Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26268104-20160309211225

             The laptop has amazing, innovative technology, being a surface pro 4. It is located in a bunker just next to a router that it is connected to. Based on the dirt seeping through its walls, the bunker certainly has been in disrepair for some time. The surface pro 4 is currently firmly connected to a plug. As for the bunker, it’s only 2 rooms wide. One is a bedroom, with one bed, which is designed for 2 people, but only one side of it has the appearance of being occupied recently. In the other room, there is a small table for 2, along with a desk in the corner, which is where the router and the surface pro lie, along with a few other things. An empty bowl, a miniature trash can, and a water pump, which as of now, doesn’t work. On the table, there is a bowl that is a bit wet to the touch on the inside, with a small straw leaning awkwardly out of it.

But back to the surface pro 4. If you open it, you’ll feel some dried sweat on the keyboard. Upon logging on, you’ll be greeted with the desktop. It is filled with many video games, mainly shooters and RPGs, and its desktop background is a screenshot of an explosion along with a “no” sign over it. Looking through the account history reveals that before then, the desktop background was a screenshot from a video game called “Minecraft.” In the bottom-right corner, a file titled “My Stuff,” is visible.

Within this file, there are numerous notable programs, including one called “GIMP.” This program is a photo-manipulation tool, in which the user can make and manipulate images in many different ways. Looking through the history of this program reveals picture of flowers edited to look different colors, as well as background removal tests. However, there is also the same picture that appears as the desktop background, suggesting the “no” sign was added in by the surface pro 4’s owner. Additionally, there is another file showing a mugshot of a man in a prisoner uniform glaring into the camera. Black text has been inserted in using GIMP that says “Hey, Dexter. If you and/or your stupid gang are reading this, I have a message for you. Please. Die.”

If you back out of this program and go back to the “My Stuff” folder, you may notice a file titled “chat_report_chatcom_21.” This file is a text file. A PDF, to be exact. It reads as following:

Cho_Ku: I’m not doing that.

Jacky_8: Come on!

Cho_Ku: No!

Spiral_9 has joined the chat. Let’s hope he’s friendly.

Jacky_8: Hey.

Spiral_9: What’s up?

Cho_Ku: My mom.

Spiral_9: Jacky, this again!?! That’s like the 5th time!!!

Cho_Ku: You tell him, Spiral!

Jacky_8: Oh, no. You’ve won. I must die now.

Ouch! Jacky_8 left the chat before being torn apart by the squirrels. It’s game over!

Spiral_9: I wish he’d give that a rest.

<p class="MsoNormal">Cho_Ku: Yeah. So, did you see the news?

<p class="MsoNormal">Spiral_9: Indeed. Crappy stuff Dexter is doing in California.

<p class="MsoNormal">Cho_Ku: He got caught.

<p class="MsoNormal">Spiral_9: He did? Must have missed that. Big overlook.

<p class="MsoNormal">Cho_Ku: Not just big. Very big.

<p class="MsoNormal">Spiral_9:  Fine. Very, very big.

<p class="MsoNormal">Spiral_9: Maybe someday, Dexter will think about what he did and he, along with all of “Dexter Inc.” will be able to comprehend the meaning of kindness.

<p class="MsoNormal">Cho_Ku: He can’t comprehend kindness? Sounds like an ordinary internet user.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center">Spiral_9 left the chat before being torn apart by the squirrels. It’s game over!

<p class="MsoNormal">Further scrolling through the folder reveals a PNG image of a logo for a group called “Dexter Inc.,” which also has a “no” sign like the one on the background image over it. In an addition to that, there is an AVI file titled “Skype_chat_1.” The video is as follows:

<p class="MsoNormal">A young boy with bright red cheeks and brown hair brush back crudely leans back and sighs, as does someone off screen. “Spiral_9, why are you recording this,” the boy asks.

<p class="MsoNormal">“So someone will understand what happened here if I run from this place and can’t take my laptop,” says an off-screen boy. “Or if...,” the boy says. “If, you know.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Why did you contact me? It’s no longer safe up here, if you’ve missed the news again.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“I didn’t, Cho_Ku. And if you can, call me Brad.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“That’s your real name?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Nope.”

<p class="MsoNormal">A pause follows, as the on-screen boy adjusts his chair. “So, please tell me. Why did you call,” he finally says.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I…needed a connection.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“To who…Brad?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Just about anybody capable of speaking without trying to kill me.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Ever since the Dexter Inc.’s bombs launched, that activity became somewhat hard.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Indeed. So, if you need anything, you know where to find me…digitally.”

<p class="MsoNormal">The video ends after this.

<p class="MsoNormal">Much further down in the “My Stuff” file, past several videos of skype chat that are nothing short of small talk, reads a file titled “avi_1597673.” This file is at the bottom and the date reads “4/15/18,” making it the last file ever uploaded.

<p class="MsoNormal">The video begins with an unidentified man shoving a boy with spiked hair and thick-rimmed glasses being shoved into the wall. The man is wearing a bulletproof vest over a hooded blue jacket. Notably the setting is the same one as the bunker the surface pro 4 was found in, but much cleaner. The man takes out a phone and shouts “We’ve caught another resister.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Another man, wearing identical clothes, except that his jacket has a symbol that says “Dexter Inc.” on it, runs on-screen and says “Is this computer recording?”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">The first man checks the computer, and responds “Must have bumped his head on the keyboard.” The young boy, now crying in the corner with a bruise on his forehead, is dragged off-screen by the 2 men, and as they do, the boy points his middle finger toward them. Off-screen, the sound of a door opening and closing is heard, along with some fidgeting, and all is silent for hours on end, before the video ends on its own. <ac_metadata title="Surface Pro 4 (Not reviewed)"> </ac_metadata>