savetheearth | Text; Evening 4/8

As anyone's noticed from Winter's update, we arrived in one piece. With our pulses/echoes intact, but there's some caveats to that. So... a quick rundown, for anyone interested:

Upon leaving Locke City's barrier, our pulses were not entirely LOST - rather, they were weakened severely. Memories of the Network and regained memories of other lives became fuzzier. I didn't try to transform, but I imagine it wouldn't have worked, although my transformation device remained. But there was still some remnant, or trace of things - but it was like trying to pull back thoughts veiled through static. Just not... QUITE there, but I knew they SHOULD have been. It's a weird sensation, but... it's important. One can hypothesize that the more of these light there are, the wider WE can reach. At the very least, it's enough to keep you on track if you travel outside.

Everything returns in full at a certain point when hitting the Las Vegas barrier. There's a difference, however: This barrier is much smaller. A cursory walkabout leads me to believe it doesn't go terribly far away from the Vegas strip.

The hotel offer is entirely legitimate. If you have super powers.

Unfortunately, that walkabout also turned up one disturbing thing - I spotted a creature that most definitely should not have been there. A hairy little creature. No one else seemed to notice it, and it took off before I could get close enough. It was before my time on the Network, but based on what I know... I think it was a Vermini.

As an side: You can smell CLOUDS cigarette smoke from casinos without even being relatively close to them. I practically feel the need to walk around this place with an air freshener as a necklace.

[OOC - Small note to roommates: By the time of posting this, Lily would have informed any of them of all this. Anyone in that vicinity is free to harass her via action for the evening time, as well.]

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Be careful when you're there.

Looks like whatever the light is, it's related to what's happening in our city. Have you notice anything strange other than the creature? Any pink statues around?

Of course.

Nothing strange beyond it being Vegas, outside the Vermini. So far, at laest - not been a lot of time yet to dig into things.

Keep us updated then.

Try to not go exploring on your own. You were on TV and we don't know what people would do if they recognize you.

I sort of know. I've been dealing with it at school for weeks now.

That's unfortunate. You're not being bullied, are you?

By the way, what hotel offer?

No, not really.

[Okay, so there were the nasty sorts of people who had been on Winter's case that had already been spreading rumors now involving Lily since February... but that was something she was already dealing with.]

Actually, I imagine anyone who knows what I can do would probably have second thoughts. Not that I want to hurt anyone, mind you.

As for the hotel, if we can prove we're super powered or extraordinary in some sort of way, prove that we're Numbered, this one hotel is putting us up in a villa. It's... much nicer than any place I expected to be staying. Before that became a thing, I was half expecting us to just have to crash at a Motel 6 until we ran out of money.

Good to know then. Rumor mongering can still be pretty hurtful, so pay them no heed.

[ He's not unfamiliar with being bullied and hurt by irresponsible words himself, which is why he feels responsible to at least speak to her about it. ]

Well, that's convenient. How long are you planning to stay there?

Heh, I try, persistent though things like that may be at times... but thanks.

As for how long... I don't think we're entirely certain yet. We're probably going to see what we can find out about the Vermini or lights for now, and see from there.

That's fine and all but, what about school?

Technically "covered" by them officially signing off on our little trip.

I think they just didn't want us there, and took the opportunity to save face by allowing it. But... as I was telling someone else, that may just be my own pessimism speaking, as it's just a theory.

Won't that affect your grades?

They aren't going to look any better by shipping off students to a questionable city either, so I'll suggest that you keep tab with your academic progress. There's no reason to screw up your studies for momentary relapse of bad decision making.

Winter and I graduate in a month technically, anyhow - and between the both of us could probably pass just about anything without studying, to be completely honest. We're covered by them signing off on it - if we need to make anything up, we will, but it's not going to be held against us in the long run of things.

For the others, I'm going to make certain to catch them up on everything myself, if I have to. Believe me, these are things we've already considered.

[What she's not going to say is that she'd be there to try and deal with this stuff regardless of official decree; that if she absolutely has to, she'll push off college in the fall if it's a necessity. But that it is backed by the school, regardless of her perception on their motivations? That just makes it all the more convenient.]

It'll be fine. We dotted our i's and crossed our t's. It's the least of our concerns for the moment.

That's good to know then.

Should you learn of anything new about monsters or any sort pink statues, do keep me in the loop.

[Okay, so... in spite of her first impression of him with Harper, maybe he's not such a bad guy after all? Heh.]

Certainly, I don't see any reason why not. I want to keep everyone in the loop that needs to be, really.

Thank you then.

Be careful and take care.

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