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Thrall by Avon Gale, Roan Parrish (39)

CHAPTER 46

Shadowcast Twitter Feed

Shadowcast @shadowcast

On our way to the @acecafe to follow another #allium clue—things are getting intense, stay with us for more updates!

Wishing On Stars @wishimaywish

eeee @shadowcast omg this is so exciting keep us updated!! #favoritepodcast

Britt Meyers @bmygirl

can't handle what's going on with @shadowcast—are they gonna catch the #allium killer??

Nope @nopenotonce

ummmm @bmygirl @shadowcast you know its not real right lmao

Victor V @viconthestage

Hey @shadowcast is this gonna be on the air if we can't follow along i gotta work dude!

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Google Hangouts

2:37 PM

Mina Murray

Hey, Lucy, you there?

A, VH, and I just parked and we're heading to Ace Cafe

Lucy Westenra

Hey! I'm here, yeah but working on these stupid pay stubs and sneaking looks at my phone so might be slow

I hate that I can’t be there. Boo to working on the weekends. >:( Keep me in the loop ok??? <3

Mina Murray

Me too! it's like everything is speeding up suddenly. I feel like we're in a chase, like in a movie

(I watched The Fugitive last night bc it was on :|)

Omg if there's a U.S. Marshall or a one-armed man at the Ace Cafe I'll freak.

Lucy Westenra

The Harrison Ford one?

Mina Murray

Hm, I never even noticed this place before. It manages to be…kinda grungy and boring at the same time. Well done, Ace Cafe.

Whoa weird

Hang on

brb

uhhhhhhhhh

Something is messed up with Allium

Arthur's freaking out

He wants to delete the game!

Lucy Westenra

Wait what?

No! what? What the hell is going on?

Mina Murray

Ok, it's…when we walked into the cafe, before we even DID anything, somehow

the Swarm app opened on Arthur's phone.

Only…Arthur doesn't HAVE Swarm.

it somehow…auto-downloaded AND opened on his phone AND read our location from his phone.

He is FREAKING out and he wants to delete Allium.

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Shadowcast Twitter Feed

Shadowcast @shadowcast

this game thinks it's cool to download shit like SWARM onto people's phones and i have a huge problem with that—also who uses swarm gtfo #allium

IRL Booplefloop @sureyoucan

@shadowcast what's swarm is that an allium thing?

Trev Rev @revtrev

Reply to: @sureyoucan @shadowcast nah it used to be foursquare but ppl stopped using it because lol BADDD. It lets you check in places and share your location and be mayor and shit.

Jelly @jeanjacketpro

Reply to: @revtrev @sureyoucan @shadowcast i was the mayor of Ruby Slipper for three weeks :D

In-N-Out @jumpshark

Reply to: @jeanjacketpro i was the mayor of your mom lol

Shadowcast @shadowcast

srsly if the game designer is reading this it is NOT COOL to download apps to someone's phone wtf is wrong with you >:(

Shimmy and Shake @dancergirl33

Uhhh @shadowcast is that even legal??

Shadowcast @shadowcast

Reply to: @dancergirl33 IT SHOULDN'T BE MAYBE I’LL JUST DELETE ALLIUM HOW’S THAT #VeryMad #allium

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Google Hangouts

2:58 PM

Lucy Westenra

HE CAN'T DELETE ALLIUM

we're so close! we HAVE to FIND MY BROTHER

MINA

MINA

SERIOUSLY WHAT IS GOING ON

MINA tell him HE CANNOT DELETE THE APP I'll freaking buy him a new phone

Mina Murray

Yeah, but Luce…

The app is TRACKING US!

It's reading where we are, even though Arthur doesn't have location services on.

Lucy Westenra

Then we need to win this fucking game and find my fucking brother and then we can get that app off his damn phone!

Mina Murray

He is FREAKING!

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Text Message

Lucy Westenra to Arthur Quincey

3:02 PM

Lucy: ARTHUR! please don’t delete allium! please!

seriously i’ll buy you a new phone, just don’t!

please we’re SO CLOSE to finding harker!

we HAVE to finish this

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Google Hangouts

3:05 PM

Lucy Westenra

What if—dude, what if this happened to Harker? What if the app took over his phone and like…I DONT KNOW DID SOMETHING TO HIM??? Allium’s the only thing that could help us find him! Please omg Mina don't let him!

Mina Murray

I know, ok, hang on, don't panic.

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Text Message

Arthur Quincey to Lucy Westenra

3:07 PM

Arthur: Ok ok ok luce, don’t worry, i won’t.

bout to kill the motherfucker who designed this game but -_-

Lucy: YES THANK YOU <3 <3 <3

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Google Hangouts

3:10 PM

Mina Murray

OK!

we're ok. he's not gonna delete it

But he's seriously burning this damn phone the second we're done. i swear he's holding it like a sardine

Uh…ok, Arthur's now muttering something about the newest iPhone and simultaneously cursing your name and saying he wishes you were loaded so he could take you up on it

Lucy Westenra

Yeah him and me both.

What’s happening???

Did he check in?

Ugh now that i think about it that IS really creepy that it bypassed his location settings? Jesus.

Mina Murray

It's so fucked up. Ok, he just checked us in at the cafe in Swarm.

And a clue box popped up.

[Screenshot]

Why Is This Place Significant?

Mina Murray

Which we know tis bc of my super smart girlfriend who noticed that the victim was a bartender bc of the napkin and his wad o' cash

Lucy Westenra

!!!!!

Mina Murray

So, we're just trying to figure out phrasing—bc if we get dinged and have to go on a hiatus right now i seriously think A will have an aneurysm.

Lucy Westenra

sorry trying to tpye s fsat

Mina Murray

Weigh in: should we go with "the victim worked here" or "last place the victim was seen alive?"

We don't know how close we have to be for it to count.

I think if it's an open question then there must be multiple accepted sentences to answer the q.

Lucy Westenra

God this is so stressful x__x

Ok, do we know that for *sure* it was the last place he was seen alive?

Mina Murray

Well it's the last place the *clues* tell us he was seen alive—the girl's voicemail message said he walked her out, lit her cigarette. well. we're assuming it was him anyway. so by the logic of the game it was?

Lucy Westenra

Can you put both?

Mina Murray

One sec!

Good thinking. VH says that if it's going based on requiring certain key words then it's better to cover all our bases.

Lucy Westenra

Great he can give me harker's phd.

Mina Murray

LOL VH says, "if it were that easy, everyone would be doing it."

Lucy Westenra

Ugh i see why Arthur likes him.

Mina Murray

Now he's ranting about terminal masters degrees in the social sciences and the irresponsibility of universities…

Lucy Westenra

Mina i'm dying WAS IT RIGHT???

Mina Murray

A just kissed him to shut him up and VH melted.

Lucy Westenra

TELL THEM TO STOP MAKING OUT AND PUT IN THE CLUE

Mina Murray

And WINNNNNERRRRR!

Lucy Westenra

I just yelled "yesssss" out loud and the receptionist was like "…"

Mina Murray

Haha. I'm picturing you fist pumping and punching a guest in the face.

AH!

Lucy Westenra

MINA WHAT

Mina Murray

OMG

Lucy Westenra

WHAAAAAT

Mina Murray

sorry

Lucy Westenra

MINA

Mina Murray

Ummmmmmm just that a fucking COUNTDOWN CLOCK just appeared on Arthur’s phone. Like when a BOMB is ticking down.

Lucy Westenra

What the actual fuck

How long do we have?

Mina Murray

[sends screenshot]

YOU HAVE 2 HOURS AND 38 MINUTES

UNTIL THE SUN SETS

AND THE MURDERER ESCAPES FOREVER.

TICK-TOCK…