At 3:45pm Eastern time, two tweets came out of @WickHeck, stating DATRRS was ready to go. Of course, everyone in Harmonia’s house and in [The Kiss] were excited to get back to being Risen once more. The curtain opens!
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Each user is logged with a prefix or a letter
W - Example / WickHeck Account, typically Lock
W - №Example / Random user with no letter prefix. Learn who it is with context clues
W - [Example] / Console commands
W - [[[Example / Unknown
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W - [Console system connected]
W - [Call system connected]
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And Roxy, being the simp she is, goes right on in, trying to connect to Rose. She claims to be able to fix her. But I have my doubts. Many many doubts. Sigh.
Thankfully, she was denied. In fact, everyone we know the most, like Drake, or Sparrow, even Isaac couldn’t be connected via DATRRS for some reason.
A little later, an automatic tweet came out of DATRRS featuring what could be described as an odd version of Jack’s mask and various text on the image.
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Luna had been sitting in the living room when she noticed DATRRS had finally finished connecting.
"Huh. DATRRS is back and... Roxy's being a fuckin simp. Of course she'd be into the Weezer hater.” Luna facepalms then sees the HBT tweet. "...oh motherfucker, that's probably Jack. 'Please tell us why.' followed by Mr. Blue Sky" The memories of Jovian Hall flood back instantly.
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R - This isn't Rose......
L - That's more likely Jack
R - Yeah
W - Bitches in my ears???
R - YOU.WHATS YOUR NAME FUCKFACE
W - ???
R - Is your name Rose.
W - That's a dumb name...and you can hear me? Right??? Well read I guess is a better word for it
R - YES WE CAN. Is your name Nicole? Drake?
L - yep, you're coming in loud and clear... or rather "very very legible."
W - It's working? HaHA!!! IT'S WORKING!!! Fuck you social standards!!! Nothing can stop me!!! HAAA HAAA
L - Ayy fuck yeah, gratz on... whatever you did!
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"Wait, hang on, we need name first." Luna says.
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W - So hi, who are you?
L - Hi there… erm, I’m Luna. I’m from earth. Um, what’s your name?
W - I'm from Earth too!!! We have so much in common already, what's your credit card number?
L - 4.
L - Um.. so uhhh what's your name? It's ermm,, nice to meet you..
W - Weeblewobbleloo
L - Um.. nice to meet you erm Weeblewobbleloo,, Uhhh interesting name there
W - keheheheheee
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Orpheus wakes up and stretches, giving a big yawn. "WAUUUGH. Hi Luna" :] "Has uhh. Anything happened today?"
"Sup Orpheus. yeah, a lot's happened today. We have DATRRS back online, something with potential Jack connections, and now we're... well Roxy is chatting with what's possibly the new DATRRS admin."
He stretches, listening to her. It takes a minute. THEN he hurries over to her and tries to look at her computer screen. "WAIT WHAT REALLY? . Sorry for Yelling thats just?? h u h??"
"Ahhh,, y-yeah we're back online. And apparently Drake, Rose, and Nicole are coming up as unknown. Maybe it doesn't work with hadals?"
".Aren't they still in our world? As far as we know??" Orpheus asks
“Sparrow too."
"Try Isaac." He suggests.
Spider finally wakes up, she stretches before glancing over at Orpheus and Luna. "Everything ok?"
"I think I have a theory then??" Orpheus interjects
"We know Sparrow's alive though"
"...? Well, yeah..! My theory was like. Since you know how the timelines got erased??"
"Yup. I was thinking like maybe the hadal alter didn't affect this specific version of the nonferal world. Because it was created after the fact."
"Well… Well, well ok so. Likeee ok How do I explain thiss.. You know like how with evolution there's like a starting point and a fuckton of branches after?"
Luna is listening intently
"I was thinking likee.. Since there's obviously like a baseline for the nonferal worlds. What Fenrir did was basically cut off one of the branches at the base, and render that 'Family tree' of nonferals and stuff extinct. And what we're seeing now is a new offshoot of that baseline. So instead of not working with hadals, or divulgars, it doesn't work with OUR hadals! Since, like. They don't exist in that timeline? Like consider a different variation in their hadals compared to ours. Maybe??"
"Ah, I see, that's a good theory!" Luna says
"I'm just spitballing here because I'm still confused on how it's a 'Timeline' erasure because it felt more like a world extinction event than a timeline getting destroyed?? Because if the timeline was destroyed. Like. I don't think Isaac or Sparrow could really exist still? I dunno."
"For once, I agree with you" Spider says
"...Thanks?"
"So with this theory, Sparrow, Isaac, Drake, Nicole, and MailMan might as well be from our Earth, meaning they likely wouldn't be callable using this new World's DATRRS."
"I forgot about MailMan." Orpheus realizes.
"I mean to be fair, he's like the only 'human' hadal."
"Hmm. It could be Lock? Oh. OH OH WAIT no you know how you check if it's Lock?? Cash money. Ask them if they're cash money?"
Luna felt awkward as hell channeling Lock’s energy like this. Nevertheless, she sent the tweet.
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L - haha yeah, so um are you cash money? 🤑💵
W - …
L - if you interact with me you have to be cash money 🔥🔥$$$🤑🤑🤑💰🧶💸💵💲🤪🤑💚
W - Thats my thing, why did you take my thing, its my thing the cash money is my thing I added that ball of yarn myself that is my thing why are you using my thing if its not your thing thats my thingSTOP TAKING MY THING ITS MY THING I PICKED THOSE EMOTES I RAISED THEM CASH MONEY IS
W - MY THING GIVE ME BACK MY THING I WANT MY THING BACK THATS NOT YOUR THING ITS MY THING I DO THE CASH MONEY THING WHY DID YOU TAKE MY THING PICK YOUR OWN THING THIS IS MY THING I FORGED MY OWN THING ITS MINE TH-
L - ...uhhh hey.. erm,, would your name happen to be Lock then?
W - Uhhh erm, whatistoya?
L - Ah yes, Whatsitoya. How's life treating ya Whatsit?
W - Bad. Thing thief. You took my thing i couldn't believe it it you took my thing and that's my thing. Thing sneaker. Thing take haver even.
L - Whatsit, you can have it back. I'll even give you interest on it. Sorry for stealing it.
W - ;_; what's haved can't be un-obtained?!?
L - sure it can whatsit. the accidentally stealer of cash money haver reunobtains all rights to cash money and rehaves it to the original cash money party haver. it's yours again, including the little yarn ball in the middle and all of the swag come forth to.
W - uuegh??
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"LOCK" Luna says loudly and excitedly!
ORPHEUS CLAPS AND CHEERS "I FUCKING KNEW ITTTT I KNEW IT YEAHHH"
"Yep, that was super effective."
Orph's tail is gently hitting Luna's side from wagging.
"Okay, so Lock is alive again. Gods, Cole is gonna be so fucking happy tho."
Orpheus feels very cash money 🔥🔥$$$🤑🤑🤑💰🧶💸💵💲🤪🤑💚
Luna just feels awkward. "Uhhhh so what do I say here? How do I make this right?"
"There is nothing I possess that you cannot take away"
"...that's basically what I said??"
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L - ermmm,, There is nothing I possess that you cannot take away
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Luna actually has no fucking idea what she just said.
Orpheus squints at the screen. "Fuckin ok William Shakespeare?? UUEGH???”
"Okie, stealing yours then.. hopefully less pseudo-legalese helps clarify?"
{- That wasn't even english back there Lunes. -}
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W - I’m taking your hybrid
L - So my ford f150? i don't have a hybrid past that
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"Ford F150."
"Lmao. Uhhhhhhhhhh do I just... admit that I'm closer to risen than animal despite my furry form?"
Orpheus pokes Luna gently, chuckling. "I meannn... aren't you a hybrid? At least originally! Y'knooow, catgirl and all."
"Oh yeah, I did pick like tabby and tiger hybrid. not exactly nonferal in the traditional sense tho."
"Also chances are this Lock doesn't even know what a risen IS?? Because the whole timeline down the shitter thing." Orpheus adds.
"Right right, okay tabby x tiger then."
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W - No, I'm taking your hybrid, the nonferal species your parents were
L - sooooo that would be tabby and tiger then.. yeah you can have it whatsit
W - Taken, I have taken your thing have a cash money plus interest day 🧶
L - nooooo the yarn ball ;-; i like yarnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn;-;
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"Considering she also brought up hybrids..she probably doesn't know that we're...whatever we are." Spider suggests.
"Right. 'Humans'. Rather, human adjacent for like all of us."
"I've honestly embraced the whole demon thing! Hmmm. You think she's gonna do the 69th message thing again?" Orpheus asks
"Knowing Lock, probably" Spider says. "Also can we not tell Cole about this for a bit?"
"I dunno. That's technically his adopted daughter." Luna says. "Maybe minus all memory of that, but still.”
"He has twitter hooked up to his brain, remember? He'll find out in like 2 seconds then get mad we didn't tell him." Orpheus explains
"Yeah and knowing him he’s gonna be crushed that she doesnt know him, and we don’t wanna scare the lass off" Spider says
"OOOHHH good point actually. I have an idea but it's kinda like a last resort thing." Orpheus says.
"I'm listening." She's typing away, but listening intently.
"So like.. Do we have Lock's address from the last timeline?? Or like ANY addresses? Because instead of asking questions and having them get avoided, we can do a joke where we build up to it and then POST it and judging on her reaction or not we can try to assume if she's still around the same area or not? Like again try to see what's a consistent thing here versus the original timeline."
"We have Moore Manor's old address, and if /location works, we might be able to get the current address too. Moore Manor was like 755 Wicket Road, Greywood, Berwick. I really like that idea Orpheus." Luna rolls through her notes on that real quick. "no no, 733 Wicket Road, my mistake."
"Hell yeahhhh I love doxxing nonferals!" Orpheus cheers
Spider chuckles.
"Oh right, we have that list of commands from the previous iteration still. We might be able to glean some information from that. It's in that system logs document. Might also mean the sudo would be yellowapples still."
Cole walks into the living room. "Talked to Thrall, he is still alive"
Orpheus gestures for Cole to come closer and Cole walks over to Orpheus. "What is it? did I miss something?" He leans in to whisper "Cash money."
"..." It's taking Cole a second to process the information.
Luna notices the gears turning and lightly chuckles.
Cole's tail starts wagging at mach 10 and he starts sprinting around in a circle before darting into the kitchen.
“Great” Spider mutters.
Orpheus stands and follows him. "I DID THIS FOR A REASON"
Luna and Spider follow them.
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Cole fucking sprints into the kitchen with his tail going mach 10. He grabs Isaac and with pure excitement says "You’re gonna be a father!"
Orpheus walks in and slaps Cole upside the head with his PAW "COLE I need to ask you something!"
Isaac is woken up and stares groggily at him "mwhuh?"
Cole spins around to face orpheus and Cole's tail is now probably whacking Isaac in the head "What!"
"I’m pregnant?" Isaac says still partly dazed and confused
"Do you know Lock's address on Pre-Fenrir Fuckery Non-Feral Earth." Orpheus asks. Kade, who has still been eating meat, looks at Isaac in pure shock. Isaac gets up quickly and throws up in the sink due to too much sugar and rinses the sink out. He then turns to face them with a look of horror on his face.
".....no but I can find it! I'll search every house and ask every person!" Cole runs over to the table and starts thinking while tapping his claw on the table
"WAIT YOU DONT KNOW???"
"NO?"
"You're KIDDING ME you didn't even know your like ADOPTED DAUGHTER'S ADDRESS?!??!"
"I never asked! It wasn't important!"
"Theres more kids?!!?!?" Isaac asks shocked and confused.
Cole walks over to Isaac and grabs him by the shoulders "I adopted so many non-feral childern!"
Luna walks in and sits at the kitchen table. "If you're referring to the address I gave you, that was for Moore Manor, not Lock's house."
"I KNOW!! I WAS EXPECTING COLE KNEW??? Like."
Isaac is shook.
"If Kade had a house, I'd ask his address! ...Kade, do you have a house??"
"Why would he know? Cole picked Lock up from Moore Manor."
"I stole Lock!" Cole says
"I need to just...lay down a bit longer" He says, seemingly somehow more pale than usual and lays on the floor
Kade is just staring at this with meat being shoved in his mouth. "..Technically two-"
"What!!!???"
"Exactly Cole!" She's agreeing with a madman! What a fucked up day.
"I technically don't own a house because I shot and killed the owner of my current house! Woooooooooooooo!"
Luna looks down on the ground. "Um, hope Isaac's gonna be okay..."
Cole spins to look at isaac and stares at him ".......eh he'll be fine! he has had worse!"
"Anyway, just wanted to clarify the address." Luna says, going back to her typing.
"Hmmm ok WELL WAIT WAIT NO LUNA! THe Moore Manor address COULD still work??"
"Very possible. Wicket Woods exists at the very least, meaning a Wicket Road is probably there too."
"Because like just saying Lock takes after her adopted father-" He walks over to Luna and whispers, "I'm calling her slightly dumb” and then back to full volume, “and it's possible that she BROKE into Moore Manor and STOLE the current version of DATRRS from whatever Julian or Gale or whoever made it! Maybe. Or I'm underestimating her."
"Hm."
"I guess it's not impossible. Really, all we gleaned from the previous conversation that this is in fact a version of Lock. Seems to have the parental controls intact as well. She got really hyper and then all of a sudden, stopped. Doesn't seem to know what Risen are either, at least not in the same sense as last time anyway." Luna goes silent, thinking things over.
"Ok. Ok. COLE. Let me post something on your Twitter."
Cole is not listening....lost in the booooones
"Just saying, if you need a twitter to post something for you, I can do it. I really don't mind." Luna says with a smile
"OH ok. OK OK SO. Tweet @wickheck ‘Tomorrow will be an interesting day for the residents of 733 Wicket Road, Greywood, Berwick.’"
"You got it."
Luna does exactly that and what happens next is shocking.
"Done." She shows him her phone. It has that tweet on it. "Oh shit."
"DID IT WORK."
"Wait hang the fuck on, she just fucking doxxed herself???"
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L - Tomorrow will be an interesting day for the residents of 733 Wicket Road, Greywood, Berwick.
W - Jokes on you thing taker, I live at 234 Mollusk Street, Greywood, Berwick
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"YESSSS!!!" ORPHEUS CLAPS AND CHEERS HIS TAIL IS WAGGING SO FAST
"I'm SO SMART ACTUALLY!"
"Okay, tell me what to say and I'll tweet it." Luna grins. This is kind of exciting. Bullying a small girl on the internet has never been so much fun.
"HMMMMM Tomorrow will be an interesting day for the residents of 234 Mollusk Street, Greywood, Berwick.”
"Consider it done."
Cole pokes his head out of the bones, there's a skull resting on Cole's head "What's happening?!"
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L - Tomorrow will be an interesting day for the residents of 234 Mollusk Street, Greywood, Berwick.
W - Fuck
S - Well done kid, you just failed internet safety 101
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"This is. Amazing." Orpheus says
"I have no idea, but I'm living for it." Luna replies
"Tell her 'You better be as cash money as you say or else you'll be 300 dollars in debt, ordering 30 sardine pizzas as soon as the clock strikes midnight'"
Luna pulls her laptop out of thin air and just does twitter on there. Orpheus can see the thread in all of its glory without needing a small catgirl to keep showing him her phone. "Bet."
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L - You better be as cash money as you say or else you'll be 300 dollars in debt, ordering 30 sardine pizzas as soon as the clock strikes midnight.
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Cole is squinting at the laptop
"All I know is that I'm probably ruining my relationship with Lock right now." Luna sighs, but she's having fun so.
"It would've happened eventually, Luna! It was only a matter of time! Plus, it's WORTH IT!! We're LEARNING STUFF!"
Cole disappears as the skull that was on his head falls back into the box
"That we are!"
Isaac grumbles face first on the floor
"Huh. I guess today will be an interesting day for the residents of 234 Mollusk Street, Greywood, Berwick” Orpheus says.
“This is true. I doubt Lock expected to talk to weird animal people on the internet in this way." Luna looks around... wait where did Cole go? Oh dear.
"WAIT YOU DIDNT REALIZE THATS WHAT I MEANT?? Hopefully Lock is good at kicking ass still."
"That's about what I figured honestly. Just hope Lock understands why a dog with a skull face is suddenly at her door."
Spider walks in. They sit down on the table. "Dare I ask where Cole is?"
"Well that was the plan all along. We got her address, and now she's probably got a skullhead doggo at her door." Luna explains.
"You're having a laugh..." Spider groans.
"Yeah cuz the thread was funny. Spider, you have to understand. That's Cole adopted daughter. I may not like him that much at points, but he deserves to see her."
She shoots Luna a look. "That's not what I meant, and are you lot off your rockers?"
"Yeah. I'm sitting on a regular chair." Luna jokes, grinning.
"Give me strength.." Spider mutters, rolling her eyes before speaking up. "He's gonna frighten her, and where will we be then?"
"Back to square one, like we are already. We don't even know if the Moores are around."
"I mean. Like.. We at least know that the addresses are somewhat similar? I think? It's worth it though!"
"I agree. What we're doing right now is getting intel in different ways than normal. No one is in direct danger, aside from Cole if Blair gets on his case.” Luna says. "I just don't think we should of let Cole go, at least not without supervision"
"And it's workingg!!!" Orpheus chuckles, tail wagging. "I hope she actually responds though. It'd be unfortunate if something goes wrong. Oh no he did it like?? Instantly. He didn't even say anything he just LEFT."
"Yeah."
"And? His teleportation works by contact, you could have grabbed him"
"I remember seeing him squint at my laptop screen, and then I didn't feel his presence anymore."
"Ohhh. To be fair, I don't know if I knew that! … I have a question, though." Orpheus says.
"What's up?"
"Can??? Non-Feral men get pregnant??? Because Isaac seemed WAY TOO CONVINCED HE WAS PREGNANT???!?!?" Orpheus asks. Kade chokes on his meat.
"If he was part seahorse then technically, but I have no clue if nonferal seahorses even exist" Spider says
"Ya know, one of the Risen tried to ask about nonferal... stuff like that, but they got denied hardcore. I don't think they do. I remember someone saying it was just mammals, birds, amphibians, and land lizards."
"Glad to know the boundaries are being set at least!" Orpheus looks at Isaac. "Well! In the meantime! I have an idea that could likee. Uhhh. Maybe confirm or deny a big thing?"
"Sure. Whatcha got?" Luna says
"/connect orr is it. /call??"
"It's call" Spider says
"Do the thing but for uhh. Mmmichaelll? Michael. Yeah. He's a guy. Since he's someone we know but he isn't in our world? So it could confirm if pre-existing names even work, and also the whole no connecting to those who arent native to this new world thing, I think."
"ooooh good idea. Might also try Kyle as well. Miss Pie so much” Luna says, sadly.
"That's Pie ri- Yeah." Orpheus sighs, "Trying Michael first then."
"Yeah that's great an all, but slightly more important, Cole might be with the Moore's... though that is an assumption" Spider says.
"Hmm, how do I respond?"
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W - Busy hiding the good stuff so you thing takers cant have
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Luna turns to Orpheus. "Orpheus, have any ideas?"
"Hmmm. WAIT WAIT OK HOLD ON! So so so I can't like use twitter because I don't have an account anymore right. Check uhh just. go to the account page and check tweets & replies?"
"One sec. Done. Nice to see Maiden back on the Risen again." Luna says.
"Ok cool so that's like.. a normal thing?? Does it mean anything? Because like I don't know what the pylon stuff means at all I've just heard it used in reference to people."
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R - /call Rose Moore
W - [Unknown user]
R - /call Nicole
W - [Unknown user]
R - /call Drake
W - [Unknown user]
R - What the h*ck!?!
S - /call Sparrow
W - [Unknown user]
F - /call Wick
W - [Unknown user]
F - /call Lock
W - [Error pylon loop prevented]
F - Hm? @Luna look here?
L - Yeah, that's because we're already talking to Lock. She's basically our system admin and doesn't need a prefix.
F - Oh ok! Thanks
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"The error? I'm assuming it means it can't connect to Lock with a prefix and Lock without a prefix at the same time. Lemme /ts it real quick though. Rather not go off assumptions alone."
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F - /call Wes
W - [[[
F - Hello?
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"Right. Who's Wes??" Orpheus asks
"Usha's brother." Luna responds
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W - gFeItvobu9taocf3ivt4.k
F - Woah Um hello?
W - [End]
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"IT GOT A RESPONSE??"
"Also things are slowly getting chaotic."
"Is [[[ the prefix this time around instead of No? ..N0? What was the prefix even it had a weird symbol." Orpheus asks.
Luna concentrates a bit harder to stay focused. A hint of her usual fiery aura appears. Thankfully, it’s not augmented with anything so it won't affect anyone. Her breathing becomes a little rough. "Hang on, cuz I just got a message from a friend that they got TMIR'd. By Scab Rabbit no less."
"Again?" Spider asks, shocked.
"Huh." Orpheus says
"Yep. We're slowly returning to normal, which is to say chaos."
"Hey, it's welcome, actually! Not to say I was getting bored of the calm, just.. Something worthwhile to do is nice I think??"
"The [[[ thing appears when a message is either erroring out a bit or someone's trying to force a message through DATRRS." Luna explains.
"And of course everyone chooses today.." Spider mutters.
"Of course. But would we have it any other way? Hell no." Luna says.
"I would." Spider sighs.
Luna grins, finally feeling back in the groove. "Not getting any response from Michael yet, or the /ts."
"THAT IMAGE IS SCARYYYY also I have something I want to say." Orpheus says.
"Go ahead. I got the HBT solve. ‘Get out of it.’ Followed by this song, Drinking Lightning by AWOLNATION.” She plays it for the kitchen.
"Didn't the collection members show up like that?" Spider asks.
"Um. I don't remember." Luna says, trying to focus on everything at the same time.
"Hang on." That aura? It's a bit more glowy now! Pretty too.
"So you like, know the way Michael went in the last timeline?" Orpheus asks
"In what way?" Luna says
"Fucked up evil bastard treated like a God by the Moores? King of em? Yknow."
"Oh right, yeah yeah. I'm just saying, Mike went through a fucking trial and a half in the previous iteration. So I couldn't tell where you were starting from."
Spider pulls her phone out of thin air and shows Luna the image of the human-thing above. "Just butting in here but, look familiar?"
"Yep. Very familiar. Still gives me the creeps." Luna says. "The collection. To be exact, I believe that was Jack and Eurus."
"Now look at the one that was just sent." Spider says.
"Yeah, I got the connection."
"..Right. Well.. I feel like Cole is genuinely at risk for having the same thing happen to him? Imagine getting your ego stroked like that when you already have a god complex." Orpheus explains his reasoning.
"..."
"Especially considering these are new Moores and he barely recognizes the potential risks of just waltzing inside."
"...King Cole."
"Like, I'm not trying to prophetize anything? Just. Yknow. Food for thought!" Orpheus assures.
Luna sighs, hoping Cole's not that fucking stupid.
"Cause that would be just our luck wouldn't it" Spider grumbles. Luna nods, her aura dying down a bit.
"Bingo. I knew the image was too dark for a reason." Luna says, brightening the image, "A 4 leaf clover. Just like the one I found in the backyard after meeting up with tall, limby, and three light." She pulls out the clover from her hoodie pocket, but it’s wilted.
"I see.." Spider says.
"Frobwober face reveal...." Orpheus comments
"Fro-- Frobwhat? Frobwobber??"
Orpheus chuckles. "I'm joking. ..Wait, like? You forgot? Like when Cole got into that bike accident."
"...Yeah, I did forget. My bad." Luna says, sighing.
"And he like knew that creature's name without it saying it." Orpheus explains.
"Oh right! yeah yeah! See this is why I archive everything. Shit memory and the like."
Spider sighs.
"And then like uhh. Asphodel took a photo of something from the Drake-thru?"
"It's the thing that dehydrated Roxy."
"And Cole said it was the thing he saw"
"And the thing Asphodel saw."
"Yeah!"
"And the thing I saw."
"And it had the lights I think?"
"Yup! This is a lot of explaining for a joke." He chuckles
Luna smiles. "Thanks for reminding me. I didn't get that far into my archival. I have the notes right here." She points to a folder on her desktop that has probably over a thousand or so text files with dates and the 'world' it comes from.
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W - [[[The moon isn’t right
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"THERE IT IS YEAHHH YEAHHHH" Orpheus seems suddenly very excited for no reason. "WOOO!!! THEY SAID THE THING!!!"
Remember thaat aura? it's glowing bright purple now and her breathing is a bit ragged. "I’m okay.. yeah they said the funny.."
"Very eventful day!" Orpheus cheers
"I saw, "the moon isn't right", the moon isn't fucking here" Spider grumbles.
"The moon...is left. Unlock the sun."
"Also can you resend the Michael thing? You didn't @ the account!!" Orpheus reminds.
"Uhh oh shit, good call." She fixes it.
{- Game start. Let me know if you need me to swap in. -}
{"Thanks Krystal. We're not passing out this time."}
"The moon has left. Unlock the sun." She keeps repeating this. Really for no reason, but just to keep focus on what the moon has in store for them.
"So, stupid idea but what if we try /call sun, or the sun, something like that" Spider suggests
Luna closes her eyes, regulating her breathing, but the aura doesn't go away.
"That's such a stretch I wouldn't be surprised if it worked." Orpheus adds.
"Cause like as Luna kept saying, the moon isn't right, the moon also isn't here, so it's "left", except besides from trying to connect I don't see how we can unlock the sun." She shifts her position slightly now sitting cross-legged on the table her phone still in her hand. "Unless it's a command?.."
"Trying /call sun." Luna tweets it out but then quickly deletes it. "delete delete delete, we got MICHAEL!"
"MICHAELLLLL YEAHHHHH" Orpheus yells, unable to hold in his excitement.
"Can we turn it down a bit?" Spider sighs.
"Huh? Oh uhhh yeah, sorry." Luna takes a deep fucking breath and removes the aura. "Apologies.”
"Not you, Orph" Spider says, looking to Orpheus.
"Sure!" Orpheus smiles.
"Oh,, yeah I had him turned down an hour ago."
"Ta, sorry but I can't deal with shouting right now"
"Oop, yep we're definitely in new iteration land. anyway, what should I say? I’m kind of erm."
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L - /call Michael
W - №hehehegeheghegHAGHAHAHAHAHAGAHAHAGAGAHAHAH
L - Michael?
W - №HAHAHHAGAHAGH- wait huh?
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"Hmmm!! Uhh.. Ask him what's got him so cackly!" Orpheus says.
"That's just Mike being Mike" Spider says.
"Nono I know that I'm just trying to use it as a segway for the conversation!"
Luna nods. "It's a good play." She looks at her notifs and sees Scab Rabbit retweeted something of hers. Oh my god get out of my RTs Scab! I don't need you on my cute cat butt tonight."
Spider chuckles.
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L - uhhh what's gotten you so cackly? did you hear a good joke or something?
W - №Who?- where are you?
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"Okay, um, so I just tell him I'm Luna, and I'm from earth right?"
"I was gonna mess with him but sure" Spider says.
"Hmmm. Yeah sure? Don't do the whole different earth stuff yet, though." Orpheus says.
"Right right." Luna says
"We could reasonably get away with being nonferals, I think."
"Of course" Spider agrees.
"I mean I know I can, minus the purple fur and funny color changing eyes."
"Wait that makes saying 'From earth' kinda weird actually m. Mmm it’ll be OK. We're good!"
"...so what's the harm in saying it's telepathy?"
"Say like. Hmmmm..."
"Other than thinking he has mental illness and then cue freakout." Luna says.
"Like I want to be truthful with him, because judging by the fact like.. DATRRS isn't in any danger?" Orpheus suggests
"Yet" Spider adds.
"YET"
"Let's not jinx it. it only gets worse." Luna reminds.
"I just because like. It's not IN the manor? As far as we know." Orpheus says
"Let's just be honest and say telepathy?" Luna asks
"Sure"
"If he wants more details, we can talk about how we're doing it."
"Uhh. Sure."
"Issue is we don't know what trait it goes after. It could be divulgar blood? Hadal blood? Who knows."
"We don't NEED to know that, though!! We just say it's a machine. Or a device, or whatever"
"Right, yeah." Luna agrees and tweets out the response.
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L - uhhh hey. i'm luna, and i'm from earth.
W - №No like WHERE are you???
L - So um, ever hear of telepathy? It's basically that.
W - №Ever heard of Elizabeth de?
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"Elizabeth deez nuts in your mouth?!?!" Orpheus asks, shocked.
"That's my guess?" Luna says
"DID I? IT WAS RIGHT??? I forgot Michael worked at a circus, he's literally a clown." Orpheus says.
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L - Elizabeth deez nuts in your mouth???
W - №Do you always steal people's thunder?
W - She's a take haver
W - №A what?
L - I have no idea what they're going on about.
W - TAKE HAVER
W - №...anyways
L - Eh, anyway, it's just telepathy using a device. How are ya doing?
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"Take haver?? Lock what."
"Speaking of stealing thunder, you're stealing mine Lock. I wanted to do E10 so badly." Luna sighs
"ASK HIM what he was laughing about at the start again! Hehhe but also again I'd like to say WOOHOO we finally know that I was kind of right I think?!?!"
"If this is anything like old Michael, he just laughs because he can't help himself. I'll ask though. Also I just had a thought. Michael responded to the name Michael right? That means it's very likely the loonism experiment gone wrong happened. Lucas is his real name. Had it not happened, he wouldn't have responded. So if everything is consistent, then it's gotta be at least 2012." Luna theorizes.
"Unless his real name IS Michael this time around?" Orpheus suggests.
"Very possible."
"Like small variations like that are things I wanna try to account for going forward. But we should keep both possibilities in mind yeah."
"Agreed. Catacombis instagram. We got Lunar anomalies again. If everything is consistent with previous TMIRs, then shit should hit the fan around 9 our time."
Spider mutters something to herself, her grip on her phone tightening slightly. While Luna waits for Michael to respond, she pulls out a game controller and plays something on her laptop to try and calm down. It’s Mario Kart wii with custom tracks and online gameplay. Orpheus watches her play against a horde of Funky Kongs in Flame wheelers.
".. Hey Luna!!! Luna! What're you playing?" Orpheus leans over to LOOK!
Cole appears back in his box with a manic grin "I feel fucking amazing"
"Oh?" Luna sees the manic grin. "Oh. Fun."
"Shhhh shushshshs!! Shhh!! Hush! Go to the living room shoo shoo!" Orpheus shoos Cole off. "Ooo Mario! Who's your favorite Mario character?" Cole shrugs and walks to the living room while whistling a tune.
"Yoshi." Luna smiles careening off the platform and into a pit. Stupid fucking Mushrooms.
"Oh that's an interesting and relatively unexpected choice?? Did you ever play Yoshi's island?"
"Yup. When I was growing up, I was basically surrounded by video games. And really, being the only one around, it got me accustomed to playing pretty much everything single player."
"Ok but so true actually??? Like I went to this flea market near my town back in RI like. every Sunday during the summer so I used to have a huuuge collection of retro games while I was in middle and highschool!! So I've played some of the classics."
"Heck yeah!"
"None of them were cursed. Sadly. Shaking my head. I did have this fucked up copy of Rugrats for the PS1 though! No demons in it, just barely worked and turned my tv purple for a while. I cried but then found the setting to fix it."
"Oh yeah, I remember that game. With the mini golf?"
"Oh hell if I know! I barely got past the first level. It was the one with like, the 3d house hubworld though."
"...I don't think I played that one then. The majority of what I played were JRPGs. Final Fantasy, Romancing SaGa, Secret of Mana, Live a Live ya know?" Luna's a damn boomer.
"Oh that's so true though?? I mostly had those too just had some odd ones out of curiosity." He STARES at Luna. "Did you name the black mage after yourself in the early FF games. Where you could name your characters."
"Not really. I preferred reading through the story with the base names."
"Wait, FF1 had base names???"
“Wait, I don't think I played FF1? I grew up with SNES."
"Oooo fair! I had an NES cause I got one cheap."
"So true!"
Orph chuckles. "That was like, the best part of the flea market to be honest? Like. Getting shit like retro games cheap! Sometimes they were really expensive but other times, not at all. Like. $1 for REAL crappy ones like an NES baseball game."
"Yeah! I went to one a few years back when I was with Jane and we got ourselves a dreamcast for like $10. It was awesome, especially since you could burn games to CDs and play em without mods." ...Luna looks back at her laptop, sighing a little. "Oh my god Michael no."
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W - №Better than you heheggehg
L - You're not wrong about that. So what were cackling at back there? Sounded like you heard an amazing joke or something.
W - №Heard my friend make an insult hehegehgh
L - ooh what was the insult?
W - №[Removed TOS violation]
W - What does [Removed TOS violation] mean?
W - №I don't know
W - I'll go ask
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"Whaaat really what??? Wait that's just something you can DO with dreamcast games??" Orpheus asks.
"Yeah! Just required a specific CD burner app and the disk image. We had like every game in the house."
{- Did Michael just say a slur??? -}
"That's amazing??" Orpheus seems really surprised!! And, he looks to the computer, tapping his paws on his lap. Hopefully, the smalltalk helped her with the whole TMIR panic. "Oh, so Michael said a slur? I bet it was an LGBT one since they're all the same species some slurs can't really work so it like HAS to be homophobic I think."
"There are other slurs than those two kinds you know" She chuckles.
"I mean YEAH but Michael vibes like that kinda 'I grew up in the mid 2000s playing Halo on the xbox and calling people gays as an insult over voice chat while listening to Eminem and drinking Mt. Dew' kid. Like I think he'd actually LAUGH at the f slur." Orpheus hopes they understand what he means.
Luna nods not understanding a damn thing. She's never played Halo before. "Yeah."
Spider shrugs. "I mean, asides from that last part I disagree"
"Anyway, I'm predicting that the person who said it was Madelyn."
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L - Hey Mike, maybe you shouldn't? Also I couldn't hear the insult, all I heard was 'removed tos violation' unfortunately. What letter did it start with out of curiosity?
W - №What letter?
L - Um.. nevermind. Out of curiosity, who said the insult anyway?
W - №My friend Madelyn called someone that
L - Ah, I see. That's cool. Madelyn seems like they're tough as nails, to go around calling someone an insult.
W - №Oh yeah she is hehehgeh she even talks about things like knives and boards with nails in them when no one is around
L - Oh wow, she's so cool! bet she could kick someone's ass no problem!
W - №We're trying to keep her from doing that heheheghh
L - We? And why?
W - №Yeah, me Kyle and Charlie. She has a bit of an attitude issue since hehehegeheheg
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"Called it." Luna pumps her fist in the air. "Okay, so that's another person we can connect to. probably not one I'll take myself. She's really hard to talk to in the other timelines."
"I can take her if needed." Spider says
"Ooooo this time Madelyn won't hate me for paralyzing her." Orpheus chuckles.
"Maybe later. Honestly, it's just nice to hear from Michael again, even if he's like reset."
"I don't know how I feel about this yet" Spider sighs.
"I feel it, but at the same time, it feels like a new beginning. Like we've begun investigating the world once more with a fresh coat of paint, like that return to 2013 last year."
"I dunno, I'm just...not excited for all that right now"
"It is the new moon after all." Luna shrugs. "Speaking of the moon. Game start. Hang on, I need to make sure Cole's okay. Max just did the whole lunar anomaly thing."
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Luna enters the living room from the kitchen. “Are you alright?”
Cole waves dismissively at Luna and through his manic giggling says "I'm fucking fine!"
"Doubtful, but okay. So um, did they give you anything while at the... well okay, I don' t even know what building you went into."
Cole shakes his head as his giggling turns to cackling "I FUCKING killed a man!"
{- Focus up Lunes. -}
"...you killed a man? A nonferal I'm guessing."
"Yup! Strangled him with my hoodie string!" Now that Cole said, that a hoodie string is missing from his jacket
"Why?" Luna just looks at him like what the fuck.
"God he rambled on and fucking on! He just kept talking about facts and other dribble!"
"...did you retain any of those facts at least? Maybe you learned something interesting."
"Nope! It was so fucking boring that my stupid fucking dog ears filtered it out! Can you believe that! It was so fucking stupid and useless that even my dog ears didn't wanna hear it!"
Luna rolls her eyes. "Of course."
"Ohhhhh my god!" Cole doubles over with manic cackling.
"Are you sure you're okay? Normally you're not this level of manic after a single kill."
"I'm fucking wonderful! I feel like I could kill god!"
"But aren't you god?" Luna grins.
"That's the point!" Cole stares Luna right in the eyes
Luna is looking literally everywhere fucking else. She don't do eye contact.
Cole cackles louder as he shakes his head and looks at the ceiling "God! I'm almost crying from laughter!"
"Nope. Not dealing with your moonfuckery self tonight. Got enough going on." Which is to say nothing so far.
"Oh come on! Can't a guy have a good laugh!"
"Yeah, you can." Luna shrugs and goes back into the safety net called a kitchen with soundproofing.
"Clearly you can't handle the Cole Genesone style!" Cole loses it at his own joke and rolls on the ground with manic cackling.