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[not_good_not_wicked]

So it's official, past me was such a slob she's started dumping her crap in MY room now. I seriously gotta start learning Japanese if I want to make sense of all this.

[She angles the camera to her bed, which has a pile of notebooks with book marks sticking out of them. Flipping one open reveals pages and pages of scribbled Japanese and cryptic, arcane diagrams. Even those of you who can read Japanese will have trouble reading because even if you can read Marisa's handwriting, you probably would have trouble making sense of high level magical theory.]

It's definitely my hand writing, but other than that I can't make heads or tails of it.

That's not the weird part, though. Check it.

[The view spins around again to out the window, where clearly visible in the sky is the strange pink light. You may recall that the LAST time this happened, Marisa was not yet part of the network and lived in Texas.]

You're all seeing that, right? It can't be easy to miss. What the heck IS it?

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[shiromadoushi]

Not sure if Japanese would help. Lemme have a closer look later?

And yeah. I'm seeing that.

Last time I was seeing that was when this shit all started.

The hum is new. I don't like it.

[not_good_not_wicked]

Hum? What hum?

Wait you've seen that before?

[shiromadoushi]

Yeah. Back in April. When the numbers started working.

And you didn't hear that noise when the lights were going?

[not_good_not_wicked]

[She stops for a moment, cocking her head to the side, listening.]

...Yeah...Actually I can hear something.

[shiromadoushi]

Something new must have been turned on.

[not_good_not_wicked]

Hey wait, I've totally heard this noise before!

[stavros]

I don't know! But when I saw it, I got a strange feeling, and...

*She turns the video to reveal that she's stuffed a big pile of bottles of holy water into her closet.*

I am not sure where these came from, either.

[not_good_not_wicked]

What is that, fancy bottled water?

[stavros]

There's a big metal cross on top of each one, so I think it's holy water. Maybe my past self was a nun.

[not_good_not_wicked]

How do you even check something like the holiness of water?

[stavros]

You know, I have no idea...

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[unbraid]

[ She tries to peer closer at the writing but holy hell that handwriting is literally the worst she's ever seen, and also leaning closer to a screen does not zoom in.

She's also seen the light. ]

Um... do you think you might have worshiped Satan?

[not_good_not_wicked]

That doesn't sound like me.

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[drama8om8]

MAGIC PULSECHO 8ULLSHIT LIGHT is what it is!!!!!!!!
I mean I guess. I got the dumb heartbeat thing but I 8n't found anything different yet. So I probably got some cool new power! And I just have to figure out what it is.
Unless something changed where I can't see? Like my face?

 

 

8r8 checking the f8ce.

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[drama8om8]

OK PANIC OVER my face is still a vision of 8eauty. Yeah!!!!!!!!
So fuck if I know what's diffW8.
W8ty w8 w8.
W8! W8 maybe I can fly for reals now. 8r8 checking THAT.

[not_good_not_wicked]

What are you-

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[drama8om8]

[ Fifteen minutes or so later: ]

 

 

Ok, I have successfully established that I can't fly and also that I have not gained mysterious healing powers that can heal bruises I get by jumping off balconies.
WORST ECHO EVER.

[not_good_not_wicked]

You didn't.

[drama8om8]

Of course I did! I believe you are severely underestim8ting my commitment to 8eing a paragon of unpredictable badassery at all times.

[not_good_not_wicked]

Couldn't you have just, you know, lifted off from level ground?

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[gogoghostpowers]

I thought it was an aurora, like northern lights and stuff, but I think those only happen at the north and south pole. So it has to be something else, but I don't know what...

I did get a pulse-thing right after I looked at it, though, so maybe it has something to do with that?

[not_good_not_wicked]

I bet you're right. That's when those notebooks showed up.

What'd you get this time?

[gogoghostpowers]

I...don't actually know? This has been happening a lot, I feel like I'm getting a pulse, but I don't actually know what it is.

This time all that happened was I couldn't breathe for a few seconds but now I'm back to normal and everything's fine, so... I have no clue what it was supposed to be.

[not_good_not_wicked]

Weird. Why can't this crap come with a manual?

[She eyes the bed]

Or at least one I can read. For all I know that's an in depth description of everything to do with echoes and grues and gardeners and whatever the heck else is going on.

[gogoghostpowers]

And you can't read it at all? What language even is that? I can't really tell.

...Would be good if it was an in-depth description of echoes, though. Maybe someone else could translate it for you and then we'd all know what these things are and how they work.