002 - Octopus's Garden In the Shade

[thebeastwithout]

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[Today on the hot mess that is Retrospec, somebody's either fallen asleep on their keyboard or allowed their cat to play with the computer for too long, 'cause there's a solid string of this for about a minute straight.]

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Garfield Logan added 3 new photos - in Huntington Avenue, Recollé
2 mins

[The first photo is a blurry image of Gar screaming, with only his head and upper chest visible. Something long and twisty is visible at the edge of the frame.

The second is a slightly less blurry image of a... realistic-looking octopus tentacle, for some reason.

The last is an image of Gar's bare chest underneath a ripped shirt, which no one ever really wanted to see, but we're all being traumatized today so just go with it. Everything looks normal up until the part where his shoulder attaches to the octopus tentacle in the previous picture.

It's kinda gross.]

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Comments

[nachetanya]

If you need a shady apartment complex to stay at, I actually know a few! Oh, or a renter space, I have a friend who rents from a scary man and lives in his basement!

But seriously though do you have tentacle memories?

[thebeastwithout]

i really don't!! i think i would have definitely remembered

oh uh i don't have any money
i'm like fifteen
my parents give me an allowance sometimes
i have enough to rent a place for like an hour

wait why do you know about shady apartments

[nachetanya]

Oh you don't need to worry about that!

Fifteen's a little young to be a runaway though, are you going to be okay? Or well I'm pretty sure you seem like you're on top of things.

But if you don't have tentacle memories, what were your arms like if you flew?

[thebeastwithout]

i mean probably not
but it's cool this is my life now
gonna be the amazing tentacle boy and pop up every ten years as an urban legend or something

not sure how i'm gonna survive but it's not like i can stay here with a tentacle arm

and...

i'm not sure? i... were they arms? i could definitely feel, like... wind beneath them

[nachetanya]

[ Feel the wind beneath them but... arms? There's no way a tentacle can do that? She frowns and, ]

Worst comes to worst you can stay in my apartment for a while?
I won't even put you in a freak show!

But if you really don't remember a tentacle it's weird you have one.

[thebeastwithout]

...it had to have been wings right? it wouldn't make sense otherwise...!

maybe one is a tentacle and one is a wing!

...ok wait that sounds awful

can i really stay in your apartment

[nachetanya]

That might scare your parents to be staying with a strange older woman, but sure! If you need to, I'll accept it!

So a tentacle under the wing, perhaps?

[thebeastwithout]

how would that work
there's no such thing as a wing tentacle

but if i'm gonna have a weird mutation i'd much rather it be winaaAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaa

[what is a winaa?]

[nachetanya]

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[ I mean, he's holding down the A key so. ]

[thebeastwithout]

iT's A WINGTENTACLe the fRONT HAlf is feathers and the bottom half is suckers!!!

what is happening!

[nachetanya]

it transformed???

[thebeastwithout]

i guess?!

this is
super freaky

if i keep looking at this i'm gonna gag

i guess my arms turn into things???

[nachetanya]

Okay if that's the case!! What if you tried to change it into something else, like flowers?!

[thebeastwithout]

why would i want my arm to be flowers
how would that even work

[nachetanya]

Because flowers look and smell nice! And you could be a magician.

[thebeastwithout]

...what

ok

i'm thinking about daisies

...can't i just like, think about my arm?

[nachetanya]

I mean you could, nothing is stopping you unless my text compels you


(and if it does tell your parents to go to Stone Pegasus)

[thebeastwithout]

wow i suddenly really want to go to stone pegasus for no reason, a place i've never heard of before

better go tell my parents after i tell them about my cool new arm

[nachetanya]

Sorry, you're too young!

But consider it for your 18th!

[thebeastwithout]

...wait what's stone pegasus
is it another host club

[nachetanya]

It's the casino I work at

[thebeastwithout]

oh

yeah i don't think my parents are really gonna be into that kinda thing

maybe i'll skip it, if it's all the same to you

[nachetanya]

My power over you wanes like the moon

its a tragic thing

[thebeastwithout]

hey i tried

anyway what was I

[there is a brief pause of about 20 seconds before he resumes typing]

oh snap
i'm not gonna jinx it but like
it changed a little more?

[nachetanya]

Oh, what is it this time?!

[ More interesting than his half finished sentence she waited for more with. ]