The Cardinal Directive: Supplementary Files #6
XPLOR-clip-1-[GONE-WRONG]-[SHADY-FRIENDS].mp4
>> Supplemental File recovered
>> Files taken on civilian camera registered as <RadioHandsome>
>> Data suggests it predates Mission Log #9
>> Confirmed. Now playing XPLOR-clip-1-[GONE-WRONG]-[SHADY-FRIENDS].mp4
“WHAT IS UP MARS, MY NAME IS PATRICK BLACK, THIS IS CHARLIE DEJARO, AND WE’RE BACK AT IT AGAIN WITH A NEW VIDEO THIS WEEK —”
The camera snaps on to the energetic visage of Patrick Black taking up most of the screen — a teenage boy with a mess of curly black hair wearing a hand-dyed black and pink flannel (that looks like he changed his mind on how he wanted to do it halfway through). Half a step behind him and nearly out of frame stands Charlie, a similar-aged girl with short brown hair sticking out of a dirty blue beanie. Her hands are in her jacket pockets, watching something off to the side and blowing a bubble with her gum.
Patrick hasn’t stopped talking. “—We’ve got a real treat for you all today. You’re gonna LOVE it. Charlie, give them the four-one-one!”
She blinks at him, pausing before whispering, “…Patrick, you never told me what we’re doing today.”
He turns his back to the camera to look at her. “The thing, remember? We’re doing the thing today?” Patrick glances briefly back to the camera, giving a cheeky wink. “No spoilers, crew.”
Charlie’s eyebrows raise, a bit confused and a bit exasperated. “We hit a brick wall with the A—”
“The THING.”
She rolls her eyes. “We hit a brick wall with “the thing” last week — there’s no way we can get out there. You said we were going to find something new.”
He whirls around to the camera. “Folks, I’m sure you’ve enjoyed our abandoned exploration videos —” He counts on his fingers. “We’ve done abandoned hospitals, the old mine tunnels, the HAUNTED old creek underpass — but this is something you’ve never seen. So hard to get to that this video is only possible thanks to a mysterious benefactor that we’ll be meeting in uhh…” He checks his watch. “Like twenty minutes.”
“Twenty minutes?!”
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