Hello.
Odds are, you've stumbled across this in between blogs of would-be supermodels and bro-douchebags. It's nice to see someone might finally notice this.
I'm not going to give you my real name, and if you have to ask why, you probably shouldn't be here.
For now, we'll just call me GITTES. No, I'm not an A.I or something stupid like that. I just like the way it sounds.
Regardless, I feel an explanation is in order.
When I was a child, my parents went missing. Not, like, kidnapped, per se. One night, when I was nine, I woke up and they were just gone. No explanations, no warning, nothing. Just like they vanished into thin air. I lived with my grandparents for a while, and that was fine. Got into a decent school, went to college, the whole nine yards.
Yet, I kept getting drawn back to those disappearances. I always wondered what really happened to them. Were they murdered? Did they just skip out on me? If they did, why?
That's the thing about not knowing. It's better to know a terrible truth than to not know anything at all.
So, I started digging. It helped that, not only did I have a degree in Info-tech, but I had dabbled in a little private investigating. Nothing crazy, just a few estranged wives asking for dirt on their husbands or the odd conspiracy nutcase. It helped to get a little extra change in my pocket.
Then, that was when it all happened.
For the, like, five of you out there that don't know what I'm talking about, I'll explain.
About three years ago, there was an explosion out in the boondocks in Nevada. Huge explosion. Everyone thought it was nuclear for a little while. It was right where "Area 51" was supposed to be.
I know, I know. "That's fucking stupid, Gittes. The Zone wasn't caused by aliens."
Shut the fuck up and let me finish.
It was in Groom Lake. The government tried to keep that on the DL, but everyone figured it out eventually. Say what you will about the information revolution, but it made anyone with a few hours and a copy of google maps into a regular Sherlock Holmes.
That was when weird shit started happening.
People started disappearing. Inanimate objects started coming to life. Monsters started coming out of the woods to eat people's pets. It was subtle, and anyone that wasn't reading stuff like TRUTHNET didn't know what was really happening.
It got worse and worse, and the National Guard tried to keep everything really hush hush. It was when Rachel disappeared into a black hole that people really started panicking. It broke down pretty quickly after that. The government called it the Containment Zone, and before anyone had time to get the situation under control, it started expanding.
After a few months, Vegas was gone, and millions of people were refugees in their own country. It was a complete and utter shitshow and nobody seems to care anymore. Even after having what we thought was reality shattered, people kept going on like nothing had really happened. It's just a giant walled off area in the middle of the Southwest that everyone is pretending doesn't exist.
I digress. That's where I come in.
I started working with a couple of journalists and like-minded folks, particularly a few ex-TRUTHNET guys and gals. The idea was to expose what was really going on inside the Zone and, hopefully, get people to take action over it.
Some of them are calling it DARKNET.
I think that's a little pretentious sounding, honestly, but whatever.
So, that's it. Stick around. Keep an eye out.
You might just learn something.
