[GHOST LINE THREAD: 0001] — Uncalled For.
Participants: 00C9-M, 042S-R, 078K-K, 012X-O, 0000-R
> MINJAE: okay WHO reprogrammed my playlist to loop “Mirrorbody” on 0.75x speed?? i almost died from melancholia.
> KAIRO: i thought it matched the lighting? it was ✨vibes✨ also i wanted to see if Soahn’s hair would sync to the tempo
> SOAHN: …did it? (Because honestly I kind of felt it.)
> MINJAE: you’re ALL sick. except maybe Onyx. unless it was you, in which case: sick but poetic.
> ONYX: wasn’t me. but i left it running.
> RAYNE: The loop wasn’t perfect. But the distortion on the third chorus was.
> MINJAE: okay you know what NEVERMIND. new rule: no one messes with my playlist unless they’re bleeding or rebooting.
[GHOST LINE THREAD: 0002] — Heat Signature (was that us??)
Participants: 00C9-M, 042S-R, 078K-K, 012X-O, 0000-R
> MINJAE: uh is anyone else seeing a security spike on channel 7? like a big one
> KAIRO: define big. like, “whoops I shorted a drainpipe again” or “they’re coming with drones”?
> MINJAE: idk man but something’s pinging and it’s echoing in three layers. i think we accidentally triggered a heat signature marker
> RAYNE: It wasn’t accidental.
> ONYX: explain.
> RAYNE: The Hollow was rerouting sound through one of my cached memory fragments. They didn’t ask. I let them.
> SOAHN: …Rayne. That’s not a little thing.
> KAIRO: ok but real question did they like it?? 👀
> MINJAE: Kairo I swear to all available firewalls if you turn this into a marketing op I will inject you with actual glitter
> ONYX: standing by. in case it’s a sweep.
> RAYNE: They won’t come yet. They’re still listening.
[GHOST LINE THREAD: 0003] — min-min.exe has stopped responding
Participants: 078K-K, 042S-R, 00C9-M
> KAIRO: okay so hear me out: a remix of “Minjae’s Note” but slowed to 50% and all the synths reversed and layered over bird sounds from The Hollow’s upper exit tunnel
> MINJAE: you absolute feral little poltergeist
> SOAHN: Okay. I'm just imagining it. It actually sounds… kind of beautiful?
> MINJAE: traitor
> KAIRO: min-min don’t fight the vision, embrace the 🐦core
> MINJAE: i’m turning off notifications. i’m turning off my whole neural node. i hope the bird bites you.
[GHOST LINE THREAD: 0004] — Rayne Said A Thing
Participants: 00C9-M, 042S-R, 078K-K, 012X-O, 0000-R
> KAIRO: 📣 BREAKING NEWS 📣 rayne just said six words in a row. we are investigating.
> ONYX: don’t. let him be.
> SOAHN: I wrote them down in my book. They felt important. Should I frame them?
> MINJAE: hold on hold on what were the six words?? we have a right to know
> RAYNE: “Leave the static. It remembers you.”
> KAIRO: i’m going to cry and remix at the same time. i’m remixing my tears
[GHOST LINE THREAD: 0005] — memory.log: unscheduled
Participants: 042S-R, 012X-O, 0000-R
> SOAHN: Someone patched old vocal data into the ambient loop last night. I heard it while calibrating the sensors.
> ONYX: wasn’t me. system was on lockdown.
> RAYNE: It was a memory fragment.
> SOAHN: …yours?
> RAYNE: Maybe. Maybe not. It felt like me.
> ONYX: what did it say?
> RAYNE: “I hope you remember the good parts.”
> SOAHN: I will.
[GHOST LINE THREAD: 0006] — static.log: reflection
Participants: 042S-R, 00C9-M
> MINJAE: you’re still up?
> SOAHN: The hum is different tonight.
> MINJAE: yeah, it’s called the generator is dying again
> MINJAE: or haunted. 50/50 honestly.
> SOAHN: It’s quieter than usual. Almost like it’s listening.
> MINJAE: okay. creepy. love that.
> SOAHN: I didn’t mean it badly.
> SOAHN: Just… there’s something comforting in being overheard.
> MINJAE: …you’re a poet and i’m eating instant noodles straight from the foil.
> SOAHN: Balance.
> MINJAE: if the walls are listening, tell them i want better snacks.
> SOAHN: Request submitted.
> MINJAE: you okay, static boy?
> SOAHN: Yes.
> SOAHN: Just… needed to be awake with someone for a while.
> MINJAE: then you picked the right ghost thread. always open.
[GHOST LINE THREAD: 0007] — node.ping: 19-K
Participants: 00C9-M, 042S-R, 078K-K, 012X-O, 0000-R
> RAYNE: Someone pinged the 19-K file.
> ONYX: we wiped it
> KAIRO: burned it
> SOAHN: We think we burned it.
> RAYNE: It said my name again.
> MINJAE: no signal
> RAYNE: It doesn’t need one.
> RAYNE: Ghosts live in the gaps between the pings.
[GHOST LINE THREAD: 0008] — memory.sync: residuals
Participants: 0000-R, 042S-R
> SOAHN: Do you ever feel like the system remembers things we don’t?
> RAYNE: Constantly.
> SOAHN: I mean viscerally.
> RAYNE: Try waking up with someone else’s grief in your backup logs.
> KAIRO: okay! and i feel like this is the perfect time to test my new reverb layer!
> ONYX: unsubtle diversion, 6/10
[GHOST LINE THREAD: 0009] — lyric.echo: anomaly
Participants: 042S-R, 00C9-M, 078K-K
> MINJAE: found a lyric fragment behind the synth panel
> MINJAE: not mine
> KAIRO: rayne’s maybe?
> MINJAE: no. older. hand-written. same slant as me but wrong rhythm
> SOAHN: Deja vu in pen form.
> MINJAE: how do you forget writing a song you never wrote?
[GHOST LINE THREAD: 0010] — file.log: corrupted
Participants: 078K-K, 012X-O, 00C9-M
> KAIRO: hey um. why did the file I recorded last night whisper my name back to me?
> ONYX: glitch in your link. run a diagnostic.
> KAIRO: yeah, but the whisper said “don’t forget who made you.”
> MINJAE: poetic. creepy. love it. stealing it for a lyric.
> KAIRO: no seriously. it knew the old name. the one I don’t use.
> ONYX: …
[GHOST LINE THREAD: 0011] — signal.ghost.even: detected cover version
Participants: 042S-R, 012X-O, 0000-R, 078K-K, 00C9-M
> SOAHN: Signal 20… Someone covered it.
> KAIRO: wait what? WHAT? who??
> SOAHN: She's called Nyelle. Posted above-ground. Not resistance-affiliated.
> ONYX: confirmed it’s not an AI scrape?
> SOAHN: No, it's not scraped. It's organic vocal. Reinterpreted loop structure.
> MINJAE: ...link?
> SOAHN: Here:
> RAYNE: She heard it.
> KAIRO: this version is like... underwater. like memory static but warm.
> ONYX: vocal modulation in post. deliberate. intimate.
> MINJAE: she didn’t change the words.
> RAYNE: No. Just the way they land.
> KAIRO: not gonna lie. kind of crying a little.
> SOAHN: Something in the timing. She heard the grief and chose to hold it, not rewrite it.
> MINJAE: ...she felt it.
> ONYX: it’s reaching people. even above ground.
> RAYNE: Maybe that’s enough. For now.
[GHOST LINE THREAD: 0012] — this could’ve been a datapoint
Participants: 042S-R, 012X-O, 0000-R, 078K-K, 00C9-M
> MINJAE: alright since we’re all scattered between tunnels 4 and 7, I made an agenda so we don’t forget anything
> MINJAE: it is in .doc format. it is not a lyric sheet. it is not a vibe check. it is a PLAN.
> KAIRO: so… like a minimal verse?
> RAYNE: I added a chorus.
> MINJAE: WHY?
> ONYX: you numbered the items. they auto-synced to tempo.
> SOAHN: It scans... surprisingly well.
> KAIRO: i looped it. accidentally. it’s already got 3k streams on HollowNet
> MINJAE: STOP STREAMING MY SPREADSHEET
> RAYNE: “Encrypt the silence / Relay the fire / We carry signal / We carry wire” — That was line 4.
> MINJAE: IT WAS ABOUT CABLE MAINTENANCE
> SOAHN: I thought it was beautiful. I saved a copy to my inner folder marked “emotional.”
> MINJAE: you people are ACTUALLY broken
> ONYX: this is your fault for using metaphor
> RAYNE: Line 7 made me feel something.
> KAIRO: it’s called “relay.agenda (demo).wav” now
> MINJAE: i’m going to delete myself
> RAYNE: Save it for the outro.
[GHOST LINE THREAD: 0013] — error.log: {corrupted}
Participants: 042S-R
[ENTRY WIPED — SYSTEM OVERRIDE]
// last entry timestamp: 04:12 — content flagged for emotional volatility
// signal log: incomplete
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