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    One of the big problems with cracking your egg, Jax has found, is that once you’ve come to terms with it, the people around you don’t just get the memo via psychic link and immediately start calling you all the right words. No, apparently, you have to tell them everything yourself, which—ignoring literally every other thing that’s happened to her—is the worst thing that’s ever happened to her.

    Fortunately, however, she’s got a plan. After all, what’s the use of building a reputation for making everyone solve weird (and typically time-sensitive) riddles in her wording if she can’t use it to her advantage sometimes?

    Surely, this will go exactly how she’s expecting it to.

    (Or: Five times ‘Jax’ drops hints about being trans, and one time she officially comes out.)

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    It began with an alert in his email inbox- somebody had altered some code he wrote.
    Not a particularly unusual notification for Grant to get, considering he had been a computer scientist for more than three decades. It was slightly more unusual, however, considering the notification said that the code had been modified by Grant himself- something he had definitely not done- and also considering the system being altered had been shut down more than eighteen years ago.

    From: C&A - LOCAL [HQ]
    ALERT !
    [1337 /usr/ai/agent/caine] DELETED.

    ...What the hell.

    Or: Six people have been living their normal lives, entirely unaware of the copies of their consciousness trapped in a brightly-coloured digital hellscape. That is, at least, until said copies escape the Circus, and six people wake up with both sets of memories, determined that the family they formed in a very different reality is one they will find again.

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    25 Jun 2026

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    Siffrin is fine.
    Really.
    Like- actually doing good! He's got coping skills! A therapist! Hugs whenever needed. Their own personal cheering squad! A family that didn't leave them behind.
    Until he wakes up.
    In the meadow.
    Again.

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    24 Jun 2026

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    The first time she wakes up, she’s alone.

    It takes months, years, maybe decades. She's not sure at all. But patience and mercy finally take effect, and Jax finds herself waking up in a blanket fort, static fading from her mind, and people waiting for her outside.

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    24 Jun 2026

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    Today, the ▬▬▬▬▬ Police Department has disclosed the identities of the recently found persons who escaped from the previously-thought abandoned C&A software department. Dubbed the “C&A Escapees” by social media, the five people have captured the interest of the world due to the strange circumstances of their location. All five people had previously been reported missing, anytime ranging from several months to nearly a decade ago, with at least one previously presumed deceased. Only two of the escapees had formerly been connected to the C&A software department, which had been abandoned since its failure to resell in 2008. This building itself became a local urban legend due to the occasional disappearance around the location and strange reports of electrical functioning despite its power being cut. However, these rumors are miniscule in comparison to the recent reality of the five C&A Escapees leaving the building, all the same age they were when they had vanished, as if no time at all had passed.

    A collection of files on the re-appearance of five members of the Digital Circus... but where did the sixth go...?

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    23 Jun 2026