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Alert: entry into sinkhole not lethal. Repeat, entry into sinkhole at Fowler Museum not lethal. Caution still advised.

Six survivors found within sinkhole. Several small crystals of unknown origin and substance found. Artifacts found, presumed to be from Fowler Museum. No hostiles detected. Evacuating civilians, collecting samples. Request contact from chemical analysts for comparison to samples collected collected from Mojave Desert incident.

Comments

text; #the watch

[nothinbut_therain]

Bout three hundred feet. It just sort of stops there.

[Starbuck's not sure if she's ever seen this name on this channel before. Better hedge her bets.]

I wouldn't come down here. Not much to see beyond some broken glass and some rocks.

[liberaition]

[which makes sense, because the username is just a string of random numbers.]

Oh, I wasn't really planning on going there. The situation is under control.

[nothinbut_therain]

[Well that username's not suspicious at all]

Riiiight. Who the hell are you, exactly?

[liberaition]

I'm sorry, I wasn't aware everyone was just giving away their identities right and left on this board. Who are you, stranger on the internet?

[nothinbut_therain]

I ask cause this thing is invite-only, and generally you don't see someone just posting as a string of numbers. People have a reason to be here.

I'm a little tetchy about spambots.

And I'm Capt. Thrace, CONDOR.

[liberaition]

Well clearly I was given an invite. I assure you I'm not a spammer, only someone who values the secrecy of their identity.

It's a pleasure, Capt. Thrace, CONDOR.

[no it's not]

[nothinbut_therain]

[Starbuck's irritated, but she's been informed by her superiors that she reached her yearly quota of harassing people on the internet about three days after the year started.]

Yeah, sure, whatever. Sorry I asked.