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[wolfishflame]

[After getting the lowdown from a rather nice lady, a very annoyed-looking young woman is staring balefully at the camera.]

Are you serious.

Are you serious.

Because people keep explaining this Life-Death-Dreaming thing to me and it sounds like bullshit. There are two planes I can be on and I’m apparently not on either of them and that is so much bullshit I have apparently been dropped into the former pasture of a hekatomb of oxen because what the hell.

Look. Look at this. [She holds up her journal with a helpful diagram of a stick figure, a vertical line, and another stick figure, and a double-sided arrow.] My soul can be Waking, or it can be Otherside, or it can occasionally be both at the same time because my life is a dumpster fire. Not this, okay? [She puts the journal down, raises her hand, and taps the labradorite ring she’s wearing.] My soul is not in a rock. Even if it’s a really pretty rock, and I know from pretty rocks.

[Frustratedly:] Like, oh my gods. Every single god I have ever met. All of them. Up to and including Inari-Ōkami. For the love of baby Jesus in his mangery crib. Put me back. I want to speak to the manager. Yeah. The spell manager.

Fix this, Obama.

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[schrodingersghost]

One question. What's a hekatomb?

[Because this was clearly the most important part of that rant. ]

[Video] ...nothing, because I spelled it wrong /falls down

[wolfishflame]

An Ancient Greek sacrifice of a hundred cattle.

So that's a lot of bullshit.

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[schrodingersghost]

[ Danny makes a face. ]

Dude,gross.

....But also not entirely accurate.

[justno]

[Have a vaguely cautious Penny.]

How old are you?

[wolfishflame]

Weird question, but I'll take it. Don't make me sing The Sound of Music, but I am seventeen, going on eighteen.

[justno]

[Damn.]

Call me in a year.

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[annihilist]

At least you have a soul. I'm not sure how I've managed to gain one of those pretty rocks given that particular deficiency.

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[wolfishflame]

[Will she? Won't she?

Of course she will.]

Cheer up, emo kid.

Wait, are you a ginger? Don't buy into the propaganda. Gingers do in fact have souls.

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[annihilist]

You assume I need cheering. I was simply stating fact.

No, I am not a ginger. I'm also not human.

[lasergrenades]

...you've met gods? That sounds, uh, intense.

The spell manager's dead, unfortunately. We're all sort of getting yanked around without any control.

[wolfishflame]

[Aly closes her eyes, takes a deep breath, and holds up one finger.] Excuse me one minute.

[Then she turns around and screams into her elbow for about five seconds.

When she turns back, she looks considerably calmer.] Well, ain't that a kick in the macarons. Why am I not surprised? This is exactly my life.

Oh, yeah. Uh, it is intense. That is a word for it. But every single one I've met has been a manipulative pain. Even the benevolent ones. They treat humans like toys.

[lasergrenades]

[Well okay then. Pepper's eyebrows go up when the young woman screams into her elbow. At least she looks a little more settled afterwards, so it helped.]

Seems like it's all our lives, here. We're all stuck. One big weird, seriously dysfunctional, magically-enforced social group. Not quite a family, though some of us are.

[Pepper's expression turns a shade more serious.]

Yeah, gods have a way of doing that, huh? [At least her own favorite space god was a little bit more mortal than traditional deities.] How many have you met?

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[purrns]

I think this place is slightly out of Obama's jurisdiction.

But yeah, honestly, I wouldn't think too hard on the whole...other realms part. You just end up with more questions than answers.

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[wolfishflame]

Don't remind me. [She comes from Earth in February of 2017. Nobody is happy.]

I'm used to questions. I love questions. Questions are my lifeblood. [Is that sarcasm? It might be sarcasm.]

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[purrns]

[That's just the worst time to come from, wow. ]

I can tell. They sound likre they're your favourite thing in the whole world.

...Welcome to the turtle, all the same. I'm Adrien.

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[celticromanstone]

[ She's dressed like a nurse, for a change. That's right. She does have other work. ]

Well, darling, we've certainly never had that reaction before.

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[wolfishflame]

People keep telling me I'm one of a kind. [And she smiles winningly.]

[redlightgreenlight]

I'm sorry, none of those gods exist in this world. Care to try another?

[wolfishflame]

Filthy lies. Barack Obama is eternal. He surrounds us and binds the universe together.

[She's grinning. ALY STOP]

Got any local gods I should stay on the good side of?

...that sentence sounded awkward when it came out of my mouth. I do words good.

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[wintershepherd]

Huh, that's an impressive mix of pop culture.

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[wolfishflame]

I do my best.

[She blinks at him.] You look kind of like someone I know. Shorter hair, though.

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[commandandcontrol]

Sorry, did you say you've met Inari-Okami?

What did they look like?

[ There's lots of different interpretations where she comes from. ]

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[wolfishflame]

Uhh, tall. Pale? Lots of fox tails. Foxish just in general. But I mean that's not always what they look like, I hear gods change their appearances the way we change t-shirts. That's kind of just what they're like around my friend. Who's godbothered.

video, I'm the slowest snail ever

[no_light]

Nobody is pleased about being here. Throwing a temper tantrum won't make it better.

[ Trust him. He is the resident expert on temper tantrums. ]

video; YOU ARE PERFECT

[wolfishflame]

[Aly's about to shoot back with a smart remark before she realizes who she's talking to. This place is insane. Pop culture people?? What? Time to have a little fun.]

Oh my God, Kyle? Kyle Ron??? Is it really you?