why would i wield a hammer you know i only do sharp pointy stab things
technically we are but idk if hes getting much out of it or if i am living up to the like other me in terms of skills
i know how rose fights but you might need to practice with her too we can like go and see if theres any antagonistic boars and just knock them out or hunt them i guess but
i didnt now that obviously minibro uses swords probably he can also use puppetkind and some other things too though he always had a bunch of specibi back in the day and that seems like a thing that may have carried over?
i do not know if that last part is important? living up to other yous skills. if you are both used to training i think it makes sense sort of. but i guess it would be weird either way. it would be like me baking with jane. and then fighting over the cake? this is stupid, never mind.
i am not sure how needlekind works so that makes sense. the boars were pretty mad so we can go back and look in the forest. plus maybe pick up some more items scattered out there? we still need to map the island.
he told me when i saw him the other night. i mean it makes sense since jade had to learn somewhere like you did. rose and i learned on our own. what the fuck is puppetkind. you think so though?
yeah maybe i just get wigged out sometimes i think he built other me up in his head a lot and as has been pointed out to me many times im not actually the coolest tool in the shed on a day to day basis maybe though obviously im pretty phenomenal
mostly she stabs people with her knitting needles or like ogres did i ever tell you she rode the corpse of one down a fucking river also sure that sounds fine i think jay is doing an island mapping thing if you want in on that i signed up
puppetkind is fighting with puppets what the fuck did you think it would be
that is probably not wrong, considering how he and roxy both grew up. it is the same reason why roxy wanted to meet rose, i think? but at the same time, kind of like how they aren't exactly like our guardians we aren't exactly like theirs either. alternate versions and all that. is that why he thinks you cancelled your lessons with him entirely? also you are not the coolest, you are right, but you are still pretty cool. so i can kind of see why he wants to know you. but i can see why it's also weird because he is your teen bro? ugh i don't know, this is stupid. again.
i...cannot say i am surprised rose turned an ogre-corpse into a whitewater raft. remind me to tell her MY corpse is off limits. oh! i met him the other day, too. that sounds fine.
how do you fight with puppets though, that just sounds even stupider than what your bro usually does with his puppets.
man what is he a gossiping old lady goddamnit but no thats not really it he just seemed really uncomfortable and unhappy and stressed about things and that made me uncomfortable and unhappy and stressed about things im not sure what he wanted me to be doing or how he wanted me to be doing it but i dont think i was doing it and he kept kinda trying to put me in charge of things which was deeply weird and something i wasnt completely down with but i think probably he has as much trouble thinking of me being sixteen as i do of him? shrugs
whatever the case it wasnt doing anything but stressing us both out so it seemed best to just not and he didnt protest the not so ergo it is a not situation and now that i cant timeloop im in a situation where my options are trees and or you and or rose
its cute you think she would listen to an off limits thing also cool it will be fun probably
shrug he also had like fancysantakind and shit i think though i never saw him use that i think pretty much anything can be a weapon though but who actually wants to learn them all
no, it just came up because i asked how the lessons were going and that is what he told me. all of those words you said are probably correct but yeah. shrugs. we haven't even been here a week yet, both of you need to just get used to each other i think. and it does not have to be right away, though i still think we should maybe spend more time with them as a group to figure stuff out.
...don't stress out about stuff. i'm fine with it, but maybe with a smaller hammer because the vrillyhoo would still hurt a lot. you are not the first person who suggested we should be training combat wise, too.
i know, rose would definitely ruin my dead body if she felt like it. "probably." it'll be fun and fine and give us an idea of who all of these people are.
i know i said we would not diss your bro anymore because of everything but seriously what the fuck.
ill go to any group meetup you wanna set up obviously though so far i dont know what there is to figure out beyond "haha suckers heres a new incomprehensible normal in exchange for the old one"
i can try to draw you a smaller hammer if that will make you feel better about it though obviously if youre not into the idea we dont gotta
yeah i just assume necromacy might happen w/ rose idk who all else is going but jay seems like good people kinda cagey but competent
i mean to be fair i think i would find everyone elses guardians idiosyncracies more than a little weird i never understood jades whole house or like the whole stuffing your dead relatives body thing
i don't know, you and dirk not comparing yourselves to your older bros, jake not living in a tree, how to protect our corpses, stuff like that. a very busy schedule.
i did not say i'm not into the idea. i think it's a good idea, but i also don't want to actually hit you or anything. you aren't AS fast as usual, you're the one who said it. i can probably block just fine but a hammer is naturally bigger.
great. perfect. ask him about glitter pens.
i cannot even begin to explain that one since my side of the ecto-family didn't do the body stuffing thing. or at least me and dad didn't. maybe whenever she shows up we can just ask her.
should we really bring up the tree thing like if he wants to live in a tree is it really our place to go yo thats stupid as fuck and heres why like if thats whatever hes comfortable with do we have the right to interfere
then want to start doing that in evenings or whatever? whenever you want and are free
wait what why the fuck am i asking him about glitter pens
that sounds like a plan and lets forget about taxidermy until then i promise not to let anyone taxidermy you if you die
well when you put it that way i guess not? i did not realize you felt so strongly about letting people live in trees. it just seems kind of dangerous? but i guess we do not have room to argue.
sure. i think i can work you into my incredibly busy days fucking around on the island and staring into space. i'll get right on that. evenings are fine. we can start when you want.
i want to know if he's going to make a map with them. he does not have them where he is from i think.
i appreciate you looking after my future corpse and making sure i'm not turned into a stuffed animal. not that i am planning to die here but good to know.
i mostly feel that people ought to live where they want not specifically in trees but wherever they want but yeah you can set up a meeting for like whenever
[ by which he means that he, dave, will not set one up and rose probably won't so john is in charge of that. why are the strilonde cats this way. ]
and rose and i will obviously tag along to it
also in that case lets start tonight maybe? itll be a decent workout i feel antsy not having one of those like to the point i have considered doing laps around the island running laps obviously
well if he doesnt have the where hes from of course he wont but we can probably make him some gel pens
yo where the fuck is my return promise about not being stuffed
sure. we have a lot of time so we can set that up whenever.
[And now, considering, it may be delayed longer.]
do you want to run laps tonight first or just start training? i do not know exactly what training means beyond you hitting things with a sword so explain that to me. what is the strider training routine?
he was kind of mystified by them, they were in the caravan thing or whatever genette brought us. but bringing glitter drawings to life could be funny.
i don't need to make that promise because your family isn't weird about dead bodies! except for rose but i do not think she'd get much use out of a stuffed you.
[ "what is the strider training routine". lmfao. like dave's going to be honest about that, so he opts to tell john what he would prefer to do rather than what it always had been. ]
i figure just a bout until one of us disarms the other or like a certain amount of time passes half an hour to an hour? idk how long you would be down for obviously neither of us is gonna try to seriously injure the other but that would be against the rules if either of us were that stupid its kind of like real life chess trying to get someone to let go of their weapon and you get to move around a bit occasionally it helps me fall asleep faster if i wear myself out ?
you know i havent tried that yet now i kinda want to
for the love of christ never suggest the idea to her
can you still sense time at all here even with everything missing? that does not sound too bad. i can probably do at least half an hour with vrillyhoo, it isn't that heavy for me. disarming's good. we both know how to block so i think we can avoid hurting each other. evening sounds fine.
[He picks up on "it helps me fall asleep faster" but he says nothing about it. It's just something to remember himself.]
let's try it. you have to get better at drawing eventually so may as well with glitter pens. suggesting it to her means subjecting myself to the same treatment, so no.
no which is really disturbing because i always knew when i was and now i do not ok then ill see you tonight pre turning in and we can see how it goes
[ which can just be at the tail end of this thread or w/e. dave assumes it will be less awkward and stressful than the other training he tried, since it's just john. ]
well have to make me glitter pens or acquire them from genette what items did you pick anyway for your two dude ok so were agreed we never mention it to rose ever for both our sakes
you're now. that is something, isn't it? ok. you can come over before that if you want, i am just practicing on my own outside.
[It's an aside offer he isn't sure Dave will take seriously, but it's out there now.]
i thought she wouldn't give us anything else after whatever was selected from the caravan. uh. nothing that exciting... but yes that is definitely the plan.
yeah as long as you guys are now its something but thats not exactly what i mean i knew the time john which sounds stupid when i say it but i mean i knew every second and where i was in relation to those seconds i was a clock and now im not and its a little strange not bad strange just strange strange also i thought you hadnt been training are you doing the equivalent of putting on makeup
ok thats true but maybe if we ask really nice for gel pens alternately i will try to draw some later whats the point of a cheat code power if you dont use it and cool good i like this plan
well, i will not say i really get it but i do not think it's stupid? i can be the wind, remember? it's weird not having our god tier abilities anymore and feeling like parts are missing. or at least that something is wrong. almost like things were before the game started. i guess i have been thinking about it a lot recently. shut up, no! what does that even mean?
do you think they would be open to a trade? we know our powers can work well together, maybe they were not expecting that.
yeah youre a whimsical windy wanker the alliteration makes it true but when i think about it even before we played the game i found some comfort in the concept of time which makes sense all things considered we were always going to be who we are
it means you are basically putting on makeup to go out for a big date the date here is just training youre like getting ready ?
i dont know why not i know brie would probably trade us gel pens for like mad snacks
thanks a lot. that is exactly how that works, you are right. time works the same as music. when you are working with beats and rhythms you have to count things out a very specific way. you learn to time out when a note stops and when a note starts again. and anyway timing is probably important to your ninja bullshit. i know we were always going to be who we are, but what about if we aren't?
[That's getting too serious, so.]
i hope to be wooed on our date tonight then so the effort isn't a waste. jerk. i am practicing some fusion, that is different.
we could definitely make some pretty sweet snacks with our powers. i am not above bribery.
arent isnt an option p space is pretty fucking determined about the variables and the outcomes you were always going to become you although i feel like were in uncharted territory now so if you suddenly want to become an italian plumber maybe that is now an option?
ill bring you flowers and everything ill have you know i am a gentleman oh cool how are you doing that like trying to control how things fuse or
can i be a ghostbuster instead? i could run around a spooky mansion with a vacuum and everything.
[Luigi deserves some love, too. And...it's a weird thing to talk about. He's thought about it, but it isn't something to pursue now. Not while Dave's already uneasy about Dirk. Not while they're still figuring things out. They have time.]
does that mean i get to see some of that southern charm the internet tells me about? i am flattered. j/k. yes, sort of. i am trying to visualize better to predict how things will look at the end and that is only going kind of ok.
but it would be hard to fuck up fusing snack food.
[ dave lets it become a joke without missing a beat. ]
i didnt realize you needed permission to do that i mean we have a dilapidated mansion in reach i can draw you the outfit you can go live your larp ghostbuster dreams?
it sounds interesting but i will leave you to it and just see you in the evening rn im trying to practice my drawing and also may just zone out and listen to some more music note to both of us ill run out of juice on this player soon and i want to see if rose can enchant it to be powered or something magic charger
you say that but what if we did something unholy like dorito oreos
[This is why they're friends. This is exactly how things have always been.]
ok but you cannot tell me that wouldn't be an awesome thing to do? maybe not right now but later. what if we find a ghost planet, dave? like less stupid than a dream bubble but still filled with other ghosts? then this won't be so funny.
i'll update you with progress tonight then. we have a while until the evening. i am surprised the battery lasted this long. rose made light. light is energy. if you figured out how to enchant a current i bet you could charge it? i tried to tell jade magic was better than science and she did not listen.
and that sounds really gross! but probably doable, yeah.
ugh fine IF we find a ghost planet i will larp ghostbusters with you but that is the only scenario in which that is a thing that will occur
[ tbh john could probably get him to do it in other scenarios. but. ]
ive been doing music sparingly but yeah ill chat with rose about it in a bit maybe maybe i will do that this afternoon too and see what she can come up with since purgatory without music is just ridiculous also youre literally our sessions ectobiologist why do you hate science wait thats why you hate science isnt it
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technically we are but idk if hes getting much out of it
or if i am living up to the like
other me
in terms of skills
i know how rose fights but you might need to practice with her too
we can like
go and see if theres any antagonistic boars and just knock them out
or hunt them i guess but
i didnt now that
obviously minibro uses swords
probably he can also use puppetkind and some other things too though
he always had a bunch of specibi back in the day and that seems like a thing that may have carried over?
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i do not know if that last part is important? living up to other yous skills. if you are both used to training i think it makes sense sort of. but i guess it would be weird either way.
it would be like me baking with jane.
and then fighting over the cake?
this is stupid, never mind.
i am not sure how needlekind works so that makes sense.
the boars were pretty mad so we can go back and look in the forest. plus maybe pick up some more items scattered out there?
we still need to map the island.
he told me when i saw him the other night. i mean it makes sense since jade had to learn somewhere like you did. rose and i learned on our own.
what the fuck is puppetkind.
you think so though?
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yeah maybe
i just get wigged out sometimes
i think he built other me up in his head a lot
and as has been pointed out to me many times
im not actually the coolest tool in the shed on a day to day basis
maybe
though obviously im pretty phenomenal
mostly she stabs people with her knitting needles
or like
ogres
did i ever tell you she rode the corpse of one down a fucking river
also sure that sounds fine
i think jay is doing an island mapping thing if you want in on that
i signed up
puppetkind is fighting with puppets
what the fuck did you think it would be
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that is probably not wrong, considering how he and roxy both grew up. it is the same reason why roxy wanted to meet rose, i think? but at the same time, kind of like how they aren't exactly like our guardians we aren't exactly like theirs either. alternate versions and all that.
is that why he thinks you cancelled your lessons with him entirely?
also you are not the coolest, you are right, but you are still pretty cool.
so i can kind of see why he wants to know you.
but i can see why it's also weird because he is your teen bro?
ugh i don't know, this is stupid. again.
i...cannot say i am surprised rose turned an ogre-corpse into a whitewater raft. remind me to tell her MY corpse is off limits.
oh! i met him the other day, too. that sounds fine.
how do you fight with puppets though, that just sounds even stupider than what your bro usually does with his puppets.
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goddamnit
but
no thats not really it
he just seemed
really uncomfortable and unhappy and stressed about things
and that made me uncomfortable and unhappy and stressed about things
im not sure what he wanted me to be doing
or how he wanted me to be doing it
but i dont think i was doing it
and he kept kinda trying to put me in charge of things
which was deeply weird and something i wasnt completely down with
but i think
probably he has as much trouble thinking of me being sixteen as i do of him?
shrugs
whatever the case it wasnt doing anything but stressing us both out so it seemed best to just not
and he didnt protest the not
so ergo it is a not situation
and now that i cant timeloop im in a situation where my options are trees and or you and or rose
its cute you think she would listen to an off limits thing
also cool it will be fun
probably
shrug
he also had like fancysantakind and shit i think
though i never saw him use that
i think pretty much anything can be a weapon though
but who actually wants to learn them all
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all of those words you said are probably correct but yeah. shrugs. we haven't even been here a week yet, both of you need to just get used to each other i think. and it does not have to be right away, though i still think we should maybe spend more time with them as a group to figure stuff out.
...don't stress out about stuff. i'm fine with it, but maybe with a smaller hammer because the vrillyhoo would still hurt a lot. you are not the first person who suggested we should be training combat wise, too.
i know, rose would definitely ruin my dead body if she felt like it.
"probably." it'll be fun and fine and give us an idea of who all of these people are.
i know i said we would not diss your bro anymore because of everything but seriously what the fuck.
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though so far i dont know what there is to figure out beyond
"haha suckers heres a new incomprehensible normal in exchange for the old one"
i can try to draw you a smaller hammer
if that will make you feel better about it
though obviously if youre not into the idea we dont gotta
yeah i just assume necromacy might happen w/ rose
idk who all else is going but jay seems like good people
kinda cagey but competent
i mean to be fair i think i would find everyone elses guardians idiosyncracies more than a little weird
i never understood jades whole house
or like
the whole
stuffing your dead relatives body thing
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i did not say i'm not into the idea. i think it's a good idea, but i also don't want to actually hit you or anything. you aren't AS fast as usual, you're the one who said it. i can probably block just fine but a hammer is naturally bigger.
great. perfect.
ask him about glitter pens.
i cannot even begin to explain that one since my side of the ecto-family didn't do the body stuffing thing.
or at least me and dad didn't.
maybe whenever she shows up we can just ask her.
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like if he wants to live in a tree is it really our place to go
yo thats stupid as fuck and heres why
like if thats whatever hes comfortable with do we have the right to interfere
then want to start doing that in evenings or whatever?
whenever you want
and are free
wait what
why the fuck am i asking him about glitter pens
that sounds like a plan and lets forget about taxidermy until then
i promise not to let anyone taxidermy you if you die
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i did not realize you felt so strongly about letting people live in trees. it just seems kind of dangerous?
but i guess we do not have room to argue.
sure. i think i can work you into my incredibly busy days fucking around on the island and staring into space. i'll get right on that.
evenings are fine. we can start when you want.
i want to know if he's going to make a map with them.
he does not have them where he is from i think.
i appreciate you looking after my future corpse and making sure i'm not turned into a stuffed animal. not that i am planning to die here but good to know.
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not specifically in trees
but wherever they want
but yeah you can set up a meeting for like
whenever
[ by which he means that he, dave, will not set one up and rose probably won't so john is in charge of that. why are the strilonde cats this way. ]
and rose and i will obviously tag along to it
also in that case lets start tonight maybe?
itll be a decent workout
i feel antsy not having one of those
like to the point i have considered doing laps around the island
running laps obviously
well if he doesnt have the where hes from of course he wont
but we can probably make him some gel pens
yo where the fuck is my return promise about not being stuffed
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[And now, considering, it may be delayed longer.]
do you want to run laps tonight first or just start training?
i do not know exactly what training means beyond you hitting things with a sword so explain that to me. what is the strider training routine?
he was kind of mystified by them, they were in the caravan thing or whatever genette brought us.
but bringing glitter drawings to life could be funny.
i don't need to make that promise because your family isn't weird about dead bodies!
except for rose but i do not think she'd get much use out of a stuffed you.
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[ "what is the strider training routine". lmfao. like dave's going to be honest about that, so he opts to tell john what he would prefer to do rather than what it always had been. ]
i figure just a bout until one of us disarms the other or like a certain amount of time passes
half an hour to an hour?
idk how long you would be down for
obviously neither of us is gonna try to seriously injure the other but that would be against the rules if either of us were that stupid
its kind of like real life chess trying to get someone to let go of their weapon and you get to move around a bit
occasionally it helps me fall asleep faster if i wear myself out ?
you know i havent tried that yet
now i kinda want to
for the love of christ never suggest the idea to her
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that does not sound too bad. i can probably do at least half an hour with vrillyhoo, it isn't that heavy for me.
disarming's good. we both know how to block so i think we can avoid hurting each other.
evening sounds fine.
[He picks up on "it helps me fall asleep faster" but he says nothing about it. It's just something to remember himself.]
let's try it. you have to get better at drawing eventually so may as well with glitter pens.
suggesting it to her means subjecting myself to the same treatment, so no.
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which is really disturbing because i always knew when i was
and now i do not
ok then ill see you tonight pre turning in and we can see how it goes
[ which can just be at the tail end of this thread or w/e. dave assumes it will be less awkward and stressful than the other training he tried, since it's just john. ]
well have to make me glitter pens or acquire them from genette
what items did you pick anyway for your two dude
ok so were agreed we never mention it to rose ever
for both our sakes
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ok. you can come over before that if you want, i am just practicing on my own outside.
[It's an aside offer he isn't sure Dave will take seriously, but it's out there now.]
i thought she wouldn't give us anything else after whatever was selected from the caravan.
uh. nothing that exciting...
but yes that is definitely the plan.
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i knew the time john
which sounds
stupid when i say it
but i mean i knew every second and where i was in relation to those seconds
i was a clock and now im not and its a little strange
not bad strange just strange strange
also i thought you hadnt been training
are you doing the equivalent of putting on makeup
ok thats true
but maybe if we ask really nice for gel pens
alternately
i will try to draw some later
whats the point of a cheat code power if you dont use it
and cool good i like this plan
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it's weird not having our god tier abilities anymore and feeling like parts are missing.
or at least that something is wrong. almost like things were before the game started.
i guess i have been thinking about it a lot recently.
shut up, no! what does that even mean?
do you think they would be open to a trade? we know our powers can work well together, maybe they were not expecting that.
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youre a whimsical windy wanker
the alliteration makes it true
but when i think about it even before we played the game
i found some comfort in the concept of time
which makes sense all things considered
we were always going to be who we are
it means you are basically putting on makeup to go out for a big date
the date here is just training
youre like
getting ready ?
i dont know why not
i know brie would probably trade us gel pens for like
mad snacks
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you are right.
time works the same as music. when you are working with beats and rhythms you have to count things out a very specific way. you learn to time out when a note stops and when a note starts again. and anyway timing is probably important to your ninja bullshit.
i know we were always going to be who we are, but what about if we aren't?
[That's getting too serious, so.]
i hope to be wooed on our date tonight then so the effort isn't a waste.
jerk. i am practicing some fusion, that is different.
we could definitely make some pretty sweet snacks with our powers. i am not above bribery.
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p space is pretty fucking determined about the variables
and the outcomes
you were always going to become you
although i feel like were in uncharted territory now
so if you suddenly want to become an italian plumber maybe that is now an option?
ill bring you flowers and everything
ill have you know i am a gentleman
oh cool how are you doing that
like trying to control how things fuse or
neither am i so bribery it is
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[Luigi deserves some love, too. And...it's a weird thing to talk about. He's thought about it, but it isn't something to pursue now. Not while Dave's already uneasy about Dirk. Not while they're still figuring things out. They have time.]
does that mean i get to see some of that southern charm the internet tells me about? i am flattered.
j/k.
yes, sort of. i am trying to visualize better to predict how things will look at the end and that is only going kind of ok.
but it would be hard to fuck up fusing snack food.
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i didnt realize you needed permission to do that
i mean
we have a dilapidated mansion in reach
i can draw you the outfit
you can go live your larp ghostbuster dreams?
it sounds interesting but i will leave you to it and just see you in the evening
rn im trying to practice my drawing and also may just zone out and listen to some more music
note to both of us ill run out of juice on this player soon and i want to see if rose can enchant it to be powered or something
magic charger
you say that but what if we did something unholy like
dorito oreos
fuck i kinda wanna try some now
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ok but you cannot tell me that wouldn't be an awesome thing to do? maybe not right now but later.
what if we find a ghost planet, dave? like less stupid than a dream bubble but still filled with other ghosts? then this won't be so funny.
i'll update you with progress tonight then.
we have a while until the evening. i am surprised the battery lasted this long.
rose made light. light is energy. if you figured out how to enchant a current i bet you could charge it?
i tried to tell jade magic was better than science and she did not listen.
and that sounds really gross!
but probably doable, yeah.
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IF we find a ghost planet
i will larp ghostbusters with you
but that is the only scenario in which that is a thing that will occur
[ tbh john could probably get him to do it in other scenarios. but. ]
ive been doing music sparingly
but yeah ill chat with rose about it in a bit maybe
maybe i will do that this afternoon too and see what she can come up with
since
purgatory without music is just ridiculous
also youre literally our sessions ectobiologist why do you hate science
wait
thats why you hate science isnt it
dont even front you want to try them too dont you
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