❦ 14th Record

[iattractmushi]

I'm ba
If I worri
Is my that cat
Did anyone

[A short pause.]

That could have gone better. [Pause, pause... he draws something that looks like a jellyfish.] Anyone know what happened to my box?

[ooc: Scribbled out words are partially readable if you stare/squint at them. Cloud spent today just sort of... wandering around ES aimlessly, so it's

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[inthecenterfold]

... Hello to you too.

[iattractmushi]

Did I miss anything interesting the past couple days?

[inthecenterfold]

Huo found your body, then I showed up, and you weren't the only one to get caught in that ... nightmare. So the Watch got involved.

But no other than that the Wilderness changed again and apparently we can't meet while you're, you know, NORMAL.

[iattractmushi]

[Smoke saw him... dead? And Huo, that name rings a faint bell...]

...I see. Yeah. Bellflower-san was reborn with me, so I'd heard I wasn't the only one. Also, heard you caught the bas[soapsuds, and a slight pause.] ...guy who did it.

We could always fix that sometime, if you want.

[inthecenterfold]

Well not me. The Watch guys did. They'll deal with him soon enough, I guess. I trust 'em - which is weird, but I know a few of 'em so.

I dunno man - Sphere might get mad or something. You seem to have some rotten luck or something.

[iattractmushi]

Just as long as he's not free to do this again.

Seems that way... hopefully my luck will change for the better soon.

[inthecenterfold]

Yeah not right now at least. Here's hoping.

... You know I was joking right?

[iattractmushi]

....hard to tell sometimes, over these things. [But the evidence and the vague pings are telling him it's truuuue.]

[inthecenterfold]

I meant about the whole meeting thing. I need to get out more anyway.

[iattractmushi]

I'm in the Park, most nights there isn't bad weather.

I'll try not to have a repeat performance of our last meeting there.

[inthecenterfold]

... yeah that would really pretty much suck. IT WOULD BUBBLE, [BUBBLE]. [slight pencil tear]

This needs to end. Like right now.

[iattractmushi]

Something else that [pause] popped up while I was gone? [Yeah, he's kind of laughing at you, Smoke. Don't be mad; he's glad of the minor distraction, and heck, this is the first time he's laughed all day.]

[inthecenterfold]

[[Smoke totally would laugh at someone else in this situation too.]]

Yeah. Can't ... say bad words. On paper or in person.

[iattractmushi]

[...and now snickering at how Smoke phrased that.]

Or this place decides to put soap in your mouth. An interesting approach to dealing with dirty language.

Smoke gets 'polite' when he gets sarcastic

[inthecenterfold]

Yeah ha ha ha. Glad they're all having a laugh at my expense. Don't know how it happened in my past, but it's this key piece of my daily vocabulary and I don't like not having access to it.

Excellent XD

[iattractmushi]

How long's this been going on? I don't remember anyone mentioning being force-fed soap the last time I looked in the journals.