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[gogoghostpowers]

There's that clinic we can go to if something really weird happens to us, right? Can somebody drive me there? Because I'm kind of having a problem.



I got my arm stuck in this napkin and now I can't get it out and I don't know what to do

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[iustitia]

How did your arm get stuck in a napkin................

[Voice]

[espigeonage]

[Julien sounds calm, faintly amused. That's deliberate.]

Aaah, this would be the problem with taking my advice. Does it hurt?

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[gogoghostpowers]

It sounded like a good idea!

No, it doesn't hurt. Just feels a little weird. But I'm worried it might start hurting--I don't know, I've never gotten stuck in anything before.

[espigeonage]

You'll be fine. Deep breaths. Was there anything in particular you were thinking of or feeling when you got it stuck?

[gogoghostpowers]

I got distracted.

[gogoghostpowers]

My sister knocked on my door and almost walked in and I kinda panicked and lost focus.

[espigeonage]

Okay, so maybe it's better to start with _not being calm.

Do you startle easily?

[gogoghostpowers]

I do when my sister nearly walks in on me magically sticking my hand through things!

[espigeonage]

That's fair. Hmmm...

Make sure you can hear me clearly, and shut as much of the napkin into a drawer or something as you can, so you can't casually pull away. I want to try something.

[gogoghostpowers]

[Danny doesn't know where this is going but he'll give it a shot. He pulls his laptop off the desk and brings it over to the nightstand before setting it down on the floor nearby. He opens one of the nightstand drawers and tries to shove the napkin into the drawer as tightly as he can, which proves to be harder than expected when he can only use one hand.

After a few minutes of fiddling and shutting the drawer and trying to fix it, he finally gets a hefty chunk of napkin stuck in there. It feels really weird to have the pressure of the napkin being pulled through his arm.

He stretches to type his response with one hand.]

ok

now what

[espigeonage]

Okay. Now on three there's going to be a sound. One, two-

[Julien presses the phone against the most significant resonating cavity in his chest and alters his voice. Most of the time he uses his syrinx to imitate what he used to sound like. Now...]

[Deep and loud enough to make things vibrate, a loudspeaker quality, a hint like sirens in the background.]

THIS IS THE POLICE WE HAVE YOU SURROUNDED!

[a couple seconds and normal again, a little more frazzled-sounding than he'd started off.]

Sorry, didn't know I could get that loud- Your folks won't have heard anything, normies don't hear network stuff at all-

[Angry knocking. 'Julien! What are you playing at?']

-but they hear your side. Uh, I'll get back to you.

[iustitia]

That raises more questions than it answers!

Were you trying to do it on purpose or something?

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[hollowleg]

[staring]

How... did... what.

[gogoghostpowers]

Well I was trying to get my hand through it and then take it out, but I kinda messed up on that last part.

[gogoghostpowers]

[He waits expectantly but then before Julien can say anything, the police apparently arrive on the scene. Danny screams and yanks his arm, napkin and all, out of the drawer to lift both hands up in the air.]

DON'T TAKE ME, I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING!!

Ow!! [He rubs at the area of his arm where fabric meets flesh. Note to self: having things inside you doesn't hurt. Yanking them around when they're still inside you does.

When he hears the rest of Julien's response he calms down a little and goes to type a response.]

Just so we're clear: the problem is I've got something stuck in my arm, not that I need to pee my pants!

And now my parents are coming upstairs to check on me!

[Now he can hear his parents walking up the staircase to his room, calling out: "honey, is something wrong?"]

Uh--no, mom!! I was just--uh--playing co-op!

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[gogoghostpowers]

I swear this doesn't usually happen!

[espigeonage]

[It's a few minutes before Julien's back on. He does sound pentinent.]

Sorry... sorry. Thought maybe being startled badly enough might do it, but... I guess not.

Did they clear off?

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[hollowleg]

How the HELL does that even happen?! It's... IN your arm!! IN IT!

[counterclock]

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
rip the napkin?

[gogoghostpowers]

["Alright, well, if you're sure, dear!" And then the sound of more footsteps, he thinks going down the staircase and into the living room.]

Yeah, I think so.

I don't know how or why it happens. Sometimes it happens when I'm freaked out, sometimes (like right now) that just makes it harder. If I knew what caused it, it'd be a lot easier to figure out how to control it.

[gogoghostpowers]

But then I'd still have napkin inside my arm.

[espigeonage]

Hmm. You want me to stay on and keep suggesting things - nothing like that again, promise - or clear off myself, or try and get you to the clinic? They've got wiser people than I there, hah.

[counterclock]

how the fuck do you even
ok cute joke brosef
sorry i didn't mean to bust in on your silly roleplay game
i'll leave
lmfao

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[gogoghostpowers]

Yeah...

You know how weird things happen to people on this network? For me it's that stuff can go through me sometimes.

This is the first time anything's ever gotten stuck in me though.

[gogoghostpowers]

What? I'm not roleplaying anything!

There is an actual napkin that is partially stuck inside my actual arm right now!