8 ∅ [Text/Action for Ecruteak Inn]

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currently taking your hottest exorcism tips
the top five submissions get a prize
the prize is whatever i get out of these boxes of abra jacks and if thats not your idea of a good time im sorry because theyre all i got stashed in this closet atm

if this is punishment for cultural appropriation at the festival im gomen
but can we maybe stop
onegai shimass

[ACTION FOR ECRUTEAK:]

[The great (???) thing about the ghost currently haunting Dave is that, for the most part, it stays out of sight, meaning that with everyone else distracted by their own phantasms, Dave managed to spend the whole day yesterday blatantly not acknowledging it, only twitching at its constant presence at the edge of his awareness. But after no sleep the entire night--negative sleep, probably, it's possible he will never sleep again, fuck every molecule of his being--he's just grabbed some foodstuffs, marched into the inn room closet, and settled in with his eyes shut, hugging the cereal boxes to his chest.

At least he can pretend Bro's not there, in the dark.]

Comments

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[crouching_sin]

Sounds like an awkward family tree.

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[callbacks]

i havent told you about that shit yet?
fuck thats usually one of my openers
having to sit through the non euclidean puzzle of my lineage weeds out the weak from the strong

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[crouching_sin]

Considering I'm technically responsible for a lot of the genes floating around Earth right now, I can imagine.

But if you want to talk, I can brobably listen.

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[callbacks]

haha fuck
i shouldnt have started with the puns
do you actually want me to lay this out though because i dont think i have a chart handy

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[crouching_sin]

I can draw a chart.

But if you want to talk about it, I'm willing to listen, all puns aside.

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[callbacks]

i guess im willing to be a distaction if you need distacted

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[crouching_sin]

Sure. I could use a... distaction.

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[callbacks]

so i was created thirteen point something years after i was theoretically born out of the paradox ghost imprint sludge of my self styled older brother and my sisters mom
and then sent back in time through narratively convenient shenanigans on a meteor with a pony which got barbecued on impact but who provided enough cushioning to preserve my tiny infant ass
follow so far

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[crouching_sin]

The second part I got, but explain the paradox ghost thing.

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[callbacks]

oh thats mostly time jargon
so you cant appearify a thing from the past to the present or future if its already like
you know it was there
so john mashed some buttons without understanding shit about what he was doing and tried to appearify our guardians and just ended up getting weird ectogoo out of the thing that bore their dna somehow as an imprint
and then made clones of them which then went BACK in time and became them so they were simultaneously the clone and the original
and then mixed the slime and made the rest of us
who also went back in time so we would be properly thirteen by the time we were thirteen and creating all of us in the first place
if a first place is even a concept that makes sense when time travels involved

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[crouching_sin]

... The more you talk about it, the more I feel like the laws of time and space are just suggestions in your world.