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[mindf_cks]

[The audio feed cuts on, but nothing sounds for a few minutes. If you’re lucky, you might hear the very faint sounds of shoes on wood flooring. He doesn’t speak, instead text appears on the screen.]

I'm sure you grow wary of the ever so present introductions that seem to drastically fluctuate and flood near the beginning of the month- Ah, but I

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[gotsomebadnoose]

hey
welcome to the port
i guess i'm not really in the loop myself
but i'll help as best i can

text; 'Loop', 'Noose'. Haha

[mindf_cks]

Oh? Will you?

And what can you tell me thus far?

text; o9

[gotsomebadnoose]

it's probably a lot of what you know already
the darkness has been acting up, but i guess that isn't really out of the norm
bad things happening to good people

stuff, i guess
the tower apartments were recently attacked
a while back there was a midnight show and further back everyone dreamt the same dreams

strange things

[Lee tappity taps out. He really DIDN'T know much of what was happening. He's been losing so much time...]

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[harriedosborn]

[ A little wearily: ]

What kind of doctor are you?

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[mindf_cks]

Psychiatrist.

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[harriedosborn]

Oh, wow. A lot of those. [ He hesitates. ] So you've been here before? And you came back?

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[mindf_cks]

[ He's picking up on that hesitation, just a bit. ]

You could say that. I do believe I'm not the first, but alas things of this nature do have their way of bringing people back into the 'game', as it were.

A lot of "those"?

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[comeshonesty]

[ the older gentleman in the video feed is dressed in black, seated rather comfortably on a park bench-- he doesn't seem to notice the cold. but then, he wouldn't, given what he is. ]

I sincerely doubt that much has changed since the last time you were here, whether that was a year or twenty years ago. This island is awfully static, don't you think?

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[mindf_cks]

Point.

Curiosity just has a habit of rearing it's head into even the most obvious situations, does it not? Even the slightest change could be of the utmost importance.

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[comeshonesty]

The cleverer humans do seem to think that way. In human lives, it's even true enough from time to time.

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[mindf_cks]

'Humans'?

[Now he's watching the video closer. Odd. Something is amiss here and he doesn't want to point to the more obvious choice.]

[text]

[caveatwalls]

Your third time here. Monsters still come out at night and want to kill you and you can't leave. Status quo, I would have thought.

[text]

[mindf_cks]

Keeping tabs?

[text]

[caveatwalls]

I always do. So it has been a while, if you forget that.

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[leading3men]

[ ... oh. ]

What you want to know? This is Siren's Port, after all.