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[ghostlocked]

[It's late when Harlan folds and decides to go to the network for a distraction. He would vastly prefer not to do this, but, well. That's why it's called folding.]

cant sleep.
tell me stories.

[ooc: feel free to threadjack and use this as a sort of storytelling free-for-all!]

Comments

[unnature]

yeah but thats money and like
my receptionist was hired from the mob so i dont gotta worry about her but regular people are fucking snitches
ESPECIALLY when you're sort of blackmailing a god in a super religious place

he's brave for an awkward boy
i'm sure i'll get to know him better any other week when he's not trying to diagnose me

no magic in my world of origin, no, and not necessarily my home either
but people from other worlds come to the nexus all the time so it's around
mostly i encounter it trying to treat curses and shit

[ghostlocked]

ur story gets more interesting by the second. u gotta tell me all this shit in detail sometime.
lmao. he is but most ppl dont notice.
wtf happened that let u see his brave side?
yeah hes kinda highstrung this week. everyone is tho.
o shit. ur used to this dimension hopping shit huh?

[unnature]

ill write you my personal memoir
dedicated to the peas guy, may he forever rest in peas

basically he noticed i was highstrung and i didnt take it too well

and yeah but i personally only hopped between world tethers the once
to add to my growing list of interesting stories i impersonated a god to get me a free ride to a place with indoor plumbing and like, the internet
neither of which were popular where i was born

[ghostlocked]

couple of things.
one. holy shit i dont want to be the peas guy.
two. im not dead? wtf.
wait u got laser eyes but not indoor plumbing?

[unnature]

FINE harlan, ill use your name, if youre so insistent
id love to be the peas girl tbh, you dont know what youre giving up here

also i was like 13 when this happened we definitely did not have laser eyes where i was born

[ghostlocked]

lmao. ty.
the jump from indoor plumbing to laser eyes is pretty fucking significant either way.
how the fuck?
tech must move at the speed of light where ur from.

[unnature]

like i said
i hopped worlds
went from podunk nothingsville to sci fi land
thankfully i was young enough to not be like twenty and not knowing how to work a cell phone, that wouldve been embarrassing

[ghostlocked]

o right.
sorry. memory isnt the best rn.
how old were u when u moved to where u r now?
lmao im glad u kno how to use tech tho. i feel bad for some of the ppl around here.
the ones from old timey worlds and shit.
must be some serious whiplash. like theres not enough shit to freak out abt here u kno?

[unnature]

yeah i forgive you
you should see me rn

i was 13
being from an old timey world sucks, i know that pretty much firsthand

[ghostlocked]

whatd u lose? u mentioned somethin abt bein dumb.
hm ig if ur gonna hop worlds thats a fine age for it.
old enough to not be totally fuckin lost but young enough to not have to play too much catch up.
u been on ur own since then?

[unnature]

E V E R Y T H I N G
my brain is kaput right now, i cant do shit

ive been on my own since way before then lol
i wasnt joking about that backwater world being shit
but yeah basically

[ghostlocked]

thats unspecific but i think i get what ur sayin.
that sucks.
my issue w. this event is that this shouldnt be shit anyone can take away from us u kno?
the other events are a mindfuck but this one is too invasive.
id know if it was just an illusion or some shit. been down this road too many times to not know whats up.
its not an illusion.
thats fucked up.
anyway sucks that u had shit luck as a kid.
sounds like ur doin ok for urself regardless. lol.

[unnature]

they couldve taken my legs and id be fine
nope
they knew exactly what to take to really piss me off
so yeah, i basically have no sympathy for the gods anymore

but yeah ive been ok since hopping worlds
got way more opportunities in more advanced worlds, even for orphan refugees like me
less than a natural born nexian but i dont give a shit what people say i cant do LOL

[ghostlocked]

i wouldnt say i have sympathy for them but ive dealt w. worse.
what they do is fucked up but at least its temporary and not malicious.
ive run into demons that would pull this shit for fun. the gods are just loading quarters into a vending machine.
end result is more or less the same but my point is its not personal. hating the gods isnt gonna get us anywhere.
in fact since the null showed up id say hating the gods is just gonna get us all killed. we cant afford to split up the team rn.