Lost and Found [Mingle]

[ourearth]

Date: 23-30.3.19
Characters: Open

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It starts slowly, one by one: Items are being returned to people. Specifically, they are delivered to their mailboxes.

The items are very varied, and either pushed through the letter slot in the door or, if they're too big, just left on the doorstep: A wallet that was stolen last year, a coin that was dropped into the sea last week, or a toy that was left on a bus, a time capsule buried in the ground, an unwanted present purposefully forgotten at the train station. The only thing that they have in common that they are never perishables. It's all non-food items.

All items that are being returned must have vanished within the Mossgate Echo Boundary, but they can have vanished long before the person whom they are returned to gained their first echo/got access to the network.

They appear throughout the week, and then abruptly stop the evening before Mother's Day.

Comments

Had to check whether Walter HAD gotten a sticker, first! |D

[iamnotgod]

Oracular is similar enough to visionary, as a word. But some people can be called visionary without actually seeing the future at all.

[ENGLISH IS WEIRD.]

That's certainly possible. Perhaps there's some way we could test that? Recently-received stickers versus those you've had a long time, if you hand them out at the same time?

[Walter, at least, did not throw his out.]

[vernal_miss]

Okay.

[Nel will ask someone in her family to explain the different words further later.]

I can give one of each to my mums and ask them to throw them away at a certain time. [Which will be weird but she has asked for odd favors before, and both of them know about the Numbers.]

[iamnotgod]

That sounds like a plan.

Make sure to write down the timeframes, though!

That's what makes this science. ;)

[vernal_miss]

So I should write the times I give them the stickers and when they throw them away?

[She almost has this.]

[iamnotgod]

Yes! :)

Along with where they throw them out, as well.

[vernal_miss]

And what about if the stickers come back? I don’t think I’ll find them right when they do.

[iamnotgod]

They should be left at your doorstop, like most of the other packages.

[There have been some... unconventional deliveries, but nothing too extravagant.]

If your mums allow, installing a door-camera for a short time, just to have a timestamp for when it shows up, might catch it.

[Not the stranger, just what he does.]

[vernal_miss]

I’ll ask if we can. I think we’d have to buy one.

[Being a child, she has no idea how much such gadgets cost.]

But if we can’t, I’ll look for them a lot!

[iamnotgod]

If it helps, I can set it up even. No charge. ;)

[Though that may not be assuring, and Walter understands that.]

Do what you feel you can, Nel.

End here?

[vernal_miss]

I will! Thank you Walter!

[She takes an extra minute to draw a cute little doodle for him before she heads off to propose the idea to her mothers.]

Sounds good. Thank you for the thread. =)

[iamnotgod]

[Walter will save that doodle~]