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[shiromadoushi]

Has anyone seen any sign of those Grues or black dandelion puffs or whatever you want to call them or anything they've possessed at all today?

I haven't seen any sign of them since Monday...

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[Audio]

[shiromadoushi]

[[For Chris, he swaps to regular ole phone mode]]

Feels like we just finished the tutorial phase in a game. The event that kicks off the adventure, the first group of enemies that you can screw up all you want without much worry...

We just have to be on the lookout for the real deal when it hits.

[audio]

[reapsthewind]

[oh fine, phone call it is]

Man, why do you compare everything to a game? This isn't a game anymore.

[... yeah but he probably knows that]

I mean, I think you're right though.

... hey, are you worried about... what this is turning us into? I keep getting these weird echoes of somebody else's life.

[audio]

[shiromadoushi]

...you're getting that too?

...Do yours match each other? The bits I've remembered... If I weren't the one in all of them, I'd think someone was flipping channels while I was sleeping or something.

[audio]

[reapsthewind]

Mine haven't even been solid enough to tell. They're all... nebulous. I had one that someone murdered... whoever it was in the memory. Someone that person hated, right when they'd gotten everything they'd ever wanted.

... I'm still angry about it, even thinking about it.

And then another of just this weird alien sky. They don't make sense.

[audio]

[shiromadoushi]

[[There was a slight pause]] I was fighting against myself in one. Another I was mocking a Pharaoh and saying that I had a god within me. And then I proved it.

[[he sighs softly]] And the other one was a weird ceremony melting bodies into gold...

[audio]

[reapsthewind]

[oh jeez, kiddo]

That's... weird as hell. Sounds like stuff out of your Dungeons and Dragons games.

Maybe it's all just weird side effects of the black dust dudes and it'll all go away once we sort this out.

[audio]

[shiromadoushi]

It'd probably make a pretty good module. If I can figure how it all goes together. If I knew that, maybe I could tell which voice was the real me.

[audio]

[reapsthewind]

Hey, maybe none of them are. I believe the voice you're speaking now is the real you. You're Bakura, you like games, you're better at math than you let on, and you're a good kid.

But how about you do work on that module, right? Maybe we can rope some of these other idiots into playing with us one night. It'll be fun to take our minds off things.

[audio]

[shiromadoushi]

How about I work on one that makes sense instead?

And yeah, you're probably right. Whatever "me" was in that mess was probably a stand in.

[audio]

[reapsthewind]

Yeah, see?

If you ever want to chat just let me know.

[audio]

[shiromadoushi]

Thanks.

I might take you up on that later. Maybe get something to eat. My treat. Double so if we hit up the dining hall. [[Once a university brat, always a university brat~]]

[audio]

[reapsthewind]

Blegh, dining hall. Let's go for curry instead. Unless it's curry day.

[audio]

[shiromadoushi]

Sure. Not that last place, though. That place sucked. The one we went to last month.

[audio]

[reapsthewind]

Naw, I know a joint up on 2nd street that's way better. Cheap, too.

[audio]

[shiromadoushi]

The really small one?

[audio]

[reapsthewind]

Yeah, exactly the one.

[audio]

[shiromadoushi]

Sounds good! Just text me before you want to meet up.

Still my treat.