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[sisterswitch]

Hey, everyone - Jack here. Or, I guess some of you might know me as “that evil lying bitch from Dualis who only cares about herself.”

[ahem, that’d be jane. not that jack’s still holding a grudge or anything.]

Anyway, the important thing here is that Navi asked me to pass on a message to the group, which is that they’ve picked up on a passenger who is in a great deal of distress but too far away to get a clear link of communication. In other words, one of our merry little band is missing and having an aggressively bad time way out in the woods.

So, consider this a roll call. Time is meaningless out here in the void, so nobody knows if it’s 10 o’clock, but do you know where your partner is? Who’s missing, and who wants to go rescue them from the big bad scary possibly haunted forest?

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un: hailtotheking

[adaptiveimmunities]

I'm not lost. I know where I am.

[Narrator voice: He does not know where he is.]

[betterhavemammoney]

Yeah? Where are you?

[adaptiveimmunities]

The woods.

Duh.

[betterhavemammoney]

Where in the woods?

[adaptiveimmunities]

Uhhh. It's not like I have GPS coordinates or anything. Maybe a 15 minute walk from the village?

[betterhavemammoney]

'Kay. [Mammon has not yet gathered that he should probably be worried.]

Why're ya hangin' out there?

[adaptiveimmunities]

Well... there's supposed to be something creepy out here, and I'm not afraid of anything, so I wanna find it!

[betterhavemammoney]

What're ya gonna do with it if you find it?

[adaptiveimmunities]

Take pictures of it and post them for everyone to see.

Why?

[betterhavemammoney]

Nononono, if there's pictures you SELL 'em. Someone will pay for that!

[adaptiveimmunities]

You think so?

Guess it's too bad you're not the one out here.

[smirk]

[betterhavemammoney]

Hey, I could be!

Hold on. Don't move, I'm comin' with!

[adaptiveimmunities]

...Okay.

You have fifteen minutes to get here or I'm going to wander off in to the creepy woods by myself.

[betterhavemammoney]

Not without me you ain't! I'm on my way!

[He's going to dash into the woods full speed. On the bright side, it shouldn't take him long to find Shaun.]

[adaptiveimmunities]

[Shaun sets a timer on his little phone-thing and leans against a tree, waiting. He's not lying. As soon as the timer goes off, he's gone.]

action

[betterhavemammoney]

[Luckily, Mammon is nothing if not fast. He's able to loop through the forest around the town quickly and find Shaun, scooting to a halt in front of him and panting.]

Don't even think -- about sellin' those pictures without me! [It takes him a moment to recover his breath.]

Hey, why're you little?

[adaptiveimmunities]

[Shaun blinks up at him. As an adult, he'd be concerned about this turn of affairs. As kid, he just shrugs it off. The world is wide and weird.]

...Huh. Dunno. Am I not supposed to be?

[betterhavemammoney]

You weren't before. Didja get cursed? Was it the creepy thing?

[adaptiveimmunities]

[Small Shaun gives him a deeply skeptical look.]

Magic isn't real. There's no such thing as curses.

[betterhavemammoney]

What? Yes it is. My brothers do magic all the time! Even humans do it!

[adaptiveimmunities]

[Shaun eyes him.] You're weird.

[betterhavemammoney]

Am not! You're weird.

[adaptiveimmunities]

And you're arguing with an eight year old. [Shaun raises an eyebrow at him like 'which of us is weird?'] Come on. Let's go find the spooky stuff.

[betterhavemammoney]

You're not eight, you're just little. Unless you were eight the whole time.

[adaptiveimmunities]

[He shrugs. It all feels a little hazy right now.] I don't think I was. I don't know why I am now. I think I should be more freaked out about that.

[But why be a creeped out by a little age regression when you can go on an actual factual monster hunt? He starts moving deeper into the woods.]