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hey, for the record we aren't keeping records on you through your electronics. they're useful tools sometimes but they're not required. mr. halloway wanted you (the people meeting at the utsuki dojos at 8pm on sundays) to know it's a nice effort but he still doesn't see any secret codes or handshakes so the meetings aren't spy-level enough to keep him happy yet. also he made me take notes on all of them. i don't really care about how spy-level they are, though.

also the technicians managed to fix some things.

Maurice Fitzwilliam
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what secrets thing?
I wasn't here for that :o
or more accurately I was here geographically but not on Retrospec
is that like how they were taking pictures of us from the back without any apparent cameras?

sorta.
basically these videos got uploaded and sent to us
talking about secrets we have being confessed
in our voices.
and theyd get uploaded to the internet and these reporters kept hassling us about it.
no fucking idea why though.

so wait I'm confused
they secretly recorded people saying these things?
or they somehow had recordings of people saying things they never said?

the latter, yeah.
it was pretty fucked up.

no kidding... were the "secrets" actually true?

yeah, they were.
which was the weirdest part.

i feel like that situation steps across the line of preternaturality
recordings that were never made of things that were never said about secrets that retrospec couldnt have known...
i wish we knew the real extent of their abilities
sometimes it seems like they have some control over what's happening and sometimes it's like they barely understand it themselves

yeah.
theyre like a bunch of kids who just skimmed the instructions on their powers.
but thats why i think its some kinda magic.

[huh. that's kind of the opposite of Naoto's theory right there.]

magic specifically?
or would that include sufficiently advanced technology as well?

you mean like nanobots and shit?
like you see in scifi movies?

I was thinking more along the lines of the Matrix
that's a theory that's been floating around
nanobots could work too though

oh.
i dont buy that one.

really? why not?
I don't totally buy it either but I'd like to hear your reasoning

cause computers are logical
and so everything would have a logical explanation.
which thats just not fucking true about life.
shits fucking random.

plus i control my own fate
not some computer algorithm.

[Ah... but is randomness actually random? Aradia didn't seem to think so...]

well I am certainly with you on that part!
I like being a real person and not imagined up by a computer
that said though uh
do you think maybe fate could be real?

Edited 2017-08-01 03:48 (UTC)

fate?
i dunno.
ive never been a fan of the idea.
i think people make their own choices.
and that ends up being their fate, or it affects the fate of others like ripples or whatever.
but the whole idea theres one big plan
and everyone has a pre-set destiny?
fuck no.

alright
that's what I think too pretty much

how's your arm btw?
I forgot to ask the other day

my arm?
its fine, hasnt changed.

[yet]

ok that's good
I've just been thinking
do people stare at it a lot?
or ask questions about it?

[oh you mean like you're doing right now?]

like now?
yes.

sorry
I just ask because...
well did I ever tell you what I remember about the other me?
in particular, the part where she's a space alien

...what.

I will take that as a no
but yeah they're called trolls
and they have grey skin and yellow eyes and bright orange horns
otherwise they look pretty humanoid, but you wouldn't mistake one for a human if you saw them

seriously?
and youre one of these trolls?

[Thinking of Karkat's horns. They were pretty orangy....]

is anyone else here a troll?

yes
or I was, anyway
and yes there's one other person
he's already got his horns
luckily they're small enough he can hide them under a hat
but mine........ Aradia's, I guess I should say
they're huge, like the horns on a bighorn sheep
so when they come in...

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