episode 11 [Video | laptop | drunk]

[wannabered]

Oh man.

[Another message up from the network and if the bottle in his hand is any indication, he's drunk again. Oh Thomas.]

Ok, so I remembered dyin' and that'sh ok ya know? I can deal with that since I'm not dead right now. THEN ... then I get to become a superhero. I thought things were finally lookin up after the whole death thing ... and my car.

[Thomas takes a long drink off the bottle before setting it on the floor.]

But now. Well, ya know how alot of us have weird powerses? Like ... how I can sort of make music play and makes things exist for a while, and schtuff like that? I found out why. I got an echo today about this other me, his name was Nobow or somethin. He got replaced on his team, he was goin ta NASA. Then, then he noticed something weird.

[Reaching offscreen, Thomas fishes another bottle out and seemingly pulls an opener out of nowhere before opening the bottle and tossing the opener away. There's no resulting clang.]

I'm from a TV show. Not even that I'm an actor. The other me, was a self-aware character in a TV show who knew he was gettin written out for some younger, better lookin character. I just got back into Locke this week too. I literally have no idea how to feel about this shit.

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[shiromadoushi]

Holy shit, are you serious?

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[wannabered]

[Squinting real hard to read Bakura's text.]

Bakura, this isn't something to joke about. I'm fictional!

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[shiromadoushi]

[[fine fine]]

Why the fuck would you think I was joking?!

And there's no way you're fictional, even if otayou thought he was. He was a delusional idiot, right?

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[dragon_blossom]

Sure you aren't just drunk and crazy right now?

[ Because this could have. Implications. For everyone. Maybe? ]

I'd maybe bet money on that.

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[wannabered]

The drunk came after. I was talkin to ... Calista I think her name is? She was talking about me being replaced and there it was.

Memories of the other me being replaced on his team and realizing he was in a TV show. He was pretty clever about it too.

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[dragon_blossom]

And not just crazy and delusional. Man, I think you might be taking the cake for weird here now, so... congrats?

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[chalicejoker]

[Hajime is unsure as to what he should say to this.]

...do you need me to come over?

[Because he is kind of thinking it is not safe for Thomas to be alone right now. Too much potential reality-warping at stake, not to mention Thomas being all depressed while drunk.]

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[wannabered]

What? Nooooo. I'm fine Hajime.

[Thomas is going to take a drink of his beer before pausing.]

... I didn't buy any beer. Ok, sure.

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[chalicejoker]

Yeah, I still remember where you live. You need me to get anything before I come?

[He could just randomly will things into existence there, couldn't he? Awkward.]

[ursoreckless]

I don't see a problem with being a self-aware character in a tv show. Think about it.

[wannabered]

I ... I guess? It's just sort of ... really weird. This coming from the guy with the anime car, but still.

[ursoreckless]

It can be weird but wouldn't you have the ability to shape things to fit within your life a lot better? You can fourth wall yourself a new ending and stuff like that, right?

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[stillshrill]

[ What. What. Anders doesn't even -- no.

Oh, wait, is that a bottle in the guy's hand? Well, that explains it. Maybe. ]

I heard something like that once. At the end of the show, the camera panned out and everyone turned out to have been a dream contained within a snowglobe. The snowglobe belonged to a mute boy, I think, or was it a boy with autism? Well, anyhow, they were all in a snowglobe, all those seasons, and none of it was real.

Drinking that stuff probably isn't helping your grasp on reality. What's in it?

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[wannabered]

Oh yeah, I've heard of that show. There's this BIIIIG graph online showin all the shows connected to it through crossovers.

Um, I don't know. I think I sort of made it appear. Best echo I've had. Takes like Blue Ribbon though.

[stillshrill]

The best echo you've had is a piss-awful beer? I'd hate to see your other --

Wait. I must not have heard you properly. You're drinking an echo.

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[soulsborderline]

When you put it that way, a lot of our past-life stories seem too over-the-top to be real...

Are you sure you didn't just misunderstand how other-you was being replaced?

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[wannabered]

[Squinting at the text. Thomas can't read well when drunk.]

The man literally touched a non-dia ... non-dai ... an effect. It was a text crawl.

[soulsborderline]

That's pretty bizarre.

All of a sudden I'm glad I remember being punched in the face. That definitely wasn't a dude in a mo-cap suit.

[Voice]

[dododo]

You mean you're a fictional character?

[ Wait what how does that even work. ]

[Voice]

[wannabered]

Or .. ok. Let me put it another way. I look like and share the same name as the guy from my echos right? HE found out he was fictional in this newest memory.

Also ... I'm havin a bit of trouble telling where he starts and I end lately.

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[dododo]

I think that's the point of the echoes. To not be able to tell.

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[poisonousflame]

you sure the other you wasn't just a basket case?

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[wannabered]

I'm pretty sure. I mean, he was a pretty huge nerd, but he seemed pretty sane. Well, as sane as a costume wearing superhero can be.

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[fusionjack]

[Drunk posting is never good, no matter what kind of communication system you're using to do it. A friend of a family member is... a friend? Of sorts? Whatever. He feels he needs to say something]

You've probably had more than enough to drink, Tom. Ease up, will you? This stuff's pretty rough, but you're just going to give yourself a hangover. And you're still going to be... uh, that... in the morning.

[He is so bad at this kind of thing.]

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[wannabered]

I am I am. I've already got Hajime breathing down my neck about it.

[Oh man, Thomas is practically whining.]

Oh man, hangovers. God why didn't I think of that. I can't do anything when I'm hungover. I always get the type where you have to lie in a dark room for hours. Always.

[Yep. Whining.]