After a few unsuccessful tries, Sarah came across an unusual webpage while searching for the store named Mutant Apocalypse.
It was a geeky comic store at the mall that also catered for Dungeons and Dragons and action figures and the like. Sarah had passed by the store and looked through the enough times to know there was nothing in this world that would make her go inside.
However, this page was not for that store. It looked like a blog of some kind, featureless except for dated entries in pale text on a black backdrop. Suddenly a new browser window opened on top of the page, filled with gaudy text and numbers.
"Geez, a pop-up," Sarah muttered, but before she clicked the little 'X' to close it down, she caught sight of its contents.
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(Most changes expire after roughly 24 hours. If changes persist beyond 3 days, consult your physician immediately. This is a novelty entertainment product and the company accepts no legal responsibility for misuse of the product by their customers.)
Accompanying the text were numerous photos of supposedly satisfied customers, expertly Photoshopped to have funny hair or skin colours, comical nose or ear attachments, even animal parts attached to them.
Sarah liked the sound of giving her brother a gag gift for his birthday, and strange though it was, with the five cent price tag she thought it was worth a shot. She typed her cellphone number into the field on the advert and submitted it.
Soon her phone chirped with an incoming message. Sarah opened it to find a simple text message consisting of a string of seemingly random digits and letters, followed by a phrase, a short description "“ the so-called 'change' of that particular Mutantext. It read, simply:
