You're exactly right

Wait so it can mean any of those things?

I believe so. That's why my hope is he's on a hold or in hospital. The timing of the message in relation to his going silent is just really weird.

Let's hope so. Or that his phone is stolen, might be a stretch but could that be a possibility?

That may be the case. A close friend of mine is in a facility at present and her cell phone was locked away along with her other belongings. She can only communicate by using the pay phones. When visiting her, I've been required to put my cell and purse in a locker - no one can bring anything in from the outside due to Covid concerns.

I hope Lucem is safe and being looked after, whatever the circumstances. You're a good friend.

I keep expecting him to show up here and tease me for overreacting

With the last “cryptic” text thing I’m starting to get a sinking feeling he might have overdosed on something. Of course, that’s just a pessimistic guess and even if it’s correct an OD isn’t always the worst case scenario.

Remember with Bat it was just the power was out or his computer broke or whatever.

If it was a druggy cryptic text and he od'd hopefully that means he's safe in the hospital. And what about the eviction troubles with that ******* landlord? I know I'm grasping at straws to hush my worrying with these scenarios but really you never know

I got morbid and looked through the death announcements for Utah that I could find online but no one there who could be Lucem. At least that's something

Still nothing from him? I mean just remember that it's more likely that he had a breakdown and got arreated for drunk and disorderly or is hold up in his bed not doing anything but staring at the wall or he had his therapist admit him for a psychiatric hold than it is that he did anyrhing even more drastic. Or he might have just had an episode and decided he was done with social media or the internet.

I know, thanks. Does he have a therapist?

I know he's been seeing one but I don't know the current state of his mental healthcare.

No, still nothing.

From my understanding his mental health care is intermittent at best.

I hope Lucem is alright. Like Bat said, there's a lot of perfectly reasonable explanations that aren't the worst case scenario. I'm going to choose to be optimistic.

It's been a week now, ffs :(

Can mods see if he was logging in from different devices? As time moves forward my most optimistic theory is that his device was lost or stolen or broken.

We can see ip addresses (whatever that actually is, I must confess I don't really know), but he hasn't been logged in at all anyway. I'm just trying to think if there's anything that can be done

Ja, IP addresses don't show if they've changed devices.

I don't like this.

any other ideas except my morbid checking of death announcements? And does any of us have enough information to track down friends/relatives who would know more, and would that be an ethical thing to do at this point?

I'm convinced he's in a facility. The longer the better, really. I hope they don't just write him a new scrip and send him on his way. Finger's crossed he's actually receiving the care he needs.

I can almost guarantee he would not like anyone reaching out to his family, I urge everyone to respect his privacy and mind that boundary.

do you have evidence for that or do you think it's the most likely scenario? (probably unnecessary to say this, but please don't feel the need to pass any evidence on; it would just be good to know if there was some)

Both really, I have some evidence, but it is ultimately an educated guess.

oh that's a real relief, I really hope you're right!

I talked to him, he's good.

I apologized for what he's going to come back to

If giving a **** about the homies is cringe then get ready to be embarrassed on my behalf.

This news made my week.

Well I didn’t want to come right out and say it but I figured he was wormfood. Glad he’s not.

Sorry guys. I'm back.

Did you say you’re black?

Good to see ya

Were you getting a race change operation?

Welcome back :beer:

Twiztid sucks.

He knows that now that he’s black.

**** off.

Glad you're okay Lucem, I knew we weren't done debating fascism yet. :beer:

You're thinking of Shaggy.

We were, you learned me a thing or two.

jesus, that one had collateral damage.

I've certainly learned a thing or two from your posts as well - regardless of the future of our fascism debates, I'm happy to hear you're doing okay.

Next time, make sure you respond to Steph's messages so that she doesn't give us all anxiety on here with her fears (no offense Steph).

I didn't doubt for a second that you were okay. You love us too much. :beer:

I'll avoid a next time, how about that?