[video] A few days late for 4/20, but...

[kyoumibukai]

[The young man on the video feed is lying back on the bed, legs splayed with the lackadaisical lope of someone who is not entirely sober.]

Heyyy, Numbers Club.

[He leans forward, giving a little salute.]

The name's Lucas Evans. I've been reading the network for a little bit. See, when I heard about the Numbers Club on the news, I was like, hey... Numbers??? I've had those for like... my whole life.

[He snickers.]

I almost fell in a pit when I was a kid and since then I've had these... numbers... in my head. Also, people say that's when I started to be really good at remembering things.

[He hauls the laptop onto his lap and looks down at it. He ticks his finger with each of his emphasized syllables in his next sentence.]

They call it an ei-de-tic memory... I had a lot of tests run on me as a kid before my mom got fed up and stopped them. Oh, right.

[He sighs.]

Yeah, in case anyone recognizes me, like, if you're big on politics. My dad's Congressman Evans. So. Yeah, but don't worry if you didn't vote for him. I didn't either...

[He covers his face and laughs at his own joke.]

Cause I'm- I'm a sophomore at LCA. So hey, go keymasters, right?

[He shifts the camera over his hips and thinks.]

What else. Oh, uh. I don't have any real idea what cool powers I might have. Nothing's really setting anything off as far as memories go. So. Let me know if anyone out there remembers me.

[He closes into the camera, winking, even though it quite obviously emphasizes the fact that his eyes are glassy and just a little red.]

Catch you later, Numbers club.

Comments

[Video]

[radiantchicken]

[So hey, it's a parrot with arms. He's giving a little wave, and he's probably not the sort of thing Phillip needs to see while high...even if Torin doesn't know how to tell.]

Eidetic memory? That sounds fascinating.

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[wonk]

oh dude u go 2 LCA?

me 2 i didnt relaize we had any1 there

*realize

[video]

[kyoumibukai]

[Oh... my god... Lucas just... gapes. He would have difficulty comprehending this even completely sober.]

You...

[He shakes his head, laughing just a little bit.]

Okay, so members of the club can be... Birds with arms? Okay??? All right... That's... I can deal with that.

[He is still giggling as he tries to answer.]

Um, okay, yeah. Well, it's really easy to get good grades. I can remember everything. But it gets kind of frustrating sometimes.

[video]

[radiantchicken]

I did not start out with the arms! They just grew in one day! I was just a normal zoo parrot to begin with. My plumage changed, as well!

[He's still quite cheerful, and he's pretty used to people having a hard time dealing with talking parrots with limbs parrots usually don't possess.]

How might such a thing become frustrating?

[kyoumibukai]

[He's not as intimately familiar with the typing styles of all of his co-students as he is with the way they look. So he's not sure who this is at all.]

Hey, hey... Yeah, I feel like there's a couple of other kids who kind of act shifty when stuff about the big snake comes up. Maybe we can start a club?

[He laughs lightly.]

So what's your name? I bet we've met in passing.

[wonk]

im roxy

i probably dont have u in any of my classes tho i dont do math or science and the social studies stuff is all grade sorted

[kyoumibukai]

Oh, no, we don't have any classes together. I'm skipped ahead a few grades in some of those classes, anyway. Smart kid high five.

[He puts his hand up towards the camera]

But you're that transfer student, right? The one who's related to Hikari Kurosawa.

[kyoumibukai]

[He's still amused by the arms.]

Okay, well, I hope the zoo guys weren't too pissed off.

[But the question startles him.]

Uh. Well, you can remember everything in perfect detail and clarity and all that. So even the bad stuff you don't want to remember too good... Get it?

[He gives a smile again, albeit a rueful one.]

[wonk]

yup thas me

im sry if u ever talked 2 her btw i kno what shes like and goddamn

[kyoumibukai]

[He waves a hand]

Nahhhh, she was all right. I heard she went back to Japan cos of a family emergency or something?

[He shrugs]

But yeah, I mean you seem way more fun anyway.

video

[not_good_not_wicked]

Oh hey Luke, you were at Lisa's party last Saturday, weren't you?

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[occasus]

There is a look I like to see.
No bullshit
Just chill.

[wonk]

u got lucky then u never met her in full bitch mode

but yeah shes gone and im still here

and im def way more fun

winks @ u

[kyoumibukai]

Oh dang! You're saucy, I like that.

[He winks back.]

I guess I'm just too charming for people to be bitchy at...

[He grins, giving the camera finger guns.]

[kyoumibukai]

Mmmhmm. Sup Marisa.

[He smirks.]

Don't remember much of it, though! Therefore, it was probably fun. Ha ha.

[His face falls.]

Wait. You're... You're a part of the Numbers Club. Does that mean-

[He gapes, pointing at the camera.]

Does that mean all that magic you do is real?!

[wonk]

thats a rare skill yo

u should be v proud

[not_good_not_wicked]

No sleight of hand was involved. I am the real deal. A proper magician.

[kyoumibukai]

Sup, Kei. Been a while.

[He runs his fingers through his hair.]

This stuff isn't as good as what I get from you.

video; private

[occasus]

[ Screw it, he'll switch to video. ]

Didn't expect you to be a numbered. And I've been informed that trafficking is a no-go, or some purple haired guy will get pretty pissed at you.

[kyoumibukai]

Whaaaat? I thought heroes got to be above the law! We can't even get ahold of weed?

[He pouts a little.]

That's not cool. And yeah it turns out I was numbered all this time, but I stopped writing that number all over the place when I was a middle schooler. I guess this thing wasn't around then.

[kyoumibukai]

[He primps a little.]

Well, you know, we all have our own special skills.

[He tilts his head.]

How 'bout you? What's your deal, what kinda stuff do you like to do?

[kyoumibukai]

That is... The COOLEST thing.

[He actually collapses on the bed and rolls around a little bit]

What kind of cool stuff can you do with your magic?

[wonk]

readdest hacker sniper martial artist badass bithc ull ever meet right here

js

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

[L can already tell that he's either going to find a use for you, or hate you.]

How many years does that make it, since your first echo? You said when you were a kid, but that's not terribly specific.

[kyoumibukai]

[He lifts his head, thinking.]

Uh, well, I was 8. We were on a field trip to the Sterling Hill Mining Museum.

[He smiles, looking at the camera.]

Why do you want to know?