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[ Hey. Linda's using video this time! This is pretty weird, unless you're one of the few people who've actually talked to her with video before. Most of the time she just does text. ]

Okay. I've been sitting on this for about a week, because I was hoping that staring at it long enough would make me suddenly realize what this thing is. But I'm not having any luck, so...

[ She holds up a necklace that's mostly a red jewel on a chain, shifting it around a bit to make sure that most of it is in the view of her webcam. ]

Does this thing look familiar to anyone on here? Because I keep staring at it and I'm drawing a blank, but I got it back during that pulsing, so... [ It's obviously important, which is why Linda's keeping it with her instead of just sticking it in her drawer and forgetting about it. Though speaking of pulses...]

Also, speaking of pulses, has anyone else gotten a skill that they completely sucked at before the pulse? I used to be terrible at singing, but ever since that light a week ago I've suddenly been able to sing... well, not amazingly, but way better than just decent.

It really feels, well, weird. Like some sort of law of physics has been broken or something. I mean, I know the weird part is normal for everyone, but for some reason this seems weirder to me than, I don't know, suddenly getting green skin would've. At least I would've been expecting something like that, after some of the other stuff I've heard about here.

So yeah, how many of us got 'simple mundane skill we sucked at before' instead of a superpower from these things?

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[ She sighs. ]

No offense, but I'm going to hope that if I end up with any magic powers, that I don't get them by almost being killed.

But anyway, onto less depressing things to talk about. Knowing how to do that is pretty cool. Hand to hand isn't really something that's, well, stereotypical to a magical girl, so it's pretty cool to hear that you and she had that. What about the rest of you? I mean, the other people who are "Cure Whatever". Do they have the same stuff, or just magic that can be thrown around?

For your sake, I hope that's the case, if at all.

[ It's not even remotely fun, Linda. ]

The thing is, most of us Precures appear to come from different times in these... other lives. There was even two others before us, but they've since fallen off the Network... So out of everything, only two other people on here have had connections to Cure Moonlight before - my sister, and one of those aforementioned former Numbered, a girl who recalled being "Cure Blossom" that was evidently apart of Moonlight's team. Also formerly among us was a "Cure Sunny" who was extraordinarily strong and could summon the power of fire. With us now is "Cure Rhythm," whose powers are drawn from music, and... well, you've met Winter. She's "Cure Diamond," and she has the power over ice and cold.

[ She talks like someone who's given this explanation any number of times, and it comes out almost mechanically. ]

All of us have super strength and a lot of general superhuman physical ability and resistances.

[ ...at least, it does until that last part, where she involuntarily shudders a little bit. Since obviously, she'd discovered the limits of those resistances on her end just recently. ]

[ Yeah. She can tell that it's really not all that fun. And she sure as heck notices that shudder at the end of that long winded explanation. ]

Huh. That's... both pretty awesome, and also pretty worrying. That you're all from different times and stuff like that. I mean, it's nice that your past self wasn't doing all of this fighting forever. But at the same time, if it happened pretty quickly, why did the world need that many Precure?

[ She pauses for a moment, before shaking her head. ]

Umm... though I guess that's not really something that you're going to be able to answer. Do you know if there were any Precure after Moonlight and Blossom back then?

Unfortunately, that's pretty accurate - I don't really know how to answer that. Back in the beginning, I used to think about it more, almost worry about it... but at this point? There's enough going on in my life as it is.

That said... there were two others on Moonlight and Blossom's team - Sunshine and Marine. I've never seen any Numbered with their memories, however, so... Who knows if someone like that is out there?

I guess that's understandable, considering everything that's been going on lately.

[ She pauses for a moment though, digesting the last of that information. ]

Well, I don't know what exactly decides who becomes one of us or not, but if you're here and there were others from that time here, it wouldn't surprise me if someone with the memories of those two will eventually show up.

[ Linda was pretty sure that she WASN'T one of them though. The few memories that she pulsed back since she first got on the network wouldn't really add up to being on the same team as Cure Moonlight. If her past self's life even had anything to do with Precure at all, which didn't seem likely.]

It's always possible, certainly. Especially given the lack of rhyme or reason for most people to ever receive pulses in the first place... So, possible.

Just not something that's reliable to bet on.

... Yeah. It kinda sucks that we don't have a better idea of how people end up getting them.

Though I guess being able to tell ahead of time might not be all that good either. I mean, if we figured out how to find that out, other people could too, at least eventually.

Although, to be precise... I suppose I should say we don't know how people initially become Numbered. Once you have some idea of the things from your memories or powers, one can find ways sometimes of triggering the pulses yourself.

That is not always recommended, however.

[ Is that a "you really shouldn't do that warning" Lily? It sure sounded like one. Which she'll probably ignore. ]

How does that work? Do you just focus on what you've already learned, and hope that you suddenly remember something? Or is it more complicated than that?

[ That is definitely a "you really shouldn't do that" warning, Linda. She knows from repeated experience - it can end badly. ]

From what we've seen, pulses typically tend to come from encountering things related to the aliens or our enemies, or from experiencing the same or similar events that the "other life" did.

Edited 2014-07-05 02:32 (UTC)

That explains the 'sudden necklace out of nowhere' thing.

[ But there was something else that was bothering her... ]

... And the memories I got when those vermini possessed shellfish people about a week or so ago. I just don't know what it counts under.

[ A sudden look of curiosity flashes in her eyes. ]

Just what sort of memory?

Edited 2014-07-06 03:13 (UTC)

[ She sighs. ]

Being chased by a weird monster, basically. Apparently they were really dangerous... even though it basically looked like a squid that was made out of jello.

And... past me was using herself as bait. To help someone else get someone who was hurt away from it.

[ Lily adjusts her glasses, frowning. ]

I have some experience with weird monsters. Past and present.

Still... it goes without saying, but that seems awfully dangerous.

Dangerous is pretty much the perfectly way to describe it.

I just wish that I had some idea of what those monsters were. Not to mention how dangerous they were. Past me didn't seem freaked out by them, so I think that thing existing was common knowledge. [ There was also the vague flash in the memory of the other girl wearing something spandexy, but... maybe she shouldn't mention that for now. She doesn't really know much about it, after all. ]

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