#skidsarc

Skids, a slave toilet cleaner, is in desperate need of help so he resorts to uploading an S.O.S call in the form of an online video. It got little to no attention, but it was noticed by the skilled hacker Tox. His interest had been caught, so he decides to assist Skids out of curiosity regarding his circumstances. However, things don’t quite go to plan and Tox has to learn what he’s actually got himself into.

This arc has kind of been years in the making and we’ve been very excited about it! If you want to follow from the very beginning, you can catch up here.

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Tox was hunched over on the floor of the spare bedroom, eyes glued intensely to his phone. It had been two weeks, almost, since his last transmission to Skids, where he informed him that somebody would be with him soon to provide help.

But no one was up to the task. For the entirety of those two weeks, Tox had been reaching out to all of his shady contacts, asking if they would take on the job (and of course offering payment)- but they were either busy with other things or they were entirely unwilling, much to the hacker’s vexation.

Why am I even doing this?! He thought as he scowled. There was absolutely no reason for him to be going through all of this effort to help some random slave. It wasn’t like he could be paid for it.

And yet despite that, he still felt compelled to do something, as if an unknown force was drawing him towards Skids- not that Tox believed in that stuff, though. The whole situation had sparked his curiosity, and when the hacker was interested in something, it would keep him up at night, earning him even less sleep than usual. He was so fixated on it that he had already written up a loose draft of his plan, but it was missing one crucial detail; who would he send?

It all dawned on him; there was only one option.