey

2006-02-09T12:00:00.000Z

myself and toer are making our way to the shri~kroaete hills in the hope of joining the resistance
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toer is very intelligent and knows a lot about the land, and the enemy

i am able-bodied and have enough wit to know when to keep my head down
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the last sector has fallen

all that remains is a few pockets of resistance and thousands of dead
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it was not worth this

it is never worth this

a message

2006-02-05T12:00:00.000Z

i will transcribe it directly as intercepted:

to the #hhkal people, from your leader Ariaal
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do not give up hope, we are not defeated
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while the enemy ravages our land one sector still holds strong

the military are still at large, and a group of us have taken up refuge in the bunkers in the shri~kroaete hills

if you can make it then come to us, bring your possessions and food
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do not submit to the enemy's methods of torture and oppression; instead choose death and glory
for your people

the brave #hhkal
......
Ariaal out

#error 377~kt

2006-02-05T00:00:00.000Z

unfortunately it seems that one of my posts has been deleted

i do not know why this is, but it is rather frustrating as it was the longest post i have made yet
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in it i explained (amongst other things) that it is because of my poor grasp of your language (and indeed lettering) that i take so long to post

i can only post when i have an extended period of time to work out what i am saying
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at the moment i rarely have time

"back online"

2006-01-31T12:00:00.000Z

alas, the battery and charger made by my father failed a few days ago (due to intense soaking) and I have spent the time since attempting to repair them with the help of my friend toer
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toer's blindness appears to be easing: he can now see shadows and light (very blurrily)

we hope he will return to full sight eventually
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we have spotted several scout patrols, and several flight convoys (presumably) taking prisoners back to #RELAE-xx

it is all rather terrifying

i must go now (we are working on something) but when i have a few hours spare i will say more

about toer

2006-01-27T00:00:00.000Z

he tells me that before he was blinded he had spent his time telling travellers from the east to avoid the refuge
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he knew about the soldiers and the machines

he knew that the people outside were being tortured, imprisoned or killed

he was trying to help
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alas, he was relatively unsuccesful - where else was there to go?

when the bomb had fallen he had been helping a young family build a shelter at the far end of the woods
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as far as he knew, they had all died
he had wandered into the woods in despair, blind and hopeless
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and he met me
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he has many interesting stories to tell

companion

2006-01-25T12:00:00.000Z

i have a companion
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he is blind - probably because of a bomb - and was unable to make his way to the refuge

the government, it seems, bypassed him
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well, they are rather busy aren't they?
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my companion is of similar height and stature to me, though he is nearly ten of your years older than me

he has lighter hair than me, and pale, unseeing eyes
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it saddens me
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he is an interesting man, wise (it appears) and very intelligent
his name is to3r~zael
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i shall refer to him as toer

the source

2006-01-23T00:00:00.000Z

forgive me if i mistype, for i am partially blinded
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at some hour this morning there was a tremendous flash of bright light which caused me to fall to the ground, shortly followed by the loudest noise i have ever heard and a blast that knocked me back along the floor
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my ears are still ringing and there are still occasional tremors in the groud - or maybe that is my legs
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the explosion was, as i feared, a result of the buzzing (which has now ceased)
it is my belief that the #XLK-xx$ have penetrated the refuge
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i can only pray that i am wrong

an incessant buzzing

2006-01-22T00:00:00.000Z

i am now far enough away to be able to move fairly liberally and with less caution

i have covered perhaps ten miles in the last week and hope to cover another ten today, though my bones ache somewhat severely
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there is an incessant buzzing on the air, distant but intense

it speaks of evil

apology

2006-01-20T12:00:00.000Z

i haven't been able to post
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i haven't been able to move

sitting motionless in a bush for twenty-three hours a day, walking for one hour every night to a new bush slightly further away from the refuge....

i'm far away enough to spend two hours out at night now

this means that i can post safely

i hope
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i still don't know if my signal will be picked up

i can only hope

fresh air

2006-01-16T12:00:00.000Z

i have escaped
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i left through one of the emergency fire hatches while the E.M.P. worked its magic
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the guards let me go after I shot one of them and broke the other one's neck

I am not normally violent, but after a week listening to the cries of tortured, mutilated men, women and children I am not in the most forgiving of moods
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it will catch up with my conscience later, but at the moment i am satisfied in my own wrath
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i am hiding in the forests three miles south of the refuge, waiting to see what life will bring next

sick

2006-01-13T00:00:00.000Z

i feel claustrophobic and ill

outside people are being tortured and massacred

i can hear the screams even though the refuge door is twelve metres thick
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we can all hear the screams

inside

2006-01-11T12:00:00.000Z

life in here is empty and meaningless
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my days so far have been spent trying to avoid my family while they try to avoid me

i have also done some browsing on this machine
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today a broadcast direct from #XLK-xx$ control was played through the announcement system here
they had the voices of men who were being tortured, amongst other things
threats, propaganda, news of their victories

outside are men, women and children who were to late
the refuge is shut against them and they will slowly be destroyed
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i want to get out

[ 1 ]

2006-01-10T14:30:00.000Z

the refuge is shut
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i am inside
i have met my father and mother, who greeted me politely and calmly
my brother is dead
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they told me calmly, not casually, yet their tones implied that it was not unexpected
that we should not be upset or oversurprised

death, after all, is just another part of life
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i hid alone and wept for two hours when they had gone

refuge

2006-01-08T12:00:00.000Z

i left the cave later that night
it still hasn't stopped raining
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i was given a protective jacket by an old man
the risk of me catching any fatal illnesses has now been reduced, thankfully
i walked solidly for two days and am now in sight of the refuge
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i am recieving news reports daily on my etj-55
casualties, victims
enemy propaganda
government propaganda
sob-stories
heart wrenching stories
i am lucky enough to have avoided any close combat, though the bombs are terrifying
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the cities are falling to the enemy
the refuge is our only hope

numb

2006-01-05T12:00:00.000Z

i cannot find a better word to describe how i feel
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i have a fever
the cave i am in is half flooded, i perch on a ledge to keep dry
the wound in my arm has (thankfully) not become infected
however, the bleeding was rather severe - especially after i extracted the metal - and i am rather faint from blood loss
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the rain has still not stopped
if it does not stop tomorrow i shall move on regardless lest I drown in my cave

url

2006-01-04T12:00:00.000Z

i have managed to relocate this blog to http://ka-3.blogspot.com
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i am surprised that this works for me

weblog

2006-01-04T00:00:00.000Z

it has been raining all morning
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our rain is unlike your rain
the clouds are permanently massed together because of the climate of our world
we fear this may be a result of the gasses produced by your people spilling over into our atmosphere
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/it never rains but it pours/
this is true for us
i will not be able to leave this cave until tomorrow evening at the earliest
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my spare time has been spent researching and revising my /english/
i have also been browsing the weblog archives - those that i can access
it is most interesting observing the different methods people use to communicate
the different uses of language
the huge spread of emotions
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in my world emotions are frowned upon as being irrational and unnecessary
artists such as myself are considered foolish and pathetic
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i envy your depressives, your hyperactives, your overjoyous ignorants, your lovestricken tragics
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those of you who are not afraid to be happy

bombs

2006-01-02T00:00:00.000Z

have you ever seen a bomb explode?
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i do not know much about the bombs of your world
ours are typically explosives packed into cases and set to trigger and detonate upon impact
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when I say "ours" i mean the #XLK-xx$
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what i saw today

two small boys and four grown men
the bomb (precision-guided) lands in the middle of their group as they walk down the road
the explosion half-blinds me but amidst the flying shrapnel i see a human head fly past me
the sound deafens but a second later there is silence
then gulping, screaming, crying
and then silence
one mangled pulp of a body is recognisable
one man is still alive, minus his left arm
the others are one big dead, bleeding mess
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blood is spattered along the ground in an almost circular pattern with a radius of about eight metres
i am six metres from where the group had stood
there is a piece of metal in my arm, above the elbow joint, and blood on my face and clothes
the blood is not mine
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this was not the first encounter i had had with a bomb
it is, however, the closest and most graphic
although i can already feel myself hardening towards the reality of war, i refuse to grow cold at the prospect of death and loss
i will leave myself open and therefore vulnerable, as so few people are able to do

disaster

2005-12-30T00:00:00.000Z

it is much to my dismay that i inform you that i will not be able to post as regularly as i had hoped when i first discovered this device
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the government have turned down my application for assisted evacuation - i must therefore make my own way to the REFUGE
the only time i will have to write will be before i sleep
alas, i will not be able to elaborate about the doings of my people, of our history and so forth
i shall consign myself to updating you on the proceedings of the war, of my day-to-day life and struggles
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i hope that this will be of interest to you
if you are reading this i would appreciate response; i am alone and frightened
thank-you

retuRN

2005-12-28T00:00:00.000Z

i decided against posting during your festival period
anyway, life was becoming rather hectic - hazardous, I should say - what with the legal complications surrounding my father's efforts to disown me
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and the war
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on [550] at x2^44 (/dECEmBER 27tH/ by your calendars) the #XLK-xx$ (the main military body for the people of #RELAE-xx) opened fire upon the city of dr3dge~4
there were over 5000 civillian casualties within the first morning
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a decleration of war followed shortly
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i was not intending to enlist, but thankfully i am still too young
plans are being made for the evacuation of the cities to our REFUGE
as an outcast i will have to make my own way there

about

2005-12-24T12:00:00.000Z

my people, the #hhkal, are one of the most developed nationalities in our world
our current leader Ariaal is a very intelligent man but, alas, a stubborn man too
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he is refusing to negotiate peace with our neighbours, claiming that they do not deserve peace
alas, their military forces far out-number ours and it is likely that we will soon be under occupation
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i do not take a political stance - we have one ruling party and the other parties, though legal, are insignificant
i agree that our government makes mistakes, just as it achieves great things
if they are willing to learn our nation will be succesful and powerful
if not, we are doomed
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i am currently unemployed
i have retained few friends - many people abandoned me when i was evicted from my father's house
class and status mean everything in our world
i live in a two-roomed house on benefits and write poetry
i try to explore as much of my surroundings as possible, and often leave home for many days to travel
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that is who i am
i hope you will learn more of me

fixed

2005-12-23T12:00:00.000Z

it took longer than anticipated, but my father willingly constructed a machine with which to recharge the battery
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the machine required needs to convert different particles and alter their charge from negative to positive and /vICe-VeRSa/ - i neither know nor fully understand the entire process
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as far as i am aware the battery therefore has a limited amount of possible charges, so i will at some point need father to construct a new battery
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he was, needless to say, impressed that such a machine had appeared here and disappointed that his renegade son found it
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another unfortunate event happened after i left - part of his house was hit by a bomb from the #XLK-xx$ and one of his servants died
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the household is in mourning for the rest of the day

batteries

2005-12-20T12:00:00.000Z

having researched about these machines using what /WEbSItes/ i could on the /inTerNET/ i realise now that it is powered by /batTTEries/ - i suspected some internal power source
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as the battery begins to drain, so the performance of the machine is effected
i shall take it to my father and get him to operate the charger for me
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tomorrow

life

2005-12-20T00:00:00.000Z

my world is somewhat different to yours
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although we are not technologically more advanced, we can do things that you cannot - such as see you
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we are able to watch humans go about day to day life by using special machines that can apparently transcend the boundaries of dimensions -
how they work is something of a mystery to me
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however, you have certain advantages - your weapons are more developed than ours, your home appliances and communication devices are slightly better, and you value aesthetics far more than our scientists do
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we do not look all too different - we are taller than you (it appears), with longer /fInGERs/ and less body hair
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our men cannot grow beards, unlike yours

ka~3

2005-12-19T00:00:00.000Z

i am ka~3
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i live alone now, anD have Done for three years
i left my family aged x!1^33 when my father refused to accept me as his son
he is a scientist, a very intelligent man, and i - although i admire and respect his trade - am an artist - a /pOeT/ in your words
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arts are not valued in our culture, and those of us who express artistic interest are said to be imitating you humans, who we often watch
we are not respected - we are scorned
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thus my father evicted me and i stayed in a shelter for two years, until i decided i should move on
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this change in environment had dramatic effects on my personality and my creativity, and explains much of the confusion that persists in my thought-patterns

happenings

2005-12-18T22:00:00.000Z

this is all very peculiar
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i seem to be able to access your /iNTerNEt/ but only certain websites. i have never witnesseD any cross-Dimensional connection before, so i cannot explain why. i wonDer if it is linked to the location of our machines - i Doubt it. i am confuseD.
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Despite being limiteD to a small amount of your /wEbSPAce/ i have been able to investigate many interesting things
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i will soon tell you about myself, when i have finished exploring

history

2005-12-18T12:00:00.001Z

i have DiscovereD the past
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a young man calleD /RoBerTO/ createD this weblog with the intention of informing other /bLOGgerS/ about his mountaineering aDventures
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this explains the strange URL
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he happeneD to be in the region of one of the few surviving machines
which DetecteD his computer
and his computer was brought to our Dimension through a complicateD matter-transportation event that i Do not properly comprehenD
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our scientists are very clever
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but perhaps i shoulD tell you about me
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i will do it next Day

greeting

2005-12-18T00:00:00.002Z

my name is #KA~3
you cannot pronounce this
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i write on a handhelD computer that founD itself in our worlD at x3^60 toDay
long have i DreameD of this prospect - an opportunity to interact and converse with the people of >47_ D3
that is, you
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your worDs are new to me
i hav stuDied hard and am very accomplisheD for one of my age anD status
Do not be DisturbeD by this - i am aware that it is as unusual for you as it is for me, with one Difference
we have known of your existence for many DecaDes
you Do not yet know who we are

can you read me?

2005-12-18T00:00:00.001Z

Main Entry: blog
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: an online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page; also called Weblog, Web log
Example: Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author.
Etymology: shortened form of Weblog
Usage: blog, blogged, blogging v, blogger n
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and i b3gin the long roaD to unDerstanDing

#1112://23211~~~~~eXport

2005-12-18T00:00:00.000Z

this is strange
letters make no sense to me
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i am a quick learner

We Need Help

2005-12-17T23:00:00.000Z

This is unnatural. I don't know what the hell is going on but the handheld is now completely see-through and I can barely see what I'm typing. It is also very soft to touch - like cloth or sponge - and there are gold and purple sparks around the edge. I am scared - seriously scared. If you know anything about this kind of phenomenon please leave a comment to reassure me.

Help

2005-12-17T21:13:00.000Z

This is weird... the handheld is actually nearly 100% transparent. It still feels solid... kind of. It is softer to touch. I don't know whether this is a reaction to the cold or what, it's odd... really odd.
We are genuinely scared. Tomorrow we will investigate futher - if it's still in the same condition.
Or still visible, Freddie adds. Ahaha. £3000 going invisible isn't funny, ok?
I'll keep you up-to-date - we really are spooked out.

Night Fall

2005-12-17T19:02:00.000Z

It's dark. It's been dark for five hours now, but now it's too dark to see.
Freddie is unpacking stuff into our tent - we're camped in a hollow on the side of one of the smaller mountains. I'd get my map and tell you its name and our exact location, but I don't think you'd care and I can't be bothered. Anyway, there's something interesting I've gotta tell you.
This handheld I'm writing on is going see-through.
When we first settled here and began to make camp I noticed little sparks around the edges. Since then it's gradually lightened in appearance until it's now translucent. I can see where my hand is on the back - it's really weird. I think it is reacting to some mineral or something in the ground... anyway, it's kinda spooky.