02 [Video/iPhone] | Backdated to Sunday afternoon

[whiterabbit_dot_obj]

[Greetings numbers club! Barnaby's sitting on the couch in his living room, and there's a rather distressed grunting and thumping coming from somewhere off-camera. He doesn't look too good - he's pretty edgy, and doesn't seem to have gotten much sleep yet.

Oh yes, and his eyes and body are glowing bright blue.]

Can anyone else see this? It's not just sleep dep messing with me?

[He's shaking bad now, either from nerves, exhaustion, or both. It's bad enough he can't trust his memories, but can he even trust his own eyes right now?]

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[worldmother]

[Hello Barnaby. Have a very alarmed looking doctor-in-training.]

That's...

[...Definitely nothing she's read about in her books.]

Are you in any pain? How long have you been like this?

[Video]

[whiterabbit_dot_obj]

I think it started last night? I-it doesn't hurt, I just...I wasn't sure if I was seeing things or remembering wrong or what and it keeps coming and going and I don't know how to make it stop.

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[mood2wiingiing]

wow weiird eyes and stuff not like weve 2een that a milliion times already

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[whiterabbit_dot_obj]

Wow, I don't give a fuck! I just want it to stop!

[Sorry, he's very much in Not A Good Place mentally right now.]

[handwritten]

[detectivetroll]

I can see them, yeah. And this isn't the first time I've seen something like it.

One day I'll learn not to look at video posts on this thing.

[Video]

[whiterabbit_dot_obj]

[The glow's already sputtered out by the time he replies.]

S-sorry...I wasn't trying to...

[Voice]

[dominateartimus]

Yes, everyone can see that your eyes and body are glowing blue.

[Video]

[whiterabbit_dot_obj]

Thanks. I couldn't...it goes out pretty quickly and I wasn't sure if I was really seeing it or not.

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[ex_elude798]

If you mean that you're blue, then yeah, I can see it.

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[whiterabbit_dot_obj]

O-okay. [Inhale, exhale. Breathe, just breathe.] Thanks. Sorry about all this.

[Video]

[scramasax]

[Nothing has Anthony double-thinking on straightforwardly and straight-away using established visual connection - this is the man whose house they'd used as the mission control base after all - and when he enters the frame he looks and sounds as faintly jarred as he is by the sight, he has had a vision of a blue glow, nothing enough to attach meaning to.

Voice tight and tense and held below its baseline.] -- You're glowing -- if -- is that what -- is that all you - see -- ?

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[whiterabbit_dot_obj]

[It takes Barnaby a moment to recognize Anthony, so at first he's pretty startled. Not that it's easy to tell given how messed up he is already...]

Yeah...yeah, that's all.

[He shakes his head. Breathe in, breathe out...]

I just...it keeps going out and coming back, and I can't control it, s-so I wasn't sure...

[part_time_overlord]

Belt on the doorknob, eh?

[Video]

[whiterabbit_dot_obj]

E-excuse me?

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[skycutter]

Nope, that's definitely happening. Is there anything else going on with you aside from that?

[Video]

[whiterabbit_dot_obj]

No. I mean, I don't think so...

[He shakes his head. Why is his head so screwy?]

I can't...I think my memory's messed up. I don't know. I feel like it is.

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[shiromadoushi]

How long's the full body glow been going on? I think I've only seen one other person pull that one off.

[Video]

[whiterabbit_dot_obj]

It started...last night? It seems like it lasts for less than a minute.

[Breathe. Just breathe.

He shrugs.]

At least I'm not the only one this happens to.

[Voice]

[dododo]

I can see them, it's got nothing to do with sleep deprivation. Why haven't you slept? Can't?

[Video]

[whiterabbit_dot_obj]

Couldn't, yeah. It...the glow keeps vanishing and coming back. It kept me awake, and it was messing with my head...

[video]

[boredallready]

Uhh...sorry to tell ya, but it's pretty hard not to see that.

[Video]

[whiterabbit_dot_obj]

Right now, I'm just glad I'm not seeing things. I guess I'm going to have to figure out some way to make it stop, though...

[lackinginfaith]

See the fact that you look like an apparition?

[Video]

[whiterabbit_dot_obj]

Please tell me you're referring to me glowing and not something else.

[As messed up as his head is right now, he's fully willing to believe something's happening to him that he hasn't noticed.]

[siesinddasessen]

You mean the red light?

[She's a prime liar, so her questions sounds completely normal, a bit surprise, a bit of "is that new" in the words.

On a different note, and here she thought the glowing eyes that some people have sucked.]

[Video]

[whiterabbit_dot_obj]

W-what?! It's...is it really...?

[Yeah, given how little he trusts his memory right now? Totally willing to believe she's right and he's wrong. Have fun with that.]

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[betroth]

Oh, my God. You're shaking so badly... is there anyone that can come to you? I don't think you should be alone.

[Video]

[whiterabbit_dot_obj]

[Barnaby shakes his head, but he does try to smile just a bit to reassure her.]

I-I think I just need some sleep. This glow's been messing with my head, but now that I know it's real...I think I'll be fine.

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[gogoghostpowers]

[Danny doesn't always go to video, but he feels like he should for this one. Barnaby will see a kid who is in a similar situation: his body is glowing white and his eyes are a glowing green.]

No, uh, that's definitely not just you... I think that's a pulse you got, I-I kind of got one like it too.

...although if you haven't slept in a while that might help. [It probably won't help, going to sleep has never cured Danny's glowing. But at least he'd stop shaking, right?]

[Video]

[whiterabbit_dot_obj]

[...well now. Even after being told he wasn't the only one with this issue, Barnaby hadn't quite expected to talk to one of the others sharing his problem.]

Yours come with a crazy uncontrollable time limit, too? Mine keeps going out and coming back again later and it's driving me nuts.

Yeah, I'm going to head to bed soon, I think. Assuming this damn glow doesn't keep coming back and keep me awake.

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[pawdacious]

Well on the bright side, I'm sure you could get a pretty cool job at a nightclub?

[ Which is incredibly dickish, but her smile is sincere. Somehow she imagines this is comforting. ]

I mean, in this economy, that just gives you the upper hand!

[ She actually has no idea how the economy or nightclubs work. All of her information comes from green anarchism blogs and her ultra-Libertarian cousin. ]

[Video]

[whiterabbit_dot_obj]

...I already have a job. And even if I didn't, doing that would just be asking to have the cops hunt me down.

[He shrugs.]

Thanks for trying to cheer me up, though.

[At least Barnaby assumes that's what she's trying to do. Nobody would be crazy enough to actually make that suggestion in all seriousness, would they?]