This is going to mess up my actuarial tables.

[detectivewonder]

If everybody could just remain calm, that'd be great.  Whatever's going on across the island right now, it doesn't seem to be hurting anyone.  Many of you look a lot younger than I remember, but that could as easily be my perceptions altered as yours.  I'll get working on a statistical analysis -- whatever point most people have as a common memory, that's the likeliest source of all this, if you look at it objectively.

Nobody panic.  Call in and take a sick day from work, if you remember being employed.  The island rarely has a paranormal episode more than five days in length, so by the end of the weekend this should all be sorted out again.  If you're displaced and confused, contact the New Moore Police Department and have them direct you to your currently listed address.

For that matter, a little advisory to the NMPD -- like in any unsettled environment, you're going to see an escalation of crimes tonight.  Minor violent offenses as people blow off stress, but mostly property crimes -- burglary and looting, especially in businesses whose staff has been affected and is absent or undermanned as a result.  Every night this continues, crime rates will continue to spike -- unless this goes on much longer than usual.

If anybody needs me, I'll be on the network all day, running some numbers.

Comments

[riseup]

paranormal episode?
young man, that sounds incredibly silly.

[detectivewonder]

How long have you been on the island, Mister... ?

Anyway, it's far from the strangest thing I've seen. This month.

[riseup]

Egbert.
you can call me John.
sources say I have been here before, but I do not remember anything past yesterday.
what is the strangest thing you have seen this month, out of curiosity?

[detectivewonder]

Definitely the return of the Demon's Bell.

[jenratedanomaly]

Seems like there's been a time crisis if the network is anything to go by. I don't think this one was one directional, but I could be wrong. I still have New Moore PD uniforms in my closet, but all my files on TWNM are missing and I've fallen out of touch with quite a few contacts.

How can I help?

[detectivewonder]

TWNM, hm?

Try to identify anyone who might share a common time-frame with you.

[jenratedanomaly]

Seems like I'm one of the out of place. Most people I've talked to so far are from much earlier than I am.

[detectivewonder]

The largest number of common referents are from about 2011. Seven years ago, from my perspective.

[expositional]

Understood. Thank you for your input.

[detectivewonder]

Naoto.

Hm. I think you might be part of the control group.

[oftpartitioned]

this looks boring

[detectivewonder]

Apparently, some people never change.

[oftpartitioned]

everyone is a bitch in the future

[detectivewonder]

Are you from the past? I wasn't sure.

[oftpartitioned]

I'm from the now and YOU'RE all the crazy people.

[detectivewonder]

Yeah. That's my working hypothesis.