Halloween Reaction Videos - [Open] [Network - Video]

[spaghettimonster]

Date: [October 31st]
Characters: A string of numbers yet to be determined (Russell)]

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[Mid-afternoon, Halloween, a video post becomes available on the network. It's coming from a slightly odd angle, pointed as though someone had tapped their number on a mirror and propped it against the head of a bed. Front and center in the view is Russell, sitting a few feet away, with a pile of things in front of him. Two different cell phones, a few colorful sketches, and... several bones. There's no dirt on them, but they sure don't look like plastic.]

I am having. A day.

Multiple times, today, I've had that... that dizziness, and emptiness, and found myself remembering things or finding things. I can't go to my door without tripping over something that sets it off. Is that just me?

And, can anyone tell me about this?

[He gestures at one of the cellphones, and holds it up close to the mirror so the charger port is visible from the mirror's feed. It's not any of the standard ports, or even an obscure one. And something about the style of the phone, there's no match on Earth for it.]

Did one of you drop this off with the bucket, or do the rest of all that... decorating?


((ooc: Tag in action/prose as you prefer, and I'll match! And if anyone has the technical skills to examine a strange electronic device, and especially to devise a charger for it, I'd love to pursue that option.))

Comments

[dragoonrouge]

Yeah, and it normally sounds like your heartbeat is echoing around your head too when they happen. It feels apt.

It doesn't always have to be a memory, like my teeth or the Reverand's lightsword, or the journal I got in the mines. Have you been able to unlock the phone and see what's on it?

I remembered fighting a giant spider. Fuck that btw spiders are awful and I hate them. Then in the graveyard was when I got the gemstone from the feeling but it didn't feel as awful this time. It almost felt comforting, like I was being hugged. It was bizarre!

To emphasise her point the word 'bizarre' is underlined multiple times.

[spaghettimonster]

Given the context of the rest of what they're dealing with, he has to pause at the repeatedly underlined description of bizarre.

You got a gemstone from a magic hug in your head

You're right, that IS bizarre.

The phone's unlocked already, but most of the apps don't work. The contact list is almost empty and those numbers aren't in service, the saved photos are of skeletons and toys. The menu doesn't even say what provider it's on or who it's registered to.

[dragoonrouge]

You said you got dizziness with the bucket and that that's when the phone turned up?

I think that phone may be an Echo, I've received two objects that belong to my other person, that must belong to your other person

[spaghettimonster]

Oh. That stands to reason

But why would this guy have or have had a broken phone...?

[Also, how do they all keep remembering and gaining powers from mystery aliens or whatever, but that's really not a question he expects Sadie to have an answer for, and one rhetorical question per turn talking seems good.]

[dragoonrouge]

Aesthetic

[spaghettimonster]

Fair enough

[dragoonrouge]

Aesthetic aside it is odd but at least you've got some more hints for your other person.

[spaghettimonster]

I've been so focused on the network mystery I haven't even been thinking about that

[dragoonrouge]

If you can figure more out you might be able to predict what sort of Echoes you might get. Could make it a little less shocking when it happens.

[spaghettimonster]

..

I've been summoning bones out of nowhere, and I swear I saw one of those skeletons moving earlier

What if he was some crypt-dwelling necromancer

I don't think mum could take a evil magician in the family

[dragoonrouge]

What if you were a really cool crypt-dwelling Necromancer?

[spaghettimonster]

I still think she might be uncomfortable with the undead, but who knows

We don't even know how far this is going to go

I mean it all started so suddenly, it might stop just as suddenly.

[That, and he's nervous about saying I in the same context as these memories. He'd gone weeks thinking it was a break from reality, rather than the intro to some Isekai anime.]