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[keythatconnects]

Who: Sora and OPEN
Broadcast: Video, Fleetwide
When: Sometime during the glitches.

Hey, so, this might seem weird but...

The last time I had weird dreams that had real-life consequences and saw things that were kind of there but not really, I had all of my powers and strength taken from me. It was not fun. I seem to be okay this time around, but, uh...

Maybe someone else isn't?

Consider this a way to check in! Is everyone doing okay?

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[wakemelater]

[What is your life? thinks the demigod.

To be honest, he doesn't really care whether everyone is doing okay, or care to disclose whether or not he is okay, but he's curious. And bored.]

What powers?

[keythatconnects]

You know, magic and cool moves and stuff?

[wakemelater]

Cool moves are a power?

[keythatconnects]

They are when your weapon glows and slashes through monsters like nothing, or when energy bursts out from the attack and stuns any monsters around?

[wakemelater]

Isn't that more the weapon's power...?

[Whatever. Never mind.]

So you fight monsters? Are you some kind of hero?

[keythatconnects]

Maybe it's both?

And I'd say! I've saved a bunch of worlds!

[wakemelater]

Worlds? More than one?

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[abracafcku]

....So that was confusing as fu-- [Wait, shit this is a kid? He can't swear.] --hell? No wait, dammit. Confusing as fudge. There, nailed it.

What are you even talking about?

[keythatconnects]

The weird dreams? And stuff?

[abracafcku]

Yeah "stuff?" That's not the greatest descriptor. Stuff could be "oh look at those fugly slippers everyone has to wear" or stuff could be "hey I'm pretty sure the Marsiva is eating my memories of things and that's some existential horror." Kiiiind of a big gap between the two.

[keythatconnects]

That second one.

[abracafcku]

Fun.

[Taako sighs. It's not like he's not used to having memories stolen from him, but it's a bit of a sore point.]

So? What kind of gaps do you have? The staticky headache inducing kind or the "huh what the hell just happened?" kind.

[keythatconnects]

Oh. All of that stuff was taken care of for me back home. Well, not totally. I still haven't recovered my strength completely, but I will soon!

I was worried people here might have the same effects since we're all experiencing weird dreams and seeing things and... all of that.

[somakemelaugh]

[He shouldn't know how to do this, and yet by some as yet good grace of this world, he does. Know how to respond. To this piece of technology. Without poking and prodding it like the dead in his funeral parlor.]

Oh? So this has happened before?

[keythatconnects]

People are saying calibrations have happened before, yeah.

But the stuff that happened to me happened before I got here. Like, right before.

[somakemelaugh]

In another world, or right here where we are now, as soon as you were made to be here?

[With people from all over, he can never be sure. He remembers the drowsiness, the soft ache behind his ear, then suddenly knowing things he had no memory of being taught or learning.]

I haven't been here long, but it might as well have been an age and a day.

[keythatconnects]

In another world. Back home?

And, man. Sorry about that. This place can be a lot at the best of times, and it seems like they brought you over during the worst of them.

[somakemelaugh]

Your world must have been fascinating.

[He lifts a shoulder and a hand in a shrug.] What can I do? I didn't choose to be here any more than I chose to be back in the Quarantine, but I managed to get by well enough. You seem to have done the same.

[keythatconnects]

Worlds. I come from a place with more than one.

And I'm doing all right! Things back where I came from are pretty bad too, so I've gotten used to it. And I can make it through with good friends at my side.

[postocular]

Not sure this is the same..but are you losing your powers? [ Is that something they're going to have to start worrying about? ] I'm alright. Really wanting to be back on my own ship, though.

[keythatconnects]

Not any more.

And I'm glad to hear you're okay! I know what you mean though... This place is driving me crazy.

[postocular]

Yeah.. Not enjoying the whole 'sharing my head with random people' thing, either. There's not really a place to be alone here either, unless you want to be in a closet.

[keythatconnects]

I think I lucked out that my head was left alone, but I hear all of the stuff people have to go through. It does not sound fun.

[postocular]

Unless you're a fan of people living your worst memories, I don't recommend it.

[keythatconnects]

Yeah no thanks.

But what about you? Are you okay?