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[moarnomsplz]

[The text appears in the messy handwriting of a left-handed teenage boy. Off at the top of the page, the number that's been stuck in his head is scribbled a few times beside a doodle of a spaceship.]

OK, can anyone actually see this?

This is weird. But I think I've got it. Like, to send video, do you just

[A pause, then Alex is visible, looking curiously at what is, to him, still a piece of paper.]

--talk to where stuff appears?

Comments

[Handwritten]

[shiromadoushi]

Exactly that.

He's my kaa. The part of my soul that can exist outside of my body.

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[moarnomsplz]

Wow, more you than yours then?

Do a lot of people have stuff like that?

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[shiromadoushi]

I think he's unique. A lot of people have other powers and stuff like that, but I don't think anyone else has a summon.

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[moarnomsplz]

IDK if I'm more curious or worried about what I might end up with eventually.

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[shiromadoushi]

Be curious! You could get something awesome!

[[new doodle: Tapir in white mage's robes, holding a staff]]

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[moarnomsplz]

Or something scary.

Do they mean anything?

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[shiromadoushi]

Not sure. They just seem to be bits of someone else you once were. Mostly. Sometimes it's just random crap.

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[moarnomsplz]

That actually kind of makes sense. It would explain why I seemed to know someone I've never seen before anyway.

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[shiromadoushi]

Really? Someone around here you recognize?

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[moarnomsplz]

No, in my dream or vision or whatever. The guy who was my best friend in it wasn't anyone I know from real life.

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[shiromadoushi]

That's always weird, yeah. I almost called somebody by another name when I had a flashback like that.

[[The doodling on the side now involves stars and odd variations of star like shapes.]]

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[moarnomsplz]

You've had a lot of flashbacks huh?

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[shiromadoushi]

Yeah. They're just kind of confusing, mostly.

[[The star shaped doodles are starting to gain a bit more purpose, shifting looking almost like a strange sort of shrub or leaf. It had only been a glimps, a shadow of someone... someone important.

...that had the same stupid hair that the pharaoh had.]]

[Handwritten]

[moarnomsplz]

I've only had one and I already know how right you are.

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[shiromadoushi]

On a scale from 1 being "From another country/time" and 10 being "Fought with giant robots in Camelot" how weird was it?

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[moarnomsplz]

1.5 at the most.

Fighting giant robots would be awesome.

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[shiromadoushi]

[[new doodle, a robot tapir in battle pose!]]

I know, right?

Mine are kinda all over the place, but mostly in the 5-8 range. No giant robots yet. But giant monster battles against a corrupt pharaoh and his priests is still pretty cool.

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[moarnomsplz]

Wow. Does it like fit together in any kind of coherent way yet?

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[shiromadoushi]

Some parts do. All the stuff in Egypt seems to follow a cohesive storyline, even if it's super fragmented and I'm only getting small bits at a go.

Then there's some other crap with a card game and a warhammer game both gone straight up batshit crazy with soul stealing and battles to the death and people fighting against themselves.

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[moarnomsplz]

That's wild.

Do you mean like literal battles to the death, or like a video game or something?

I probably don't really have to ask that do I?

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[shiromadoushi]

Pretty sure getting your soul sucked out through a game counts as a real death.

Unless you're just really into WoW

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[moarnomsplz]

I hope nobodys that into it! [He draws a smiley face with a scribble of curly hair.]

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[shiromadoushi]

Have you *seen* the high scores in that game? People totally are.

[[Have a viking helmet precariously hanging on to that pile of curls]]