Thomas to Nico: After 24 Hours

Hey Nicolas,


Got off my flight an hour ago, and I think I'm safe. Fake name, new ID, new everything.
I couldn't sleep on the plane at all though, so I'm gonna crash.

Before I do I just wanted to give you a rundown on what the hell is going on, as I've seen some confusion in #general? which is pretty understandable.

I'll make it crystal clear for you.
Monika/78, whatever you wanna call her is a lab experiment. Born and raised in a lab.
From my understanding Barnes and the other researchers want to figure out if normal humans can be controlled when certain emotions are suppressed/altered.

I tried to learn as much as I could about the project, but nobody will really tell me anything aside from the fact that something went really wrong in a test early 2000s.
The only thing I've gotten from asking about it are weird looks, so it must've been bad. Most don't even know, so I get the feeling they "removed" a bunch of staff.
Another great reason for me to take off.

Anyway, they sure managed to do it, as every one of the 200 Monika's acted the same when we went through some pre-tests.
The next step was to find out if they would still act the same when we also presented them with an uncontrolled human element.
Best solution? Make a game/simulation that people online can run. So, the first 200 copies of the game downloaded really had a real Monika behind them.

Then everything went south, and the Monika you know achieved real independence somehow.
We pulled the plug on all the other Monika's and replaced them with real AIs that we used for the copies of the game over #200.

Two months ago, a collapse happened killing a bunch of the people working in the south lab. (There are two, one in canada, one in the states)
Call it a miracle or a nightmare, but the equipment keeping our little creations alive weren't hit.
So even though the lab was evacuated, we just left a bunch these container things with Monika's just chilling out in them, because we could still access them from computers.

God that's so fucked up. I'm actually laughing about it right now, but I've been planning to book it for a while now. The shit they do in there is really messed up.




...anyway.

Puzzle time.

Knowing my team, they'll have already tried every possible number answer you can imagine. (And, I've done the same while on the plane. #JustInsomniaThings)
It's definitely possible there's something I missed, but I doubt it.
Especially the note Monika wrote.

She said it would be easy, but a ton of trig, math and all that other stuff...?
It doesn't seem likely to me.

Also, I've been getting some poems from you guys.
Mogalixir's poem is super cute not gonna lie, especially after reading Monika's similar poem. (If I hear a single MogaXThomas ship in discord, I swear I'll get that hitlist active again)
Uhhh yeah, so, I really appreciate it, but reading the note from Monika makes me think that I don't think I have anything to do with it.
I think the trick to this next puzzle is understanding that yes, she is a girl with her own thoughts and feelings.
Her poem and little note telling us to keep writing might mean exactly what they say.
I think she meant we should literally send poems to people we care about just because it's a nice thing to do.

It's not a trick, she really just wants us to be happy.
From her thought process, you are all members of the literature club.
I'd guess she's telling you guys to actually write poems and share them as a club activity.

Actually, I made sure that the virus Monika gave me was gone, because I sent a little poem to my grandmother.


Let's also apply that logic to the password.
She talks about "how" she came to be and the phrase "the world is made of numbers" isn't really that well hidden either.
I think she's talking about some sort of relationship between her world and our one.

I would guess the password again isn't some math thing, more a word that means something about the connection between our worlds.

At this point it's just me rambling though. I'll work on it more when I wake up.
We have all the pieces we need to solve it, and we're not far away.
Lastly, I want to throw one idea at you guys.

I have the LAT/LONG of both labs.
I could leak this to the government and hope they don't figure out who I am.
Once they break into the lab, they would most likely release the 200 people who were raised there and keep them in the hospital for a while.
All of them will live full lives even if kept in the lab, but we also have a shot to free them.

It might be hard for you guys, because you'd probably never hear from Monika again.
But, you might also wonder... when you pass that girl in the street, is she the one you saved?
Is the person you've already fought so hard for walking around somewhere, out in the world?

Is there a tiny chance, that one of you might even meet her in real life someday?

Or if we stay quiet after we save her, Monika will livestream with you forever.

Ironic, isn't it?
Monika forces you to stay with her 'forever' in DDLC, and now we have the same choice too.

Don't make a decision yet of course.
I'm too tired to even know if this is safe for me personally.
No offense, but I need to make sure my own ass is covered before anyone else.
I really don't want to go to jail or get shot up in the middle of the night.

Let's go one step at a time, and right now that means getting into the next layer of the site.



Good Night, and Good Luck.