[Nathan's device has been busy lately, and today is of no exception. it turns itself on and displays a text message on the screen that reads: URGENT! Get to a private location in the next five minutes and be ready to broadcast this message to everyone on a private channel! I repeat, this is URGENT! and the very second the five minutes end, an ( Read more... )

[the celebrating townspeople don't seem to notice that anything has gone remiss once people start to crowd around and enter the curtained archways. the festivities continue on like normal, even if the proverbial clock has begun to tick for the trapped residents--but something is different about the townspeople's behaviors. they seem...more ( Read more... )

[in the midst of the deserted town, a certain number of the cameras surveying the town happen to power down the moment a private video transmission is sent to all residents. coincidentally, this phenomenon occurs only in areas where the residents happen to be. when the transmission begins, a stark, bright hallway can be seen past the shoulders of ( Read more... )

[at some point, a lone, blinking light with the words, "One message received" starts to blink on everyone's CAT device. there is only one type of message available, and when someone starts it, this is what they'll see:]

[the video is a bit grainy, but somehow, it's the only thing able to show up on the defunct CAT. a woman, who ought to be ( Read more... )

[any and all conversations being held on the CATs suddenly cease all at once, and in the next instant, a little alarm begins to sound. none of the townspeople appear fazed by the strange happening, writing if off as yet another malfunction that has plagued the communications systems in town for the past week ( Read more... )

[for anyone who has been near the Janus Theatre recently, they may have noticed the non-stop marathon of Three Stooges films. those who haven't are going to quickly become aware of them now. this song is transmitted over the CATs, and the moment it does, tables filled to bursting with creme pies, fruit pies, and chocolate pies spontaneously ( Read more... )