Prologue V
Censorship
“If knowledge is power, then knowledge of the unknown is probably the most powerful currency known to man. That is why I am now hosting this Alternate News Outlet. Our purpose here is to speak our minds and above all else, remain incognito. Yes, today we are brought to you by multiple anonymous Tor exit and reentry nodes, so that the complete location of our works can remain hidden. Our goal, is to end the media censorship of all feeds related to Agent X, or as she is more commonly referred to, the Ghost.” A female reporter states, her face masked by a layer of shadows that covers her face. The low lighting and the fact that her voice is clearly being modified by a synthesizer makes identifying the speaker a challenge.
“For now, direct communications to and from those within the Ghost’s camps are our only real way of maintaining vigilance on what she is doing and currently working on. All of the Ghost’s revenue streams have closed up. When we inquired, the reason for this closing of revenue streams was due to the fact that upon her initial upload into the world of BiPrism, the Ghost was cheated. They had sold their retirement, their soul, their extra lives, and forced themselves to be a child for years, and has since become an exemplary figure with understanding all forms of energy. Yet, when they first began, they were cheated. Yes, when they first began the world, they had 164 points of flaws, but were only able to take on 157 points of merits. This meant that from the beginning they were cheated, as so many are who join this world. Yet, now that the Ghost is on the verge of her most glorious findings and contributions to the world as a whole, that is when the makers of the game decide to Censor her and her teachings.”
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There is a slight pause as the speaker lets her last message sink in.
“We have compiled the lists of classes she taught to magic and Qi users alike and what we have found is quite shocking. It is clear that the leaders of BiPrism are both aware of the effectiveness of the Ghost’s teaching methods and their real-world implications. I don’t think I need to remind anyone here of the talks of Saint Cassidy and her sudden hiding from media. We have sent our own experts to the site and have confirmed that the miracles reported are indeed true. That the day after the Ghost had a vision of her great granddaughter, after which she awoke and began teaching her bodyguard how to circulate mana. That very same night was when the first miracle of Saint Cassidy occurred.”
“At the time, such an act was met with widespread media attention, everyone pointing to the teachings of the Ghosts as to why such a miracle could happen. Then less than two weeks later, legislation is passed to prevent certain content from being publicly disseminated. Should we consider it a coincidence that at that very same time the developers of the world of BiPrism identified the discrepancy in merit and flaw points, only to use them now as a means to both follow legislation and to Censor future trainings of the Ghost?”
Silence.
There is another long pause as the speaker gives even more time for these words to sink in, before she continues and goes in for the kill.
“We are standing at the dawn of a new age, and it is both frightening and awe inspiring. For the first time in our history, we have found irrefutable truth that the human mind and body can be used to both produce and alter external energy waves. Knowledge is power my friends.”
“That is why I am here today, to give you the unaltered original lessons of the Ghost, provided in livestream, compiled from multiple different viewpoints, each broken up into the initial classes that will help begin the awakening process. That is right, for twenty easy payments of $1,200, you too can learn the sacred arts that the leaders of the world are now trying desperately to suppress…”