about half a day into the Jaunt

[thornsofmalkav]

Holy shit, you guys. For whatever reason, David Texxant is back.

[She'll just livestream her encounter with Dusty Houston for everybody.]

I'd say somebody needs to warn Yakumo, but he's my boss this Jaunt.

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[chalicejoker]

...why is he like this?

[Meant in every sense of the question.]

[thornsofmalkav]

I dunno, man. I think last time was some weird hologram bullshit?

[chalicejoker]

I'm suddenly very glad the chances of us coming face-to-face on this Jaunt seem small now.

...even if I guess no one would be able to tell if I was trying to keep a straight face in this form.

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah, like, at least he's human David Texxant and not, like, alien David Texxant.

[chalicejoker]

Still makes no sense for him not to be himself if he's just going to keep being all Texas over there. There's no point.

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

...a David what-now?

[thornsofmalkav]

Okay. So. Back when we got to go to a rock concert back home in California, Kinji had a secret rock star alter ego that used hologram bullshit to look exactly like a British actor named David Tennant... except every bit as cowboy as Kinji himself. Yakumo just about creamed his jeans over him until he realized it was Kinji underneath the hologram bullshit.

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

[The hologram bullshit makes more sense than literally anything else that Thorne said. Let her just... clarify around all that slang.]

So, he was hologram David before, and now he's the real deal.

[thornsofmalkav]

No, I mean, he was always Kinji or, well, Kinji's Infiltration... but he was using hologram bullshit to look like David.

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

Gotcha. [Holograms are easy.]

So you're sure it's not the same hologram bullshit this time? They can be pretty tricky. [She is a living hologram, she ought to know.]

[seestheworld]

Ohhhh boy.

[thornsofmalkav]

I know right.

[seestheworld]

This is going to be one of those Jaunts, isn't it.

[thornsofmalkav]

They're always one of those Jaunts. Just in different ways.

[seestheworld]

Okay, true. It's just that this seems to be shaping up to be a particular flavor of "one of those Jaunts," like the last time David Texxant showed up.

[Which doesn't preclude it from suddenly switching to something like Cannibal Zombie Mermaid Hell Jaunt flavor... okay, bad choice of comparison.]

[helborn]

... So that's where he went.

[Casper sounds... really tired.]

Yakumo's my boss now, too.

[thornsofmalkav]

Shit, dude. That sounds like a Devil Wears Prada situation, only instead of Meryl Streep you're stuck with someone much less sexy and much more British.

[helborn]

He's not that bad-looking.

[Wait, fuck -]

... He looks really good in a suit, okay?

[thornsofmalkav]

I mean, you're right, he's not totally uncute. Even if he is Yakumo.

But as someone who discovered her bisexuality super late in life, I can assure you that if you like older women, Meryl Streep is smoking hot.

[helborn]

Eh. I can see where she'd be attractive, but she's entirely not my type.

[how_they_shine]

...That's Kinji? Well, I guess that's his voice, but. Why?

[thornsofmalkav]

That's the real question, isn't it? Current theory is he was hit by doppelganger syndrome that turned him into David Texxant--but that does beg the question on who the real David was and why him.

[how_they_shine]

Doppelganger Syndrome. Okay, where do we find information on all the different ways this S. Tech manifests.

[thornsofmalkav]

... I mean, Future Wikipedia? A lot of shit is common knowledge.

[how_they_shine]

It's that common? Geeze. That seems like an incredible security risk. I've never visited this world - do we know if there are new strains we don't know about? How to determine who is under a doppelganger effect?