Though if one more entity in this place steals parts of us for the sake of their games I imagine I'll do something I'll regret next time I get them back
[ The worst part for him, as it always is: impotence. ]
yeah you and koby have had your powers for a while now, right? i didn’t think about how weird that would be to lose them or have them blocked even for a little while
[ having not had his for long and generally finding them Frightening ]
[ Still in the habit of voice to text when there's nobody around to hear him - and angry, and tired, and scared - it's time for the customary trauma dumping on Bob hours. ]
It's like waking up to find someone cleared everything out of your home while you slept, and not for the first time You don't know how they're getting in so you can't keep them out, and you're left trying to live your life like your house isn't empty and fundamentally incapable of serving any of its basic functions. Always while everything you'd normally have the tools to fix is actively going to hell
I'm surprised we haven't had any major fallout yet
[ Read: can somebody else please have a massive crash out about this so there's a precedent when I do it ]
[ it makes him all the more nervous about the prospect of qimir’s lessons — the idea of letting in all that power, the other sides of himself, and then losing them — ]
i think a lot of people probably feel the same way you do but i don’t know it’s easier for them to pretend everything is okay around here
uh not for me obviously
[ laugh track.
so, in a way, stephen has come to the correct person, as the often lone member of the we should all be freaking out more camp. ]
[ It is fucking awful. And it's a balm, albeit a brief one, to see someone else put that down in pixels. ]
Yeah I can't blame them. I've done the same too much lately, when everything's been about as okay as it can be under the circumstances Think about the unknown inevitable too long and most people would go mad
[ But... ]
Don't think about it enough and you get complacent.
[ not that he would know anything about that lmao ]
i could hear ani’s heartbeat, when i was looking for her in the coffins, but then when i got inside it was like i had cotton in my ears at least until embry started yelling at me cleared that up quick
maybe it’s like cell phone dead zones? places in the house where the signal is bad or there’s interference, me koby and that super intense guy definitely noticed it when we were trying to find amy and giles
[ It's a solid theory, but if it's a matter of dead zones over active theft - dead zones affecting all powers in all people from all worlds - then what the fuck does that imply? The number of things he doesn't want to think about stack equally against the number of things he has to. ]
I don't think it's a passive effect. I think any dead zones and interference arise when it's convenient or entertaining for the things that need us powerless, or the places that need to keep us in or out.
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sure thing
she helped me too
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did you uh get stuck at all?
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Though if one more entity in this place steals parts of us for the sake of their games I imagine I'll do something I'll regret next time I get them back
[ The worst part for him, as it always is: impotence. ]
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you and koby have had your powers for a while now, right?
i didn’t think about how weird that would be to lose them
or have them blocked even for a little while
[ having not had his for long and generally finding them Frightening ]
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It's like waking up to find someone cleared everything out of your home while you slept, and not for the first time
You don't know how they're getting in so you can't keep them out, and you're left trying to live your life like your house isn't empty and fundamentally incapable of serving any of its basic functions. Always while everything you'd normally have the tools to fix is actively going to hell
I'm surprised we haven't had any major fallout yet
[ Read: can somebody else please have a massive crash out about this so there's a precedent when I do it ]
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that’s fucking awful
[ it makes him all the more nervous about the prospect of qimir’s lessons — the idea of letting in all that power, the other sides of himself, and then losing them — ]
i think a lot of people probably feel the same way you do but
i don’t know
it’s easier for them to pretend everything is okay around here
uh not for me obviously
[ laugh track.
so, in a way, stephen has come to the correct person, as the often lone member of the we should all be freaking out more camp. ]
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Yeah
I can't blame them. I've done the same too much lately, when everything's been about as okay as it can be under the circumstances
Think about the unknown inevitable too long and most people would go mad
[ But... ]
Don't think about it enough and you get complacent.
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[ not that he would know anything about that lmao ]
i could hear ani’s heartbeat, when i was looking for her in the coffins, but then when i got inside it was like i had cotton in my ears
at least until embry started yelling at me
cleared that up quick
maybe it’s like cell phone dead zones? places in the house where the signal is bad or there’s interference, me koby and that super intense guy definitely noticed it when we were trying to find amy and giles
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Notice it anywhere in particular on your search?
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only the coffin was a white out
the rest was like
interference
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