Makes you wonder where they're getting their information, doesn't it? Also my bar, my rules. If I want to cut out, I will.
[...but he's staring for a minute because one of those things is definitely not like the other.]
You sure it's not a shell from Peach Beach? [The ocean's still here, after all.] And I know this is probably a stupid question, but bear with me. The sword's real?
[Luke don't abandon him before his trials even begin.]
Ugh... [JUST UGH. But Luke is right so he doesn't actually argue...]
It might be? It probably is. It was just weird, 'cause I was like, oh my god. Why are you weirdos sending me this? [He just wants to live his life!!] But yeah, it's definitely real. ...It's also like, magic or something.
There's no such thing as voodoo, Kashuu. Are you sure it's not just a coincidence? [Even as he says it though he doesn't sound like he believes it's coincidence either...] Explain this to me. So if somebody picks up the sword you feel like you're being lifted in the air or what?
Look, there wasn't any such thing as giant horse-chickens until like, two months ago, too.
[HE SEES YOU, LUKE. He sees that disbelief!!]
Anyway, it's not exactly like that... It's more like, things that are directly against it, I can feel? Like if people tap it, it feels like someone's tapping my arm.
[UGH. All right, Kashuu has a point and he frowns heavily in response.]
So the horse-chickens might be causing voodoo. That makes this even worse. [He listens to the explanation carefully because it's still weird, but that's better than what he was thinking.] So the sword has its own lifeforce is what you're saying. That's not weird at all...maybe it's not a bad idea to take that thing to a priest or something to exorcise it. You're sure it belongs to you?
[Not that he thinks the horse-chickens are actually causing voodoo, but he doesn't trust them either...]
But - I guess? I dunno. Maybe. It definitely felt familiar when I saw it, though... And I just kinda like, hallucinoremembered it?
[Literally a few hours ago apparently, with how these threads ended up timing out WHOOPS. Good thing he's so good at pretending he's Fine when he is Not Fine.]
I still hate that word. Okay, how exactly did you hallucin-whatevere'd it? I know this is probably going to sound every bit as stupid as I can imagine it to be, but this is sort of important. If we're all getting familiar stuff and getting memories for it, maybe there's a chance in figuring out how it all works.
Um... Well, some strangers just tried to pick a fight a few hours ago and Yasusada showed up with this and I had one of those vision things when I went to fight 'em... So basically it was me having a vision about stabbing something while I was almost stabbing something, I guess?
Did you actually stab someone though? Either in this life or your hallucination thing. [Maybe Luke should sound a little more concerned too?? It's hard to be that worried since he's still busy trying to wrap his head around the voodoo sword concept.]
Doesn't surprise me too much. That seems to be how some of mine are coming up, too.
Mm... Well, yeah. [A PAUSE which might be marginally ominous, but it's just Kashuu trying to decide how he wants to tackle explaining this. In the end, he settles with something relatively simple. Just--]
A monster? [Why that's his first thought...well, he won't say. The word is almost automatic and he's hanging onto Kashuu's every word.] Or something else? It's a pattern but now you're opening a whole other can of worms or whatever.
So we ignore the headaches and just pretend all of this is actually right. That's about the only way I can see this having any kind of good outcome. [And because he doesn't know when to leave well enough alone...] What'd it look like?
Don't start getting all doom-and-gloomy on me. I've already got enough gloomy guys in my life.
[Also don't start running off into the loving embrace of danger, Luke. He sees you.]
Um... It was big? Like, big, and wearing some kinda armor or something. It had this huuuge sword, too. Some of its armor had bones sticking out of it... I think there were bones sticking outta the guy, too? Horns on its head, freaky little feet - oh, and it was on fire.
I'm not good at doom-and-gloom anyway. [Now running face-first into danger, yeah, he's an expert at that. Also being on fire, that's something he's good at in memories he doesn't have yet and that I won't reclaim from this thread. But uh. Okay, sure, Kashuu, this seems a little....]
I'd ask if they were its bones but that probably doesn't matter too much. You fought it sword to sword? How'd you get out of getting burned? [A sigh.] This is just getting weirder and weirder. Again.
[Luke and his memory regain train needs to take a timeout and have a long think about things... Please stop running into danger and also being on fire?!]
They might've been? The ones coming out of it, at least... And I have nooo idea. I fought it like I'd fought things like that my whole life or something, it was crazy. Cut it right in half and everything.
[Despite only coming up to its abdomen... HIS ANIME LIFE.]
[There's no stopping the train, let's be real. He's more interested in hearing about Kashuu's anime life though especially since somehow that kind of sounds a little weirdly believable. Why? Hell if he knows.]
Guess it's no different than Thalia and I running into dragons and glowing goats when we were kids. [MMMMMM.] It was just you in that memory? I never thought you'd be the type to fight monsters but maybe it has something to do with your family's genes. [Given. Thalia and Jason are horrifying people sometimes.]
[When lost and struggling, there's always animes to laugh at...
Also, giving Luke a look.]
The glowing goat thing is new. [HE HEARD ABOUT THE DRAGONS BUT GLOWING GOATS... Why do their hallucinations keep getting more and more like something a person would actually hallucinate.]
And what's that supposed to mean? [HUFFS... Even if Luke is 100% correct.] But-- no, I'm pretty sure a few other people were there. Like... a group? But a pretty small one.
Yeah I haven't really talked about that to her yet. Not sure how to bring up the fact that we were following a glowing goat somewhere in Virginia some time after we found a dragon in South Carolina. I'd appreciate it if you didn't tell her either. [HE WOULD LOVE TO KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT.]
And it means that you're all vicious and it's kind of funny and intimidating all at once. [He lifts an eyebrow.] And the same thing as usual where those people weren't clear at all. Were they at least helping? Or just watching you fight this bone-monster?
I'm trying not to get too involved myself, but here we are. [Not that he minds. He loves the Graces and so by extension Kashuu gets involved anyway.] Sooner or later you'd think people's memories would start bleeding together anyway.
[There's a heavy sigh.] You're lucky you didn't get killed, you know that? Going back to the original point though, you hallucinated and remembered the sword which is the same sword they just sent you. Was it a voodoo sword back then, too?
[LUKE, A MEDDLER... Not that he doesn't appreciate it, especially when it comes to his dang cousins who need about all the keepers they can possibly get. They're honestly menaces and they need to be stopped.]
Anyway, go tell hallucino-me to cut it out with the dangerous stuff. I sure wouldn't do anything that stupid. [HE SAYS NOW.] I don't really know, though? I mean, I could-- y'know, feel it... cutting through the thing and all, but I figured that's just a heat of the moment thing.
[But no, it was probably a sword voodoo thing, and the realization is making his nose wrinkle.]
Watch it. [That is to say...yeah. Yeah, he nosy. He also recognizes that look and he nods almost sagely, like he's old and wise and not just an idiot.]
Shitty realization, huh? That's what some of us have been dealing with on and off. You're the first I've met who has a voodoo sword, but the whole "impacting memories and feeling emotions" thing isn't new. If you were doing something like that and with other people, maybe it means you were a soldier of some kind in your past life? Or whatever. Fighting monsters is...it's weird, but it's not the weirdest thing, I think. Some people might find that normal by now.
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Makes you wonder where they're getting their information, doesn't it? Also my bar, my rules. If I want to cut out, I will.
[...but he's staring for a minute because one of those things is definitely not like the other.]
You sure it's not a shell from Peach Beach? [The ocean's still here, after all.] And I know this is probably a stupid question, but bear with me. The sword's real?
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Ugh... [JUST UGH. But Luke is right so he doesn't actually argue...]
It might be? It probably is. It was just weird, 'cause I was like, oh my god. Why are you weirdos sending me this? [He just wants to live his life!!] But yeah, it's definitely real. ...It's also like, magic or something.
[Oh.]
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A magic sword. [Kashuu are you sure about this?] What exactly does that mean? How can you tell?
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[He knows HE KNOWS!! Just let him live his wacky life with magic swords...]
Anyway, I can tell 'cause it's like some weird voodoo doll sword or something. Like, if people touch it? I can totally feel it, too.
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[HE SEES YOU, LUKE. He sees that disbelief!!]
Anyway, it's not exactly like that... It's more like, things that are directly against it, I can feel? Like if people tap it, it feels like someone's tapping my arm.
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So the horse-chickens might be causing voodoo. That makes this even worse. [He listens to the explanation carefully because it's still weird, but that's better than what he was thinking.] So the sword has its own lifeforce is what you're saying. That's not weird at all...maybe it's not a bad idea to take that thing to a priest or something to exorcise it. You're sure it belongs to you?
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[Not that he thinks the horse-chickens are actually causing voodoo, but he doesn't trust them either...]
But - I guess? I dunno. Maybe. It definitely felt familiar when I saw it, though... And I just kinda like, hallucinoremembered it?
[Literally a few hours ago apparently, with how these threads ended up timing out WHOOPS. Good thing he's so good at pretending he's Fine when he is Not Fine.]
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I still hate that word. Okay, how exactly did you hallucin-whatevere'd it? I know this is probably going to sound every bit as stupid as I can imagine it to be, but this is sort of important. If we're all getting familiar stuff and getting memories for it, maybe there's a chance in figuring out how it all works.
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[Sound a little more concerned, Kashuu.]
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Did you actually stab someone though? Either in this life or your hallucination thing. [Maybe Luke should sound a little more concerned too?? It's hard to be that worried since he's still busy trying to wrap his head around the voodoo sword concept.]
Doesn't surprise me too much. That seems to be how some of mine are coming up, too.
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In the hallucination, but it wasn't human.
[Unlike the very human thugs he almost stabbed.]
That's definitely a pattern there, then.
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A monster? [Why that's his first thought...well, he won't say. The word is almost automatic and he's hanging onto Kashuu's every word.] Or something else? It's a pattern but now you're opening a whole other can of worms or whatever.
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Monster? Yeah... Yeah, that's what I would call something like that.
[An enormous monster that he still doesn't understand being able to cut down... Shit was huge.]
Pretty typical though, huh? We finally start getting some patterns to work with and it just gives us more headaches.
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[Also don't start running off into the loving embrace of danger, Luke. He sees you.]
Um... It was big? Like, big, and wearing some kinda armor or something. It had this huuuge sword, too. Some of its armor had bones sticking out of it... I think there were bones sticking outta the guy, too? Horns on its head, freaky little feet - oh, and it was on fire.
[why]
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I'd ask if they were its bones but that probably doesn't matter too much. You fought it sword to sword? How'd you get out of getting burned? [A sigh.] This is just getting weirder and weirder. Again.
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They might've been? The ones coming out of it, at least... And I have nooo idea. I fought it like I'd fought things like that my whole life or something, it was crazy. Cut it right in half and everything.
[Despite only coming up to its abdomen... HIS ANIME LIFE.]
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Guess it's no different than Thalia and I running into dragons and glowing goats when we were kids. [MMMMMM.] It was just you in that memory? I never thought you'd be the type to fight monsters but maybe it has something to do with your family's genes. [Given. Thalia and Jason are horrifying people sometimes.]
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Also, giving Luke a look.]
The glowing goat thing is new. [HE HEARD ABOUT THE DRAGONS BUT GLOWING GOATS... Why do their hallucinations keep getting more and more like something a person would actually hallucinate.]
And what's that supposed to mean? [HUFFS... Even if Luke is 100% correct.] But-- no, I'm pretty sure a few other people were there. Like... a group? But a pretty small one.
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And it means that you're all vicious and it's kind of funny and intimidating all at once. [He lifts an eyebrow.] And the same thing as usual where those people weren't clear at all. Were they at least helping? Or just watching you fight this bone-monster?
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[WAVING A HAND... He loves Thalia but he is not here to deliver news about glowing goats to her, that can be Luke's job.
Anyway, he'll just gloss on by that TOTALLY UNTRUE STATEMENT because he's not vicious, he's cute (he is fckin vicious), and more importantly--]
Yeah, basically - but they were definitely helping, yeah. There was more than one of those monsters, I think? I was just handling one on my own.
[Thus proving Luke's point that everyone in this family is vicious.]
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[There's a heavy sigh.] You're lucky you didn't get killed, you know that? Going back to the original point though, you hallucinated and remembered the sword which is the same sword they just sent you. Was it a voodoo sword back then, too?
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[LUKE, A MEDDLER... Not that he doesn't appreciate it, especially when it comes to his dang cousins who need about all the keepers they can possibly get. They're honestly menaces and they need to be stopped.]
Anyway, go tell hallucino-me to cut it out with the dangerous stuff. I sure wouldn't do anything that stupid. [HE SAYS NOW.] I don't really know, though? I mean, I could-- y'know, feel it... cutting through the thing and all, but I figured that's just a heat of the moment thing.
[But no, it was probably a sword voodoo thing, and the realization is making his nose wrinkle.]
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Shitty realization, huh? That's what some of us have been dealing with on and off. You're the first I've met who has a voodoo sword, but the whole "impacting memories and feeling emotions" thing isn't new. If you were doing something like that and with other people, maybe it means you were a soldier of some kind in your past life? Or whatever. Fighting monsters is...it's weird, but it's not the weirdest thing, I think. Some people might find that normal by now.
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