Combed Thunderclap

General

• Posted the message on the cards "I Stole the Cube Help Me Combed Thunderclap."

• Combed Thunderclap is a title of one of the books named in the short story Library of Babel written by Borges.

• He or she communicates with us at a directory on the Academy website - library of babel which has flash chapters telling his or her story.

• He or she is extremely knowledgable about the Earth.

• He or she buried the Cube on Earth.

• Even though the message on the cards says "I stole the Cube", Combed Thunderclap now says the Cube stole him.

• {[Kurt]] is given the job of fixing security issues with the PXC-Earth Data Link, which suggests that Garnet has found and read the messages placed by Combed Thunderclap on the Academy's site.

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Transcript of waking(thanks to Mico of unfiction):

‘Eye’ opens <>

Waking. It was like waking into a new world from a dream of all the old. Or. No. Like opening my eyes although I knew they were already open.

For a moment I thought I could see… everything.

<> This is not important: I did not kill anyone. I have not killed anyone. Unless by my silence, by remaining silent too long. But I can’t. I can’t.

<> I must continue in silence because what would I say, how would I convince anyone of what I tell you now?

That I did not kill anyone.

<>

But someone did.

<> There are so many possibilities, numberless scenarios and how do I know? How can I know which one is the truth? Like the books in the Library of Babel, each permutation may be the correct one, but is infinitely more likely to be deceptive. A phantom. A dream.

<>

I thought it was a dream. Or a beautiful simulation of a place I have seen so many times before in photographs or video. I knew it at once: the yellow cars driven along the streets, the steam rising up from the sidewalk gratings. I thought: how marvellous. How real. I stumbled and fell. I grazed my hand and the blood was real and the pain was real and I began to understand.

<> I didn’t kill anyone. But someone did. And they’ll be looking for me.

__________________

Where the strikethough words were written then erased, and the <> refers to the start of a blank screen

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Transcript of realise:

• page 1

I realise I should tell you what happened. So that you'll understand. Because
I'm going to need your help. I only hope that you find this first. I know that 
there are others looking, that they may find what I have hidden. So, help? 

• page 2

This is how it was, then, I stumbled onto it. I never intended to steal
anything. In fact, it was more that it stole me. I touched it and we were gone.
I didn't know that could happen. I didn't know anything. But I'm starting from 
the wrong place again. You'll have to excuse me. It's been a long time and I  
haven't known who I could tell, or if I could tell anyone.

• page 3

Begin at the beginning, then. I am a person, a real 
person, a single individual in Perplex City. I buried the 
Cube on Earth. And I will try to tell you how, but the hows 
are less apparent than the whys, and even they 
are obscure. Remember this: don't look for me, I know 
you're already trying. Because those other people? 
They're looking for me too. And if you find me, I don't 
know who will travel with you. 
Fellow-travellers can be dangerous: I should know. 

References

• unfiction threads: library of babel, leaves update