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[Victor is sitting in his room looking none too impressed. He's also looking a little different from the last time anyone saw him—despite the poor quality of video, his eyes are very red, and his skin is deathly pale. Practically grey. It blends in weirdly with his bleached hair.

There are shadows flapping around above him. Three guesses as to what they are.]

Greetings and salutations, my fair numberly friends. It appears that I just can't leave you all for very long, sadly. I was quite enjoying having my apartment to myself again.

If anyone would like to fill me in on what's been going on, it would be much appreciated. You can skip the part about the water. Thank god the fabric store is so dead on Wednesday nights, I doubt there's much I could say to explain suddenly turning goth and laughing like a maniac.

... Ah, speaking of— Julia, she seems to have forgotten around the same time I did. I can't say for sure if she'll remain oblivious, but if anyone was wondering what happened to her, well. Now you know.

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...Is human skin even capable of getting that pale? Just how long have you been inside?

[Seriously, she's practically a hermit herself and her skin has never been that bad.]

It was an echo, you idiot. I spend plenty of time outside.

I think I might be turning into a vampire.

MORE vampires? As if we didn't have enough people with that already.

I'd still at least try to tan, if I were you.

Give me a better explanation for the bats and I'll consider it.

No thanks, I'd rather not take my chances in case this change comes with burning in the sunlight, for vampiric reasons or otherwise.

You know, there's a difference between caution and paranoia. What's a little pain compared to knowing the truth?

I mean for all we know you could have been some villainous wizard with a bat fixation.

My skin was already quite fair before this, thank you very much. I doubt losing the rest of my pigmentation helped any with that.

If I'm a wizard, then where's my magic and fabulous hat?

Still, people are going to notice it. You could try makeup or something but I can't help with that.

And obviously your hat is just late because its magical energies are disrupting the delivery ethers.

I don't need anyone to tell me that. Obviously, I'm not going to go out in public like this. I'd stand out like a sore thumb.

Ah, of course. Magical hats can be such a nuisance when it comes to inter-dimensional transportation. I do hope the rabbit doesn't get lost along the way, now that would be a real tragedy.

Any wizard with actual self-respect wouldn't be pulling a rabbit out of his hat, let alone an evil one, and no well-meaning one would be caught dead with bat familiars.

[nerrrrrrrrrrrd]

Keep dissing my hat like that and I'll turn you into a rabbit.

[wow shut up he can do whatever he wants]

You don't even know what it looks like yet! For all you know it could be bright pink!

[totally not set off by thoughts of what her one old friend would think of that, nope]

If it is, I'm disowning whoever I'm getting these memories from.

But by god, if there's nothing else I can do, I can sure as hell restitch and dye a hat. Mystical wards be damned, I will find a way.

Glad to hear it.

[She dislikes people that show initiative slightly less than people that don't.]

Let me know if you ever need an enchanted garment modified. I'm sure I could set you up, with a reasonable price.

Or if you start growing robot arms or the like, I suppose. Maybe rabbit ears.

wow hi

hey ps I have a job that pays now so I can actually pay you

hey do you have robot eyes too or are those just boring and normal red

haha normal

ha

Edited 2013-08-29 04:18 (UTC)

They're not robotic, they're just red. Speaking of which, you can start by helping me get some damn colored contacts ASAP. I'd prefer to minimize how long I have to wear sunglasses in public.

But yes, I finished your jacket. You're lucky, I was about to scrap it entirely before I remembered everything.

do you know your base curve & have an existing prescription? 'cause if not we'll have to forge shit or buy them from like, korea. which I can do now because I had to do it for a friend but yeah

also what's your paypal

... I'm not going to go blind or such if I use suspiciously obtained Korean contacts, right? [why are contacts so complicated, don't you just... put them in and have coloured eyes or whatever]

It's dubois.designs@smail.net. If you've got the money for it, then I'll expect my payment in full.

[WOW MONEY PLUS TIP. She's got an IT programming contract now bro, she's makin dat monay]

You might get a really bad eye infection, frankly. I'm pretty much immune because my eyes are made of titanium and steel surrounded by a silicon shell.

Most people have an 8.7-ish base curve and a 14 mm diameter. They're just gonna be uncomfortable as fuck if we do it wrong. Jesus aren't you a cosplayer and you seriously don't know what your contact lens measurements are?

[finally he can pay his rent on time Chris is his new favourite person]

I'm not a cosplayer, I'm a fashion designer. Just because I do work with mostly cosplayers doesn't mean I partake in the activity myself, you know.

Ugh, this better end up being worth the trouble.. I suppose I could call it a sort of fashion statement, for the time being, but I don't have anything that goes well with red. [priorities.]

goddamn but do we need an optometrist in the numbers club

I wear sunglasses a lot on days when I can't deal with the lenses, idk.

[Somewhat deathly, indeed - Anthony establishes connection by talking at the paper with some vague impulsive thought it might be some kind of consolation, though with the bats the look is indeed oddly classically vampire.]

S -- ...Someone went missing -- [Voice on the high side and trailing off.] -- On here. -- Candy. I -- don't know - her last name. ...Someone else would have more to say.

Someone went missing? [He says it with a curious tone, frowning uncertainly.] ... As in, she didn't simply forget about the network or leave the city by her own will. She actually went missing?

[not quite believing it yet, but... he doubts it would be worth bringing up at all if it wasn't something serious.]

[Short, constrained head-shake.] No -- they -- said that they found a recording of her at the -- police - station. ...I don't know if they found anything more than that. [String of unease pulled taut in his tone - he was hasty on this, it's bad news that he has nothing conclusive to say on; maybe someone else will come along after with a more complete story. Hopefully.]

That's... concerning. And no one's heard from her at all since then?

Do we know why she was targeted?

I don't know if we do -- I'm - sorry... -- but I'm - still sure no one has heard from her -- Karson Valenti said that -- she - had a girlfriend who - said she was missing, too.

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