I know we haven't talked much, but I'm afraid I need your help for something. You're probably about to get a very strange message from the username @rileysung. I am sorry in advance for this. I can talk you through it, if that's okay with you. There should be good information in it for you if it all works out.
Your name is Gary Epps. You're my 30-year-old twin brother from Granite City, Illinois. You're a reporter, and you just moved here with me (Clayton Epps, emergency physician) a couple months ago to follow the protests happening in this town. You have multiple leads but nothing to connect them. You're trying to stay mostly undercover for this operation, so you intentionally chose a false username to confuse people. You should be annoyed that I gave your name out to someone.
I know this is a lot to ask. You have that "filter-hack" program though, right? Maybe if you show them and do some digging for old private messages under the new usernames that started appearing today, you'll earn their trust and get them to open up a little bit. They seem really paranoid with everyone else; I figure giving them the opportunity to speak with a fellow reporter should ease their nerves some.
Sorry again for the trouble. If you have any more questions, let me know. Just try to stay consistent.
[ Well, that answered the 'why me' question, at least, though it's ... a lot to deal with. Jim's had his own issues to deal with this week without the craziness on the network.
That is still a lot of information.]
You don't think they're going to look back through the network and see that I'm not a 30-year-old? It's pretty obvious.
[ What with actually being a squeaky-voiced fifteen-year-old and all. ]
I'd say we could alter the story so you're my younger brother, but I think the experience is more important. Let's say, since you're apparently good enough with computers to come up with the hacking program, that you've also developed a really convincing voice synthesizer and you've aged really well.
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You're probably about to get a very strange message from the username @rileysung. I am sorry in advance for this. I can talk you through it, if that's okay with you. There should be good information in it for you if it all works out.
- Clayton
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Okay.
What?
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Your name is Gary Epps. You're my 30-year-old twin brother from Granite City, Illinois. You're a reporter, and you just moved here with me (Clayton Epps, emergency physician) a couple months ago to follow the protests happening in this town. You have multiple leads but nothing to connect them. You're trying to stay mostly undercover for this operation, so you intentionally chose a false username to confuse people. You should be annoyed that I gave your name out to someone.
I know this is a lot to ask. You have that "filter-hack" program though, right? Maybe if you show them and do some digging for old private messages under the new usernames that started appearing today, you'll earn their trust and get them to open up a little bit. They seem really paranoid with everyone else; I figure giving them the opportunity to speak with a fellow reporter should ease their nerves some.
Sorry again for the trouble. If you have any more questions, let me know. Just try to stay consistent.
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That is still a lot of information.]
You don't think they're going to look back through the network and see that I'm not a 30-year-old? It's pretty obvious.
[ What with actually being a squeaky-voiced fifteen-year-old and all. ]
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I'd say we could alter the story so you're my younger brother, but I think the experience is more important. Let's say, since you're apparently good enough with computers to come up with the hacking program, that you've also developed a really convincing voice synthesizer and you've aged really well.
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[ It's really too bad that complete lack of faith doesn't show up in text very well. ]
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[This would be the part where he offers him beer, but...]
[...okay he might end up offering him beer anyways by the end of this.]
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