video;

[paterelohim]

[Chuck's sitting in his apartment, picking his teeth with a cellophane-wrapped toothpick because he's a classy motherfucker. Next to him on the couch is... a large blanket hovering in midair, wrapped around something that appears to be some kind of... something. The huge, invisible something shifts its weight and then the blanket curves around:

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HoA filter | voice

[makes_asteroids]

Some one could fill me in on them too, I'm busy for a while

HoA filter | voice

[paterelohim]

Wasn't Michael coming to show you? Should I add him to the filter?

Re: HoA filter | voice

[makes_asteroids]

He is.

Um Here now.

I meant the globes.

HoA filter | voice

[paterelohim]

Ohhhh, okay.

Yeah, I'll fill you in, sure.

[kissesdarling]

You put a hideous afghan on my dog.

[YES. THIS IS SERIOUSLY WHAT HE'S GOING TO FOCUS ON.]

[paterelohim]

It's not that ugly. And shit, at least this way I won't step on her tail again.

[kissesdarling]

I'm going to laugh when she bites your leg off.

[Not that Growley ever would without being instructed. -- which reminds him.]

Have you seen her walking around with a liver in her mouth?

[He's serious.]

[paterelohim]

...Uh. No?

[ VIdeo ]

[notamare]

[ Interesting pet you have there. Not that she can talk, with her spider dog friend. ]

Orb ... 'thingies'?

[ VIdeo ]

[paterelohim]

Yeah, it was in the news. These glowing orbs showed up in the baseball diamond and they're all on show in the Towers.

I guess they're snowglobes that show you pictures from home?

[ VIdeo ]

[notamare]

[ Well that'd explain why she hadn't heard about it. She cannot read. ]

Images of home - it is a magic similar to a crystal ball then?

[ VIdeo ]

[paterelohim]

[Luckily, Chuck's gonna start teaching reading classes at the community center.]

Um... sort of? You shake it and it shows a picture of a place from home. You shake it again and the picture changes.

If you really want to know, you could actually go to the Towers- you know, where all the Newcomers show up?

[Video]

[abrotherlikeyou]

Finally, an advocate for the homeless Hellhound population. I thought we'd have to go with Sarah McLachlan again.

[Video]

[paterelohim]

The fact that you know that commercial is about twelve kinds of upsetting.

[Video]

[abrotherlikeyou]

It's mandatory viewing in Hell. Ask Crowley.

Re: [Video]

[paterelohim]

That sounds more like your approach than his.

[Because Sarah McLachlan is totally brutal, inhumane torture.]

Video

[hybrid_prodigy]

The snowglobes are pretty cool, actually. [He's got his sitting in his lap, and there's a fond, nostalgic smile on his face.] They show you images from your home.

[He tilts his head at the movement beside Chuck. He can't see invisible things, but it seems pretty clear that something's there.] Do you have an invisible dog or something, Mr. Chuck?

[We'll assume they eventually introduced themselves in one of their previous conversations?]

Video

[paterelohim]

Someone else has an invisible dog, she's not mine. She just kind of wandered in here.

[But... pause. Wait. What?]

Images from home? They're... actually snowglobes?

Video

[hybrid_prodigy]

Oh. Does her owner know where she is?

[He brightens considerably at the questions.] Uh-huh. [He holds the globe closer to the NV screen, where the first image can be seen.] See? And when you shake it . . . [And he does, snow swirling around for a few seconds before settling on the second image.] It might show you a different scene. Isn't that awesome?

Video

[paterelohim]

Yeah, he replied already.

[Okay show and tell time. Chuck pays rapt attention to the snowglobe, watching it change and starting slightly when it does.]

Holy crap. That's from your world?