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Monthly Mingle Log

Another month has passed and it is time for another oppertunity to mingle. Knowing of the curse that haunts the foreigners, Station Master has taken extra care to plan this party and the preparations only during the daylight hours. Wouldn't want to cause a giant panic, right?

Today, the little tucked away part of the plaza has been livened up with a host of spooky decorations, black cats and witches, skeletons and tomb stones, they have all been placed amongst the food tables, allowing for a casual halloween-ish mood. There are also a lot of pumpkins there, freshly prepared especially for this feast.

The tables of food are back too, filled to the brim with pumpkin pies, pumpkin squash, pumpkin cups cakes, honestly, you can put a pumpkin in and it is there. There are also large bowls of candy, free for the taking.

Naturally the two booths are there again, the one belonging to the welcoming committee, for any new (or old) character with a burning question, and the one belonging to the host club. Who knows what theme they have this week. Only way to find out is to check it out!

Finally, part of the plaza has been set up to allow for the talent contest that was to be held here, organized by a few of the foreigners themselves. Maybe it is time to check it out and see if there are any cool talents on display? Or maybe you have your own talent to display. If so, feel free to visit the show.

As every month, an invitation had gone out to all the foreigners in the day leading up to the party, reminding them of the party, the date, the times, and this time, attached had been an invitation to come dressed up. They might not be able to celebrate Halloween during the evening hours, but maybe a slightly late Halloween party would lift the spirits anyway? Station Master has certainly joined in himself too. For a day, he has exchanged his trusty cap for the scariest thing he could possible think of: a familiar white nurse's cap. 2spooky.

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[Karkat is outright scowling by now. He may have missed Terezi quite a bit, but one thing he didn't was this cryptobaffling mind game bullshit she pulls. He probably looks (or smells) ridiculous, shaking his fists through the air as he speaks.]

But I've never even been in a dream bubble! How am I supposed to have the slightest fraction of a clue what to prepare for? And a sweep worth of that? What about what's happening the rest of the time? What are you all even doing? What's future me doing? I want to keep on top of this shit, not be stuck in an increasingly widening gap of ignorance that grows with time to resemble reality's own heinous asscrack.

Considering we're still on the asteroid, there's not exactly many other places to go besides the dream bubbles!

Does it help if I say we're on a three year (in human time) journey to meet up with the rest of the humans we've been talking to all this time? Will this sate your curiosity any?

No, it doesn't, because that lies well within the realm of what I've already been told. Dave and Rose hit god tier and are there with what's left of our team, and John and Jade - also god tier - are off a different way. The only reason I don't know anything further is because they aren't from any further than the start of the journey.

And don't you try to bullshit me into thinking nothing big happened, either. It's a long length of time! Shit, as a transuniversal rule, has a tendency to go down. I don't expect a rundown of every five minutes either, but if you could at least have the basic goddamn decency to hit the big points, maybe I'd stop haranguing you for things you should have told me in the first place.

Hey, I didn't know what you did or didn't know!

[She sighs.]

You're really not making this easy on me. People aren't supposed to be aware of their futures, you know! This whole place is really taking a huge shit on the timeline.

But just in case there's some possibility of them showing up, I guess you should know that we ran into our ancestors slash descendants. Our "dancestors" if you will. The pre-scratch versions of our ancestors. Their ghosts are in the dream bubbles too. [You know, the Dirks to our Daves.] We've basically just been spending a lot of time hanging around with them. Or avoiding them, depending.

Edited 2012-11-08 02:00 (UTC)

[Not making it easy is arguably part of the point by now. He goes to say more, but--oh hey, actual explanation. His mouth snaps shut, and it's not long before his eyebrows have drawn together at what she says.]

What? Pre-scratch versions of our...? Are you saying there's more timeline stuff to keep track of?

And second off, I already said people don't remember anything from Vatheon when they return to their worlds. You telling me all this isn't going to screw things up. If it was, timelines would be doomed a hundred times over by now, and it's not like you keeping me from the info would prevent anyone else from around your point showing up.

There's always more time stuff to keep track of, Karkat! We just thankfully aren't always aware of it.

You'll have to excuse me for trying to be careful.

[Luckily this is big enough news that certain other details can be left out for now.]

Wonderful.

[He rubs his hand over his face fully now. Things he'd glad he didn't get saddled with: being the time player. He messed up enough without having to keep that straight.]

But yeah, I guess I can let it pass for that reason. Better than "I'm being a frustrating nookwipe because I can be."

[Which he wouldn't put past her, at least some of the time.]

But if you're calling these other versions pre-scratch, that means there had to be another one before, right? What happened there? Because if there's another thing I have no totally had enough of already, it's dipshits failing to play a game right and fucking people over because of it.

There was a scratch for us. We are the post-scratch - the more successful group. There was just a lot of drama with them, it looks like. The annoying kind, not the kind involving multiple murders.

I don't know if it's entirely their fault? Their world didn't prepare them for the game as well as ours did. It took them something like a couple sweeps.

When they realized they had to scratch their session, one of them decided to kill off the whole group so that their ghosts would continue to 'live' in dream bubbles and they wouldn't be wiped from existence entirely.

No kidding we were, if that's how long it took them and they failed anyway. Spare me any details on how exactly they fucked up unless it's important to us.

How many of them have you met, though? Because I've spoken to every one of our ancestors at one point or another, but never any version of them before the scratch.

All twelve! Well, they're all there. I haven't really talked with all of them, but I've seen them around.

It's really weird how they all came together just as we came onto the scene, though, considering some of them had been separated in the bubbles for millions of sweeps worth of time.

Millions of sweeps? How does that even work?

[He knows there are weird time-space shenanigans going on there, given the plan about the Green Sun (for however much that went different than planned), but he still raises his eyebrow at something that extreme.]

But if anything the coincidence is probably on purpose by whatever pan-churning rules of reality govern our lives.

Dream bubbles don't operate under the same rules of time as everything else, Karkat! Two people could die at the same time. One might spend an eternity in one dream bubble, only to cross paths with the other person later and find that to them they'd only just kicked it!

I definitely agree, though. When something is this much of a coincidence, it often isn't really a coincidence at all!

So, time shenanigans, round smash-me-with-a-hammer-so-I-don't-have-to-deal-with-this.

Shoving the mechanics far, far away, what about the people themselves? Anything I need to know about them specifically in case they show up? And if not, any other events or plans you can think of that would be important to know ahead of time here?

Hmm...

Well, a few of them are kind of assholes! But pretty harmless assholes. Mostly annoying. I'd avoid engaging Eridan's dancestor in conversation.

And yours, really.

Though a couple are great! Mine (Obviously!), and Kanaya's. Tavros's can be surprisingly adorable.

Other than that, I can't think of anything. Not that something won't come along that I don't know about, I'm sure.

[She's not going to tell him he gets along well with Meenah, with the excuse that she doesn't want to possibly spoil that dynamic. In reality, she's still not sure how to feel about that.]

[That is definitely a raised eyebrow.]

Assholery hardly surprises me, but what's wrong with those two? I mean I'm far from besties with Dualscar, but he's at least tolerable; and even if my ancestor can be a whiny dicksneeze when he doesn't want to listen to reason, I'm closest to him out of any of them.

[Sure, the Signless was jarring to meet, and he doesn't agree with everything he says or does. But someone who tried to make things better for their race? Someone whose following, even reduced to obscure secrecy, laid the efforts for him to have a lusus, a sign, and a chance to live? He can't not respect that.]

Your actual ancestor wasn't bad, and the Dolorosa - Kanaya's - was pretty good too. But you'll excuse me if "adorable" is far from the word I think for any version of the Summoner.

Edited 2012-11-13 02:37 (UTC)

You can't compare them completely to their post-scratch versions, Karkat!

They led different lives!

[Of course her ancestor wasn't bad. Her ancestor was awesome. But they were still different from their counterparts. She knew enough of their history to make that call.

All she can do is shrug.]

I was just giving my opinion. They might never even show up here.

So in other words, you're leaving me to fend off the potential horror on my own if they ever do appear.

[Eyeroll!]

But fine, point made. Consider my pan fresh and cleared of preconceived notions beyond "pack of assholes", and my judgements will be made with no mitigation from outside sources.

I wouldn't mark it down as never, though. I never even expected our ancestors to show up, but the scientists mined the annals of history for them anyway. And then Dirk and Roxy from the human's post-scratch session, who I didn't even know to consider in the first place. But if we've actually met them? I'd say chances are high we'll see at least one of them eventually.

[He pauses now to stretch his arms out in front of him.]

But if that's everything on your end, any questions for my side? Or anything else about this place you want to ask?

[There are lots of silly questions she wants to ask - about the ancestors (hers in particular) and about everything that had been happening so far. About herself as she deosn't remember being there before.

But finally, she decides not to ask any of these things, answering him with a firm shake of her head.]

Nope!

[Karkat raises an eyebrow. He figured her to have at least one thing to ask, if not more, but...]

Suit yourself. Knowing you, you'll probably figure it all out yourself in time.

[What now, though? He looks down at his hands, which have since folded together in his lap. Talking about this place and things on the meteor were easy; they're what he goes for with every person to show up from their universe (or tangentially linked ones).]

Hey, uh... I'm guessing you're going to want to explore or some shit, but... It's nice to have you here again.

[Cough.]

Just thought I should say that.

Edited 2012-11-14 18:28 (UTC)

Aww, that's sweet of you, Karkat.

[There's a lightly teasing tone in her voice, but she really does mean it. Some part of her, despite her relationship with Dave, is happy to see that awkward side of her leader emerge.

She should really figure out what to do about that.]

[Karkat's own red quadrant hasn't been empty for a year and a day. In spite of that and certain past awkwardness, however, there's no reason he can't be glad to see her again. She's a good friend of his, at the very least.]

Shut up. It's been ages since I've seen you, so I'm allowed to say things like that.

[Patience for this sentimentality exhausted, he stands up, looking away from her.]

Anyway, I'll let you go terrorize the locals or whatever it is you want to do. I should get back to my hive.

Right!

I have SO much terrorizing to do, you can't even imagine.

[She reaches over to where she assumes Karkat is in order to give him a pat on the back.]

I've missed out on all this time, after all.

[Then more seriously:]

Thank you, Karkat. You're as helpful as always.

[He freezes up a touch at the back pat - he didn't expect it. He doesn't complain, though.]

I'm the leader, aren't I? And when this place is as pan-warpingly screwed up as it is, the locals don't tell you anything, and the pamphlet likely doesn't have the whole story, there's no reason for me not to give out the info.

[And you know, he can be a good, helpful friend to people when he wants to.]

Anyway. I'll see you later, if we don't talk on the network first.

[He goes to wave at her--but oh, wait. Self remembered and hand back down at his side, Karkat finally turns and heads off on his way.]

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