interlude

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[deep vibrations and murmured talking]

Firstly, a top view of a town is shown in grayscale. Then, the MCPD building is shown. It switches to a view inside an office.

Now shown is partially cut off text, it presumably says in all caps, "Mandela County Population Trend Report // 1990 - 2010."

The stats shown say, "1992 - 14,763. // 1993 - 12,978. // 1994 - 7,312. // 1995 - 5,924."

It jumps forward in time, now it says, "2006 - 1,786. // 2007 - 1,687. // 2008 -1,347. // 2009 - 1,075."

[silence]

The logo of "BPS Productions 2007" appears. "BPS" in in yellow while the rest of the text is white. The logo appears stretched out.

White text on a light blue background says, "hey adam, i got access to more of those mcpd files, and theyre pretty recent too. i dont have time to watch them since im busy but let me know what you think. cya soon -sarah."

["Marine's Hymm" plays, it is an upbeat marching band instrumental. ]

The U.S. Temporal Phenomena logo appears against an American flag flapping in the wind. Text onscreen reads in all caps, "An unforseen threat has been eliminated... thanks to your loyalty, courage, and determination. We may now carry onwards... without fear."

The screen abruptly switches to a grainy white background with "In The Beginning" written in cursive in the top left corner.

[discordent beeping]

A timeline slides across the screen, it reads, "Flawed Assimilation," and shows a mugshot of an older man, compared to another photo of him with more shadows, and seeminly without eyes or a mouth.

[distorted murmurs]

The next event says, "Complete Assimilation." The images at first appear too dark to see. Then suddenly brighten to show two mugshots of an older woman.

Next, it says, "Overdriven Assimilation." The images shown are of a nun and the distorted "preacher," who appears to be a nun with a long stretched out face with eyes and mouth wide open.

[loud sudden distorted shouting]

A group of white pixels flash in the corner against a black background, there doesn't appear to be a certain shape.

Then, Mark's house is seen with a strong blue filter cast over it, a red box is shown over a window.

A bright picture of brick buildings is now seen.

Then, the nun appears again with a white background, the text, "a messenger," appears next to them.

The screen turns black before the picture of the nun flashes once more.