1246: Spider vs Drake - An Impromptu Spar (11/25): In order to show her thanks to Spider for everything, Drake decided to put everything she learned in event 1244 to the test and forced Spider into a sparring match while inside Claire's house. For the most part, it was an entertaining watch until she landed her jaw into my shoulder and killed my right arm. Thankfully Spider was able to get her off of me, and Cole was able to successfully heal us both, only leaving a nasty scar on my shoulder. Drake passed out from injuries shortly after. 1247: November's Grand Revival (11/25): On DATRRS, we were shocked to see the return of the [[[ prefix and lyrics to Feelin Good get posted. With some fanfare, November returned to us and the 6 channel was back in Drake's mind, except it was called #feelin-good. Also the DATRRS virus returned, somehow. His behavior was largely the same as before, though he seemed to forget everything with Michael??? In other news, Harlow had been out all night looking for Drake, but when she learned that she was safe and with us, she gave up on the search and went back home and to sleep. 1248: [All go commit arson?] (11/25): Everyone at Harmonia's house decided to go into the ruined city and commit arson to release some stress, especially after November's return. For the most part, it was a lot of fun, definitely warm, but at some point, Drake decided to go into the house on her own to play with the water… that should've been evaporated. Drake spent a long time there and Cole got worried. Because he's a cyborg with heat proof armor, Cole went in and rescued Drake from the inferno. At some point, the fire became white hot, but Drake was perfectly fine, albeit a couple feet taller due to an Alter performed accidentally. Oh and Drake let us throw one of her eyes into the fire. It had an egg-like consistency to it and was firm. When it struck fire, it exploded into a bunch of colors. Drake was also blind following the eye removal. The eyes tasted like pure tears… yes I tasted it, yes I regret it. 1249: Spontaneous Foxolotl Combustion (11/25): Shortly after returning home, while relaxing, Drake suddenly combust into flames. She had some 1st degree burns, so Harmonia drew Drake a bath and helped with her burns. Following the bath, Drake lost the height she gained plus her eyes grew back in, so it was some kind of Alter? 1250: Vanity Issues (11/25): A whole slew of HBTs came out during the evening parts of our thanksgiving night. First off, Mother Mother by Hayloft with the phrase "look what I have here : )". Then after some time discussing various things, Terminal deleted posts calling him ugly, meaning he may be very vain. Another HBT a little later featuring a slightly newer format with an amazing image of an angel was of Mr. Sandman accompanied by the text "Break It : ( )" appeared. When brightening the image up, a whole mess of various words and phrases appeared in the bottom half of the image. Terminal was suffering from vanity and was crying for help. Something was clearly different about this specific iteration of Terminal. Before she died, she was hellbent on everyone knowing how beautiful her altered humanity was, but this one seems to hate it and wants help. 1251: Cycle Clarifications (11/26): We spoke with Distrait a bit more after theorizing how to break cycles. They showed us that 1 2 3's are always the trigger that breaks cycles, they're always different, and that most people with them will not reach out. It's up to the Risen to reach out first. And with our time limit still in the triple digits, it's better to start breaking them sooner rather than later. 1252: Plushie Problems (11/26): Most of the day was rather chill. Drake did various things and people did their own thing at Claire's. Around the early evening, Harmonia gave Drake a gift which was a green plush frog. Drake ripped into it destroying it and breaking both mine and Harmonia's hearts. Our plushie collections were safe from her wrath, thankfully. 1254: Drake's Fire Affinity (11/26): Terminal told us that for Drake to learn better, she needs to not be coddled so hard. I decided that perhaps she was right and it's time Drake tried something on her own. I brought up the fire from yesterday and how despite her being in a white-hot inferno, that she was fine and having fun and her fur/skin was black, became taller, etc. Cole agreed that it was weird. She should've been a puddle. We devised a plan to test her fire affinity out. Myself, WizeWizard, Drake, and Cole teleported to the same ruined neighborhood and set a house on fire. Drake and Cole went inside while I scribbled down notes and Wize watched over them. Like yesterday, the fire started normally but then grew into a white hot inferno. Drake enjoyed herself and Cole was okay due to his tungsten jacket keeping him cool. Her fur became a little darker as well. As time went on, however, the fire became increasingly cooled and a darker white to a gray. The flames didn't even hurt to touch, despite the effects of them damaging the house's structure. Drake and Cole played tag inside of the gray flames. Also me and Wize touched the fire ourselves and it didn't hurt at all. As time went on, the flames turned black and the temperature inside to a frosty 10F. Cole snagged Drake and they all left the house. Shortly after, the cold dissipated and the fire went back to normal, opting for white instead of black. We teleported back home and watched Shrek together. 1255: Burnt Alaska (11/26): We were watching Shrek when Drake casually burst into flames. I theorized that perhaps Drake is like a phoenix and this was meant to happen. Unfortunately, I was dead wrong and Drake suffered second degree burns. I tried to find ways to help relieve her pain but it was impossible. Terminal said I should find a way to remove all control from Drake so she would Alter herself, but aside from putting her in a life-or-death scenario, I had no idea. Thankfully, Cole returned to Claire's house and performed his healing powers on Drake, which healed all of her wounds, much to Terminal's disgust. Drake felt better and wanted to spar tonight, which I accepted. It should've been fun. 1256: Rose's Bloodlust I equipped my foam katanas and sword and headed out to the backyard. At the beginning, all drake knew to throw were soft hooks and kicks. I was able to dodge them all and retaliate. I asked Drake to think about the feeling from before with Rose. She listened to the feeling and quickly hid in the shadows. Using my latent heightened senses of hearing, I listened for Drake. She flew at me with a lunge and I was able to dodge. She returned to the shadows and walked around quickly but consistently. I tried to keep track of her but also got my jaw attacked. I scurried up the tree near me and waited for another vantage point. At this point, the others noticed something about Drake wasn't right, especially the bloodlust in her eyes. Cole pointed a rifle at Drake and everyone was in a tense standoff against our friend. Drake raised her hand up slowly and eventually snapped her fingers making it so she was nowhere to be found (she learned to use apportation like Roxy?). I dashed inside of the house and swapped out my fake shit for my real weapons and came back down. Drake teleported into the living room despite everyone having their weapons pointed at her. Drake reached for the rifle twice and after a warning, Cole shot three times into Drake. Realizing what he had done, he quickly healed her wounds. We hoped this was the end of it, that our best friend and goodest girl would finally be done. No. She wasn't done with us. With an eerie look on her face and her back bringing Drake back up like she was possessed, she took a step forward towards me. I took a step back. She took another one, I stepped back as well but pointed my back towards the back door in case we needed to leave. I made the first move this time and stepped forward. With that, she lunged forward and attempted to attack Chris. He sidestepped rather easily and stepped on her tail. Drake wasn't a fan and attacked Chris again. Everyone except for me attacked Drake at the same time leaving her a bloodied mess. Cole healed her again. Drake got up one more time with the same look on her face and Terminal offered to help. We thought she was the one behind this but ultimately accepted her assistance. The users all flashed red and Terminal paused Drake's memories for a minute or so. It was enough to effectively soft reset Drake and return her to normal. We all broke down and cried and consoled one another. 1261: (ICMUC) Pylon Instability (11/27): An automatic tweet came out of DATRRS informing us of an unstable pylon. Performing a /pylon state command on the message just revealed a lot of spam about pylon 0 over and over again, as if it were glitching on us. Why was the pylon unstable? Because Drake was in Wicket Woods trying out her new Corrupted powers. She got better control of her tentacles and felt a lot taller. Photo world hopped over to Drake's location to try and train her powers further. 1262: Spider in the non-feral World (11/28): Spider met up with Drake to train some more. Afterwards, Spider recognized how cold Drake was and took her back to Harlow's apartment. She entered Drake's room and turned on the heat to warm Drake up. Spider spent the night with Drake. Unfortunately, to Michael's shock, Spider was caught by him and screamed that there was a human in the house. Spider teleported back to Claire's shortly after. Harlow and Pie let us know what happened on Twitter the next morning. On the bright side, Michael found it funny and was happy to have finally met one of the Risen in person. We told him about her werewolf form, that perhaps Michael and Spider could meet up again. This proved to be a bad decision as it scared Michael half to death knowing that werewolves do exist in real life. 1263: Meet Nolan (@helphaunted/@nolanhaunted) (11/28): Much like in event 093, another suspicious looking ARG appeared looking for help. It asked some odd questions about who Nammu and Roxy are and even asked for DATRRS basics. It wasn't completely confirmed, but I knew in my mind that Nolan was likely connected to us. Unfortunately, his first account, @helphaunted was shadowbanned so he remade it and called it @nolanhaunted. He believed he was haunted by something in his house, but ultimately unable to catch who it was. He complained of being stuck on the floor. After some time, his tweets turned into random garbage, just like Oliver's random divulgar drunk quips. We didn't get much more than that, unfortunately, but this wouldn't be the first or the last time we'd hear from Nolan. 1264: Nature's Crunchwraps (11/28): Once again, Drake leaves Harlow's house in search of a place for herself. While in the woods, Drake found something she calls Nature's Crunchwraps and told us about them. They taste very, according to her and are brown. We asked Terminal to check on Drake for us and learned "Nature's Crunchwraps" are actually poisonous mushrooms. Drake was stopped and continued her trek even acquiring Greygoose with Spider's help.