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Luke "Sky" Walker ([personal profile] blueskying) wrote in [community profile] saveourearth2018-10-08 11:22 pm

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[It's voice at first, there's Sky saying "All right, I've got it... Is it on?" and a woman very patiently saying "You need to take the lens cap off, Dad" and then there's a shot of a wall with old-fashioned wallpaper and everything seems kind of sepia, and a sheet of printer paper held in the camera's view as the woman says "And white balancing... there. Go ahead."

And now it's not sepia, and Sky comes in from the side. He hasn't figured out yet that you can just draw your number on a wall to get high definition Network video, so he's borrowed a small video camera and a stand. The shot staging is boring and straight on and you can tell, you can absolutely tell that his reaction to facing a camera on a tripod is to use Minister Voice. Clear, reassuring, friendly with just a suggestion of minor authority; none of the casual nature of a young vlogger.]


I'm the Reverend Sky Walker, of the Unitarian Universalists of Mossgate. Now that my last unfortunate houseguests have resettled, I can display this and ask if mysterious items have appeared in the possession of anyone else. I acquired this back during Pride.

[He, yes, reaches out and audibly tilts the camera down, showing that he's clasping something with the two hooks of his right hand prosthetic. As soon as the camera's steady again he puts his left hand underneath the object and holds it for easier inspection. It looks something like part of the flash attachment for old cameras, but it clearly isn't. After a few seconds he closes his had around it and holds down a button, and it pushes back somewhat as the green blade hisses to life.

This is a world where Star Wars is a fantasy franchise where tons of people wield 'starblades', rapiers of flexible metal that extend magic edges until they look like broadswords. This glows like one, but the hilt, the sound, the shape are new.]


This is supposed to be a kind of weapon, but at the moment it's harmless. In the interest of transparency, something harder to explain also happened, a couple of months ago. It seems to be better precedented.
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[personal profile] iamnotgod 2018-10-09 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Walter spends a few seconds thinking this feed is being transmitted publicly, not just to the Network... before being able to reassure himself that this is not the case.]

I haven't had anything appear, no.

What would the 'harder to explain' thing be?


[Because spontaneous manifestation of matter is hard enough to explain already.]
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[personal profile] iamnotgod 2018-10-10 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Any ideas as to what you are 'hearing', then?
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[personal profile] iamnotgod 2018-10-11 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
[... WELP.]

Is the forest a metaphor in this case, or an actual forest?

[Given the genre span of the memories regained so far, it really could be both as far as Walter knows.]

That does sound consistent, however; hospitals, gardens, and crowds don't have the same atmosphere except in the literal sense.
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[personal profile] iamnotgod 2018-10-11 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds extremely useful.

[And disorienting, but hey, welcome to the club, there!]

And to that end, we really could say that things are often more than meets the eye. ;)

[It's too late, Sadie; the punnening is happening.]
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[personal profile] iamnotgod 2018-10-12 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Between you and Stone, we clearly have that covered here in Mossgate. Well, except for the Bay, perhaps...

[Because Stone, Sky... and Sea.]
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[personal profile] iamnotgod 2018-10-20 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, maybe we could work 'sand' into that... but that might be diverging off-topic too much.

[Because... yeah. SLANG THINGS.]

Or, no - seaweed! Water and plants.
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[personal profile] dragoonrouge 2018-10-10 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Sadie was not expecting a video of all things to come through on the Network, and certainly isn't expecting to see the hook-handed Minister that she had bumped into during the whole Cake thing with a light sword. She's not bold enough to return with a video as well but voice and images she'll do.]

I got an item from going on the cave tour. Not as cool as a light sword though.

[She posts a picture of a notebook, followed by a picture of an open page, the paper slightly smuged and crinkled but with a large block of text in an unfamiliar script with a well sketched picture underneath of a waterfall.]
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[personal profile] dragoonrouge 2018-10-10 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
Yes we have. I, Erm, I don't remember it very well to be honest. [Sadie's embarrassment is clear.]

No...It just appeared literally out of thin air as I was on the tunnel tour with a friend.
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[personal profile] dragoonrouge 2018-10-11 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Sadie groan-laughs as appropriate at Sky's terrible pun. Hopefully this guy and Walter never meet, the puns would be too much.]

I just just remember being very shocked for some reason. And that's what happened too me too I felt the echoing emptiness and then it disappeared and my bag was suddenly heavier because of the book.
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[personal profile] dragoonrouge 2018-10-13 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Not yet no. And no to that too, I'm working on it but between college and UCAS stuff for uni, my friend and I don't have a lot of time.
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[personal profile] dragoonrouge 2018-10-21 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I want to be able to focus on it. There's a chance I could learn more about what the place I've seen was like without having to see more of it. Or it might at least prepare me for some of the weirder stuff that could come up.

Have you seen anything alongside your item?
scarsolderthanyou: (skeptical)

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[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou 2018-10-10 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
So we can get things too, not just visions and... weird new senses.

[Because at this point he's realized that his new sense of smell isn't going away.]

This is looking less and less like some weird government plot.
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[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou 2018-10-11 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Even then, I don't think the government is to the point where they can make objects just appear. Unless someone snuck up while you were distracted and actually put it there, but knowing you, there were enough people around that'd be hard.

[He pauses, then adds,]

I can smell things I could never smell before. It's like my nose suddenly turned into a bloodhound's. It's driving me crazy, since I don't know what half the shit I'm smelling even is.
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[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou 2018-10-16 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Again, there was probably other people around at the same time. Don't think all of them could be dealt with in the same way.

It is aggravating. Though if I ever get the smells sorted out, it might wind up being useful.

So what do you have?
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[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou 2018-10-22 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh. At least I can put a name on what I have, even if I can't entirely sort it out yet. Does it bother you? This life sense thing?
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[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2018-10-19 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hmmm, that's a familiar face and voice. Hard to place, since they last spoke in a spooky cave tour. After a few minutes of browsing through the other responses, Russell starts up a video feed of his own.]

I've been... finding bones? Or maybe making them, out of thin air.

[And he holds a hand up to demonstrate. After a second or two of staring at it, a white bone materializes out of light, then drops into his waiting hand.]
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[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2018-10-20 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
[It takes a second, then Russell points at his monitor in mutual recognition.]

Oh! It's you! I thought you were just some... guy in a cave...

[He's narrowly avoided saying the word old, though it probably shows, and he realizes it. Time to rush on to questions about bones.] I think it might be a tibia...? Femurs have that big, knobby end?
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[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2018-10-23 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Please, Sky, let him have his dignity and ignore that whole slip of the tongue. Without that, Russell makes a very skeptical expression at that permission, and doesn't verbally acknowledge it. Besides, there's something else awkward to think and talk about.]

I... haven't tried breaking one? What if I break it, but it belongs to somebody? That could cause a lot of difficult questions...

[He does at least test running a thumb along it, frowning at the texture but shrugging inconclusively. He just hasn't held enough real bones to know from that.]