savetheearth | ( one ) smartphone / video

[ Eriks doesn't know why he puts the number into his phone. It's been a constant presence at the back of his head for a good week now, sure, but he's made an art out of ignoring it. No, more accurately, he doesn't notice he's put the number into his phone until his thumb has already done it: having already scrolled through everything that needs reading in the morning (work emails, the news, Tumblr of course—), he's left with nothing to do but fidget. And fidget he does, right into a goldmine of information that his bosses would skin a man for.

He forgets all about the eggs cooking on the stove and deposits himself in a kitchen chair, skim reading like no one has ever skim read before. Watches a few videos, follows a few links, listens to a few audio posts, and gleans too much and too little all at once. He can already tell his nights will be occupied with plenty of reading material for many weeks to come. Sleep? Not anymore, bud.

Still... reading is one thing. Watching is another. But conversation is absolutely indispensable, and he needs to talk with these people. But he needs to approach it carefully. Delicately. And, from the looks of things, not mention that whole 'with the Feds' thing.

With this in mind, he flips his phone camera to video, puts on his best charming smile, and initiates First Contact with exactly as much seriousness as he should. ]

Ladies and gentlemen, hello! I admit my disappointment that this isn't the beautiful, mysterious barista's phone number I thought it was, since I was pretty sure I memorized it. I guess she gave me a fake number, after all...

But here's the good news: this eligible bachelor has just become available in your undercover supernatural neighborhood! I enjoy long walks on the beach and extended discourse on the virtues of life and love. Hours of illuminating conversation are 100% free of charge, and there's even a platonic package available for the less daring. Inquire within for further details.

[ A beat, as black smoke billows from the abandoned frying pan behind him. He doesn't turn, doesn't even shift, but there's a brief second of tragicomedy in his expression when the smell of eggs-cum-charcoal hits his nose. How long has he been... ah, hell.

Composure utterly unwavering, ]

—And whoever recommends the best diner will receive a limited edition free coffee! Act now while supplies last; you'd be a fool to pass this one up, folks!

I apologize for the (exciting) interruption and you may now return to your usual programming.

[ Gives a winning smile as the video goes off — and then topples the chair (and very nearly the table) in his scramble to deal with what was once his breakfast.

Quite the catch, ladies and gentlemen, don't miss out!! ]

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No, thaaaaaat part was true. He threw stupid numbing...goop...stuff, too. I twas annoying as hell. And he had like a horse?

[ Look, the thing hovered in the air for most of the battle so she couldn't get a good look at it. ]

And then it floated in the air and I couldn't see anything. Right after that the big snake thing woke up. I think we soooort of woke it up when the alien went down.

Wonderful... should I be ... expecting more of that? I already ran into a gum monster... thing. [Which is still on his weird shit list.]

...Yeah, pretty much. Sorry, but normalcy is checked at the door here.

Although these monster things are pretty random, even for Locke.

[ LIKE, WHAT THE HELL, ITEM MONSTERS. ]

...I'd have warned you guys when we heard you were moving, buuuuut not everyone in Locke gets a number and talking about it to people who don't have it is sort of...well, y'know.

It's okay I'd probably have thought you'd had too much caffeine or was just trying to April fools us.

[He replies to the trailed off sentence with a sigh.]

Right. People who aren't a part of the club can't even see the network, right? Handy for a secret super hero club thing.

Apparently? I guess you can access it through whatever, although when people write by hand my reader has trouble with the, you know, reading it part.

[ SHRUG. She only ever uses voice or video, though video is more for the benefit of other people. ]

Mom and dad have never been able to see or hear it, though. I guess some of the monsters used to be...people couldn't see 'em. The smaller snakes, we had a lot of those statues around a while back and normal people just didn't notice. But then the big one broke out and everyone and their little dog could see that, I guess. Well, it'd be hard to miss, with...whatever was keeping 'em from noticing.

[ She still doesn't get that. ]

...Also, my April fools pranks would be so much better than that.

I bet they would be.

[He comments with a laugh, he's positive she's pranked him a few times in fact, he's a little gullible when it comes to pranks.]

You think another of those big snakes is gonna show up?

Really hoping not, the first one was enough of a pain. But the buzzing around the tower's gone, s'far as I know, so...I don't think there's another one here.

[ ... ]

Those Las Vegas people might be shit out of luck, though.

[ SUCKS TO BE THEM? ]

So those lights everyone was talking about, that happened here too right? That's when this all started, right? [Look Ma he can read an FAQ!]

Apparently. Everyone kept talking about 'em.

[ She sounds...annoyed. Well, it's not like she could see the second round or the first round. So it's just "WOW LOOK AT THOSE LIGHTS" "what lights". ]

For me, it was just...going to a museum, touching a meteorite. Bam, numbers.

So it really doesn't seem to make much sense. I got the numbers after Freya nearly fell down the stairs at the dorm.

Just almost, right? She's okay?

[ FREYA WHAT... ]

Weird things can trigger it. Just...something that had to do with something, once upon a time, I guess? Or random things. Like those stupid monster things of like, plastic sporks? I got sandbending from fighting some of those.

Oh yeah! She's cool. She caught herself- I sure as hell didn't help I had a vision thing. I thought I was just really tired from the move.

[And he had seen a lot of horror movies that week.]

That makes so much more sense, I got a sword from the gum one. It just was in my hand.

Yeah, you...get used to that. Eventually you'll be able to play it off like nothing happened if you get an echo in public.

[ Nine months down the road... ]

Wait wait wait, you have a sword? Does it do anything special? Is it magical?

[Whoa that's a lot of questions!]

Whoa, I don't know. I just used it to cut this kid down at the high school, it's black though. It's black though, black blade too- it looks cool.

Uh, why'd you attack someone at high school?

[ did you kill a dude... ]

I didn't attack him!

[JEEZE thanks for the vote of confidence cuz!]

A gumstick did. It attached him to the side of a building and I used the sword to cut him down!

[ wow she would have been on your side if you did!!! familial love... ]

........That's so lame. I mean, getting beat by a gumstick, not saving him from one.

It was pretty embarrassing, but it seemed to only want to stick someone to something, after that it just stopped and we were able to cut it away.

[So only mildly annoying.]

That's not really evil. Kiiiiinda sad for a monster, actually.

Not evil, no- at least not in the movie monster sense, but annoying as he-heck.

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