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[ The video opens on Ben's face. He is looking particularly grim, filming in one of the rooms in the residential section. No greetings or build-up, he just cuts right to the chase, holding up a tiny device between forefinger and thumb. Visible is a tiny lens, and what looks like a small antennae to transmit. ]

PSA. There are surveillance cameras hidden in the lighting fixtures of the bedrooms. I found a creepy tunnel leading to a creepy lair where some fucking creep has been spying on us. Still trying to figure out who is behind it and what they want, but the feeds only show occupied rooms and no empty ones so it's not a coincidence, unfortunately.

[ Ben turns the frame to face the spot where the small camera had obviously been ripped out of an overhead light. From offscreen he says, voice clipped and angry: ]

Anyway. Wanted you guys to know. Hit me up if you need help ripping the suckers out. I'll post again when I know more.

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Is this news?

[ was this . . . not obvious from the start . . . ]

Edited 2019-10-01 00:42 (UTC)

Thanks for doing this, Ben. I've got that footage pulled up if you want to stop in and take a look.

[ Today is NOT THE DAY, Loki. ]

Do you have any actual information on the people who installed the cameras or are you just being a dick?

My apologies. I'll be more sheep-like for your information.

[ in a higher pitched voice. ]

"Oh no, a strange location may be not what they seem and spying at us? Shocking!"

If at any point you have some concrete information to contribute that'll be useful, you know where to contact me.

[ Until then, Ben has no patience for this particular brand of attention-seeking douchebaggery. ]

Oh yeah, I'm really looking forward to it.

[ Just a little attempt at humor, since they both know how much he is not. He... needs to splash some water on his face, first. Get himself together. As he does he texts: ]

Did you look at yours yet?

Edited 2019-10-01 01:21 (UTC)

oh my god
i found it
ew ew ew ew ewwww
who the heck would do that???
are you sure its not somebody who lives here?

[ God, Ami's just a kid and it's all so fucked up and bad. Ben is glad this conversation is over text, because he's not coping well to be honest. ]

Can you dispose of it or do you need me to get rid of it?

I don't know who did it yet, or whether it is someone who lives here or someone separate.
I promise I will let you know more when I have some answers.
For now what matters is we're aware of the problem and we're all working to fix it.

yes please
i cant reach it

[ she is small ..... ]

ugh i hate this
constant surveillance is one thing but
this means somebodys been in my room
even though i always lock the door
how did they get in

[He might only have the vaguest concept of what a camera is, but he can figure out it's no good from the rest of this message. Now he's glad he hasn't bothered to find lodgings.]

Why would anyone want to watch us?

Ah, but are you particularly useful to contact?

At any rate, I do have information but I'm not convinced your hands are the best for them.

[As a bot on a never-ending mission who doesn't crave shut-eye or a sense of privacy, Scaramouche is among the few here without a room. This announcement doesn't bother him at all.]

Where's the entrance?

[ Well, shit. He doesn't really want to be around anyone but obviously he's not going to refuse. He'll just... be brief. ]

Okay, I'll stop by.
I can't stay long, though. I'm meeting Peter to strategize.

[ He grabs something to use to pry the lighting fixture open if he needs, and heads torwards Ami's room. He keeps the device on hand though and answers as he goes. ]

It's possible. They seem really prepared. Maybe they could get past locks.
But the camera also might've already been there and they just turned on the ones in rooms with people.
That seems just as likely to me - otherwise every time someone new shows up they'd have to sneak in to add new cameras.
There's a lot of people in these hallways, that's a huge risk of getting caught every time.
If it were me I would just put them in every room once and then switch on the feed for new arrivals once they pick a spot.
So the camera might've been there before you even showed up on this planet.

[ Text makes it hard to tell if this person is genuinely confused or is trying to make a joke about how boring everyone in this place is. Ben is going to err on the side of the former, just in case. ]

There are plenty of possible reasons but none of them are good.
Speculating is probably isn't going to help at all.
I'm working with someone to find out so we aren't just guessing.

Edited 2019-10-01 13:08 (UTC)

No offense, but I don't know you, and I'm not about to give out that information to anyone, much less a complete stranger, while we're still trying to figure things out.

[ But, to show he's not just saying he'll handle it and the person on the other end can't ask questions: ]

Why do you want to know?

ok good
and thank you

[ Having Peter on the case puts her mind a lot more at ease. Surely they'll get to the bottom of it in no time!

Ben raises a good point, and she decides she'd rather believe the thing was already there. The alternative is just... too frightening. ]

at least theres a physical camera we can get rid of
as opposed to them scrying on us clairvoyantly or something

[ That was how Retrospec did it, near as she could ever tell. And... they never did stop, did they? There was a big stink about it when the users first found out, but then people just sort of stopped talking about it, without anything changing. She'd initially felt so unsafe that she asked for a police escort home from school, but a few months later she was just joking about it like the Personal FBI Agent meme.

It's funny how much people will put up with once they get used to it. ]

I haven't found anythin' around the ranch or the barn yet, but I'll keep lookin'.

Kinda unnerving ta know that there's some feller watchin' us like that. Didja see those weird... uh... [What did Peter call them...???] m-monitors?

I haven't yet, no. Honestly I'm not expecting for there to be a lot of footage from my room since I don't really spend a lot of time there. I could always be wrong, though.

[Good news, Ben: it was a genuine question. He would prefer to speculate, but that's his paranoia talking; he can do plenty of it on his own.]

Fair enough. Will you share with us your results, should you find out?

Good call. I'm working to secure the other feeds as we speak. Hang onto whatever cameras you find, Peter and I might be able to extract some information from them.

[ Has he actually talked to Peter about this? Who knows. Would he namedrop the kid either way? Probably! ]

[ She knew she should have checked. She fucking knew it. And that is written over her face, along with her being genuinely p i s s e d o f f. ]

I can also assist in removing the cameras. I'm a military tech specialist, and I've done this kind of shit in the past.

Ben, if you need assistance in investigating, let me know? I'll be at your service. Meantime, I'll go over the infirmary area again and some of the public rooms.

Edited 2019-10-02 01:08 (UTC)

Look, I don't know who the hell you are or what your issue is, but I'm not going to sit around proving myself to you. I've got actual shit to do.

Help, or don't. I'm not going to waste my time trying to convince you to do the right thing.

[ If he weren't in the state he's in Ben might joke about investing in a stepladder but for now he just texts: ]

Of course.

[ He doesn't think it's much of a silver lining, honestly, but responds: ]

I guess. Hadn't thought about it that way. Is that a thing?

Actually, there is a camera in the barn. I think I've got a good idea where it might be, from the video. I can come by later and get it down for you, if you want.

[ Ben is looking... rough. With pretty much everybody else he's keeping it to text so they can't see how shit he looks, but obviously that's not an option for Kieran. And Ben thinks maybe he doesn't mind so much, if it's Kieran seeing him so shaken.

Bleakly, he answers: ]

Yeah. I saw them.

[ 'Kinda unnerving' is putting it way too mildly. ]

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