( TEXT. )

[espy]

Tell me what this is and why I should care. Ten words or less.
SH
[wait, that's not a community post. that's... a text sent personally to every single community member. if you don't have a phone, it shows up on your computer as a private message, or in your magic book in the same way as a phone text would. if you don't reply within five minutes, another copy of it will arrive. that goes on for about an hour unless you can stop it yourself.

also, perhaps stranger still, the sender's name appears even though you've never gotten a text from this number before. (thanks for that one, community.) wherever the "sender:" field should be on your device, there is a rather startling name: SHERLOCK HOLMES.]

Comments

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[minesprettier]

Interdimensional community full of beings and strange happenings. It's interesting.

[OOC: 10 words exactly!]

[espy]

[well, that does sound interesting, if it's true. but there are two kinds of interesting: one of them is a fact, and the other is a mystery. sherlock holmes doesn't want to waste his time on something that cannot be solved.]

Why should it involve me?

[6collegecredits]

Community connecting the multiverse. Because it won't leave you alone.

[espy]

Cute. Impossible to divert it, I imagine?

[formercheerio]

Most people don't.

[espy]

Hostages of the mean Internet community?

[text]

[broadwaybound]

It'll interfere with things whether you like it or not.

[espy]

Then my cooperation makes no difference.

Text

[artfulironicist]

Are you telling me you're unable to deduce it yourself?

[espy]

I'm telling you that I don't care enough to. It's dull.

slowly spams you

[madeitsquare]

Oh, you're kidding me.

yes good

[espy]

I was under the impression that the joke was being attempted on me.

[dekillerqueen]

Regardless of what it is, I presume it has already been useful to you.

[espy]

Hardly.

[docfoul]

A waste of your intellect.
Or perhaps an opportunity.

[espy]

Opportunity for what? It's a gathering of idiots.

[trinities]

wow rude???

[espy]

Yes, someone is less than kind on the Internet. How ghastly.

[timey_wimey]

Mysteries wrapped inside a multiverse wrapped inside an internet.

[espy]

Prove it.

[Private video back]

[material_guy]

It's some new entertainment.

[espy]

I dislike tedious questioning of things. It's not entertainment, it's an annoyance.

[hasbottombunk]

A big mess. It dragged you in like everyone else.

[espy]

I'm not everyone else. I'll find my own way out shortly.

text

[sandinmyboots]

Parallel worlds. Magic. Fiction come to life. Entertainment.

Welcome back!

[espy]

Idiots. Obvious. Dull. I'm not interested.

Kind of you. I'll be leaving again shortly.

[he doesn't remember ever seeing this site before, so he'll assume that's either a lie, a mistake, or that he has visited the site before, but it was so boring he didn't bother to keep it in his memory, which pretty much condemns it already.]

1/10 I am so sorry.

[tenminutes]

Since I got about ten of these, I guess that

[tenminutes]

means I've got 100 words or less to explain, right?

text;

[heavenlyhome]

A place for connection. Do you have any other questions?

[espy]

Why should I care?

[Video]

[notasinglelady]

You are a charming one. Look..

[espy]

[oh, video. that's good, he likes video. it gives him something to see. things to notice.]

I looked. No evidence. How do you people function so poorly?

[deadlydoctor]

Your doom.

[espy]

Highly doubtful. A modicum of intelligence, if you don't mind.

[loyalbound]

If you're that curious, make a post and stop filling my cell phone with over a hundred copies of the same text.

[espy]

22. Try again.

[pinkishgray]

Afraid I can't help you there. Dreadfully sorry. 8 words.

[espy]

Dull.

[giftedateight]

Because people smarter and better than you are here. Nine.

[As for Shinji, it's not hard to sort out duplicate messages as spam. Quick bit of code, really.]

[espy]

I doubt it. Nice that you can count, though.

( text )

[indivisibly]

You belong off this network.

Five.

[ gosh is it so hard to keep off of plasma's reception? ]

[espy]

Good counting. What network would this be?

( text )

[geolatry]

[ there's a slow scroll of text: ]

It's curious. |

[espy]

"Curious" doesn't interest me.

[ghostshippingly]

... It won't leave you alone if you don't pretend to?

[espy]

Ah. Sentience, of course. I should have noticed its self-awareness.

[grey_grief]

I hear enough about you from my friends all the time. I do not need to see you in person.

Go. Away.

[espy]

22 words. Try again.

[carriesparasol]

I have no notion how you came by the frequency for my aethographer, Mister Holmes, but I would appreciate it greatly if you left it alone. I have trouble enough when that community appears on that computer contraption and I will not have it muddling about with my transmissions!

[You will not be getting just ten words from Alexia. No sir.]

[espy]

49. Illiterate?