Record number twenty four

First off, I’m sorry for not posting in a while - six months to be precise. I’ve been busy with various things - school work (oh yes, despite being targeted by an insanely homicidal AI bent on revenge, I still have to go to school), exams (ICT is a good subject, boys and girls!), and further research into Static.



I’ve done a little bit of digging into the email I received on the 5th of November last year.

Thanks to rob-the-globe, there is an obvious chess motif here - with the King and the Queen.

But I think there’s something else. Something deeper than games.

What is Mariana is the Queen the email speaks of?

That line of thinking led me to go back over all of my records for any mention of a Queen. I found nothing, but I did find this, from Record number thirteen:

“A Glitch in the system…” He whispered. Now his voice was sinister quiet but powerful, yet had an element of breaking down, of chaos and static. “An error incarnate, but even that was not enough to stop Her. Even I, the glitch, the error, the ghost in the system, bend my back to Her will.”

See what I’m getting at? Her. Her is capitalised, even when it’s not beginning a sentence. Why did I write it like that? Was it the tone of the Cheshire Cat man’s voice? Was it something he said?

If the Queen is Mariana, and she is the Her this glitch refers to, then something terrible may be on the verge of happening. Mariana may not be the only one hell-bent on getting her vengeance.

You cannot run

Just like Mariana, the Glitch is everywhere. It found me in Mariana’s Web itself, which I think was the first time I found it. It found me when Mariana took me, when Mariana explained how MARIANA had its rebirth. And it found me last November, when it sent me this message.

I told you anyone who found my email had to be good.

For I have ascended again past the Queen

This worries me. Mariana is powerful and omni-present throughout the entire Internet, but I’m looking into the Static project to defend myself. Besides, I haven’t heard anything from her, no sudden comas or strange browser redirects or file downloads. But the Glitch, a glitch, how do you defend yourself against that?

You cannot hide

For it is everywhere, in every waking moment. From the miscalculation you make when throwing a ball to the system error that crashes your computer.

From the depth and breadth of the earth I will find you