The reason I decided to speak with G:B was a thumbnail for “Roll the Dice” that I happened to come across.

B looked strikingly similar to a tall American soldier I saw on Flores in 2025, while the small creature resembled the one I witnessed there that night.

It may have been a coincidence.

Still, I wanted to speak with them at least once.

An editor I know happened to be putting together a Halloween feature, so I pushed them, perhaps a little too hard, to arrange an interview for me.

Admittedly, I asked them a number of roundabout and rather impolite questions.

I would like to apologize for that here.

I hope this article can serve as a bridge to readers and listeners beyond their usual audience.

I will not go into what happened on Flores here. Anyone interested can read about it on this page.

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After returning home, I looked further into local folklore and found several things worth noting. Some of them overlap with what I heard from G:B, so I want to mention them first.

There are stories about the Flores goblins, the Ebu Gogo, being able to imitate human speech.

In some areas, I also found scattered accounts of people receiving messages from them in dreams. A few could even be read as describing something resembling telepathy arising through contact between them and humans.

There is no formal name for such a phenomenon, so for convenience, I will refer to this telepathy-like effect as the “Flores Echo.”

How much credibility any of those accounts deserve is another matter.

The problem is that the interview raised a new question.

Here is what we know about how the “Roll the Dice” thumbnail was made.

G remembers receiving the production instructions from V.

—V did not send them.

D remembers receiving the source image from B.

—B did not send it.

More importantly, those two things—the instructions and the source image—are the only things missing. The exchanges immediately before and after them are still there.

G remembered the instructions in considerable detail.

They contained several strange typos that V would normally never make.

That caught my attention.

In 2025, while the anomalies at TB-3 were occurring, Andrea’s field notes also contained errors that were unusual for her.

Those notes still exist in the project records.

It may be nothing more than coincidence.

But there is something else that bothers me.

The gold coin.

When Andrea was found at TB-3, she was holding an old gold coin.

To me, she seemed to be clutching it as though it mattered to her.

During the interview, I asked B:

“If you came across an unusual coin, would you keep it?”

His answer was:

“No.”

Of course, the gold coin may have no special significance at all.

But in “Roll the Dice,” there is a gold coin between B and the goblin.

And B is the one holding it out.

Where did that image come from?

This is only speculation, but what if B had somehow come into contact with a gold coin at some point?

Am I reading too much into it?

That leads to another question.

Did the message G received and the image D received ever actually exist on their devices, even temporarily?

What if they never did?

What if G and D never actually “received” any data, but only perceived the information as something they had received?

That is where the “Flores Echo” comes to mind.

G perceived the production instructions as having come from V.

D perceived the source image as having come from B.

But where did the information itself come from?

Once again, that brings me back to B.

In 2025, I saw a tall American soldier on Flores who strongly resembled him.

During the interview, B neither confirmed nor denied having been on the island.

Suppose that soldier was B.

And suppose, further, that B had at some point come into contact with that small creature.

What if a visual trace of that encounter remained in him, outside his conscious awareness?

Then, during the production of “Roll the Dice,” some fragment of that trace surfaced for reasons we do not understand.

And what if it reached G and D in something resembling a “Flores Echo”?

D perceived it as “an image sent by B.”

G perceived the information needed for the artwork as “instructions sent by V.”

If so, perhaps the “Roll the Dice” thumbnail is a visual trace from 2025 that remained in B and resurfaced through G’s work.

It is an absurdly far-fetched idea.

And yet, viewed that way, the pieces seem to fit together strangely well.

Of course, it is only a hypothesis.

For a Halloween piece, perhaps that is about right.