Last night I was bored and decided to spoil the next two week's worth of
Buffy The Vampire Slayer storyline for my friend Kate, because I'm a bit of a
bastard and I sometimes to that kind of thing. After sending the
spoilers in question via a
text message, I recieved an
angry phone call, which then turned into a slightly more calmed down and
normal conversation. Every so often there was a
noise on the
line like someone picking up and putting down a
telephone. Considering the somewhat
drug-related nature of the conversation at times, we started to make jokes about people tapping the phone and how much trouble we'd be in if that happened.
All fine and normal so far apart from a slight problem with my cordless phone or the phone system, we're not sure which.
The conversation progressed onto what
books we're both currently reading, which is when Kate mentioned
The Wasp Factory by
Iain Banks. A little while later the conversation ended and I went back to
E2 and then I saw it. Under "
New Writeups" was a node entitled
The Wasp Factory, written by
SharQ.
Now we have an amazing coincidence. Still, though, nothing to worry about.
I then went to
SharQ's
home node to send him a
friendly message explaining what had happened. Out of
curiosity, I scrolled down to see what kind of person I was
dealing with. It all came together when I saw where he lives. A short
bus ride away from my
house.
Now I'm starting to panic, as it all started to make sense. That guy was really a figment of that guy's imagination, that other guy was a replicant, another completely unrelated guy was dead all along and this guy was tapping my phone, listening in for good node material.
I'm gonna run some
water in the background whenever I talk on the phone from now on. Watch his
number of new writeups
drop.
Now a daylog thanks to
Fruan pointing this out to me in my sleep-deprived state.