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[ilupaperwork.livejournal.com]

No one bothered to inform me about the 'viruses,' apparently. I had to do a little more research. How is an internet community able to do something as complicated as that?  Annd.. I probably shouldn't be as interested in it as I am. 

Does anybody know how these 'viruses' work, exactly? Or, more so, how they have the ability to span across different dimensions?

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[stranglingvines.livejournal.com]

Well here's a face I haven't seen in a while~.

[ilupaperwork.livejournal.com]

I thought I got rid of you...

[stranglingvines.livejournal.com]

Well you thought wrong then.

[timespacewitch.livejournal.com]

It is complicated.

The community is what I like to call a "hub of worlds," it is a point in space and time that attracts multiple worlds and dimensions to it. This much is self-explanatory. When these multiple worlds and dimensions meet, however, an energy is created that over time builds up and must be released somehow, otherwise catastrophic things could happen. Different hubs release their energies different ways, but this community seems to have been somehow given some sort of sentience from the energy created, and to release the energy it creates the viruses.

They are random in that you cannot know which virus will happen next, or who it will affect, but you can be assured that they will occur at about the same rate: once a month.

Was that helpful?

[ilupaperwork.livejournal.com]

That's... Interesting...

Thank you for your information, Miss.

[timespacewitch.livejournal.com]

My pleasure.

[booklover993.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to, ah, interrupt, such as it is, but...

Sentience? Really?

[timespacewitch.livejournal.com]

Yes, really. When you are here for longer, you'll begin to notice it for yourself. Just small, subtle things most of the time, but few that have been here for long enough will disagree.

[booklover993.livejournal.com]

That's absolutely fascinating. Do you have any idea how this sentience could have come about?

[timespacewitch.livejournal.com]

The technicalities of it are difficult to explain, but basically the interaction between so many worlds creates a sort of... friction. The hub's natural survival instincts do certain things to cope with that friction, but when so many worlds and universes collide like this, simple survival instinct is not enough to cope with the energy, so this community used the energy resulting from the collisions of worlds to give itself sentience in order to cope.

Mystical evolution, if you will.

[booklover993.livejournal.com]

I have never once encountered something like that. Sentiences of once-living beings who've learned to harness ethereal energy to continue living, yes, but never a...a self-arising intelligence.

[timespacewitch.livejournal.com]

It is extremely rare, to be sure, even among other universal hubs. In most cases, however, the hub is located in a very out of the way, unknown location, so that even though the worlds and universes attracted to it can potentially access each other, they rarely do, and little friction is acquired.

In this case, however, we have a hub that began in an extremely accessible place... so much so that not only has the hub attracted worlds and universes to it, but it also encourages interaction and disruption, creating the energy which is actually rather destructive to the hub itself. And so the sentience grew out of the need to cope, but I've said that already.

So yes, it's a very unusual situation, which is why I'm keeping an eye on it.

[canhaswrenchpls.livejournal.com]

Like when my machine's about to overheat, I have to discharge the steam somewhere?

[timespacewitch.livejournal.com]

Yes. Except the community's energy is... rather malleable, and as such, it can take many different forms. In this case, it expels in the form of viruses.

[sound_council]

At the moment, the only consistency between these viruses is the fact that one must access a computer to become infected. As such I believe that they are transferred via either electric shocks or subliminal messages on the screen.

Or it could simply be a form of 'magic' that I have not yet been able to detect.

[the-air-corsair.livejournal.com]

Apparently if you can be connected to this system, then the virus can spread to your world. That's how I understand it, at least.

Ah, you're Miss Rangiku's superior, correct?

[ilupaperwork.livejournal.com]

Matsumoto? Yes. I'm her taichou. Why do you ask?

[the-air-corsair.livejournal.com]

So that's her last name, then? Excellent.

[Drops to one knee in front of his screen, lowering his head]

Sir, I wish for your permission to invite her out for dinner and drinks at the nearest convenience.

[ilupaperwork.livejournal.com]

She has work to do.

No.

[the-air-corsair.livejournal.com]

You can't work forever, sir.

[ilupaperwork.livejournal.com]

It's our job. She barely does her job as it is. She doesn't need more distractions.

[the-air-corsair.livejournal.com]

You can't just chain her to her desk, my friend. I'm sure even you have off hours. Or does no one sleep in the hereafter?

[ilupaperwork.livejournal.com]

We all have to sleep. I simply like to make sure everyone is doing what they're supposed to be doing. Matsumoto is no exception-- though she sleeps more than probably anyone in Soul Society...

[the-air-corsair.livejournal.com]

I can't even imagine what such work is about. Surely there are enough of you to guide souls to the afterlife. What else is there to possibly do? There should not be a bureaucracy in the afterlife, my boy. We get enough on Earth.

[ilupaperwork.livejournal.com]

Military matters.

And she is the fukutaichou. She's my right hand-- for some odd, twisted reason...

...And I'm not 'your boy'.

[the-air-corsair.livejournal.com]

If she was really that bad at her job, surely you would have replaced her. I'm sure she wouldn't make it to that level without a great amount of skill.

[ilupaperwork.livejournal.com]

She's a talented fighter and everything, but her work ethic is lacking.

[the-air-corsair.livejournal.com]

Perhaps your work is simply pointless? In my experience, the majority of paperwork in any bureaucracy is redundant and largely pointless.

Regardless, I will pursue courting her. I've tried to go about it in a more traditional way, but you're obviously not going to listen.

[ilupaperwork.livejournal.com]

Pfft. Good luck. I don't plan on letting up.

[the-air-corsair.livejournal.com]

Oh ho? What can you do, my little friend?

[ilupaperwork.livejournal.com]

You'd be surprised to see what I'm capable of.

[the-air-corsair.livejournal.com]

It's excellent to see a lad with such a fighting spirit. Perhaps I shall have to see what you are capable of.

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[dragon-scholar.livejournal.com]

I have often wonderrred that myssself, sirrr. It'sss a curiousss phenomenon, to be surrre.

[anarchy-in-ny.livejournal.com]

Shit happens, man.

[savetheredqueen.livejournal.com]

Not really, they just strike randomly. Kind of a pain in the ass, really.

(*waves* Ichigo-mun here! Also, you might want Shiro-chan to look at this. (http://community.livejournal.com/dramadramaduck/2055885.html) |Db)

[maraich]

Many have asked, no one knows.

[notleprechaun.livejournal.com]

It's magic, obviously.

[canhaswrenchpls.livejournal.com]

I thought it was something that lived in the space between the worlds possessing people, but... I may be wrong. I don't really know about such things...

[and-dont-blink.livejournal.com]

[tenkuuzakura.livejournal.com]

I think if we knew that, they wouldn't be happening.