The trauma is deep with the people, the broadcasts have stopped but no one is using the television, they even bought out online add slots all over the place and made them unskippable, so you can't avoid them even if you wanted, well you could, and that way was turning off your devices and isolating yourself, which is what everyone is doing now, the economy isn't doing well, wait, system
{yes?}
what are the chances of the economy collapsing?
{at this rate 0%}
0?
{yes}
how?
{you will most likely find the culprit}
well that's good to know, but that's probably just a guess
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its been a while since the last scare and activity has died down, I wonder if they just gave up or found something better to do with their time, but the people are buying things again, luckily prices didn't skyrocket, I think it was just about to happen too, so it's good they stopped when they did- that was calculated, they probably think it wouldn't be fun if that was the outcome of their actions "prepare for an even worse broadcast"
"what?" one of the police inquire
"it's going to get worse slowly, maybe suddenly, be on your guard"
"yes sir!"
...
no action was taken... now we're going through this... the broadcast featured children this time, not young ones but teenagers, I refuse to go into detail, that would just be wrong to the kids, but what's weird is none of the kids were reported missing, not one, but maybe "run facials of the kids on the broadcast"
"you got it, sir!"
now we wait-
"We have one ping! he's from the homeless district it seems"
"is it safe to assume they all come from there?"
"very, we only got one ping but look at the kid's precondition"
we can see healed scars and signs of malnourishment, so they target the homeless?
"SIR! they seem to have come from the homeless district! all of them!"
"wait really?"
"yea!"
"ok, can you see rich people who support and have the trust of the homeless?"
"We can do that sir! for sure!" he runs off
ok, despite this being bad news, its also good news, which means that he has a selection ground that we can actively track, but the main problem is we don't want him to notice us, if he does he may change his hunting grounds
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no luck so far, I think they might be taking another long break, but that's just speculation, and I don't wanna act off speculation alone, that's too dangerous, what I mainly want to focus on is their patterns and what's most common in them, like how they target homeless, and how they have a load of money, but we haven't been able to find anyone, its almost as if they don't exist, but it wouldn't be that cliche? would it? Nah, though maybe me confirming it to not be is the author person subverting expectations, I mean maybe that would make a interesting- ok if this is him writing this is getting to meta for my liking