I heard a rumor (Wong)

[WONG CHENLEI]

[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #545454; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: gold; text-align: left;]AC: Watches may not be the operative term,
AC: But my sister has guardianship over me.
AC: Our parents died a long time ago, in China. I wasn't old enough to remember.

[MILA YOSHIDA]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 450px; background:Beige ; border: 1px dashed Teal, bTable] IT: I'm so sorry. IT: My parents died as well, IT: Though I live int he U.S.

[WONG CHENLEI]

[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #545454; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: gold; text-align: left;]AC: Hm.
AC: How odd.

[MILA YOSHIDA]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 450px; background:Beige ; border: 1px dashed Teal, bTable] IT: What? IT: What's so odd?

[WONG CHENLEI]

[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #545454; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: gold; text-align: left;]AC: Oh, sorry, I was thinking - typing - out loud.
AC: Though I am hesitant to broach the subject seeing as it might be a mutually painful one,
AC: I cannot help but notice that a great deal of our circle of acquaintances,
AC: Indeed, if not all of them, do not, or have never, even, lived in a nuclear family.
AC: And only one or two of us actually have a single living parent.
AC: That seems a bit farfetched, no?

[MILA YOSHIDA]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 450px; background:Beige ; border: 1px dashed Teal, bTable] IT: That is very interesting, IT: Now that you mention it I do find it quite odd. IT: And even odder that we were all part of the select few chosen to play the Beta of SBurb, IT: Perhaps it's some sort of sign, eh? IT: This game does give me a bad feeling, like perhaps it has dark origins tied to it. IT: Just a thought...

[WONG CHENLEI]

[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #545454; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: gold; text-align: left;]AC: I certainly hope not!
AC: Though the have been a few odd signs...

[MILA YOSHIDA]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 450px; background:Beige ; border: 1px dashed Teal, bTable] IT: Really, IT: What kind of signs?

[WONG CHENLEI]

[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #545454; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: gold; text-align: left;]AC: Well...
AC: This is probably going to sound particularly odd.
AC: Seeing as dreams are a natural, and fairly consistent experience within the history of humanity.
AC: But I've been having a set of recurrent dreams,
AC: I had them when I was a child but...
AC: They've started to come back.
AC: A golden city.
AC: Friends of strange shapes?
AC: And other things.
AC: Like,
AC: During a power outage not so long ago,
AC: I happened to glance at my computer screen and-
AC: it said
AC: "WAKE UP!!!"

[MILA YOSHIDA]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 450px; background:Beige ; border: 1px dashed Teal, bTable] IT: Interesting... IT: I've has the same dream, IT: Though it's darker and... IT: Purple. IT: Perhaps a darker version of the city you speak of? IT: And it gave off a dark colder aura... IT: In fact I have been working on a drawing of it, IT: I'll scan it for you so you can see it. IT: IT: Does that look similar to yours?

[WONG CHENLEI]

[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #545454; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: gold; text-align: left;]AC: That is...
AC: very purple!
AC: But yes, the resemblance is uncanny.
AC: Perhaps we both saw the same picture, or visited the same city?
AC: I mean, outside of our dreams, of course.

[MILA YOSHIDA]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 450px; background:Beige ; border: 1px dashed Teal, bTable] IT: Possibly. IT: Though if I did I don't recall it. IT: Do you think perhaps, IT: That this, IT: The strange Trolls, IT: And Sburb could all be... connected?

[WONG CHENLEI]

[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #545454; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: gold; text-align: left;]AC: Uh,
AC: Sorry, but,
AC: trolls?
AC: ;-?

[MILA YOSHIDA]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 450px; background:Beige ; border: 1px dashed Teal, bTable] IT: You haven't met any yet? IT: They call themselves trols and always type with weird quirks.

[WONG CHENLEI]

[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #545454; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: gold; text-align: left;]AC: Are you, perchance, referring to individuals that indulge in mockery, baiting, and other unsavory social practices through the anonymity of the internet?
AC: Of course I've met my fair share but I fail to see the relevance of such persons in this discussion...