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[collegedropout]

Who: Sam Winchester
Broadcast: Video.
Action: SS Bloodsport if you need 'im.
When: Now-ish.

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[Sam Winchester got himself a gift from the Atroma — and he admits, he's really jazzed to see Gracie the tiny tooth fairy once again. She can be seen fluttering about in the background, exploring the area with interest and getting into all his drawers and under his bed and around his book collection — she's always been particularly snoopy, huh. He sits like he's making it a point to take a break from his reading and writing and whatever the hell Sam Winchester writes into his copious amounts of journals; the chair he's sitting in is backwards, his arms resting across the backrest.]

Alright, two things:

One, what'd you get for Christmas.

And two, what's your new years resolution? C'mon. We all gotta have something we're working on this year, right?

Mine's... I mean, the usual — kicking the Atroma in the junk. But I mean more along the lines of a personal thing anyone can focus on.

[A short time later, he speaks again, but this time in text.]

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An important thought, though. For those who might be interested in talking about it...

The visions we'd gotten for the singing planet, they weren't just for the one who was getting hit by a meteor.

The dream I'd had was about the cannibal planet, which came along later, so the thing is... there's still one more unaccounted for, isn't there? Didn't we have more than two different dreams? Just kind of worried we're coming up on Shitty Planet Number Three, and after how bad the last two were, I'm worried about the potential for even worse situations. This current planet's been okay, but please... be careful. I just have a bad feeling about this whole visions thing.

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[axi]

[Seeing that Same also got a pet of sorts, Kaname feels the need to reply, even if it's just from the lounge on the same ship. So the video pops on, and she holds her her and Freyja's striped friend from home.]

I got equipment from home, but Freyja received our dorm's pet mercat, Q-Lulu.

[Said mercat tilts his head, causing Kaname to giggle a little.]

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[collegedropout]

[People totally text while sitting in the same room, it's legit.

Sam, in the meanwhile, is studying the little mermaid cat creature with earnest interest; he'd ran the bestiary back in Adstringendum, so can you blame him? Odd creatures and supernatural beings are his bread and butter!]

A mercat? Kind of a funny combination, there. I didn't think cats'd like water.

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[axi]

[Texting in the same room to skyping on the same ship. It works.

Q-Lulu tilts his head the opposite way now and starts making o shapes with his mouth.]

Who knows? Ragna's got a healthy population, so it goes to show. We're in the lounge if you'd like to say hi.

[samahl]

New Years Resolution?

Do you mind taking a moment to explain that concept to me?

[Yay for not being from Earth? Cyril can figure out the basic idea just around the name of the thing, but he isn't sure it makes sense based just on that and wants some context.]

[collegedropout]

No problem, sure. It's thankfully a little less complicated than other earth holidays, but basically — when a new year starts, everyone's supposed to make a goal they work on throughout the upcoming year. So, you know. If someone wants to try to not smoke as much, or to do better in their relationships, or to collect a million bottles... It can be whatever, but you have to strive to keep to it.

That sort of thing.

[samahl]

I suppose I could understand that - new beginnings and all. But why not do it at the start of spring instead?

[passingthrough]

[Okay, it's been days. She's totally 100% sober now, so what the hell is she seeing?]

Sam, I don't want to worry you, but you have the largest mosquito I've ever seen in your room. [Okay, she knows it's not that, but seriously, what?]

[collegedropout]

[Oh, Sam makes a 'don't say that out loud' face, but it's too late!! Gracie has heard her commentary and is zipping over to the screen, twittering and wagging her little fists in complaint. The motions clearly scream how dare you I'm not a mosquito!! Sam just laughs weakly and pushes her back in the air a little with his palm.]

... Kitty, this is Gracie. She's essentially, uh, a tooth fairy.

[passingthrough]

[The mosquito is upset.]

You're fucking with me. [She normally has some kind of code that prevents her from saying such words, but it was really important in this case.]

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[onlyanapple]

Way to bring down the mood, Winchester.

But yeah, fair point. I doubt we'll ever be done with Shitty Planets, but the last ones have been especially so. It could be they were just fucking with us, but then they might NOT be.

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[collegedropout]

That's me, Mood-killer Winchester.

Yeah. Whatever the case, it seems the planets genuinely are reaching out for help in some way. People on the fleet have felt it straight from the source, if I recall. Makes me think maybe the planets are all either a hivemind or they interact with each other.

I'd expected to get my vision fufilled on Lyuku. Figures it'd be later.

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[onlyanapple]

That's a rather unsettling thought. Then again, given how many singing planets we've come across before the whole...prophetic dreams bullshit, I shouldn't be surprised. Maybe the planets really are all sentient and asking our help.

Do you know what the last dream was? Specifically?

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[tempredmental]

i was beginning to wonder if anyone else was still worried

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[collegedropout]

I'm usually at a 6 out of 10 state of worry, I'm just good at living with it.

I'll give them one thing, they do a hell of a job making us feel alright for a short while.

Better than the people who ran the last place I was stuck in, anyway.

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[tempredmental]

yeah

this isnt a bad place to be in for a while

its a needed break after the last two

but i think ur right

i think theres still something coming

that third dream meant something

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[rebuildyourruins]

This is the vision you mentioned back at the party, is it not? I had nearly forgotten about it. You aren't wrong to be concerned that it has yet to happen, unlike the others.

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[collegedropout]

Considering the first vision was a meteor destroying a planet and the second was a planet full of cannibals trying to sacrifice us for rituals... I'd say being concerned is the best way to go. It sure would be great for a vision to be nice sometimes.

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[rebuildyourruins]

In my experience, visions are most often portents of doom.

[Way to be reassuring, Thor.]

I don't recall what the third vision was, but did it seem as bad as the other two?

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[lord_wizard]

I received something that could be very useful, as it happens...

[He fans a set of slightly oversized deck of cards in front of the camera. They look very old, the colors on the backs faded from a pattern of diamonds in red and black to something closer to sepia and charcoal. He flips it briefly to show various colorful illustrations on the reverse]

...though how remains to be seen. I've been thinking about this since we interrupted their rituals. The previous messages from the planets implored us to help "wake the ones that are sleeping". I wonder if the Vieziri were attempting to do just that. Their goals may have been justified, but their methods were not.

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[collegedropout]

[He leans in closer, inspecting. Cards, huh? Sam's familiar.]

Could be. Though... I'm kinda worried waking sleeping-anything might also be a disaster.

[lord_wizard]

Supposition either way. We need more information about the nature of these particular worlds. It can't be coincidence that the fleet's path takes us by them with regularity.

[aspearing]

New Years resolutions? I admit that this is the first time I've heard that I've heard that others make resolutions during this time.

[collegedropout]

Oh yeah? It's primarily an earth holiday of sorts, so that might be why.

You got anything you'd resolve to do, for this year? A goal to focus on reaching?

[astrobleme]

I haven't been able to decide on a resolution...

[collegedropout]

No? What kind of ideas for one have you had so far?