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[doitrockapella]

Carmen Sandiego

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." —Winston Churchill

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[parodeity]

[ oh. he hasn't had a place to run away to since yuri left, honestly. ]

thanks
if you ever want me to freeze time for you
i can
for five minutes but
like if you want

and thats not a bad point

thanks for talking to me carmen
i think i kind of know what i want to at least try to do now

[doitrockapella]

You have my permission to do it to keep me from falling in the water when I run the Ninja Warrior course. :)

(I have no intention of falling in but it never hurts to be prepared.)

You're feeling at least a little better, then? Less anxious?

[parodeity]

i think im willing to try to talk to john about it again
but i think maybe through text
because thats always a little easier

i do better with escape routes

[doitrockapella]

Don't we all.

Would you like to borrow Bustopher Jones for moral support?

[parodeity]

oh man you dont know about mewpac macklemeow
here

[ have a picture of a mutant kitten ]

[doitrockapella]

Mewpac Mackleme

does it have four eyes

[parodeity]

yeah she was created through genetic engineering i think
anyway isnt she the cutest little mutant monstrosity ever

[doitrockapella]

...did she come in the mail from retrospec

did they send you a mutant cat in the mail

[parodeity]

last month she showed up following my roommate around
but we both remember her
my sister does too
so
probably they sent us a mutant cat

[doitrockapella]

Now I'm furious that their building has been replaced by a waffle house so I can't storm it and figure out where they're keeping all these animals before they MAIL THEM to people.

[parodeity]

actually
i dont think theyre keeping them anywhere

[doitrockapella]

No? What do you think they're doing with them, then?

[parodeity]

tbh i dont think they have some like
vault of all these items or anything
my best guess is that like us and our memories
those are things that kind of boomerang back
or that they have to grab when they can uncontrolled?
because like
ill buy they know about our lives
and can gauge what sort of things will come back
but changes of things like those fruits
i think maybe its just an effect of
idk
whatever reconstruction thing theyre doing
so i think maybe she just straight up didnt exist here
until she did
?

[doitrockapella]

You mean she just sort of...happened. Out of the reality that they're manipulating?

[parodeity]

kinda
i think that maybe
saving us means saving the other shit too
?
for a given value of saving
like thats the party line apparently
and im not going to get into whether or not thats true
but assuming that we are being reconstructed
maybe the shit that we remember is also

[doitrockapella]

...Like growing rock candy from sugar water. We're the string, and the...everything that's supposed to come with us, that's the sugar dissolved in the solution. So because of us, the sugar is collecting, and the crystals are forming...?

[parodeity]

yeah exactly
bc all the weird bullshit that has been "added"
ie the fruits
and the chocobos
theyre all shit ppl remember
and it seems to be a gradual thing
and the people are like around when it happens
?
so i think that could be a thing
maybe
im just spitballing but if we assume theyre being honest about the reconstruction info we found in space
that sounds kinda like it works?

[doitrockapella]

Who remembers fruit with faces? Have we ever actually isolated that?

[parodeity]

uh
i never needed to bother to isolate that

[doitrockapella]

Does that mean "guilty as charged"?

I'm only asking because I know who remembers chocobos.

[parodeity]

yeah the fruit is ours
sorry?

[doitrockapella]

People talk about making their dreams a reality, Dave, but I think you've hit a whole other level with it this time. Congratulations.

[parodeity]

what actually happened is someone who isnt here anymore
got back like 1 of each kind of fruit
and like the next month everything flipped

[doitrockapella]

...Got back as in they remembered it, or it came in a box from Retrospec?

[parodeity]

the latter