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.]

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

...a David what-now?

[thornsofmalkav]

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

[seestheworld]

Ohhhh boy.

[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.

[thornsofmalkav]

I know right.

[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.

[seestheworld]

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

[thornsofmalkav]

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

[thornsofmalkav]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.]

[thornsofmalkav]

I mean, that might bode well? Even if we are at war? Like, I am totally up for 80s-style rescue capers over murderfests.

[seestheworld]

That would definitely be preferable, yeah.

[thornsofmalkav]

I wonder if it's Doppelganger Syndrome, like Takumi has.

[chalicejoker]

...what the hell is that?

[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.]

[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]

Variation of Doki-itis where you turn into someone else--supposedly, whoever you feel closest to. Sento's Infiltration ended up turning into his celebrity crush when the poor guy died.

[thornsofmalkav]

... you know, I'm not totally sure. Huh. Wonder if I can test it.

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

It's worth striking it off as a possiblity, at least.