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[heartstings]

[For a few moments the video focuses on a rather peaceful view of Jeopardy -- if anyone can call that city particularly peaceful -- before the video turns around to show Kenzi. She's much less done up than when she arrived but no less stylish.]

So when I arrived -- [a pause] correction -- returned, I wanted to play like I'd never been here. I figured if I faked it long enough maybe I'd just forget everything. Everyone I knew... [She trails off as she tucks a strand of hair behind her ear.]

Anyways! Fate had other plans. As it does.

So. Let's try this again. Hi, my name is Kenzi and I was here about four years ago before being 'ported back home. Before that, I was an imPort for three years which means if you do the math I was only in this world for a year. The two before spent in, what're people calling it, oh, the Alpha World.

I'm one of Atropos' survivors and let me tell you right now there will be no surviving Atropos a second time. It'll be game over. The. End.

[She lets that hang for a moment before continuing.]

Not unless we -- and I mean all of us -- come up with a plan.

I know a lot of you just wanna hide your heads in the sand and hope this all blows over or are just rolling over and accepting death. Because that's what it will be. Death. And as someone that's done that a couple of times now I'd rather not for a third.

I know a lot of you probably want to fight. Will fight. But you can't fight a reality-bending, world eating god. Not without some help.

I know a lot of you are probably against it -- don't like the idea even, I know I don't -- but we need Lachesis and Clotho. We need to summon them if we're going to have a fighting chance. I mean it might bite us in the ass later, but I'm gonna be positive about this and hope it won't.

So that's my plan. What's yours?

Comments

[pidgewidgeon]

Do you know anything about how to summon Lachesis and Clotho?

[heartstings]

The solved puzzle said something about twins and voices raised at the church in Jeopardy. I assume voices raised means something like singing or a chant? But I have no idea if we need specific twins or just any ol' set of twins.

[pidgewidgeon]

Why do these things always have vague instructions? Would it really be so much more effort to just tell us to go to this house/area/whatever to find the people we're looking for and to give us the exact steps we need to take to stop the end of the world?

[heartstings]

Because prophecies and the like can never be taken at face value. Especially if they come from some "higher being". [Completely with air quotes.]

[pidgewidgeon]

Would be nice though.

I'm Pidge by the way. Nice to meet someone who has some sort of knowledge, even if the circumstances suck.

[heartstings]

Yeah, it'd make things a whole hell of a lot easier. [Then again, if it was literal than the whole heart bit of a prophecy back home would have been a lot messier.]

I kind of wish I'd paid more attention before so I could be a bit more helpful.

[pidgewidgeon]

Hindsight, 20/20, all that jazz. It's not like you expected to survive the Alpha world only to thrown into the exact same situation only a couple of years later.

[heartstings]

Honestly didn't expect to end up here again, let alone facing another possible apocalyptic event.

[pidgewidgeon]

Exactly! There should be a rule: one apocalyptic event per lifetime max.

[heartstings]

This makes three and a half...

[pidgewidgeon]

[ shit ]

Welp. I should have just shut the fuck up. Sorry?

[heartstings]

Or maybe it's more like four... How does one quantify an apocalypse?

[She shrugs and shakes her head.] At this point it's just becoming another Tuesday.

[pidgewidgeon]

I dunno? Potential mass death and destruction on a global or universal scale?

[heartstings]

Okay, fewer than four times.

[pidgewidgeon]

If the count is still higher than two you should request an exemption from any further shit this world can toss us.

[heartstings]

After this, I'm gonna do just that. Kenzi's going on a perma-vacay after things return to normal! Or, y'know, as normal as things get around here.