Radio Transmissions received in North America - 5-12 August 2067
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…a three-tone intro tune played on a synthesized instrument…
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…”At first believed to be the latest Act of the Entity Once Known as Agatha Jones”…
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…”the interim Crisis Government of the new regime in the former UNSA has begun issuing advisories referring to the current global condition as ‘The Static’”…
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…”the EOKAJ* has apparently been struck down at last only miles from where it first appeared near Columbus, Ohio. Emergency dispatches from the Crisis Government confirmed that a seventeen-year-old boy named Jude Sherman and a rogue Node were found with the impossibly preserved body of Agatha Jones, who was previously presumed dead in a fire forty-two years ago.”…
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…”YOU ALL FELT THE WAVE! WHEN THIS ‘STATIC’ FIRST BEGAN IT TOOK US UNDER LIKE FLOODWAVES! THIS IS HIS WORK! HE HAS BROUGHT UPON US A FLOOD AS RETRIBUTION FOR THE MURDER OF HIS EMMISSARY!”…
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…a hymn played on an antique jazz organ from the previous century…
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…”The Crisis Government instated by the Coalition for a Constitutional Convention is advising everyone to stay home. Emergency response volunteers will distribute rations to you at home and to emergency shelters for those uprooted by the Acts of the EOKAJ, the war, or the Material Raptures”…
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…”The physical feeling is not unlike when you pull off a wool sweater and the static charge building up raises your hairs, but it isn’t actually building up any charges and there are never any shocking feelings. It’s also sort of like being carbonated, or how I imagine that would feel anyway— tiny bubbles popping against your skin at every moment, feeling a little ticklish and somehow a little refreshing. The visual effect of the static is fairly literal, tiny spots of light and color appearing in your vision, changing places and quantity and sizes every moment.”…
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…”functioning branches of the former Paranodal Investigation Network that were retrofitted as Crisis Centers to distribute aid and information over the last months have now been optimized for urgent healthcare needs related to the side effects of the static.”…
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…an emergency alert test signal…
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…”This is but a test, and we shall not falter through it! The Journal foretold this event and there are days of peace and light yet to come beyond it!”…
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…”After not accomplishing much of anything aside from keeping myself hydrated for the first few hours of the static, I decided to lie down for several hours with my eyes shut. The static is not just a visual element and physical feeling but something in your mind as well, almost to the point of a hallucination, so closing my eyes didn’t do too much to relieve me of it, but at least there wasn’t anything to try and fail to focus on. I eventually slept, and when I awoke late in the evening, I committed myself to adjusting to this static.”…
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…”This regularly programmed advertisement space has been repossessed by the Crisis Government for the purpose of broadcasting important information to our citizens and constituents. If you are in need of food, water, or medical aid, please visit your local former PIN Bureau, where Government personnel or volunteers will direct you to ration stations or other operable facilities in your locale.”…
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…”you know, talking on the radio, I can close my eyes in the studio and really just focus on what I’m trying to say, but have any of you listeners been watching the news the past couple of days? I applaud those folks for trying their damndest but my god is it funny seeing them try to be serious and composed while the world is having an acid trip around them.”…
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…the long-held final note of some kind of opera piece, a C6 sung on an open-mouth ‘ah’ sound…
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…”My Siblings, go out into nature and envelop yourself in the beauty of His majesty. Be filled with awe and wonder at the marvel of this mysterious gift of His love. The trees and the grass glimmer with His glory renewed. Rejoice! Rejoice!”….
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…an error sound plays on repeat…
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….the static ends, and for a moment there is peace…
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*footnote: the abbreviation for the phrase “the Entity Once Known as Agatha Jones” became a colloquial term on functioning media platforms within days of Their appearance. EOKAJ is commonly pronounced as a single word— “yokai”