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[desperate_times_right]

Okay, the next time I say anything like ‘this will go fine’ about an upcoming jaunt, each and every one of you is welcome to come find me and punch me in the face. Oh my god.

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[haveabiscuit]

We managed to avoid the producers catching on to Travellers.

That might be the only thing that went well.

[desperate_times_right]

Barely! I reported someone using magic to the producers on the first day.

[haveabiscuit]

What did that get dismissed as?

[She's less into the Statute of Secrecy these days. But it does have a value on Jaunts.]

[desperate_times_right]

I don't know if it got dismissed so much as the kid that I reported it to had other things on his mind.

[haveabiscuit]

Small mercies.

The young usually latch onto what we don't want them seeing.

[desperate_times_right]

At first, he had a vested interest in making sure that everything looked to be going smoothly, and then everything happened and no one was thinking about it anymore.

[haveabiscuit]

It says something about this Jaunt that out of universe magic wound up being the least disruptive thing.

[desperate_times_right]

Yeah, a guy shot fire out of his hands and I almost forgot about it.

[haveabiscuit]

In a world with no magic whatsoever.

Despite the centaurs.

[leftbehindagain]

If we find ourselves in the middle of one of Helena-san's novels again, I'm leaving. [Naoki likes his adopted mother's work. When it stays fictional, please. He thinks it's safe to say she likes it better that way too.]

This does remind me, though - on the likely safe assumption Circe was responsible for poisoning the sunscreen, I owe you a radiation antidote. I couldn't think of any way to convince her to take it herself, given the situation.

[desperate_times_right]

Hey, War of the Worlds was okay.

... Shit, that was radioactive? I didn’t have a lot of contact with it, but I did spend a week hanging around where I grabbed it from, so I’d appreciate it, thanks.

[leftbehindagain]

I never said they were bad books, I just don't want to live any more of them. Why did those idiots think Dr. Moreau was a how-to guide.

[Because, as Claudia was putting it, this was Dystopia Mishmash Hell. Naoki's still not convinced there's absolutely no connection between that disaster and Moebius.]

It was definitely radioactive. Fortunately, your intended target knew better than to use it after you got to it, but still. We don't have conclusive proof of that sort of thing following us back from jaunts, but broken bones have stuck around, so I see no reason to take chances.

[desperate_times_right]

They called themselves Orwell. I don’t think they were big on the whole literary analysis thing.

God, yeah, the last thing I need right now is radiation sickness. Might be prudent to hit up everyone who was on firewood duty for the ancestor festival, that’s when I picked it up.

[leftbehindagain]

True. At least they're going to have a harder time doing that again. [They haven't fully disrupted the system and Naoki knows it... but they did buy Home several years, by which time they'll be better equipped to push back if Orwell gets cocky again.]

That's a good point. I already got some to Thorne-san and her house guest during the jaunt - half-infiltrating is useful like that, and the baby was at risk enough without complicating things.

[desperate_times_right]

Probably no one who was infiltrated knows how nasty that stuff was - my overlay knew it was poison and you shouldn’t touch it, but that was really the extent of it.

[leftbehindagain]

At least one of them does now. Granted, without me there to throw things together, best practice is going to be 'avoid it at all costs,' but that's better than poking the glowing goo with a stick.

[desperate_times_right]

Or using it to make things glow in the dark.

[breakaleginhalf]

Yeah, how 'bout next time you don't jinx it for us, bitch.

[There's a complete lack of actual anger to those words, though. He's just tired (and faintly amused).]

[desperate_times_right]

Yeah, fuck you, too.

[It’s almost a reflex at this point.]

God, I could sleep for a week.

[breakaleginhalf]

[He just snickers.

At least they were well past the point that it was ever considered personal. Sure made this particular habit easier to manage while it wore off.]

Fuckin' right? God that was a shitshow.

[desperate_times_right]

I can’t believe we didn’t all die. Good job to the investigators, I guess.

[breakaleginhalf]

Yeah, but like - not for lack of trying, really. D'you know Hajime just fucking transformed into this weird demon bug form, right to Cain's face to prove he wasn't actually Ike? Like. [There's a sense from him of flailing limbs, overall representing a tone of what the actual FUCK]

[desperate_times_right]

Wait - Ike died? Shit.

[She missed a lot, okay?]

Also that’s - you know, I can see him trying that. His bug friend is like, eighty percent of his impulse control. Whoever that dragonman guy was that tried to set me on fire? That actually got reported to the producers.

[breakaleginhalf]

...yeah, he went and explored Gods' Isle like- a week after the Day of Naming? Went in there to fight them and Hajime came out instead. Bug friend is called Ryo, by the way, he got infiltrated as Chum and now he lives with Cain and Stone. Mostly Cain, really.

Jesus fucking Christ, seriously? Ugh. Wow.

[desperate_times_right]

Ah, he always was too smart for his own good. What a waste.

... Wait, is that what was up with those weird roach things? Jesus.