Dark Blue Monstropolis

Sunday Oct 14, @03:40AM
from Alistair-mobile[editor]: marked *CRITICAL*

Before you start reading the rest of this, INFO DUMP. Before it’s too late, take everything you have and dump it to legacy media. HVD-RW, your iPods, anything you have. Print on Real Paper if you have to, just backup everything to NON-HEAVY TECH MEDIA IMMEDIATELY.

If you cannot dump everything or you have no legacy anything, release your stuff to the Net. At least if you go out, somewhere, someone will grab it and save it.

If you’ve started that process, keep reading.

AVOID ANYTHING HEAVY. Something’s wrong with it–it’s all gone to shit. Japan went offline first last night at 2:14AM GMT. Shortly afterwards, I saw a terra-satellite photo before that satellite went out. Japan is now on fire. The entire country is lit up with fire. New Zealand followed them. They haven’t caught fire; they’ve just gone completely dark. The systems I had that were Heavy have all not just shut down, but fried themselves. The server in the corner had smoke coming out of the front of the case until I used the fire extinguisher on it.

I’m on the West Coast and the lights are already out here. Everything’s out. All of my systems are offline and the only reason I can talk to you know is that I pulled out my old pack and patched into a legacy landline that the building supers never saw fit to remove. Damn thing still works, it’s amazing. But it’s about the only thing that does.

I’m looking out my window and I’m telling you the truth: from here it looks like the end of the fucking world, guys. In the light from the emergency beacons I can see some people lying on the sidewalk. From here, they don’t appear to have a scratch on them–it’s like they just dropped dead. There’s a building across the street on fire, with the backend of a car sticking out of it–the goddamn thing must have just careened off course and into the side of the building.

I’m checking the Net traffic, and all the Heavy Tech shared services are down in a line that’s spreading both east and west. West got hit faster, probably because the Pacific slowed it down heading east and this way…maybe…I have no idea. I don’t know what’s happening, do NOT e-mail me asking. Do not waste any time. In fact, disconnect from the Net as soon as you have read this and processed as much dumping as you can. Take everything you own offline. Those of you who’ve hacked your implants, take those offline too, if you can. There’s not much happening online right now anyway. I can’t get to any of the newsfeeds to find out what’s happening–everybody that the line has already passed appears to have gone dark. The line is now heading for the Rockies. I don’t even know if anybody will read this.

Maybe it’s some kind of problem that has nothing to do with Heavy Tech, but I’m telling you: all the legacy stuff still works while everything else even remotely Heavy is dying all around me and is apparently taking people with it. So I’m not taking any chances. And neither should you.

I hope that this is just some kind of system outage that we can quickly recover from. I hope that all the people I see out there are really unconscious. I hope that we’re all sitting in here in a few days and back online and you’re all welcome to tell me what a raging asshole I am for crying Giant Fucking Wolf like this. So until then.

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