Player sylvan receives a response on the HELP form
Player Sylvan previously sent an ask through the HELP form that reads: “we saw the radio tower, we saw a box with a tape and some writing. we had searched the area. we have seen the tape. we read this https://www.en-abime.com/rec-81 we haven’t heard it out-loud. we don’t have access to the physical tape right now. we want to hear it outloud.”
At 9:21 AM they receive a response, where the entity says the player is “LYING” because “I KNOW YOU CAN’T SEE IT,” but believes that “SOMEONE MUST HAVE SEEN IT” because the description is correct. It describes Henry’s geocache as “BUZZY” and tells us to check it again. It also says it has given us a place to put it, and the form on www.en-abime.com/help updates with a place to put image links.
At 5:04 PM, Player Rhys receives a reply to their email that only reads “13/20” and has the “USE TOOLS FOR THEIR INTENDED PURPOSE” image.
Players conclude that only responses related to geocaches/geocaching seem to not be incremented.
10:48 PM: Mal arrives at Tumblr! Her handle is @malsdesktop. She, Tati, Will, and Henry have a sweet reunion conversation.
Summary: Everyone is very happy to see Mal! She and Henry can’t hug because she “gets ink on” him and they both aren’t “supposed to be here” :(. Mal and Tati had a running bet on when Henry and Will would start dating. Apparently, Tati won.
10:52 PM: Mal reveals that she has forgotten how she got to Tumblr, and the friends realize part of her appears to have been destroyed by the twin. They continue their search for a safe place where they can hide from the twin, and realize that something outside the Abime has to be put there so they can all be comfortable there. They decide to lay low until that happens to avoid attracting the twin’s attention.
Summary: Mal initially doesn’t remember how she got here. When she tries to remember something she wanted to tell Tati, it hurts her, and through her description Henry and Tati realize part of her got eaten by the twin. The friends fill her in on their plan to move somewhere the twin can’t access, and Mal suggests building a new place out of their pieces, kind of like when she got “ZAPPED or DIGITIZED or whatever to FreeDF” and become neighbors with Thomas. They decide they need a place “just for the four of us” - the twins harm them if they get close to them, and Thomas is too spread out and therefore protected. They all agree to keep quiet in case the twin follows Mal to tumblr, although Mal says some “reblogs and asks couldn’t hurt THAT much right????” so maybe she’ll stick around. All four of them decide to talk in DMs for the time being.
10:02/11:11/11:15 PM: Players notice that Mal’s Zine page is completely erased from the internet.
10:02 PM: Player m notices that Mal’s Zine page, the lyrics for her single Tear My Hair Out, are gone from www.en-abime.com/my-desktop. 11:11 PM: Player charles entertainment cheese notices that Mal’s Zine page is gone from the zine at https://www.en-abime.com/dans-des-circonstances-eternelles and replaced with a black screen. 11:15 PM: Player m notices that the cover to Tear My Hair Out on Youtube, which used to be a screenshot of Mal’s lyrics, is gone.
11:22 PM: Players find a new page linked from Tati’s report card, with the grade on a final project from eighth grade which she presumably hid a time capsule for. Appetite pop-ups and Archive blackout text also populate the page.
Summary: Selecting the text behind the blackout allows you to copy+paste it into a new window and read it. Tati’s teacher describes her as a disruptive and snarky student, and gave her a C- on her final project. However, her description gives multiple hints to the location of the time capsule, including that its location is probably “personally significant,” and that Tati’s hints for her were: “turn left at the e y e,” “o v e r the troll,” “don’t fall i n.” The teacher also mentions climbing a tree, being laughed at by middle schoolers on a bridge, and narrowly avoiding a stone wall.
11:41 PM: Players ask Tati for 5 new channels in the Discord for finding each of the Geocaches. She complies.
Theories: Players think the next steps are to find the geocaches, on both the Archive/Appetite and four character on Tumblr front.
Things to do from this update:
The five probable locations of the geocaches are New York City, NY, Bethesda, MD, New Haven, CT, Princeton, NJ, and Chicago, IL. IF YOU LIVE IN ANY OF THESE PLACES OR KNOW SOMEONE WHO DOES AND WOULD BE WILLING TO FIND A DATA GHOST GEOCACHE, CHECK OUT THE CHANNEL FOR IT IN THE DISCORD SERVER (or DM us here if you aren’t on the discord!) We want to have geocache retrieval teams ASAP to help the characters hide from the twin.
