New Kid

[not_good_not_wicked]

[Action]

Anyone who lives near the edge of town will find moving trucks outside one of the empty houses out there. Marisa can also be found, exploring her new neighborhood, or helping move stuff into the house. Now's a good time to meet your new neighbor.

Students at Locke High, the homeroom teacher is introducing a new student to your school. She's got blonde hair, a leather jacket, and honest to god cowboy boots on. Her backpack slung over one shoulder looks stuffed FULL, and you can see what looks like a can of Rockstar about to fall out of one of the side pockets. If switching high schools right at the end of her junior year has thrown her off in any way, she's not showing it. She looks quite chipper.

"Howdy. Name's Marisa Kirisame. Just moved up here with my Mom from Texas, so I'm jumping in for the last few weeks of school before summer."

Any questions for the new kid? Join her at lunch? Attempt to beat her up and steal her lunch money? Make fun of her accent?

[Text, iPhone]
Who's number is this?

Is this one of Dad's stupid things?

You don't believe in astral projection do you?

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[Text]

[shiromadoushi]

What does your dad do that that's your follow up question?

[not_good_not_wicked]

His stupid fans keep trying to contact me. It's annoying.

[shiromadoushi]

Though telepathy? Makes sense that you'd guess that of a mysterious number you can't shake out of your head.

[not_good_not_wicked]

I found the number in my phone.

[By saving it as a contact while half asleep a few days ago, but she doesn't remember that.]

And there's no such thing as telepathy. It's just wishful thinking and con men cold reading people.

[shiromadoushi]

You're going to have a hard time if you cling to that mindset~

[not_good_not_wicked]

You ARE one of his fans! Look I don't have anything to do with that show. Don't contact me again.

[shiromadoushi]

Hey, you texted me. You don't get to say that.

[not_good_not_wicked]

[Oh yeah you totally did.]

Who is this, again?

[shiromadoushi]

Dream Eater.

[[Troll mode only acknowledges his not even close to secret code name!]]

[not_good_not_wicked]

Fine, Dream Eater. Do you know who I am or can I come up with a cute nick name too?

[shiromadoushi]

No idea! Go for the nickname! Code names make things more fun :D

voice {iphone}

[ursoreckless]

Now why would you ask that? [it's a deep voice with a slight accent and the undercurrent of someone that spent a lot of time practicing to get English right.]

Do you believe in it?

[not_good_not_wicked]

Then call me Buck Rogers.

[shiromadoushi]

So you're cool with scifi as long as if doesn't involve mind powers?

voice back

[not_good_not_wicked]

[Okay now something extra weird is going on. Someone's talking through her phone without actually calling her.

The voice that replies sounds like a girl's, with a bit of a twang to it. Definitely a native english speaker, though.]

No. How'd you get voice through an IM conversation?

[not_good_not_wicked]

I'm fine with scifi and fantasy because it's fiction. It's when you start thinking it's in the real world that I'm gonna look at you funny.

[ursoreckless]

Ah, that is what happens in the secret number club - the numbers connect to other numbers which let's those with the numbers interact.

Oh yes, welcome to the club. Here's a little information for you. [and he'll send along this little link.]

[shiromadoushi]

So if I told you that there are people who can wield the power of ice, summon giant monsters or teleport, have memories from lives that aren't their own and are turning into vampires, werewolves or robots, and all of them have a number that allows them to turn anything into their own personal internet, you'd think that was pretty crazy, huh?

[not_good_not_wicked]

[That was a hell of a claim, but easy enough to test. Marisa leaned over to the window by her bed and fogged it up with her breath, then wrote the number with her finger. Sure enough, her reflection changed quick enough. Shou could see a young blond girl with maybe vaguely asian features.]

...Huh.

[ursoreckless]

[and she will see the bleached blond with very blue eyes and a face that was just shy of being totally feminine and also rather Asian in appearance. he waves at the mirror.]

It can be weird, but this isn't the weirdest part of the this club.

Aaaand back to audio

[not_good_not_wicked]

[After squinting at him for a moment, she closed the blinds and went back to her phone.]

Okay so there's something weird going on. Some kind of weird connection or something that lets you peak into teenage girls' bedrooms.

Now what?

[not_good_not_wicked]

Without some kind of proof yeah definitely crazy.

[shiromadoushi]

Proof is all around you.

Scroll back in the network and you'll find it.

Welcome to Wonderland, Alice. You're going to have a bad time~

[not_good_not_wicked]

[Of all the times to discover a mystic world hidden beneath the mundane, why'd it have to be two weeks after she decided to stop believing in magic to spite her dad?]

The hell is all this?

[shiromadoushi]

[[dramatic irony

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