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Lyfraserious: What is this.
Lyfrasilly: …?
Lyfraspiral: ???
Lyfraserious: If this is a joke
Lyfraserious: it isn’t funny.
Lyfrasilly: who even started this?
Lyfraspiral: No idea. It just appeared.
Lyfrasilly: …Who chose the nicknames.
Lyfraspiral: I don’t know. Though mine does fit.
Lyfraserious: Mine does not.
Lyfrasilly: mine neither.
Lyfrastell: . . . Hm.
Lyfraserious: Stell, is this something you know about?
Lyfraserious: What’s going on?
Lyfrastell: I have no idea. And the name doesn’t fit for me either. Exactly.
Lyfrasilly: how many of us are even on here?
Lyfraspiral: At least four.
Lyfrasilly: is there anyone else on here?
Lyfraloop: Don’t know. Von Raum isn’t in here, is he?
Lyfraserious: if he is I am going to
Lyfraserious: Wait you know Von Raum?
Lyfrasilly: hm.
Lyfraspiral: You also know Marius?
Lyfraserious: Marius?
Lyfrasilly: …Hm.
Lyfraspiral: Marius Von Raum, yes?
Lyfrastabby: if he’s here warn me, I have practice to do.
Lyfrastabby: this nickname. . . does fit. Hm.
Lyfrasilly: I feel like maybe some introductions are in order? Because. I feel like I might know what’s going on here.
Lyfraspiral: Lyfrassir Edda, The Distortion.
Lyfraserious: Whatever’s going on, it’s probably Von Raum’s fault somehow
Lyfraserious: Wait what
Lyfrasilly:…Lyfrassir Edda, former inspector second class?
Lyfraserious:Definitely Von Raum’s fault. This is. This is just another one of his attempts to psychoanalyze– break my mind– whatever he calls it. I. Isn’t the end of my world enough?
Lyfraserious:Why can’t I leave this chat.
Lyfraspiral:Marius breaking someone’s mind? No, that’s not his wheelhouse. Mine, maybe, but not his. He’s just a squishy human.
Lyfrasilly:there are. Many things strange about the way you described him?
Lyfrasilly:I feel like me contributing to the discussion about him is. Not going to help matters.
Lyfrastabby:He needs to get an introduction to my knife.
Lyfrasilly:I’m sure if you told him that he’d be ecstatic.
Lyfrastabby:And go within ten feet of him?
Lyfraspiral:What is it you all have against Marius?
Lyfraserious:He left me to die in an apocalypse and didn’t warn me
Lyfrastabby:. . . Same. do you need a knife? I’m not going to share my dummy, but.
Lyfraloop:He did that and then trapped me in a time loop after that.
Lyfraloop:Including kidnapping me.
Lyfraloop:At least none of you have gotten kidnapped by him, I hope?
Lyfrastabby:also giving you a knife.
Lyfraspiral:Marius has not kidnapped me, however Odin has.
Lyfrastell:. . . I That is.
Lyfrastell:Have not been kidnapped by Odin or . . . Marius. An evil circus, once? Among. Other things.
Lyfraserious:Stell, why are you in this chat?
Lyfrastell:. . . Maybe I’m just here to supervise you.
Lyfraserious:I don’t need supervision.
Lyfrastell:Warn you in case your Von Raum tries to kidnap you. Or whatever.
Lyfraserious:. . . a very serious threat. I appreciate your concern.
Lyfraspiral:Marius is a squishy human, why do so many of you seem to dislike or fear him?
Lyfrastabby:here’s a picture of my knife dummy that looks like him
Lyfrastabby attached BaronVonDummy.jpeg
Lyfraserious:“Marius” is not a squishy human. He is a dangerous criminal who is quite possibly immortal. And–
Lyfraserious:How the hell did you make a knife dummy that looks that much like him
Lyfraserious:What is this chat.
Lyfraspiral:Dangerous criminal? Marius? Are we talking about the same Marius who blinks like a frog and curls up very happily in Jonny’s lap like a cat?
Lyfraspiral:Plus if anyone is a dangerous criminal it’s Ashes.
Lyfrastell:Ah. That’s what this chat is.
Lyfraserious:Please explain it?
Lyfrastell:. . . I don’t think you’d believe me. Especially if you’re of the impression that Marius von Raum being a squishy human is impossible.
Lyfraserious:It is.
Lyfrastabby:It is
Lyfraloop:It is.
Lyfraspiral:It is certainly not. I can send a photo, if you would like proof?
Lyfraserious:And how would that be any sort of proof of anything?
Lyfraspiral:Photographic proof of a very squishy, very human Marius.
Lyfraspiral attached an image of Marius playing the violin, Nastya nearby. Marius has two fleshy arms.
Lyfraserious:Proof of nothing. That’s clearly a doppelganger.
Lyfrastell:Lyfraspiral, would you like to chat privately?
Lyfraspiral:Sure?

PRIVATE CHAT:Lyfrastell and Lyfraspiral

Lyfrastell:So. Alternate universes?
Lyfraspiral:I assumed that may have been what that was.
Lyfraspiral:Explained some of the Marius hate and the mention of immortality.
Lyfrastell:This will be interesting, then. What’s your universe like?
Lyfraspiral:Mortal for one.
Lyfraspiral:As I said in the chat I’m the Distortion. Marius is one of Ivy’s Archival Assistants. Many of us are Avatars, though we try our best to remain…unchanged in humanity.
Lyfrastell:. . . Ah. The Distortion.
Lyfrastell:The one in my universe would absolutely love knowing that, wouldn’t he.
Lyfraspiral:Oh? Who is your Distortion? Marius?
Lyfrastell:What? No.
Lyfrastell:The Distortion used to be known as Michael Shelley?
Lyfraspiral:Oh! Michael runs a bookstore with his boyfriend Gerry Keay-Delano. The Distortion before me was Odin.
Lyfrastell:That is. . . bizarre for so many reasons. For one, my universe’s Gerry is very aroace. But. Universal differences.
Lyfrastell:From what I can tell, the other universes in the chat, along with mine, are used to a version of Marius who is an immortal space pirate.
Lyfrastell:Met me when I was in the police. Was one of the prisoners there, noted for. . .
Lyfrastell:Many crimes.
Lyfrastell:I ended up on Earth and helping out with the Archives for a while? And I ended up.
Lyfrastell:Well.
Lyfrastell:We were together. But I fell into a different dimension, and he probably jumped after me.
Lyfrastell:Haven’t told the Lyf here, but I’m keeping an eye on them.
Lyfrastell:So, any questions, ask me, if you want?
Lyfraspiral:If Marius wasn’t in the Archives, who was?
Lyfraspiral:Ivy is the Archivist here, with Marius, Raphaella and Brian as her assistants.
Lyfrastell:Makes sense. Marius and Raphaella and Ivy were prisoners together here.
Lyfrastell:Jon Sims was the Archivist here, with Martin Blackwood, Sasha James, and Tim Stoker as assistants?
Lyfrastell:I worked with them, since the abilities I have fuck with the Eye interestingly.
Lyfrastell:And I met Danny Stoker a few years back. Wanted to keep an eye on his brother.
Lyfrastell:There’s nine Mechanisms in the crew, all told. I’m assuming you probably know who would end up as a part of it.
Lyfraspiral:Jon and Tim are in Research I believe, with Sasha under Nastya in Artifact Storage. Martin runs the Library here.
Lyfraspiral:Nine Mechanisms? I’m assuming you aren’t counting yourself.
Lyfraspiral:Ashes, Ivy, Nastya, Aurora, Tim (Gunpowder), Jonny, Marius, Raphaella and Brian I’m assuming?
Lyfrastell:Hm
Lyfrastell:I should have actually said ten. Nastya would have my head.
Lyfraspiral:Oh! Is Bertie the tenth then?
Lyfrastell:. . . no, the Toy Soldier. I. Aurora’s the ship here, should have counted her as a member of the crew. But the Toy Soldier counts too.
Lyfrastell:I. Bertie died in the Lunar Wars, yes. And.
Lyfrastell:Well.
Lyfrastell:Do you believe in ghosts?
Lyfraspiral:Dead? Oh. I guess all Berties are doomed to war then.
Lyfraspiral:No idea what a toy soldier is.
Lyfraspiral:My boyfriend has killed Vampires, of course I believe in ghosts.
Lyfrastell:. . .
Lyfrastell:I ended up seeing ghosts after I died, one time. And then a few of them possessed me for a while. And one of them was Bertie.
Lyfrastell:I think my universe’s Tim is working on trying to bring him back somehow.
Lyfraspiral:I’m glad there’s a Tim out there who in some way gets his Bertie.
Lyfraspiral:Jonny as well. He deserves the joy.
Lyfraspiral:Weird to think of a Bertie that didn’t grow up with their Lyfrassir.
Lyfraspiral:I myself have seen a…
Lyfraspiral:Ghost of sorts before. Loki, they helped me through the Distortion.
Lyfrastell:Ah.
Lyfrastell:That’s good. I.
Lyfrastell:I made a deal, before I fell through dimensions. I hope Teppy honors it.
Lyfrastell:If they do, my universe’s Loki and Sigyn and Thor should be back.
Lyfrastell:But.
Lyfraspiral:Loki, Sigyn and Thor?
Lyfraspiral:I. I’m glad that one version of them lives.
Lyfraspiral:I’ll have to tell Scuzz. They’d be glad to know their friends live in some world.
Lyfrastell:I’ve never met my Scuzz. But. I hope that brings them some joy.
Lyfraspiral:It will, likely.
Lyfraspiral:I would tell Jonny as well, however Thor is a sore spot for him.
Lyfrastell:All right. I–
Lyfrastell:I just hope they made it out all right.
Lyfrastell:Hope I make it back. Get to meet them outside the Bifrost.
Lyfraspiral:Meet them?
Lyfraspiral:Right. Alternate universes. Thor and Loki were my cousins, Sigyn was Loki’s fiance.
Lyfrastell:. . . Huh.
Lyfrastell:Not that closely related. Just investigated the case of their disappearance on the Black Box.
Lyfrastell:Ald and El meeting them could be nice, though. If I got the chance to bring them across universes.
Lyfrastell:I have a feeling they’d like each other.
Lyfraspiral:I don’t know about Ald, however I do remember an El, vaguely. One of Loki, Sigyn, Scuzz and Thor’s friends from school.
Lyfraspiral:Loki and Sigyn joked that she was their kid. She was a year under them in school.
Lyfraspiral:She has recently befriended a Not Them, though I don’t know their name. Could be Ald.
Lyfrastell:. . . hmm.
Lyfrastell:Ald is a clone with identity issues, and El is. . .
Lyfrastell:El is, in a way, Loki’s daughter? Never got to meet her.
Lyfrastell:But. I think they’d like each other.
Lyfrastell:The different dimensions adds a layer to things, though. And it’d be. . . complicated.
Lyfraspiral:Interesting.
Lyfraspiral:Knowing Loki she’d snatch El up under her wing quickly. I know mine did with me when I was young.
Lyfrastell:That’s. . . about what I was figuring.
Lyfrastell:But that would be a long conversation, particularly since I haven’t talked about other dimensions at all.
Lyfrastell:The Lyf here’s still convinced the larger chat’s a prank.
Lyfrastell:I should probably–
Lyfrastell:Well.
Lyfrastell:If you have questions about the immortal space pirates thing, I can try to explain. It sounds like the others are a little. . . wrapped up in being angry with Von Raum right now.
Lyfraspiral:Do you not like him either? It feels like every Lyf with something against Marius refers to him by his last name.
Lyfrastell:What?
Lyfrastell:Oh. I– force of habit, from being around the Lyf here.
Lyfrastell:If I refer to my fucking partner by his first name next to them, I’m going to get the second degree.
Lyfrastell:Or by any name, really. Have to be vague as hell.
Lyfraspiral:Oh! Wonderful a Lyfrassir who isn’t hell bent on stabbing Marius.
Lyfrastell:I don’t know how to tell the others that the immortal space pirate they know would probably be into that.
Lyfraspiral:No idea.
Lyfraspiral:I know mine probably wouldn’t. Too human, too squishy.
Lyfraspiral:Jonny and Tim? Probably. However, my boyfriend and fiance are well known to just be broken.
Lyfrastell:. . .
Lyfrastell:I’m currently just with Marius, but. Good for you.
Lyfraspiral:Marius is good. Squishy.
Lyfraspiral:I’ve been with Jonny, Tim and Bertie since we were 16. Ashes and Ivy more recently, same with Marius, Raphaella and Brian. I have a date with Nastya soon, which will be quite nice.
Lyfrastell:Huh.
Lyfrastell:Nastya and I are more like siblings, if that makes sense.
Lyfrastell:I.
Lyfrastell:There was one thing, before I fell between dimensions, but
Lyfrastell:That’s not anything, probably. Nothing to worry about right now.
Lyfraspiral:Hm.
Lyfraspiral:If you say so.
Lyfraspiral:How did you end up falling through dimensions? If you don’t mind sharing.
Lyfrastell:Hole in the basement in Hilltop Road.
Lyfrastell:If I see my dimension’s Annabelle Cane anywhere near me she’s getting a bloodsnake set on her.
Lyfrastell:I don’t care if it’ll leave everyone laughing at me until the end of time.
Lyfraspiral:Annabelle?
Lyfraspiral:Oh. One of her tapestries then? They can be quite unpleasant to be wrapped in from what I hear.
Lyfrastell:Something like that.
Lyfrastell:Think she got mixed up with the outer gods. Don’t know how much of it was her doing and how much of it was Teppy’s.
Lyfrastell:All I know is that I should have died. Might have.
Lyfraspiral:Annabelle being wrapped into someone else’s weave?
Lyfraspiral:Didn’t think that was possible. Though Ashes is more to speak on her being a sibling of sorts to her.
Lyfraspiral:Death is an interesting thing. Sometimes it sticks when we wish it didn’t and other times it doesn’t stick.
Lyfrastell:I. . . don’t even know how to begin to explain Teppy.
Lyfrastell:Or if Teppy’s explainable.
Lyfrastell:Might just be a feature of my universe.
Lyfrastell:For everyone else’s sake, I hope so.
Lyfraspiral:Kind of like the Spiral then? In it’s unexplainable nature.
Lyfrastell:Teppy is closest to the Spiral of any of the fears. Wouldn’t enjoy the comparison, though.
Lyfrastell:Likes to think of itself as just “pure chaos”. Doesn’t like the Fears. My abilities are similar to its nature, and have been referred to as Fear kryptonite, if that means something to you.
Lyfraspiral:Fear kryptonite?
Lyfraspiral:I’d love some of that for my humans. Keep them alive and human. That way they don’t have to deal with the Fears.
Lyfraspiral:Well. Marius and Brian. Raphaella is going to be one with the Eye, she knows this and seems unwilling to stop it. Though at least she has Ivy by her side.
Lyfrastell:It doesn’t necessarily always keep people. . .
Lyfrastell:Used it to help a friend with the Stranger. Mixed things up a bit. He can tell when people are telling the truth now, among other things.
Lyfrastell:Still has some effects from both, just. . . mixed up.
Lyfrastell:If things get affected by me, objects or the like, they can’t always be seen by the Eye.
Lyfrastell:That sort of thing.
Lyfraspiral:Ah. Unhelpful then, we don’t want Ivy unable to See us.
Lyfraspiral:She worries when she can’t Know where we are.
Lyfraspiral:She already can’t See Beta, Tim or I. Not seeing the Human Anchors would drive her mad.
Lyfrastell:. . . All right, then. For us, it was more of a worry with others. Elias, for one. Anyone else keeping an eye on things. Or an Eye.
Lyfraspiral:Elias can lose all his precious spreadsheets.
Lyfraspiral:The only saving grace is that he fears Hades, or Ashes.
Lyfraspiral:And Aurora being his secretary. She enjoys messing up his day.
Lyfrastell:That does seem useful.
Lyfrastell:He literally was unable to see me for several years. That was
Lyfrastell:That was nice.
Lyfrastell:However.
Lyfrastell:He was able to, a month or two before I fell through dimensions. I’m worried about what he’ll have gotten up to by the time I get back. What he did to see me.
Lyfraspiral:I wish you luck.

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MAIN CHAT

Lyfrastabby:so now that the killjoys are gone, how do I get you all knives
Lyfraloop:If you can get anything in here, focus on coffee. Please.
Lyfraserious:This has to be a joke, right?
Lyfrastabby:i dont joke about knife offers
Lyfrastabby:I have few enough of them to go around
Lyfrastabby:this is not a gift this is a loan
Lyfrastabby:get his blood
Lyfraloop:Tempting, but please. Coffee. I beg.
Lyfraserious:You would ask for coffee from a mysterious chat that appeared out of nowhere on your phone
Lyfraserious:from people you don’t even know?
Lyfraloop:Wouldn’t you?
Lyfraserious:. . .
Lyfraloop:also I’ve been stuck in a time loop with Von Raum for the past. . .
Lyfraloop:I don’t even know how long.
Lyfraloop:And he knows I know that he knows I know this is a loop.
Lyfraloop:is that enough repetitions of knowing
Lyfraloop:I lost all sense of grammar around the third loop.
Lyfrastabby:lost mine when i had to hide under a table
Lyfraserious:Under a table?
Lyfrastabby:on a ship with von raum
Lyfrastabby:desperate measures
Lyfraserious:. . . This is a joke.
Lyfraserious:both of those things are not possible at once
Lyfraserious:Therefore, this is a bad joke.
Lyfraserious:Von Raum, if this is you, just. Stop.
Lyfrastabby:if you accuse me of being him again i will stab you.
Lyfraloop:I. . . hate to say it, but I’m with Stabby.
Lyfraloop:I do not have enough caffeine for this conversation.
Lyfraspiral:Your alternate universes sound quite interesting.
Lyfraspiral:Though maybe. Don’t stab Marius? Mine at least is very huggable, not stabbable.
Lyfraserious:I am muting this.
Lyfraloop:I am not stabbing Marius. Von Raum. I do not intend on talking to him again, ever, if I can help it.
Lyfraloop:The kidnapping was quite enough. As was the other part of it. He had to be making that up.
Lyfrastabby:what other part?
Lyfraloop:He said he was trying to save me with the timeloop. Because he–
Lyfraloop:Nope. It’s stupid, and utterly wrong. Not planning to talk to him again. Or go into work, if I can help it.
Lyfraloop:It’s a time loop. Doesn’t matter.
Lyfraspiral:From what my Marius is like he was likely telling the truth.
Lyfraspiral:He-hhnnjk
Lyfraspiral:Sorry, cat came over and stole my lap.
Lyfrastell:Cat?
Lyfraspiral:Cat!
Lyfraspiral attached an image of Quarter the cat, a very fluffy black cat, curled happily into a ball on Lyfraspiral’s lap.
Lyfraspiral:Their name is Quartermaster, though we all just call them Quarter.
Lyfrastell:Quarter. That’s. . . nice name.
Lyfrastell:Have a cat at home. The Baron. Hyacinth, sometimes, if we need a different name.
Lyfrastabby:the baron, really?
Lyfrastabby:nastya and i are judging you so much right now.
Lyfraloop:Nastya? Think I’ve heard that name.
Lyfrastabby:she’s decent.
Lyfrastabby:wants to avoid the rest of the ship too. So is helping me do it.
Lyfrastabby:just need to grab some parts from the engine room. And keep avoiding von raum.
Lyfrastabby:although if i see him i am going to throw a knife in his eye :-)
Lyfraspiral:One. Why does it have a nose? Don’t do that.
Lyfrastabby:needs to smell, doesnt it
Lyfraspiral:Two. Maybe don’t throw a knife at Marius?
Lyfraspiral:Or well. Immortality I guess. But it’ll still hurt.
Lyfraspiral:No it does not need to smell.
Lyfrastabby:could hold it against his throat and push him against a wall and watch him squirm instead
Lyfrastabby:thatd be just as entertaining :-)
Lyfraspiral:That. Does not sound like you wish to murder him.
Lyfraspiral:Whatever paints your portraits I guess.
Lyfrastabby:he left me to die and he didnt even try to warn me and
Lyfrastabby:why wouldnt it sound like i want to murder him
Lyfrastabby:i mean. I want to never see him again more
Lyfrastabby:that’s the top goal.
Lyfrastabby:but if the chance comes up, and he sees me anyway
Lyfraloop:Dont do it, he’ll knock you out and put you in a shuttle and kidnap you and try to tell you that it’s definitely because he likes you even though you’ve barely had like ten conversations with him and theyve all been while he’s been in jail.
Lyfrastell:. . .
Lyfrastell:Do. Do you want to elaborate on that one, Lyfraloop?
Lyfraloop:No.
Lyfraspiral:It sounds like he was trying to save you.
Lyfraspiral:That’s what shuttles are for, yes?
Lyfraloop:In this case, they were for kidnapping.
Lyfraloop:And if he was trying to save me, then he went about it entirely bull-headedly.
Lyfraloop:and need I remind you about the kidnapping?
Lyfraspiral:Would you have believed him if he told you what the danger was?
Lyfraspiral:It seems like you wouldn’t.
Lyfraspiral:You said this was a time loop? What if he tried to tell you and you didn’t listen?
Lyfraloop:I BELIEVED HIM ABOUT THE FUCKING TIME LOOPS BEFORE
Lyfraloop:That’s what got me stuck in the loops in the first place
Lyfraloop:Pressed the stupid button. And if he checked his pockets any loop after that
Lyfraloop:Never mind.
Lyfrastabby:. . . let me talk to nastya. Maybe we can find a way into your loops to stab him.
Lyfrastabby:would probably be out of our way but it’d be worth a try.
Lyfraloop:No, don’t bother, you’ve– you’ve got enough going on.
Lyfraspiral:Nastya? I’m glad that you get along with at least one person.
Lyfraspiral:I don’t know why you don’t get along with Marius. He’s easier to get close to than Nastya or Jonny.
Lyfrastabby:easy we both want to get the fuck off this ship and away from this crew as quickly as possible.
Lyfrastabby:also I kind of saved her corpse and we bonded after that.
Lyfraspiral:Oh. Hm.
Lyfraspiral:Okay then.
Lyfraspiral:Nastya and Jonny (And Tim and Bertie) I’ve known since I was a child.
Lyfrastabby:dont know who bertie is but jonny and tim ive bumped into on the ship
Lyfrastabby:tim was more annoying about things than jonny was
Lyfrastabby:just needed to say the right things for jonny
Lyfraloop:I can’t say I’ve met Jonny or Tim or Bertie.
Lyfraloop:Just know Von Raum and Cognizi and Alexandria.
Lyfraloop:Think Von Raum mentioned Nastya as well.
Lyfrastell:. . . That should be an interesting meeting for you, then?
Lyfraloop:sorry?
Lyfrastell:Nothing.
Lyfrastabby:actually agree with Stell there, nastyas great
Lyfraspiral:Nastya is wonderful.
Lyfraspiral:As are Raphaella and Ivy.
Lyfraspiral:Ashes and Aurora and Brian as well.
Lyfraspiral:Nastya is quite talented when it comes to machinery, though mine is radioactive. Like a banana.
Lyfrastell:Huh. I believe the Mechanism version has mercury for blood, so.
Lyfrastabby:would explain some things
Lyfraloop:Sorry am I missing something? Cognizi and Alexandria are
Lyfraloop:Well. Criminals, and.
Lyfraloop:Also annoying as all get out.
Lyfrastabby:theyve got a point
Lyfrastabby:wait pronoun check. Everyone here also they/them?
Lyfrastell:Yes?
Lyfraloop:Absolutely
Lyfrastell:Lyfraserious is, too, if they come back on.
Lyfraspiral:Yep! Tim ate my gender.
Lyfrastabby:. . . hmm.
Lyfrastabby:okay. Well. theyve got a point. Cognizi and alexandria? Very annoying. Criminals. Also them trying to hide me under a table was laughable.
Lyfraloop:They actually cooperated with the table?
Lyfrastabby:I think they thought it was funny??
Lyfrastabby:von raum was distracted at least. All “theyve got to be alive somewhere” and all that
Lyfrastabby:bitch
Lyfrastabby:at least he didnt notice the “lets just table that” jokes
Lyfrastabby:those were terrible
Lyfraspiral:Hm.
Lyfraspiral:My Raphaella and Ivy are quite kind. Talkative and always wanting to know everything, however still very kind.
Lyfraspiral:Ivy actually made me a small section in her Library for my books.
Lyfraspiral:Raphaella is so new to our group, yet she does all she can to make us each small little owls she feels fits us.
Lyfraspiral:And her smile is just so cute.
Lyfrastell:. . .
Lyfrastell:Good to. Good to know.
Lyfraloop:At least those fuckers aren’t in the time loop. I don’t know how Von Raum was able to keep them from pressing the button.
Lyfrastabby:suspicious.
Lyfrastabby:are you sure they’re not involved in the loop anyway?
Lyfraloop:Alexandria’s been reading the same book for the last week. The same sections. I think that would kill her.
Lyfraspiral:It likely would, yes.
Lyfraloop:and Cognizi’s been conducting the same experiment.
Lyfraloop:Not that she wouldn’t try the same experiment across loops, but
Lyfraloop:Four times?
Lyfraloop:Nope.
Lyfrastabby:your plan of avoiding them all sounds good
Lyfraloop:exactly
Lyfraloop:I
Lyfraloop:I think someone’s at the door
Lyfrastabby:ignore it
Lyfrastabby:lock it
Lyfrastabby:barricade it
Lyfrastabby:stab through it if you need to
Lyfraspiral:Who is it?
Lyfraspiral:Maybe it’s a neighbor wanting sugar?
Lyfraspiral:That happened sometimes when I was young.
Lyfraloop:hes trying to pick the lock
Lyfraloop: or just rattling the doorknob a lot but
Lyfraloop:Lockpick seems. Likely.
Lyfraloop:hlp
Lyfraspiral:Kiss him? Maybe then he’ll short circuit.
Lyfraloop:what
Lyfraspiral:Worked on my Marius. And Jonny, and Tim. And Ivy, and Ashes. Haven’t tried it on Raphaella, Brian or Nastya yet.
Lyfraloop:nope
Lyfraloop:not. Nope
Lyfraloop: what do you mean youve thought about communicating for the last two hours
Lyfrastabby: devil on your shoulder: stab him
Lyfraspiral: Do not stab him.
Lyfraloop: Stabbing him would require opening the door. Why would I open a door for him. Ever.
Lyfraloop: the day I let him willingly into my flat is the day I spontaneously combust.
Lyfrastabby: hear hear
Lyfrastabby: except i dont have a flat anymore. My ship maybe
Lyfrastell: . . . what’s he saying, exactly?
Lyfraloop: Usual rot. That he doesn’t want to hurt me. That he wants to
Lyfraloop: hm
Lyfraloop: That he wants to apologize.
Lyfraloop: and work with me because the world’s ending.
Lyfraloop: Lot easier to believe him if he hadn’t kidnapped me. Bastard.
Lyfraloop: wait, what exactly is Nastya
Lyfraloop: Hm.
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ALT TSCT SHIP CHAT
Lyfraserious: I
Lyfraserious: really my name got changed here too?
El: What is wrong?
El: If Nastya stabbed someone again I can find my time-delay poison.
Ald: I thought you left that behind.
El: Well, you’d know that if you had been talking to me when we left.
Ald: . . .
El: Wait, why’d you change your name
El: We can change our names in this program?
Lyfraserious: WE can’t, apparently.
Lyfraserious: Someone can, and someone out there hates me.
Ald: El are you going to be giving me a nickname now
Ald: El please
El: Maybe
Lyfraserious: If you figure out how, change mine back. Please.
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Private Chat
Lyfrastell: Marius I
Lyfrastell: I know you’re not getting these but
Lyfrastell: I miss you.
Lyfrastell: I hope you’re okay.
<—

MAIN CHAT

Lyfraserious: Have you decided to stop with this nonsense yet?
Lyfraspiral: What nonsense?
Lyfraspiral: There is much nonsense in the world.
Lyfraserious: Everything about this chat.
Lyfraserious: I would like to leave it, or at the very least the ability to change my name back.
Lyfrastabby: i guess it’s not as okay as mine, then?
Lyfrastabby: i mean, mine’s still insulting or whatever but at least it’s accurate
Lyfrastabby: also it’s not like Ive slept in.
Lyfrastabby: hm
Lyfraloop: You can sleep?
Lyfraspiral: You need to sleep?
Lyfrastell: I. Yes. Sleep. Don’t take that as a suggestion, any of the rest of you.
Lyfraloop: any time I try to sleep the loop starts up again usually
Lyfraloop: the stupid fucking song
Lyfraserious: . . . what would be the issue, really, with leaving off with sleep for a bit?
Lyfrastell: You’re already barely eating. Stop.
Lyfraserious: Stop. Got it. 👍
Lyfraspiral: Mortals need sleep and food.
Lyfraspiral: While I don’t technically need much of either, I do enjoy both sleep and a good meal.
Lyfraspiral: Do sleep. And eat. Food is good, especially Jonny’s cooking and Brian’s baking.
Lyfraserious: The safe food I have at the moment is canned beans or apples.
Lyfraserious: And sleep means nightmares.
Lyfrastell: . . . there is other food, you know.
Lyfraserious: Safe food.
Lyfrastabby: sending you knives and alcohol then
Lyfrastabby: drank a lot of mine but ill send you some of what I can get.
Lyfrastabby: maybe i can steal some from this ship while im wandering around.
Lyfraspiral: Actual food, not alcohol.
Lyfraspiral: If I could I’d send you some of our dinner, Jonny cooks too much.
Lyfrastell: The only thing that they’re taking of mysteriously appearing food is apples and coffee.
Lyfraserious: Stell.
Lyfrastell: What?
Lyfraloop: I might literally kill for coffee.
Lyfraloop: Nastya maybe.
Lyfraloop: or Von Raum, if he came back.
Lyfrastabby: most of what I had was rations or alcohol
Lyfrastabby: think theyd mind if i stole from the kitchens on the way to the engine room
Lyfraspiral: They may not notice. Or you could blame someone else.
Lyfraspiral: Become a rat.
Lyfrastabby: you know, dont actually mind that much
Lyfrastabby: need to figure out what von raum’s favorite snack is
Lyfrastabby: steal whatever’s left of that if i can stand it
Lyfrastabby: without him seeing it
Lyfrastell: Probably not apples
Lyfraserious: mm?
Lyfrastell: oh. I. heard some versions are allergic. right?
Lyfraserious: right
Lyfrastabby: but what does he like though?
Lyfraspiral: Mine likes cinnamon and apples.
Lyfraspiral: He’s thankfully not allergic.
Lyfraspiral: He loves sweets.
Lyfrastabby: look for the sweet things it is. Especially cinnamony.
Lyfraloop: Interesting.
Lyfraloop: If I had cinnamon rolls in the area next loop and just. Didn’t give him any
Lyfraloop: he’d deserve it.
Lyfraserious: I still don’t know what this place is
Lyfraserious: Or what you’re trying
Lyfraserious: but just give him the apples
Lyfraserious: he deserves it.
Lyfraspiral: No. Not if he’s allergic.
Lyfraspiral: Do Not Kill Marius.
Lyfraserious: a) he deserves it
Lyfraserious: b) he’s an immortal bastard
Lyfraserious: c) he deserves it
Lyfraloop: . .. are you all forgetting the time loop thing
Lyfraloop: if he dies the loop restarts
Lyfraloop: its connected to him, not me
Lyfrastabby: have you considered something more permanent and fast than apples then?
Lyfrastabby: maybe not permanent but. Stabby stab.
Lyfraspiral: Do not stab Marius :{
Lyfrastell: I.
Lyfrastell: I think that would backfire.
Lyfrastell: and as someone in the chat who has stabbed
Lyfrastell: and has been stabbed
Lyfrastell: I’ve heard a little about it. Would not recommend.
Lyfrastabby: im not going to make the knife dummy go to waste
Lyfraspiral: Stab the dummy, not Marius.
Lyfraspiral: Being stabbed is not fun.
Lyfrastell: I
Lyfrastell: . . . Lyf. I think I. Did he ever give you a knife?
Lyfraserious: what
Lyfraserious: Stell why are you doing this to me
Lyfraserious: that’s not
Lyfraserious: he didn’t know what he was doing
Lyfraserious: and
Lyfrastell: and if he did know what he was doing?
Lyfraserious: Absolutely not.
Lyfrastell: All right, then.
Lyfrastabby: He tried giving me a knife too. As a gift. Had no clue what it meant.
Lyfrastabby: that.
Lyfrastabby: nope
Lyfrastabby: definitely had no idea
Lyfrastabby: right?
Lyfraloop: . . .
Lyfrastell: Spiral, does your world have the. . the knife thing?
Lyfraspiral: Knife thing?
Lyfraspiral: No? I don’t think so.
Lyfrastell: Hm.
Lyfrastell: You see, Midgard tradition has this part of things where
Lyfrastell: Well. Engagement involves being gifted a knife. Typically traditional sort of way, but. Ornate, specific shape. . .
Lyfrastell: Apparently, Von Raum had absolutely no clue when he gifted one to. . . my friend Lyf there. Or to Lyfrastabby in that world. Or– Lyfraloop, did you get one?
Lyfraloop: No comment.
Lyfraspiral: Oh! Then I would have been engaged several times over. Nastya, Jonny, Ashes and Tim have all given me knives. Nastya made me one, Jonny had her make me one, Tim had one custom made and Ashes bought me the most intricate yet sharp and usable dagger they could find.
Lyfraserious: it needs to be consensual. And reciprocated. And understood by both parties.
Lyfraserious: Von Raum didn’t understand, and I didn’t consent. Thus, nothing.
Lyfraspiral: Ah.
Lyfraspiral: Hm. Maybe I should get my fiance a dagger. They’d like one, in the least.
Lyfrastell: It’s a nice tradition.
Lyfrastabby: daggers are always useful
Lyfraspiral: Yes. Scuzz, Sigyn, Loki and Thor likely agree.
Lyfraspiral: Thor gave them daggers for their protection.
Lyfraspiral: …Scuzz has all of their daggers.
Lyfrastabby: thats
Lyfrastabby: may they still protect them
Lyfrastell: from what I’ve seen of my universe’s versions, they’d agree
Lyfrastell: They gave themselves to protect the universe, here. I
Lyfrastell: However they died, I hope
Lyfrastell: I hope they died with and for those they loved.
Lyfraspiral: Thor was killed by Hunters.
Lyfraspiral: Loki and Sigyn died in eachothers arms to stop from Becoming.
Lyfraspiral: I was Odin’s replacement after their deaths.
Lyfraspiral: Scuzz gave their best to protect me while they could.
Lyfraserious: Our universe’s Thor died trying to take Odin down.
Lyfraserious: Loki and Sigyn died trying to delay the apocalypse.
Lyfraserious: They delayed it eighty years.
Lyfraloop: So that’s what happens.
Lyfraloop: Finishing watching the Black Box has been
Lyfraloop: Well
Lyfrastabby: yep same here
Lyfrastabby: would love to stab Odin in the eye
Lyfraserious: You and El should never meet.
Lyfraspiral: I unraveled my Odin like fucked up yarn spaghetti.
Lyfraspiral: I should have stabbed her.
Lyfraserious: That is fair
Lyfraserious: but still. Whoever is going by “Lyfrastabby” here should never meet El.
Lyfraserious: Stell, please help make sure this never happens.
Lyfrastell: I. I don’t think that’s going to be a problem any time soon.
Lyfrastell: But I’ll keep an eye out.
Lyfrastabby: el? Is that someone i should keep an eye out for?
Lyfrastell: If you end up anywhere near an intact Hel, knock yourself out.
Lyfraloop: . . . I’ll keep that in mind.
Lyfraserious: Stell. Stell that’s literally the opposite of what I just said to do.
Lyfrastell: Not really. They won’t be anywhere near you with El. Don’t worry about it.
Lyfraserious: If you’re sure.
Lyfraspiral: Hm. I should call my universe’s El, see how she’s been. It’s been a while.
Lyfrastell: Good idea
Lyfraserious: Your universe’s
Lyfraserious: Are you still on that joke
Lyfrastabby: unless your von raum is on the aurora currently and looking about five seconds away from punching a wall
Lyfraserious: I have no fucking clue where Von Raum is
Lyfraserious: I have no need to know where Von Raum is
Lyfraserious: why would I want to know where Von Raum is
Lyfraloop: Mine’s stuck in a time loop. With me. And also Nastya Rasputina. Who is.
Lyfrastabby: nastya’s lovely
Lyfraloop: . . . different universes
Lyfrastabby: i am finding your timeloop and bringing you cheap coffee and knives
Lyfraspiral: Unless your Marius is human and fleshy and currently playing the violin with Nastya, I do believe that Alternate Universes are quite a good explanation, especially given well. All the Lyfrassirs in this chat.
Lyfraserious: and why in the world would that just appear out of nowhere?
Lyfraserious: and why would STELL be on here?
Lyfraserious: seems more likely to be a test on my sanity
Lyfraserious: my patience
Lyfrastabby: my ability to find cinnamon sweets in this kitchen
Lyfrastabby: i am GOING to STEAL them
Lyfraspiral: Sanity has no meaning in this place.
Lyfraspiral: Look in the lower cabinets, Marius is small.
Lyfrastabby: good call, i am going to do this thing
Lyfrastabby: i am going to steal his sanity
Lyfrastabby: and he is not going to know i am alive if i can help it
Lyfraloop: good call he’s very annoying if he knows you’re aware and alive and the like.
Lyfraloop: and his apologies don’t seem to take into account the fact that if a door is locked that means that he shouldnt be trying to actively picking it
Lyfrastell: . . . as someone who has accidentally faked their own death, I would not recommend it in the long term.
Lyfraspiral: Being thought dead is not fun.
Lyfraspiral: Neither is thinking someone dead.
Lyfraserious: If Von Raum thinks I am dead then that would be a relief.
Lyfrastabby: he’s probably going to not think that way for long
Lyfrastabby: hes annoying and would keep chasing me anyway
Lyfrastabby: even if he thought i was dead
Lyfraloop: can confirm, if he thought you were dead, he would still be annoying
Lyfraserious: Fuck.
Lyfraspiral: Marius and Jonny are inherently stubborn. Unless they watch you die, and maybe even then, they will hope you’re alive until there is proof you’re not.
Lyfraloop: even then. Fucking time travel.
Lyfraloop: fucking. Time loops.
Lyfraloop: fucking. “Hey can I cut off your arm and also I really like you can we go out sometime after this”
Lyfraloop: as if
Lyfraloop: if he saves the world and saves my arm and everything, sure
Lyfraloop: anything short of that, though?
Lyfrastell: sorry did you tell him you’d go out if he saved the world
Lyfraloop: . . . promised a kiss.
Lyfraloop: if he saved the world.
Lyfraloop: date if he got my arm too.
Lyfraserious: What the fuck.
Lyfrastabby: whats wrong with your arm?
Lyfraloop: black box and time travel do not cooperate.
Lyfraspiral: Kisses are good motivation. Especially for Marius.
Lyfraloop: if he fucking saves all of yggdrasil then thats not
Lyfraloop: kiss wouldnt be a terrible sacrifice
Lyfrastabby: . . . fair
Lyfrastabby: found the cinnamon candies
Lyfrastabby: ill torment him in your stead
Lyfrastabby: cooperate with him for the good of yggdrasil :-)
Lyfraspiral: Stop giving it a nose :{
Lyfrastabby: never :-)
Lyfraspiral: :{
Lyfraserious: If that has to be the deal
Lyfraserious: in the hypothetical
Lyfraserious: but I am not going to ever deal with Von Raum if I have to. Ever again.
Lyfrastell: . . .
Lyfrastell: Will keep that in mind.
Lyfraspiral: What do you have against Marius?
Lyfraspiral: He’s very well meaning, if annoying sometimes.
Lyfraspiral: Very cuddly.
Lyfraserious: Cuddly
Lyfraserious: Does leaving me in the destruction of my homeworld without even a warning when he knew ahead of time mean nothing to you
Lyfraserious: Also
Lyfraserious: He has the world’s shittiest beard.
Lyfraserious: Just saying.
Lyfraspiral: Would you have believed him?
Lyfraserious: Does it matter if he didn’t try?
Lyfraspiral: Was he given a chance? He wasn’t alone in there was he?
Lyfraspiral: Not all the fault lays on his shoulders.
Lyfraserious: Oh, believe me, I am angry with Cognizi and Alexandria too.
Lyfraserious: but
Lyfraserious: one of them was far more likely to cause this sort of trouble
Lyfraserious: one of them got close to telling me anything
Lyfraserious: and it was him saying he’d tell me something and starting to sing a fucking song
Lyfraspiral: What if that was the only way he knew of to get his point across? What if he’s used to telling stories that way?
Lyfraspiral: What if he thought that would be the best way to keep you from panicking while he told you about the end of the world?
Lyfraserious: he knew I’ve fucking shot one of his violins before
Lyfraserious: he played it to spite me, I think
Lyfraserious: and he’s played that song before. For hours. If he was going to tell the story, he could have actually told it.
Lyfraserious: in a way that wasn’t meant to drive me insane
Lyfraspiral: Sanity is boring.
Lyfraspiral: I don’t know your Marius, but I know mine does what he thinks will be the best for those around him. I know he has horrible self esteem. I know he uses himself as a joke to lighten the mood.
Lyfraspiral: I would hope your Marius is like mine in his heart.
Lyfraserious: Lightening the mood is one thing. But in an apocalypse. . .
Lyfrastabby: all right i should probably have something other than cinnamon candy but
Lyfrastabby: i am running on thirty six hours without sleep and several handfuls of candy now, what did I miss
Lyfrastabby: oh that? Yeah, dick move.
Lyfrastabby: nastya agrees too. And she also plays music like that. She says shes better at it.
Lyfraspiral: Marius and Nastya both play the violin and argue over who is better, it’s how they bond.
Lyfrastabby: she seemed pretty convinced that she was better
Lyfrastabby: almost to the engine room, should be a piece of cake
Lyfrastabby: oh theres someone
Lyfrastabby: any tips for toy soldier dealings? Nastya gave me some but

Chapter Text

Lyfrasilly: I put my phone down for a day.

Lyfrasilly: ???

Lyfraloop: Oh, good for you. Able to put down your phone for a day.

Lyfraloop: enjoy your relaxing days doing. Whatever people do outside of time loops.

Lyfrasilly: I was getting shot at.

Lyfrastabby: oh hey update about the engine room

Lyfrastabby: traps. also apparently im immortal

Lyfrastabby: I mighttt be panicking 

Lyfrasilly: Shit.

Lyfrastabby: oh hey you’re back too

Lyfrastabby: hi!

Lyfrasilly: wait how long has it been since the bifrost for you

Lyfrasilly: yes hi

Lyfrasilly: what do you mean traps are you alright???

Lyfrastabby: there’s a lot of blood on the ground 

Lyfrastabby: that’s not where it’s supposed to be

Lyfrasilly: distinctly not, no

Lyfrasilly: so you said you’re immortal now?

Lyfrasilly: did you die?

Lyfrastabby: 👍

Lyfraloop: Oh I’ve done that before 

Lyfraloop: in a time loop way, not an immortal way. Don’t recommend.

Lyfrasilly: yes its not very pleasant

Lyfrasilly: wait. So what is your situation currently?

Lyfrasilly: can you get any sort of medical help?

Lyfrastabby: there’s a toy soldier returning in a few minutes. could maybe ask Nastya. still avoiding Von Raum like the plague

Lyfrasilly: both of those are great options

Lyfrasilly: well.

Lyfrasilly: maybe get either of them to grab someone with medical training if you prefer not to have one of your organs replaced with metal or wood?

Lyfrasilly: but yes, ask one of them.

Lyfrastabby: you know this could be a good thing

Lyfrastabby: von Raum still seemed fairly sure I was on the ship. fuck add big pool of blood should make him think twice about things.

Lyfrastabby: or maybe think im actually dead

Lyfrastell: I. 

Lyfrastell: Or make him double his efforts to find you?

Lyfrasilly: that sounds more likely, yes

Lyfrastabby: shit

Lyfraloop: do you need me to kick my version of him for you or something

Lyfraloop: going to be around him, it could happen

Lyfrastabby: get him 

Lyfrasilly: …I feel like you were likely to do that anyways.

Lyfraloop : hadn’t been planning on it, this is extra

Lyfraloop: if he brought me coffee all would be forgiven though

Lyfraloop: nearly

Lyfrasilly: I see.

Lyfrastabby: you asked how long it’s been since Yggdrasil right?

Lyfrastabby: lost track of day night cycles but less than a week maybe?

Lyfraloop: with the wonders of time loops you too could be still stuck on midgard 

Lyfraloop: with von Raum trying to convince you that the world is ending

Lyfraserious: closer to a month for me

Lyfrastell: and . . . we established that Lyfraspiral didn’t have a midgard

Lyfrasilly: good to know, thank you

Lyfrasilly: and time travel. Blech

Lyfrasilly: hate the stuff

Lyfrastell: Agreed.

Lyfraserious: Do you have experience with time travel then, Stell?

Lyfrastell: it’s just

Lyfrastell: its just a very complicated sort of plot device and you have to think everything through and you never can be sure that you know the right version of people especially if you’re interacting with past versions of people and

Lyfrastell: and then they flirt with you?

Lyfrasilly: exactly

Lyfrasilly: Its. Very confusing.

Lyfrasilly: I’d recommend avoiding it if you can

Lyfrastell: . . . Yep.

Lyfraloop: Too late for that one.

Lyfrasilly: haven’t had experiences with time loops though

Lyfrasilly: unfortunately don’t think I have much advice there?

Lyfraloop: Von Raum could stop the loop at any time

Lyfraloop: he’s just determined to get me off the planet

Lyfraloop: which. fucking hell, he could save pretty much everyone, and was only focusing on trying to save me?

Lyfraloop: and doing it badly?

Lyfraloop: told him if he saved the planet he’d get a kiss. if he likes me as much as he claims— well.

Lyfraloop: what are his priorities 

Lyfrasilly: you promised him a kiss?

Lyfrasilly: if he saves the planet

Lyfrasilly: well.

Lyfrasilly: if he has that as motivation, won’t be in those timeloops for much longer, I guess.

Lyfraloop: date if he figures out what’s going on with my arm too

Lyfraloop: and really. doubt it’s that much of a motivator 

Lyfrasilly: for him?

Lyfrasilly: hah

Lyfrasilly: yes it is

Lyfrasilly: it very much is

Lyfraloop: really you too

Lyfrasilly: what?

Lyfrasilly: I have personal experience with it

Lyfraloop: Personal experience.

Lyfrasilly: could give more details than that but thats really not important right now

Lyfrasilly: and I feel like you don’t want to know

Lyfrastabby: this all sounds very rough

Lyfrastabby: just let me know and I can take more steps of vengeance

Lyfrastabby: after everything stops spinning

Lyfrastell: Stabby, have you gotten any medical support

Lyfrastabby: toy soldier picked me up and is chattering

Lyfrastabby: its grabbing the stuff for nastya too

Lyfrastabby: so thats good

Lyfrasilly: oh thank gods

Lyfrastabby: it keeps jostling me

Lyfrasilly: tell it to be gentler, maybe?

Lyfrasilly: typically don’t give it commands. But.

Lyfrasilly: considering your situation and that thats completely harmless, just tell it firmly to be gentler

Lyfrastabby: will give that a try maybe

Lyfraserious: what is a toy soldier

Lyfrasilly: you’ll probably meet it eventually

Lyfraspiral: Is it a being of the Stranger? 

Lyfrastell: . . . Not quite

Lyfrastell: I would know

Lyfrastell: Although there are some possible overlaps

Lyfraserious: what is the stranger

Lyfrasilly: … Actually wondering that as well?

Lyfraspiral: The Stranger is one of the Fears.

Lyfraspiral: Do. Do you not know-

Lyfraspiral: Well most don’t and other universes so. Hm.

Lyfraspiral: The Stranger is the Fear of the Unknown, of the uncanny valley, that things are not how they seem, faceless people in a crowd, things like that. Circuses often fall into it as well.

Lyfrasilly: Interesting?

Lyfrasilly: wait

Lyfrasilly: why is Lyfraspiral’s text blue?

Lyfraspiral: Because blue is a good color.

Lyfraspiral: Though also likely the Distortion messing with things as it does.

Lyfraserious: does the stranger have to do with Stell’s story about nearly getting skinned by murder clowns

Lyfrastell: . . .yes?

Lyfrastell: there is some overlap there?

Lyfrastell: Why wouldn’t there be?

Lyfrasilly: …

Lyfrasilly: note to self

Lyfrasilly: staying away from clowns in the future

Lyfraspiral: Likely a good plan

Lyfraspiral: Though if you want to stay away from every Fear possible it may be impossible. 

Lyfraspiral: May drive you insane :}

Lyfrastell: As someone who has encountered many fears, I would agree.

Lyfrastell: but stay away from as many as you can

Lyfrastell: definitely. 

Lyfrastell: and they may not exist in your world!

Lyfrastabby: sure hope they dont

Lyfrasilly: haven’t run into them yet myself

Lyfrasilly: so doubtful they do exist here?

Lyfrastell: The Fears and the Bifrost don’t get along, either, so you might not have noticed them if they did.

Lyfrasilly: good to know

Lyfrasilly: might see if Ivy knows anything about them

Lyfraloop: ive been thinking it over and. Did I make a mistake

Lyfraloop: hes going to think that means something

Lyfraloop: and. Why did I even offer that

Lyfraloop: its not like I want to kiss him

Lyfraspiral: Why offer a kiss then? Unless some part of you actually does want a kiss and you’re just in intense denial.

Lyfrasilly: are you trying to break them

Lyfraspiral: Break them? No

Lyfraspiral: Get them to realize maybe they do like Marius? Yes :}

Lyfrastabby: maybe youre being rude 

Lyfrastabby: :-( 

Lyfraloop: I think. Maybe I just was looking for how he reacted. And. well. 

Lyfraloop: he’s not going to let this go

Lyfrasilly: why does smiley face have nose

Lyfrastabby: its not a smiley face, its a frowney face

Lyfrastabby: get with the times 

Lyfrasilly: why does the frowny face have a nose

Lyfrastabby: needs to be able to smell

Lyfrastabby: good place for a bulls eye

Lyfrastabby: what more could you want

Lyfrasilly: horrifying to think about

Lyfrasilly: thank you

Lyfrastabby: if you got turned into an emoji youd probably be a frowny face

Lyfraspiral: You’d be a knife emoji. 

Lyfraspiral: Please stop giving the emojis noses. They don’t need to smell.

Lyfrastabby: you need all your senses to survive on a ship like this

Lyfrastabby: 🔪 

Lyfrastabby: :-) 

Lyfraspiral: The smile is not in need of a nose.

Lyfraspiral: It is a form of expression, not a thing that needs to smell.

Lyfrastabby: would you steal its nose then, spiral?

Lyfrastabby: how rude of you

Lyfraspiral: Stealing noses is more of a Flesh thing. 

Lyfraspiral: Though. Hm. 

Lyfraspiral: Maybe :}

Lyfrastabby: see now it just looks noseless and sad

Lyfrastabby: what have you done to it

Lyfraserious: What are you two even talking about?

Lyfrastabby: noses are very important I’ll have you know

Lyfraspiral: We’re talking about Stabby’s horrid smiley noses.

Lyfraspiral: They do not need noses.

Lyfraserious: . . . right.

Lyfrastabby: what’s with that tone?

Lyfraserious: I hate to be the one to say this but when was the last time you slept, ate something other than candy, and how much blood have you lost?

Lyfrastabby: :-O

Lyfrastabby: treachery

Lyfrastabby: on all fronts

Lyfraspiral: Stabby you need good actual food. 

Lyfraspiral: Also that face looks like a soup spoon. 

Lyfraspiral: Do you need soup?

Lyfrastabby: what i need is to not be criticized on my emojis

Lyfrastabby: and also

Lyfrastabby: and also nastya hit marius

Lyfrastabby: von raum on the head

Lyfrastabby: with a hammer

Lyfrastabby: without me

Lyfraspiral: A hammer?

Lyfraspiral: Hm. 

Lyfraspiral: Mine usually hits people with wrenches. Though hammers are good too. 

Lyfraspiral: Is Marius okay?

Lyfrastabby: guess who has to drag his corpse off the ship

Lyfraspiral: Nastya? She hit him. 

Lyfraspiral: Wait. Corpse?

Lyfraspiral: …Immortality. Right. Right.

Lyfrastabby: me. Nastyas dealing with toy soldier

Lyfrastabby: it had gifts for her.

Lyfraloop: Excited?

Lyfrastabby: what?

Lyfraloop: youve been talking about stabbing him for. I don’t know. 

Lyfrastabby: there’s. Well. blood in his hair.

Lyfrastabby: and hes still dead and I have to move him

Lyfrastabby: and hes still going to keep annoying me. 

Lyfrastabby: :-/ 

Lyfrastell: hmm.

Lyfrastell: you’re worried about his hair, hmm?

Lyfrastabby: what 

Lyfrastabby: no definitely not

Lyfrastabby: just weird to know hes not going to remember this

Lyfrastabby: but. Not changing anything.

Lyfrastabby: would still stab.

Lyfrasilly: sorry I’m back

Lyfrasilly: octokitten

Lyfrasilly: tried to eat my phone

Lyfraloop: what is an octokitten

Lyfrasilly: octopus

Lyfrasilly: kitten

Lyfrasilly: I feel like the name is fairly self-explanatory

Lyfraloop: what’s a kitten? 

Lyfrastell: I

Lyfrastell: oh dear

Lyfrastell: still on midgard, right?

Lyfrasilly: did. Does your Midgard not have kittens

Lyfraloop: it sounds like they’re animals? We have. Crabs?

Lyfraloop: I’m guessing those are different.

Lyfrasilly: very

Lyfrasilly: kittens are baby cats? They’re gluffy and small

Lyfrasilly: octokittens are different, but

Lyfrasilly: [sent image. Image ID: an orange octokitten, sitting on top of a shelf. The shelf has various small wooden cat figurines, as well as picture frames, books, and other trinkets.]

Lyfrasilly: figurines are supposed to be cats. That up there is an octokitten. Cats look kind of similar but with less. Tentacles

Lyfrasilly: and less goopy

Lyfraloop: hmm

Lyfraloop: very different from crabs.

Lyfrasilly: indeed

Lyfrasilly: find it weird your Midgard doesn’t have cats

Lyfrasilly: my neighborhood actually had a stray cat problem

Lyfrasilly: most of said stray cats ended up mostly becoming my cats

Lyfrastell: didn’t end up seeing cats for a long time

Lyfrastell: first time I saw a raccoon I thought it might be one

Lyfrastell: it was not.

Lyfrasilly: that is. Quite the mixup

Lyfraspiral: Raccoons are friendshaped. Sometimes.

Lyfraspiral: Cats really are wonderful creatures. I’m sorry you don’t have them.

Lyfraspiral: Stabby actually reminds me a bit of a cat. An angry cat.

Lyfrasilly: I’ve been told I’m fairly cat-like on. Numerous occasions

Lyfrastabby: is that a compliment or an insult

Lyfraspiral: Yes :} 

Lyfraspiral: Mostly a compliment, cats are wonderful.

Lyfrastell: You know, I think Lyfraserious muted the chat again, but

Lyfrastell: Give me a moment

Lyfrastell: we have a cat on board, they might be willing to send pictures.

Lyfraserious: a series of ten pictures of a cat in various situations attached

Lyfraserious has muted the chat

Lyfraspiral: Cat.

Lyfraspiral: Good cat.

Lyfrastell: the Marquis

Lyfrastell: barely leaves their side

Lyfraspiral has attached about six images of a very fluffy cat, all in different areas of a house, in one the cat is trying to bite Marius’ finger.

Lyfrasilly: guess we’re just using this for cat pictures now

Lyfrasilly: [sent 10 images of octokittens, in various groups and committing various acts of chaos. In the background of one of them, Marius can be seen.]

Lyfraspiral: They’re so friend shaped.

Lyfrasilly: they are also very much not supposed to be in this room.

Lyfrasilly: most of those are old pictures though

Lyfraspiral: They’re adorable. 

Lyfrastabby: excuse me can this be a von raum free zone

Lyfrastabby: i just barely got him off my ship

Lyfrastabby: his blood’s still on my shirt.

Lyfraspiral: But cat photos. 

Lyfraspiral: Does it help that the one photo of my Marius includes Quarter trying to bite him?

Lyfraserious: biting is useful

Lyfrastell: So you are watching this chat after all

Lyfraserious: muting only lasts so long

Lyfraserious’s nickname was changed to Lyfrabitey

Lyfraspiral: Well. It fits.

Lyfrasilly: does this mean I can get my nickname changed as well?

Lyfraspiral: No idea. Maybe whatever created this does names off of vibes?

Lyfraspiral: Or what is most entertaining.

Lyfrabitey: What.

Lyfrabitey: When I said I wanted my name changed, this is not what I meant.

Lyfrastabby: welcome to the violence club

Lyfrastabby: let’s get Von Raum a few times, yes?

Lyfrabitey: I only said one thing about biting.

Lyfrabitey: I haven’t bitten people in

Lyfrabitey: I don’t even know how long

Lyfraloop: Most people can’t remember, I think.

Lyfrabitey: Hush.

Lyfraloop: Stabby, are you doing. Are you all right?

Lyfrastabby: everything aokay here nothing to worry about all fine welcome to the kablam club

Lyfrastabby: Nastya and I will be on our way in hours and not have to see this ship again.

Lyfrastell: good luck with that

Lyfrastabby: thanks

Lyfrastell: That was

Lyfrastell: never mind.

—

Lyfrastell: if any of you are missing an organ, please give me more information 

Lyfraloop: update: Von Raum hasn’t murdered me so far

Lyfraloop: what do you mean missing organ

Lyfrastabby: I also have questions

Lyfrastabby: and you haven’t been on in

Lyfrastabby: it’s saying several hours but it’s been less time for me

Lyfrastabby: what’s up with that

Lyfraloop: welcome to my world

Lyfraspiral: I am. Concerned.

Lyfraspiral: What do you mean Missing An Organ?

Lyfraspiral: Glad Marius hasn’t killed you, though I don’t think he would kill you.

Lyfraloop : He seems unlikely to try at the moment.

Lyfraloop: but I am keeping an eye on him. 

Lyfrastabby: Very reasonable.

Lyfraspiral: Caution is a good skill to have.

Lyfrastabby: but are they being cautious enough

Lyfrastabby: do they have knives

Lyfraloop: I

Lyfraloop: I have other forms of weaponry

Lyfraloop: if I need to deal with von raum

Lyfrastabby: . . . are you sure

Lyfraspiral: Don’t stab Marius. 

Lyfraspiral: He does not need stabbed. 

Lyfrastabby: he does so

Lyfrastabby: deciding between his eye or his side

Lyfrastabby: or maybe his throat

Lyfraloop: Yes, I remember your more. Graphic threats. 

Lyfraloop: Holding him against the wall?

Lyfrastabby: yes

Lyfrastabby: so i can watch him die slowly

Lyfraloop: . . . right.

Lyfraspiral: Holding him against the wall would also put him in a kissable position. 

Lyfraspiral: :}

Lyfrasilly: agreed

Lyfrastabby: blocked

Lyfrastabby: blocked and deleted

Lyfrastabby: this is homophobia

Lyfrastabby: :---(

Lyfrasilly: I feel like this is the exact opposite of homophobia

Lyfrasilly: in many ways

Lyfrastabby: blocked deleted and reported

Lyfrastabby: why would you accuse me of

Lyfrastabby: blech

Lyfrastabby: can’t bear to think it

Lyfrastabby: this is slander.

Lyfrasilly: you don’t need to kiss him.

Lyfraloop: nope but I will

Lyfraloop: if he manages to fucking save the world

Lyfraloop: mine at least.

Lyfraloop: fucking hell.

Lyfrasilly: oh congratulations

Lyfrasilly: figured it out several centuries faster than I did

Lyfraloop: figured out what?

Lyfraloop: I was just. Making a deal. 

Lyfraloop: he doesn’t actually like me as much as he thinks he does

Lyfraloop: that’d require him actually having conversations with me. For one thing.

Lyfrasilly: oh nevermind then

Lyfrasilly: forget I said anything

Lyfraloop: . . . 

Lyfraloop: him actually apologizing was one thing.

Lyfraloop: if he manages to save the world, I’ll. 

Lyfraloop: I’ll fucking go on the one date. 

Lyfraloop: but. 

Lyfrastabby: I suggest bringing a knife. 

Lyfrastabby: perfect opportunity.

Lyfraspiral: Don’t bring a knife. 

Lyfraspiral: I have faith in him saving the world.

Lyfraspiral: Marius’ are stubborn.

Lyfrasilly: very.

Lyfraloop: He’s also tried how many times now?

Lyfraloop: Don’t think the chances are that high. 

Lyfrastabby: really. Bring a knife. 

Lyfraloop: Why are we worrying about me anyway? 

Lyfraloop: Or Stabby?

Lyfraloop: Bitey and Stell haven’t said anything since the organ question.

Lyfraspiral: Hmmmm

Lyfraspiral: @Lyfrastell @Lyfrabitey are you alright?????

Lyfrabitey: owwwwww

Lyfrabitey: owwwwwwwwwwww

Lyfrabitey: haveee we considered inoti having organss

Lyfraspiral: ???

Lyfraspiral: Bitey. Did you lose an organ??

Lyfraspiral: Are you okay???

Lyfraspiral: Is Stell okay???

Lyfrabitey: steeelllllll

Lyfrabitey: stellllll is. Annoyyyyyyying. 

Lyfrabitey: tryiiied to take myyyp hone away

Lyfraspiral: Glad Stell is okay.

Lyfraspiral: How did you lose an organ???

Lyfraspiral: What organ did you lose?

Lyfrasilly: that connects things then

Lyfrasilly : I got into contact with Stell through Tumblr

Lyfrasilly : they lost an organ, sent over some painkillers and medical supplies

Lyfrasilly : …they’re a bit. Strong.

Lyfrabitey: maybbbbee the bittey i sthe righ idea.

Lyfrabitey: should bittte things. 

Lyfrabitey: shooould bite.von rauum. If is seee him again. 

Lyfraloop: . . . Do you want to see him again?

Lyfrabitey: bitiiing u

Lyfrasilly : I’m sure he’d love if you did that

Lyfrabitey: whaaattt

Lyfrabitey: whoo likesss

Lyfraloop: . . . 

Lyfrastabby: wonderful mental images everyone

Lyfrastabby: great work

Lyfrastabby: please tell me he doesn’t like being stabbed

Lyfrasilly : …

Lyfrasilly : maybe yours doesn’t? Alternate universes, and all that

Lyfraloop: well. Alternate universes.

Lyfraloop: Think happy thoughts

Lyfraloop: Maybe it’s not him at the door this time either. 

Lyfrastabby: wouldn’t count on it

Lyfrastabby: and I’m still stabbing him either way

Lyfrastabby: who cares if he likes it. Distraction so I can run away. 

Lyfrabitey: bittttteeee him. 

Lyfrabitey: thrrrrow him aaway

Lyfrabitey: whhholeee man 👍

Lyfrasilly : he is very throwable

Lyfrabitey: needes to beesmalter. Eassssssseir throwing

Lyfrastell: What have I come back to. 

Lyfraloop: itwasssnthimitwasnastyadontthinkshelikesme

Lyfrastabby: ….run that one by me again?

Lyfraloop: shehadrope

Lyfrasilly : oh no

Lyfrasilly : are you alright?

Lyfraloop: bittiedup

Lyfrasilly : fucking

Lyfrasilly : WHY DID SHE TIE YOU UP???

Lyfraloop: saiditwasntpersonal

Lyfraloop: somethingaboutvonraumneedingto

Lyfraloop: gethisacttogether

Lyfraloop: whichis

Lyfraloop: agreedbutwhytiemeupaboutit

Lyfrastabby: . . . 

Lyfrastabby: what if my nastya and i found your loop dimension and beat up your nastya and von raum

Lyfrastabby: and also kidnapped you

Lyfrastabby: doppelgangers. Itd be great. Wed confuse everyone.

Lyfraloop: vetoingkidnappingthanks

Lyfrastabby: aw :--( 

Lyfrasilly: I’m not sure why she’d tie you up. 

Lyfrasilly: that’s…

Lyfrasilly: oh

Lyfrasilly: if you're still on Yggdrasil

Lyfrasilly: yeah that makes sense

Lyfraspiral: I put my phone down for dinner.

Lyfraspiral: Bitey I’m glad you’re okay. I don’t know how Marius will react to being bitten, maybe he’ll like it? Or maybe he won’t.

Lyfraspiral: Loop are you alright? 

Lyfraloop: imstillintactatleast

Lyfraloop : notsurewhatshestrying

Lyfraspiral: Glad you’re not dead and dismembered.

Lyfraspiral: That would not be fun.

Lyfrastabby: agreed

Lyfrastabby: my Nastya has a plan of attack I can forward. she says start with attacking her coat.

Lyfrastabby: next move to any vulnerable spot. if you can get her hand ports, great.

Lyfrastabby: use a knife if you’ve got one

Lyfraloop: shesnotinherrightmindmariussaid?

Lyfraloop : vonraumimean

Lyfrasilly: given what little I know he’s right

Lyfrasilly: wasn’t present for most of while she was recovering from going Out

Lyfrasilly: out of what i do know, though, she definitely isn’t stable

Chapter Text

Lyfraghost was added to the groupchat

Lyfraghost: …

Lyfraghost: ?

Lyfrabitey: . . . 

Lyfrabitey: cnt bite ghostssss, cni

Lyfraloop: shestryingtotimetraveldeviceauroraback???

Lyfraloop: thinkthatswhatvonraumsaid

Lyfraloop: ifyoutrustvonraum

Lyfraloop: newprerson?

Lyfrastabby: hello there! Do you also need a knife?

Lyfraghost: I

Lyfraghost: what?

Lyfrastabby: do you not know what knives are

Lyfraghost: I’m

Lyfraghost: still trying to relearn

Lyfraghost: I think?

Lyfraghost: not

Lyfraghost: scattered

Lyfrastabby: knives are pointy metal pieces of delight that hurt people

Lyfrastabby: useful for getting von raum the fuck away from you.

Lyfraghost: songs too loud

Lyfraghost: i can't

Lyfraghost: remember?

Lyfraghost: existence and reality and its too far away

Lyfraghost: I don’t know

Lyfraghost: I don’t know

Lyfraghost: I don’t know

Lyfrastabby: okay you not knowing what knives are is a tragedy

Lyfrastabby: one i will attempt to solve later

Lyfrastabby: hey spiral if you’re on this seems more up your alley

Lyfrastabby: loop are you out of the …rope? From evil nastya?

Lyfraloop: inotyetshesgoodwithknots

Lyfrastabby: shit

Lyfrasilly: Do you have a knife?

Lyfraloop: notonmeshechecked

Lyfrastabby: yes always

Lyfrastabby: oh you werent

Lyfrastabby: right

Lyfrasilly: asking you would be completely unnecessary

Lyfrasilly: the answer is quite obvious

Lyfrasilly: where are you tied up? Maybe if there’s a vase or something near you you could knock it over and use the ceramic to try and cut the rope

Lyfrabitey: i got aaknife :_)

Lyfrabitey: this nose felllll off. 

Lyfraloop: itwasinmyapartmentandidonthavevases

Lyfraloop: ;-0

Lyfrasilly: I

Lyfrasilly: what is that emoji meant to convey

Lyfraghost: I like it

Lyfraghost: 👍

Lyfraloop: thaticantshiftkeyboards

Lyfraloop: ;-0

Lyfraghost: ooo

Lyfraghost: ⭑｡𖦹°‧

Lyfraghost: huh

Lyfraghost: I like that one

Lyfrabitey: mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmfghi

Lyfrabitey: this is Stell

Lyfrabitey: Lyf’s phone privileges have been taken away

Lyfrabitey: at least until they stop trying to bite their fingers.

Lyfrasilly: probably for the best

Lyfrasilly: I apparently had an entire one-sided conversation with a cat while on that stuff

Lyfrasilly: and thats just out of the little bit I’ve gotten people to share

Lyfrasilly: still not sure on half of what happened

Lyfraghost: do any of us?

Lyfraghost: know

Lyfraghost: all just one side in the

Lyfraghost: where is everything?

Lyfrasilly: are you alright?

Lyfrasilly: I’m assuming not, but.

Lyfrasilly: what’s happening to you right now?

Lyfraghost: music

Lyfraghost: too much

Lyfraghost: not enough

Lyfraghost: I miss it

Lyfraspiral: Oh! Hello! New person!

Lyfraghost: Am I new?

Lyfraghost: I think I’ve been here too long already

Lyfrastell: If Lyfrabitey there was in their right mind, they’d agree with you. 

Lyfrastabby: if you still don’t know what knives are, you haven’t been here long enough.

Lyfrastabby: spiral help me explain what knives are

Lyfraspiral: Knives are dangerous, they kill, yet they can also be used to cut up food. Helpful things knives. 

Lyfraspiral: They’re sharp metal, crafted to harm and also to help cut things up. Good for cooking, good for Hunting.

Lyfrasilly: useful for keeping annoying crewmates away

Lyfrasilly: and for self defense

Lyfraspiral: They’re helpful when you’re being attacked. Threw a bread knife at someone once. Hit them in the nose. Jonny was very impressed.

Lyfrasilly: help with emotional support?

Lyfrasilly: i always feel emotionally supported when I have knives

Lyfrastabby: best form of emotional support

Lyfrastabby: much better than most people

Lyfraloop : pleasegethelp

Lyfraspiral: Help to free you from the ropes or therapy?

Lyfrasilly: I don’t think there’s a therapist qualified to help any of us

Lyfrasilly: but if there is

Lyfrasilly: please tell me

Lyfrasilly: the best I have is Marius

Lyfraspiral: I could probably find a therapist. 

Lyfraspiral: Hmmm. 

Lyfraspiral: I’ll talk to Aurora. The Vast has many kinds of people. 

Lyfrasilly: I don’t know everything that’s happened to you but if it’s anything close to the Bifrost yes do that

Lyfraspiral: Oh! Not for me!

Lyfraspiral: For Tim.

Lyfraspiral: I don’t think normal people could understand the Distortion. 

Lyfraspiral: Plus madness is a part of me. I am as sane and insane as I should be. Can a hallway be sane?

Lyfraghost: can the colors hurt?

Lyfraghost: can the screams come from no mouth yet sing all the same?

Lyfraghost: can madness and terror be ripping through my veins but there’s no blood to tell, no heart to pump it, just jagged edges of sanity and the ripping teeth of languages unheard unspoken unknown unreal undulating and moving and tearing and hatred

Lyfraghost: ꩜⋆.°⭑

Lyfraspiral: The colors are knives in and of themselves, piercing the eyes and hearts of those who wander as they shift- shifted from color to color, from blue to blue. 

Lyfraspiral: The terror and madness and chaos of the Distortion and the world and the Fear the sane have of the insane and the madness is a twisted wonderful feast. 

Lyfraspiral: Why would there be blood when there is color, when there are hallways and doors?

Lyfraghost: no the colors can’t be knives the knives are to protect they have purpose to maim for love and thought and terror and reality the colors are not knives the colors protect nothing there is nothing to protect anymore they’re all gone all gone all gone all gone all gone all gone all gone all gone all gone

Lyfraghost: i should be gone to I need to be gone the colors and reality and what is beyond it sings to me it screams in a language that is not real but is truer than what i cling to and it tells me i can end the pain and ripping but there is something there and i can’t let go not yet not when i can still hear it not when there are moments when it is drowned out not when i can almost see faces not when there are walls and colors that do not rip at my eyes that are not there and whisper in words and promises that there is even a chance they could be fulfilled

Lyfraghost: I am not real but i was once and there’s something there but it’s trying to drag me away and i cannot be real but the fact that i want it makes me real all the same and it hates me

Lyfraghost: it hates that I can still want to be free

Lyfraspiral: You once were real which means part of all of you is still real.

Lyfraspiral: Who is it you think of? Who is it that still lives that anchors you? 

Lyfraspiral: Think of them, of that anchor that holds you to the world, to the sane, to the outside of the colors that swirl and stab and try to steal. 

Lyfraspiral: Find freedom in the anchor that keeps you and holds you and remembers you true and there and whole.

Lyfraghost: how can i remember when they are all dead

Lyfraghost: they haven”t clung the way i do

Lyfraghost: did they listen to the song? Or was drowning it out what took them?

Lyfraghost: if I listen to the wordless wordless lullaby will I die too

Lyfraspiral: What about Marius? 

Lyfraspiral: Raphaella? Ivy?

Lyfraspiral: I’ve heard most versions of them are unkillable. 

Lyfraspiral: What of them? Why don’t you let them be your anchors?

Lyfraghost: I

Lyfraghost: I don’t

Lyfraghost: are they?

Lyfraghost: real alive not here with me known real outside anchoring drawing me out caring I don’t

Lyfraghost: could I even find them? There’s nothing here

Lyfraspiral: They don’t seem like the kind to die easy. 

Lyfraspiral: Neither are you it seems.

Lyfraspiral: Think of them. 

Lyfraspiral: Think of them and find your way towards them through the anchors, through the memories. 

Lyfraspiral: Why don’t you tell me about them?

Lyfraghost: it’s too

Lyfraghost: too loud can’t think can’t remember the names aren’t enough I need the quiet

Lyfraghost: too loud too loud too loud too loud too loud too loud too loud too loud the world needs to shut up the song needs to shut up

Lyfraspiral: Don’t think of the song.

Lyfraspiral: Think of Marius.

Lyfraspiral: What was he like? Did he blink like a frog?

Lyfraghost: how can I think of anything else when that’s all there is?

Lyfraghost: songs and screaming and colors

Lyfraghost: all there is ever was what remains what is keeping me here

Lyfraspiral: What if I told you of my Marius? Do you think that could help you remember yours?

Lyfraghost: nonononononononononononono

Lyfraghost: hurts hurts hurts too much remembering me remembering him the angles cut me when I try to think

Lyfraghost: he cant be real because then hed be in the colors to and thats all there is and if theres anyone else here they’re in pain and they can’t be because I couldn’t save them

Lyfraspiral: He is real. 

Lyfraspiral: Think of him.

Lyfraspiral: He’s not in the colors. 

Lyfraspiral: They don’t want you out, but he does. 

Lyfraspiral: Think of him.

Lyfraghost: how do you know how do you know how do you know

Lyfraghost: you can’t know I’m not

Lyfraghost: too close to it to tangled and torn and lost and it won’t help he can’t help nothing can help except that fucking song shutting up

Lyfraspiral: What’s he like? Is he loud? Is he always talking? Do you remember what color he wore the most? Mine favors green.

Lyfraghost: loud?

Lyfraghost: yes always

Lyfraghost: not

Lyfraghost: not as loud as the world as the song as the whispers

Lyfraghost: but close enough

Lyfraspiral: Mine can be pretty loud too. 

Lyfraspiral: Did he have any nicknames for you? Or you for him? We call ours Froglight here. He lovingly called me Taxi Door when he was tired the other day.

Lyfraghost: I

Lyfraghost: names

Lyfraghost: names names names

Lyfraghost: he’d call me Starlight but the stars are too blinding and prickly

Lyfraghost: I don’t want to think about them

Lyfraspiral: That’s a nice nickname. 

Lyfrastell: . . .Mine calls me Starlight too. 

Lyfrastell: like a guiding light

Lyfrastell: or– we talk about anchors, sometimes, too. Can you feel anything holding you? Tethering to reality still?

Lyfraghost: theres

Lyfraghost: the song is so loud

Lyfraghost: but sometimes something else sings

Lyfraghost: and I think i can almost understand the words

Lyfrastell: Songs can be nice

Lyfrastell: understandable ones, at least

Lyfraghost: I can’t tell if I hate the words or if they’re the only thing keeping me from becoming it all

Lyfraghost: maybe both

Lyfraspiral: The other voice, do you recognize it? 

Lyfraghost: if i did would it matter?

Lyfraghost: all just colors in the end

Lyfraghost: i can tell the colors apart but it doesn’t mean they make anything

Lyfraspiral: What if it’s Marius? What if it’s leading you to him?

Lyfraghost: where would it lead me to?

Lyfraghost: there’s nowhere to be

Lyfraspiral: There is wherever he is.

Lyfraloop: speaking as someone literally stuck somewhere

Lyfraloop: somewhen

Lyfraloop: there’s got to be somewhere else to be. 

Lyfraloop: that’s hope right there

Lyfraghost: hope

Lyfraghost: what a funny word

Lyfraghost: hope

Lyfraghost: it makes me want to scream

Lyfraghost: I don’t know why

Lyfraloop: i mean. You’re talking to us somehow, aren’t you?

Lyfraloop: Loop reset. I got out of the ropes that way

Lyfraloop: and von raum actually fucking brought me coffee

Lyfraloop: miracles abound.

Lyfraghost: am I talking?

Lyfraghost: how am I

Lyfraghost: where do the words come from?

Lyfrastabby: ive heard dictionaries have something to do with it but i think alexandria was just pulling my leg

Lyfraghost: interesting

Lyfraghost: I don’t know either

Lyfraspiral: Words are everywhere and nowhere. Constant and fleeting. 

Lyfraspiral: They comfort and they harm.

Lyfrastabby: those are all in fact words. Good job spiral. 

Lyfraloop: well. Ghost. Question. I don’t think I’m missing an organ. Are you?

Lyfraloop: I heard Bitey is now. And I’m concerned.

Lyfraghost: 𖦹⊹₊⋆ .ᐟ 

Lyfraghost: ✶⋆.˚꩜ .ᐟ˙⋆✶

Lyfraloop: All right. 

Lyfraloop: guess I have no room to talk considering

Lyfraloop: you know what never mind

Lyfraloop: stell please confirm that the organ is not in fact bitey’s brain

Lyfrastell: I. 

Lyfrastell: I think they still have that one.

Lyfraghost: having a room to talk sounds awfully inconvenient

Lyfraghost: do you not have a mouth for that?

Lyfrastell: Ghost are you just having an “I have no mouth and I must scream” or whatever it was moment

Lyfrastell: I have a friend who was fond of that.

Lyfraghost: I think i have no mouth but I am still screaming

Lyfraghost: or everything around me is screaming

Lyfraghost: I can’t tell

Lyfraspiral: Like a potato? They scream when you fry them.

Lyfraghost: I

Lyfraghost: sure?

Lyfraspiral: Potato ghost. 

Lyfraspiral: …Maybe I should step into my hallways. Regain some sanity while my Anchors sleep. 

Lyfrastabby: sanity’s overrated. Try instead causing havoc before leaving chaos in your wake

Lyfrastabby: would infact stab a man if it didnt mean stepping within three feet of him while hes awake. 

Lyfraloop: why are you like this

Lyfraloop: . . . actually considering the circumstances

Lyfraloop: maybe you’ve got an evil marius and ive got an evil Nastya

Lyfraloop: seems reasonable

Lyfraspiral: Sanity is not overrated when one is surrounded by humans. 

Lyfraspiral: Can’t drive the humans insane.

Lyfraspiral: I like these humans.

Lyfraghost: sanity doesn’t mean much here

Lyfraghost: if it meant anything in the first place

Lyfrastabby: idea

Lyfrastabby: what if i tried summoning you seance style

Lyfrastabby: makeshift communication board. Your display name says ghost. Why not

Lyfrastabby: poltergeist would be fun around here

Lyfraghost: …

Lyfraghost: could I throw things at people?

Lyfraspiral: Ghosts usually do, don’t they?

Lyfraspiral: Well. Unless you’re Bertie and tied to a book. Then you just make your boyfriends cry and disappear before your other partner comes home.

Lyfrastabby: throwing would be heavily encouraged

Lyfrastabby: any and all things to annoy von raum and make him cry

Lyfraghost: crying hurts

Lyfrastabby: well if crying’s off-limits, maybe just pace around angrily and be like “what the fuck is even going on here i thought the ship was the other way up why is my furniture on the ceiling”

Lyfrastabby: things like that

Lyfraghost: hm

Lyfraghost: could you summon me?

Lyfrastabby: i would give it my best shot

Lyfrastabby: slight caveat i am running on thirty something hours awake and a handful of candy but i am absolutely giving it a go

Lyfraghost: do you have more candy?

Lyfrastabby: i stole it and hid it on my ship so yes but i was saving it for later

Lyfrastabby: celebration sort of thing

Lyfraghost: oh makes sense

Lyfraghost: might help the seance tho

Lyfrastabby: oh excellent point

Lyfrastabby: would blood help? Ive got some of that

Lyfraghost: sure

Lyfraghost: don’t think I personally have any, so. Might help

Lyfrastabby: ok, got some of mine, some of von raums due to an encounter with a hammer, and nastyas offering some of hers

Lyfrastabby: but hers is poisonous metal so were ignoring that

Lyfrastabby: what else is good. Candles? Candles. That seems like a normal summoning ghosts thing

Lyfrastabby: bet i can get some off of o’reilly

Lyfrastabby: they said random facts about me would be valuable for later use for some reason. Something about trading with von raum. I hope they make a gold mine.

Lyfraghost:  ⋆.˚

Lyfraghost: hm

Lyfraghost: sparkle

Lyfraspiral: I can see if Ivy has any books on ghost summoning. 

Lyfraspiral: The Institute may. They are all about the paranormal.

Lyfrastabby: useful that

Lyfrastell: I’d offer to help but for me ghosts arent summoned they just kind of

Lyfrastell: show up

Lyfrastell: and don’t leave me alone

Lyfrastabby: well that means at least one of us can do this sort of thing already :-) we’re in business

Lyfraspiral: Stop with the noses, they don’t need to breathe

Lyfrastabby: for the moment im with loop on this one, our friend here absolutely needs to breathe, we need all the spare noses we can get

Lyfrastabby: dont worry, ill go back to cutting them off later

Lyfraghost: (• ͜ʖ•)

Lyfraghost: ^ܠ^

Lyfraghost: hm.

Lyfraghost: I don’t think i have a nose

Lyfraspiral: Does a hallway have a nose? 

Lyfraspiral: … I’m going to go wake up Tim and ask her if I have a nose.

Lyfrastabby: okay guess ill give you the noses i cut off of the emojis then

Lyfrastabby: just as a gift

Lyfrastabby: does that even make sense?

Lyfrastabby: who fucking knows at this point

Lyfraspiral: Update! Tim says I do have a nose. 

Lyfraspiral: I’m now trapped in cuddles with my fiance. 

Lyfraspiral: Happy.

Lyfraspiral: Less spirally. Colors shifting slower.

Lyfrastell: That’s. Nice. 

Lyfrastabby: okay so ghost summoning ghost summoning

Lyfrastabby: got candles. Got the cookies. And a random mixture of blood that isnt poison. 

Lyfrastabby: there’s probably, like, some sort of words to say then, huh

Lyfrastabby: I

Lyfrastabby: not the biggest fan of chanting but. That seems like a step, doesnt it

Lyfraghost: what if you just scream

Lyfraghost: might drown out the music

Lyfraghost: which would be helpful

Lyfrastabby: . . . thats a thought

Lyfrastabby: if im doing that though

Lyfrastabby: getting nastya to go knock von raum out again just in case. Give me five. 

Lyfraspiral: I could look for ghost books. 

Lyfraspiral: That would have to wait until morning.

Lyfraspiral: I am trapped.

Lyfraloop: 🤝

Lyfraloop: only

Lyfraloop: well

Lyfraloop: your situation involves more cuddling and mine involves more sharp pains in the. Arm. 

Lyfrastabby: distraction underway

Lyfraspiral: You should throw a wrench at your Nastya Loop. 

Lyfraghost: who is Nastya

Lyfraghost: ?

Lyfraloop: on my end, person who tied me up with ropes and said “dont worry its not personal its just marius being a jerk and not wanting me to rewind the universe several centuries to get my girlfriend back” last loop

Lyfrastabby: on my end, she’s actually great

Lyfrastell: . . . I’ve met two. She’s complicated.

Lyfraspiral: I’ve known my Nastya since childhood. She’s kind. She can be cold when she wants, but when she cares she shows it often. She’s very comfy. I think she’d look cute if she stole my jacket.

Lyfrastell: . . .

Lyfraloop: oh het who’re you talkign to there

Lyfraloop: weird chat names

Lyfraloop: . . . looop?

Lyfraloop: hgionrgdjfgs

Lyfraghost: ✧˖°

Lyfraghost: i’m figuring out how to do more sparkles

Lyfraghost: ⋆₊˚⊹ ࿔⋆

Lyfraspiral: Oooo

Lyfraspiral: Nice sparkles!

Lyfraspiral: Loop, did someone steal your phone?

Lyfraghost: 𖦹⋆.˚~⋆

Lyfraspiral: Oooo!!! I like the spiral in those sparkles

Lyfraloop: someone stole my phone and he is not stealing it again.

Lyfraspiral: Throw a door at them?

Lyfraspiral: Or a wrench.

Lyfraloop: he has his own phone and things he should be focusing on. If he was actually motivated by, say, saving the world . Instead of getting distracted by what I’m up to.

Lyfraloop: getting me coffee only buys him so much goodwill.

Lyfraghost: coffee…

Lyfraghost: i miss coffee

Lyfrastabby: putting it in the summoning circle now :-) 

Lyfraghost: :-D

Lyfraghost: the smiley gets a nose even if I don’t

Lyfraspiral: …it only gets a pass because you don’t have a nose. 

Lyfraspiral: Loop why don’t you remind him saving the world gets him a kiss? 

Lyfraspiral: He may work harder when reminded of his motivation.

Lyfraghost: why are we kissing von Raum

Lyfraghost: that doesn’t

Lyfraghost: ow

Lyfrabitey: youoo donttt havee anose?

Lyfrabitey: owddoyousmell :( 

Lyfraghost: do I smell?

Lyfraghost: hm

Lyfraghost: i may have forgotten what smelling is

Lyfrastabby: dont worry, once we figure out the summoning shit, we can probably figure out a body after that. And then you can shower.

Lyfraspiral: Do ghosts have bodies? 

Lyfraspiral: Or are they just there, memories and thoughts and people floating through time and space and speaking and watching and always there.

Lyfrastell: ghosts have bodies if they steal yours

Lyfrastell: also they look like themselves most of the time to me. Sometimes like when they died, but. Most of the time like themselves. 

Lyfrastell: they said they can’t control it but they seemed to enjoy doing it right when it’d make me snort water up my nose. So.

Lyfrastell: thanks so much, Emma.

Lyfraghost: I’m not

Lyfraghost: planning on making anyone snort water up their noses?

Lyfraghost: but

Lyfraghost: having a body again would be nice

Lyfrastabby: bodies are useful. Can stab things with them.

Lyfrastabby: or do other things, I guess. Lik. i dont know. Tackle people? 

Lyfrastabby: Nastya did good work with a hammer, too

Lyfraghost: smelling?

Lyfraspiral: What are bodies if not sentient hallways?

Lyfrastabby: yep bodies do that too

Lyfrastabby: dont worry we can introduce you to soap right after we introduce you to some knives

Lyfraghost: is soap edible

Lyfraghost: i think eating is a thing. Also

Lyfraghost: maybe

Lyfraghost: putting things in moputh

Lyfrastabby: dont follow in the ways of lyfrabitey

Lyfrastabby: theyve lost an organ

Lyfrastabby: rip lyfrabitey, gone too soon

Lyfrabitey: imnotsddeadami?

Lyfrastabby: sometimes icanstill hear their voice

Lyfraghost: welcome to the club bitey

Lyfrastell: if they’re dead somehow over the last ten minutes then I am going to kill them.

Lyfraspiral: Rip Bitey, killed by an angry and concerned Stell.

Lyfrabitey: stelllwodulnt killll me

Lyfrabitey: diddd you killlltahtguy tho stell

Lyfrastell: . . . I think you must be misremembering. 

Lyfrastell: But. Please. Actually eat something other than canned beans or apples. 

Lyfrastell: in Ghost’s honor. 

Lyfrabitey: …………..mmmmm

Lyfraghost: i’ll live vicariously through you

Lyfrabitey: maybe

Lyfrabitey: maybe cooked beansand cut apple. 

Lyfrastell: why.

Lyfraspiral: If I could I would send you what Jonny cooks. 

Lyfraspiral: Very good food. 

Lyfraspiral: Though he doesn’t know what simple means and cooks way too much.

Lyfrastabby: okay summoning supplies gathered

Lyfrastabby: von raum knocked out in his room apparently

Lyfrastabby: dont know how that got managed

Lyfrastabby: think toy soldier maybe?

Lyfrastabby: its screaming time

Lyfrastabby: ready ghost?

Lyfraghost: as ready as i can be

Lyfrastabby: screaming in three

Lyfrastabby: two

Lyfrastabby: one

Lyfrastabby: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Lyfraghost: …

Lyfraghost: i don’t think it worked :-( 

Lyfraspiral: :{

Lyfrastabby: maybe i just didnt scream loudly enough

Lyfrastabby: or maybe

Lyfrastabby: maybe the fucking chanting would

Lyfrastabby: probably got a bit of chanting left in me

Lyfraspiral: Maybe you can’t summon a ghost from another universe. 

Lyfraspiral: Maybe someone in their universe has to be the one to summon them.

Lyfraghost: it was very good screaming

Lyfrastabby: wasnt enough though was it

Lyfrastabby: i. Im sorry

Lyfraghost: dont worry

Lyfraghost: i dont think youd really want me in your dimension right now anyways

Lyfraghost: its a bit.  eeeggeghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Lyfrastabby: the only friend i have here is nastya

Lyfrastabby: and she’s not the most talkative right now

Lyfrastabby: was dead less than a day ago

Lyfrastabby: whatever egggehgege means itd be fun

Lyfrastabby: and i didnt get to save anyone. Just. just me and my supplies and a fucking homemade knife dummy. 

Lyfraghost: i wish I could be there :-( 

Lyfraghost: maybe if somebody summons me in my dimension i could go there?

Lyfrastell: wouldn’t recommend interdimensional travel personally

Lyfrastell: i mean. Seems dangerous. And risky. And you might get injured and separated from people you care about and bleed a lot and summon blood snakes. 

Lyfrabitey: bloodsnek?

Lyfrastell: They’re. Blood snakes. I don’t know what else to say about them, Bitey. 

Lyfrabitey: couldddd ibite?

Lyfrastell: They’re made of blood. And they’d bite you.

Lyfrabitey: traiitors….

Lyfraghost: I mean. Couldnt be worse than my current situation

Lyfraloop: Yes there are absolutely worse fatessfifgndfgjkdf

Lyfraloop: HI THERE PEOPLE IN LYFS PHONE

Lyfraloop: WHY IS CAPSLOCK ON THIS TIME

Lyfraghost: whats a phone

Lyfraghost: can you eat it

Lyfraghost: or smell it

Lyfraloop: TECHNICALLY YES BUT I WOULDNT SUGGEST IT BECAUS EPEOPLE GET UPSET

Lyfrastell: . . . Marius?

Lyfraloop: WAIT PEOPLE IN LYFS PHONE KNOW MY NAME

Lyfraloop: OKAY THERES PROBABLY

Lyfraloop: HI THERE

Lyfraloop: PLEASE IGNORE EVERYTHING THEYVE EVER SAID ABOUT ME EVER I PROMISE IM COOL

Lyfraghost: i thought i was supposed to throw things at him

Lyfraghost: or wait

Lyfraghost: that was stabby’s marius

Lyfraghost: and i cant get there

Lyfraghost: would throwing things at loop’s marius work?

Lyfraloop: PLEASE DONT THROW THINGS AT ME ITD MAKE THE CURRENT SITUATION MORE DIFFICULT

Lyfraloop: I MEAN ITS ALREADY PRETTY DIFFICULT BUT

Lyfraloop: IM GOING TO GET THAT DATE AND KISS THANKS

Lyfraloop: ALSO SAVE THEIR WORLD AND SHIT. THAT TOO. 

Lyfraghost: i’d suggest avoiding colors

Lyfraghost: they hurt

Lyfraghost: and music

Lyfraloop: WELL YES COLORS ARENT GREAT SOMETIMES LIKE THE ONES ON LYFS ARM. NOT GREAT. 

Lyfraloop: BUT HAVE YOU CONSIDERED 

Lyfraloop: RAINBOWS ARE ALSO GAY

Lyfraghost: if rainbows are gay i don’t think i like whatever gay is

Lyfraghost: because rainbows.

Lyfraghost: auhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Lyfraloop: WAIT YOU DON’T KNOW GAY

Lyfraloop: UH

Lyfraloop: GAY IS. 

Lyfraloop: OH THEres capslock

Lyfraloop: got to be honest havent had caffeine yet so my brains a little short circuity and lyf also is in a tankt op and they have. Shoulders. 

Lyfraloop: did you know that they have shoulders? Because. Shoulders. Tiny freckles. Arms . 

Lyfraghost: I wish i had shoulders… 

Lyfraghost: :-(

Lyfraloop: anyway gay is. Right now how im feeling about lyf. Attraction between two people that isnt just. Straight. With cultural norms. Dunno, ivy could explain this better

Lyfraloop: Shoulders. 

Lyfraghost: gay is shoulders?

Lyfraloop: gay is. I love them. The way they look and the way they act. And could probably ramble on and on about small bits and pieces of all of it. 

Lyfraloop: so im gay about their shoulders, yes. Because i love their shoulders. Because i love them. 

Lyfraloop: dont think they believe me on that one

Lyfraloop: fuck do they backread chats

Lyfraloop: actually wait that could be a good thing. If they. Saw me being gay about their shoulders. And their everything. Yep. 

Lyfraloop: sticking to it.

Lyfraghost: whatever gay is i’m sure you’re doing great at it

Lyfraloop: if there were gay awards bet the time loop would put me over the edge

Lyfraloop: “oh you had a gay crush on someone, here’s an opportunity to save their life”

Lyfraloop: “just relive the same day over and over a thousand hundred million times”

Lyfraloop: “see if they actually believe you”

Lyfraghost: wait

Lyfraghost: we’re crushing gay now???

Lyfraloop: totally crushing it 

Lyfraloop: just. Passing all expectations

Lyfraloop: (crush just means. I really liked them. Had i said a word of it to their face? Eh. not anything they actually got)

Lyfraloop: but. I. getting them to believe me’s harder.

Lyfraghost: I wish you all the luck i have

Lyfraghost: which really isn’t that much unfortunately

Lyfraghost: .°⋆.𖦹°‧

Lyfraloop: …thanks

Lyfraloop: think i got a bunch of luck already there

Lyfraloop: they listened to me about the one idea

Lyfraloop: which is great,its. Mostly armless.

Lyfraloop: so.

Lyfraloop: they are going to notice their phones gone every secondnow

Lyfraghost: eat it?

Lyfraloop: they already looked at me so weird for eating the black box once

Lyfraghost: why would you eat the fucking black box von raum

Lyfraghost: wait

Lyfraghost: fuckijnhgggggghjjkkkkwsjio

Lyfraghost: ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow

Lyfraghost: what the fuick

Lyfraloop: i was getting desperate and also kinda hungry and it was there?

Lyfraloop: you ok?

Lyfraghost: too close to much music won’t let me leave and i still can’t find where it’s coming from and it hurts it hurts it hurts and I can only make it stop if i scream but then i can’t hear it i can’t find it I can’t find him and it’s my only way back way out the faces and the colors and they blend together with the music and cut into my brain and I’m lost but not lost enough to die and I just need out

Lyfraloop: would it help if i told you more stupid shit i did

Lyfraloop: because. There was so much stupid shit

Lyfraghost: I

Lyfraghost: I think

Lyfraghost: i

Lyfraghost: Maybe?

Lyfraghost: I’m not

Lyfraghost: can hear it. Still.

Lyfraghost: back of my mind

Lyfraghost: just need to

Lyfraghost: listen

Lyfraloop: tried to tell them there were killer bees on the train once

Lyfraloop: solution to the whole mystery! Killer bees. Thats definitely it. Just. go. 

Lyfraghost: bees

Lyfraloop: there was the loop where i tried to say the train was destroyed for tax evasion reasons

Lyfraloop: odin does seem the type, doesnt she

Lyfraghost: she would

Lyfraghost: oh ow

Lyfraghost: hurt

Lyfraghost: mmmmmm

Lyfraghost: bad again

Lyfraloop: tried saying it was the three of us once, too

Lyfraloop: think Lyf really hated that one

Lyfraloop: something like “would believe it based on our records but”

Lyfraloop: wed have mentioned it before now. 

Lyfraloop: and also wanted evidence

Lyfraghost: he’d

Lyfraghost: yeah, you cant

Lyfraghost: wouldnt have believd it either

Lyfraloop: worst loop was when i gave up and tried fucking. Putting them in a shuttle away from the planet

Lyfraloop: they. Werent a fan of that one.

Lyfraloop: so many reasons for that too

Lyfraghost: couldnt save anyone that way

Lyfraloop: yeah pretty much

Lyfraloop: and also they’d started looping a few loops before

Lyfraloop: were waiting to see if id talk to them about it

Lyfraloop : again

Lyfraloop: but nope, had to mess everything up like that instead, didnt i? And they were so pissed

Lyfraghost: mhm

Lyfraloop: i mean theyre cute when theyre angry but this was on a different level

Lyfraloop: and. Waking up loop after that thinking they werent going to let me try again saving them was. That fucking sucked.

Lyfraghost: hear the msusic agin one sec

Lyfraghost: its. Faint. but

Lyfraghost: thingk i can follow? Maybee?

Lyfraloop: good. Good luck out there, whoever you are

Lyfraloop: man these chat names are weird

Lyfraloop: lyf you have weird taste in friends but

Lyfraloop: right giving you your phone back.

Lyfraghost: cant remember a name

Lyfraghost: thats not. Surprising. though

Lyfraloop: What did Von Raum fucking do with my phone.

Lyfraghost: he told me waht gay was?

Lyfraloop: . . . really. And what is it?

Lyfraghost: something about shoulders

Lyfraghost: and crushing people

Lyfraghost: I think

Lyfraghost: not sure if with like. Mallets. or

Lyfraloop: . . . right. Conversations to have with him later.

Lyfraghost: I don’t know

Lyfraghost: but

Lyfraghost: song is back

Lyfraghost: not the

Lyfraghost: not the loud one

Lyfraghost: quieter one. Good one

Lyfraghost: trying to find it

Lyfraloop: go on, good luck. I’ve got someone to strangle.

Lyfraghost: thanks

Lyfraghost: I’ll

Lyfraghost: I’ll try

Lyfraghost: good luck to you too

Chapter Text

Lyfrastell: good news, we’ve figured out the organ

Lyfrastell: bad news

Lyfrastell: mixed news?

Lyfrastell: Bitey’s decided this Marius’s hand is a good chew toy.

Lyfraspiral: Living up to the name Bitey.

Lyfrabitey: mmmnnmnmnmnmnmn

Lyfrabitey: teeth:)

Lyfraloop: really

Lyfraloop: I have. Questions

Lyfrasilly: what organ was it?

Lyfrasilly: please nothing essential

Lyfrastabby: if bitey doesnt answer soon it can be

Lyfrastabby: I Will Find A Way

Lyfrastell: Please don’t

Lyfrastell: it was their spleen

Lyfrastell: side note

Lyfrastell: the biting is.

Lyfrastell: well you know how everyone kept warning them that Marius would be into it

Lyfrastell: he’s got the world’s gooiest expression

Lyfrasilly: of course

Lyfrasilly: …this entire thing with the biting is making me begin to think I need to have a. Conversation. With my Marius

Lyfrasilly: hm

Lyfrabitey: biteeeee him :))))

Lyfrasilly: depending on how the conversation goes

Lyfrasilly: hm

Lyfrasilly: not finishing that sentence

Lyfraspiral: Is bitey at least getting Some medical attention?

Lyfrastell: as much as a von  raum distracted by being bitten can provide

Lyfrastell: Also Brian

Lyfrastell: Brian’s helping

Lyfrastell: which is good because the biting’s not helping matters

Lyfrastabby: get his ass bitey
Lyfrabitey: ………..

Lyfrabitey: nnno.

Lyfrabitey: just handddd. 

Lyfraspiral: Do either of them even have medical degrees???

Lyfrastell: If Marius has an actual license I will eat my shoe. 

Lyfrastell: Haven’t asked Brian.

Lyfrasilly: Brian might

Lyfrasilly: Marius?

Lyfrasilly: if there’s a world where Marius has a medical license something has gone very, very twisted.

Lyfrastell: but he at least knows enough medical stuff to keep Lyf alive there

Lyfrastell: and if he did anything that would hurt them

Lyfrastell: well. He wouldn’t. But Nastya’s also outside with a gun.

Lyfrasilly: oh joys

Lyfraspiral: She doesn’t need a gun to be effective. I watched her knock a dude out with a wrench once. 

Lyfrastell: yes, I know, it’s more the distance of it

Lyfrastell: she’s not coming more on the ship than she has to

Lyfrastabby: makes sense

Lyfrastabby: my nastya’s the same way

Lyfrastabby: she suggests throwing things

Lyfraloop: how about no nastya’s throwing or shooting things

Lyfrastabby: :( 

Lyfraspiral: Shooting the man giving Bitey medical attention does not sound smart. 

Lyfrasilly: yes please don’t let Nastya shoot their Marius

Lyfrastell: Don’t worry, I think she trusts me to supervise the situation

Lyfrastell: And I’m not about to shoot Marius. 

Lyfrabitey: goodddd

Lyfrabitey: dodndt wantyo bite deafg people. 

Lyfraloop: . . . 

Lyfrastabby: . . .  

Lyfrabitey: whhhhat

Lyfraghost: well at least I know I’m safe then

Lyfraspiral: Well at least we’re sure the name fits?

Lyfraspiral: How strong are those painkillers????

Lyfrasilly: yes.

Lyfraspiral: Concern.

Lyfrasilly: I mean. I’m not sure how much the dosage differs from what I was on

Lyfrasilly: but I don’t remember a single thing from when I was on them and all the tidbits I’ve heard from people I can’t tell if they’re trying to mess with me or if any of it actually happened

Lyfraspiral: Interesting.

Lyfrastell: considering the. Uh. 

Lyfrastell: hair touching

Lyfrastell: “yes” seems to be accurate.

Lyfrasilly: they’re going to be mortified if they hear about that

Lyfrastell: I’m sure it will be. An experience. 

Lyfrastell: but. Plenty of experiences out there. 

Lyfrastell: They’ll survive. 

Lyfraghost: hopefully

Lyfrastell: in this case, their spleen being removed and learning that they were more gay than expected? They’ll survive. 

Lyfrastell: how’s everything going, Loop? Stabby?

Lyfrastabby: cleaned up the summoning stuff, about to head out. Should be free and clear 

Lyfrastabby: no chance von raum even knows i was on board

Lyfraloop: mhgsdfgdf

Lyfraloop: kk lyf just explinf things nd whatttt iff von ruam wanted to know that

Lyfraloop: wfhisfgondf

Lyfraloop: Not. Stealing. My. Phone. 

Lyfraloop: he has his own.

Lyfrasilly: I’m still surprised mine hasn’t stolen my phone to text on here yet

Lyfrastell: You do know you’re jinxing yourself, right?

Lyfrastell: Look behind you. 

Lyfrastell: Just in case. 

Lyfrasilly: i am well aware of that fact

Lyfrasilly: unfortunately for him I am tall

Lyfrasilly: and can text one handed 

Lyfrastell: Good for you

Lyfrastabby: oh really now

Lyfrastabby: one handed texting seems useful

Lyfrastabby: and. Yep.

Lyfrastabby: could put the other hand to good use. 

Lyfraloop: what did you think i was doing in the ropes

Lyfrastabby: trying to bite yourself free or something?

Lyfraloop: I’m not bitey

Lyfrabitey: hiiiii

Lyfrasilly: I’m going to take a wild guess on what your suggestion to do with the other hand is Stabby

Lyfrasilly: does it perhaps involve knives

Lyfrastabby: maybe

Lyfrastabby: possibly

Lyfrastabby: could also involve choking Von Raum and watching him struggle to breathe

Lyfrastabby: im flexible

Lyfrasilly: hot

Lyfrasilly: and there’s marius stealing my phone

Lyfrasilly: again

Lyfrasilly: apologies

Lyfrastabby: its not hot its vengeance

Lyfrasilly: whooi says it cant b eboith

Lyfrasilly: anywasy hi other lyfs!!!!

Lyfrasilly: i have acquired th ephone

Lyfrastell: . . . Hello

Lyfrabitey: bitinnnng you

Lyfraloop: von raum

Lyfrastabby: it really isnt both

Lyfrastabby: it is not meant to be both

Lyfrastabby: please. Someone. Back me up

Lyfrasilly: wow i havent gotten von raumed in years

Lyfraloop: hrm

Lyfrastell: really?

Lyfrastell: Of all of the group

Lyfrastell: Do I need to mention the deal

Lyfraloop: I could still call him Von Raum up to and including that point. 

Lyfraloop: and beyond that. While never seeing him again possibly

Lyfraloop: . . . maybe. 

Lyfrastabby: von raum he shall stay until i never see him again at least. And beyond that. Nastya calls him the baron anyways if she refers to him at all at the moment so. No need to change that. 

Lyfrasilly: i mean. My lyf still calls me von raum when thye’re like. Really mad

Lyfrasilly: but that hasn’t happened in a while so yeah

Lyfrasilly: first name privileges for me :P

Lyfraloop: hes not getting the phone back either

Lyfraloop: :P 

Lyfraloop: someone keeps trying to look over my shoulder

Lyfraloop: he also just said my shoulder was gay for some reason

Lyfraloop: what. 

Lyfrastabby: do you have knives on hand

Lyfraghost: he did say shoulders were gays

Lyfraghost: I think

Lyfrasilly: shoulders👍

Lyfrasilly: yes

Lyfrasilly: very gay

Lyfraloop: no im not asking for your counterparts number idiot

Lyfraloop: you dont have important things to discuss

Lyfraloop: any ideas for getting out of. deals. Would be useful. 

Lyfraloop: . . . and now he’s pouting away from the phone. Beautiful. 

Lyfrasilly: I can give my number

Lyfrasilly: [sent contact: Marius <3]

Lyfraloop: really

Lyfraloop: i. 

Lyfraloop: [sent contact: moron]

Lyfraloop: enjoy. He’s an idiot. 

Lyfrastabby: once again, do you have knife access

Private conversation between Marius <3 and Moron

Marius <3: Hullo

Marius <3: oh it autoset my name

Marius <3: WAIT LYF HAS A HEART BY MY NAME

Marius <3: HOW AM I JUST NOW LEARNING THIS

Moron: . . . 

Moron: good for you?

Moron: anyway nice to meet you, nice talking to anyone outside. Time loop hell

Moron: its just me and nastya and lyf now aware of things in here. And. well. 

Moron: big question of the moment: how do i fucking get lyf to believe that i like them

Marius <3: oh right ur still in the whole time loop thing

Marius <3: man time lines up weird between alternate universes

Marius <3: we already had the whole portally bifrosty thing here

Marius <3: but if ur still trapped in the timeloops must not have happened for you guys yet? weird

Moron: . . . hmm

Moron: well. Time piling up on itself like this is

Moron: im surprised lyfs friends havent ended up talking to them out of order 

Moron: not like phils that good at its job

Marius <3: who is phil and what is its job

Moron: nastya said it was a “frequent iterative looping device” but she introduced it as FIL so

Moron: phil it is

Moron: and why the hell she thought putting a big shiny button on my arm

Moron: sticking me in a cell with raph and ivy

Moron: and telling me no on elese could touch it was a good idea

Marius <3: yeah big button getting pushed

Marius <3: that is

Marius <3: very good wway to break thinhs

Moron: surprised they havent yet honestly

Moron: lyf did which is why theyre aware of the loops at all

Moron: and why their arm’s fucked up

Marius <3: right arm thing

Marius <3: sorry forgot to clarify

Marius <3: my lyf talked with life a. Future version of you?

Marius <3: also your lyf.

Marius <3: aaand that whole thing kind of happened

Marius <3: think that was like 2 months ago?

Moron: what

Marius <3: not sure how much telling you would like. Mess things up

Marius <3: i feel like you have enough time paradoxes happening rn so. No spoilers soz

Moron: i

Moron: as long as i find a way out with lyf okay then

Moron: sure. Bring it on

Marius <3: good luck

Marius <3: just.

Marius <3: gonna say its gonna get worse before it gets better

Moron: what the fuck does that mean

Moron: nastya already broke into their apartment and tied them up

Moron: and there was the kidnapping thing

Moron: how could it get worse

Marius <3: did i mention the portals?

Marius <3: i feel like i mentioned the portal thing

Marius <3: but uh. Yeah. lots worse

Moron: worse than thinking nastya had shot them for a second there

Moron: i

Moron: i don

Moron: this is going to hurt isnt it

Moron: but. If i make it. And theyre okay. 

Marius <3: yeah they’kll be okay

Marius <3: my lyf madee sure of that

Marius <3: both of youll get out alright

Marius <3: if you dont ill eat my boots

Marius <3: buckles and all

Moron: …

Moron: you mentioned paradoxes. What if this chat changes things

Moron: i

Moron: they still dont think i like them. Even if they promised me a date. If i found a way through.

Marius <3: well according to my lyf there was some timey wimey stuff that like. Sucked up all the paradoxes and timeline divides or something so. Shouild be alright? Maybe?

Marius <3: just dont mention this chat to them when you reach out  eventually

Moron: sure. Right

Moron: whatever happens this is just

Moron: sliver of hope

Marius <3: pretend this convo never happened should be fine

Marius <3: prevent time paradoxes by ignoring them

Moron: ….ok

Marius <3: i mean its worked for me so far

Marius <3: still not sure what the whole OUATIS time paradox is

Marius <3: we’ve all just been ignoring it and nothing else has happened so far. So

Marius <3: yeah. hope.

Moron: sure

—- 

MAIN CHAT

Lyfrastabby: and that is why i should be given a knife gun.

Lyfraspiral: I didn’t even know that was a thing. But you know what, if you can get Nastya to make you one you can have one.

Lyfrasilly: how long have you been writing out that list

Lyfrastabby: work in progress over the last several years of working with prisoners

Lyfrastabby: seemed the best way to kill those violins, you know?

Lyfrastabby: violins deserve death.

Lyfraspiral: They do not. 

Lyfraspiral: Violins are amazing. 

Lyfraspiral: Especially when watching both of the violinists you know battle it out to impress you.

Lyfraspiral: Very good.

Lyfrastabby: lets see you say that after listening to the same fucking song for five hours on loop

Lyfraloop: ?

Lyfraloop: oh not

Lyfraloop: that fucking song

Lyfraloop: would wake the dead.

Lyfraspiral: What song?

Lyfraspiral: Also bold of you to assume I wouldn’t do the same thing back. I have a cello and Spite.

Lyfrasilly: 350 years I still get a shock of adrenaline when I hear it

Lyfrastabby: wait wake the dead

Lyfrastabby: hey lyfraghost, have an idea

Lyfraghost: I don’t know how I know what you’re suggesting but if I ever hear that song again I will crawl my way back out of the grave just to stab whoever is playing it

Lyfraghost: which. Would accomplish what we’re trying I guess

Lyfraghost: but no

Lyfraspiral: What song????

Lyfrastell: . . . like whiskey laced with gasoline

Lyfrabitey: I AM GOING TTOOO EATTT YOUTTT PHONE

Lyfraghost: DO NOT START SINGING IT ON HERE

Lyfraspiral: I don’t think I’ve ever heard that song.

Lyfraloop : ghdjgdkfgg see yourrrrrr friends want to hear it!!!!

Lyfraloop: gheirnghnottstotpyy out

Lyfraloop: THERE

Lyfraloop: GHINIHGSTHATBACK

Lyfraspiral: Loop you really should just hit him with a frying pan Rapunzel style.

Lyfrasilly: Rapunzel?

Lyfraspiral: A fairytale character, and a movie. 

Lyfraspiral: She hits men with frying pans.

Lyfraspiral: Well. She does more than that. But. That’s the important bit, she hits men with frying pans.

Lyfrasilly: I swear I’ve heard the name Rapunzel before. 

Lyfrasilly: whatever. Probably nothing

Lyfraloop: LIKE WHISKEY LACED WITH GASOLINE WE’RE DEADLY WHEN WE’RE DRUNK

Lyfraghost: SHUT UP

Lyfraloop: SO SHUT YOUR FACE AND SETTLE DOWN YOU SNEERING LITTLE PUNKS

Lyfraloop: hey nice getting into the spirit of things ghost?

Lyfraghost: that is. Such a poor choice of words

Lyfraspiral: That sounds like a song Jonny would write.

Lyfraloop: FOR SPACE IS VAST, YOU ARE SMALL, IT’S BLACK AND BITTER COLD

Lyfrasilly: thanks. Now my Marius is singing it

Lyfrasilly: right next to me

Lyfrasilly: in my ear

Lyfraloop: THE BOOK IS LYING OPEN, THERE ARE TALES TO BE TOLD :D

Lyfraspiral: Again. Sounds like a Jonny song. 

Lyfraspiral: Hm. Maybe Nastya would like to play it.

Lyfrasilly: I am begging of you do not let it spread across dimensions

Lyfrasilly: spare yourselves

Lyfrasilly: the only relief I have is that at least it isn’t a Bifrost song

Lyfraloop: okay next two verses or

Lyfraloop: hfgondfgdfhjjjgoeetttofffme

Lyfraspiral: Do we think that Loop hit him with a frying pan?

Lyfrastabby: you know what my heart votes

Lyfrasilly: that they stabbed him?

Lyfrastabby: precisely

Lyfrastabby: hed deserve it for that song

Lyfrasilly: I stabbed my marius’s violin. So.

Lyfrasilly: still don’t know where they fucking come from

Lyfraspiral: Normally I’m against stabbing Marius. However you all seem to hate that song so I will hope with you that he was stabbed.

Lyfrasilly: he’s pouting now

Lyfraloop: for some reason laying on top of him was enough to quiet him down

Lyfraloop: required jumping on him

Lyfraloop: still sitting on him

Lyfraspiral: My Marius is wondering why I’m chuckling. 

Lyfraspiral: He’s currently getting cuddles. 

Lyfrasilly: well if you’re sitting on him that would explain why he’s quiet

Lyfraloop: less ability to reach a fucking violin so. Yes. 

Lyfraloop: what else

Lyfraloop: this is nothing like cuddles. I don’t. No. 

Lyfrasilly: mine’s cuddle privileges have gotten revoked

Lyfrasilly: because violins

Lyfrastabby: is he also getting von raumed

Lyfrastabby: because he said he hadn’t gotten that in years so

Lyfrasilly: you know what

Lyfrasilly: that’s a great idea

Lyfrasilly: first name privileges revoked as well

Lyfraspiral: I don’t think I’ve ever Von Raum’d Marius. 

Lyfrasilly: you should try it

Lyfrasilly: it’s fun

Lyfrasilly: alright. Well

Lyfrasilly: he started looking so sad he got his cuddle privileges back

Lyfraspiral: I don’t want him to think I’m upset with him.

Lyfrastabby: i do

Lyfrastabby: all the time

Lyfraloop: we know, stabby

Lyfrastabby: just because I’ve got knives doesn’t mean I can’t express emotions in other ways

Lyfrastabby: like

Lyfrastabby: stealing his shit maybe

Lyfrastabby: hmm

Lyfrastabby: more of his shit. 

Lyfraloop: considering the song thing, go for it

Lyfrasilly: stabby I think you’ll be delighted to know that i can quite literally summon knives because of the Bifrost

Lyfrastabby: excellent

Lyfrastabby: why cant i do that

Lyfrastabby: is the bifrost just

Lyfrastabby: this is anti-stabby discrimination

Lyfraspiral: I could turn my hands into knives if I wanted. 

Lyfraspiral: That’s anti cuddling though. But if someone tries to hurt my people? 

Lyfraspiral: Knife hands :}

Lyfrasilly: if we ever meet i can give you as many knives as you’d like

Lyfrasilly: theyre more crystal shards than anything really

Lyfrasilly: very sharp though

Lyfrastabby: hmm

Lyfrastabby: ill have to see how good they are for throwing

Lyfrastabby: i

Lyfrastabby: okay launch time see you all in a tick

Lyfrasilly: very good for throwing

Lyfrasilly: can send a picture later maybe?

Lyfraspiral: Lyf left their phone open. What is this?

Lyfrasilly: oh are you their Marius then?

Lyfraspiral: No? Ivy Alexandria at your service.

Lyfrasilly: ah that makes sense as well

Lyfrasilly: alternate universe groupchat

Lyfraghost: hello

Lyfrastell: . . . hi there, other Ivy

Lyfrabitey: wehre

Lyfraloop: Don’t worry about it, Bitey

Lyfraloop: good luck with the launch, Stabby

Lyfraspiral: Alternate universe group chat? Fascinating! 

Lyfraspiral: Do you all have Ivys as well then? In your universes?

Lyfraghost: no clue

Lyfraghost: maybe

Lyfrasilly: yes, I do, at least

Lyfrasilly: I believe everyone else has one as well

Lyfrasilly: two, I think, in Stell’s case, given their current situation

Lyfraspiral: Fascinating!

Lyfraloop: I technically do but shes not a part of the loop

Lyfraloop: dont think Marius has read her into the time looping situation

Lyfraloop: shit. Von raum. 

Lyfrastabby: pointing at you and laughing.

Lyfraspiral: Is there a particular reason as to why you use Marius’ last name?

Lyfraghost: spite

Lyfrasilly: emotional repression

Lyfrasilly: and also spite yes

Lyfraloop: professionalism to boot

Lyfraloop: he is still technically a prisoner

Lyfraloop: and due to this time loop situation, I can’t quit my job 

Lyfraloop: would not mean anything.

Lyfraspiral: Interesting. 

Lyfraspiral: I do not believe I have used his last name many times. 

Lyfraspiral: When the fuck did she get my phone?

Lyfraspiral: Sorry bout the Ivy takeover. Didn’t realize she had my phone.

Lyfrasilly: its fine

Lyfrasilly: she was being polite

Lyfrasilly: unlike certain people reading over my shoulder

Lyfraloop: or certain people who are threatening to sing again if I stop sitting on top of them

Lyfraloop: may just. Press the button at some point. Next loop. This seems untenable.

Lyfraloop: why is he like this. 

Lyfrasilly: rewinding the time loop will make your arm worse most likely

Lyfrasilly: don’t do that

Lyfraloop: . . . didn’t think I’d said that much about my arm?

Lyfrasilly: your Marius mentioned it while he was texting with mine

Lyfraloop: really

Lyfraloop: why was he talking about me across dimensions

Lyfrasilly: …

Lyfrasilly: is there a particular reason why he wouldn’t?

Lyfrasilly: I feel like given your situation it's to be expected

Lyfraloop: and here I thought he’d be more focused on, I don’t know

Lyfraloop: feedback on the nastya situation maybe.

Lyfraloop: or on the plan

Lyfraloop: not calling my shoulders gay or complaining about my arm

Lyfrasilly: expecting marius to focus is like expecting a fish to fly

Lyfrasilly: happens only in very specific situations

Lyfrasilly: and to the person reading this over my shoulder yes you know it’s true

Lyfraloop: right. Guess even that deal wasn’t a good motivator, was it?

Lyfraloop: should find some way to change it maybe

Lyfraloop: I mean, if it’s not working

Lyfraloop: its not like I want to. Do that. And all. That much. 

Lyfrasilly: that much

Lyfraloop: did I say that much?

Lyfraloop: I meant at all. 

Lyfraloop: brief moment of insanity earlier when he got me coffee notwithstanding.

Lyfrasilly: mhm

Lyfrastabby: launch successful

Lyfrastabby: and he doesnt know im alive

Lyfrastabby: mission success :-) 

Lyfraghost: yay!

Lyfrasilly: do you want bifrost knife pictures now?

Lyfrastabby: absolutely

Lyfrasilly: [sent image. Image ID: Lyf’s hand, holding a palm sized roughly shaped knife. It looks to be made out of bismuth, or some sort of crystal, shifting in colors.]

Lyfrasilly: I can make them a bit neater if I concentrate, but I typically just stick with convenience over quality

Lyfraspiral: Shiney

Lyfraspiral: Glad that the launch was successful, Stabby.

Lyfrastabby: yep

Lyfrastabby: just need to hope the aurora doesnt follow us

Lyfraspiral: It’s so strange to me that most Auroras aren’t human.

Lyfrasilly: your Aurora is human?

Lyfraspiral: Yep!

Chapter Text

MARIUS CHAT

– 

Baron von Dummy: what is this

Frog Cat: No Idea

Soapface: huh

Soapface: why the fuck is that my nickname

Bucket: youre telling me

Frog Cat: I just. assumed that Ivy set mine

Baron von Dummy: anyone could have set mine after this morning ig

Baron von Dummy: how the hell lyf made a knife dummy that looked like me is

Baron von Dummy: i admire their arts and crafts skills and 

Baron von Dummy: and their knife throwing stamina

Soapface: they’re such a good artiystt auhhhh

Soapface: also bucket im blaming you for this nickname

Bucket: if i could set names do you think id set bucket???

Groundhog: . . . hi?

Frog Cat: Hello!

Frog Cat: !!! We’ve both got animal names!!!

Soapface: no but the fact that its my nickname is because you kept calling me it :(

Bucket: and mine’s got nothing to do with you does it??

Soapface: hey that was Brian

Soapface: I am but a humbly bystander in this

Groundhog: oh this is like lyfs chat

Groundhog: i said hi earlier

Groundhog: and then they sat on me and made me stop grabbing their phone :( 

Soapface: I am getting Lyf cuddles right now

Soapface: because I looked sad and pathetic enough apparently

Frog Cat: I also get Lyf cuddles

Frog Cat: Because they were missing for too long and I get to Cling

Soapface: they say hello btw

Soapface: and that they hope there’s a marius on this groupchat who knows not to harass people with violins

Soapface: which. If there is. He shall soon learn The Way

Frog Cat: Why would you harass someone with a violin????????

Soapface: Frogcat

Soapface: imagine I’m putting a hand on your shoulder and staring deepoly into your eyes

Soapface: why wouldn’t you

Frog Cat: Sounds like a good way to be pouted at by Raphaella

Soapface: its also a good way to get Lyf to be grumpy but not actually upset which is very cute

Soapface: and they get that little crease in their eyebrows

Soapface: and then I can kiss it

Soapface: so

Soapface: why wouldn’t you 

Baron Von Dummy: go back to the “not actually upset” thing maybe

Baron Von Dummy: because judging from the knife dummy

Baron Von Dummy: think theyre just a bit upset maybe kinda sorta

Soapface: I mean that’s my Lyf

Soapface: who as stated

Soapface: currently cuddling

Soapface: im assuming yours isnt. Happy right now. Though

Soapface: yours is Stabby right?

Baron von Dummy: that seems like an adjective

Baron von Dummy: judging from the knives

Baron von Dummy: more concerned with the fact that theyre alive. And that they just fucking left the ship. And nobody told me.

Frog Cat: They’re alive. That’s good. I know when mine was gone I was scared they weren’t gonna come back

Mournius: huh

Mournius: oh

Mournius: thats

Mournius: well

Mournius: alive and here dont really mean the same thing

Frog Cat: … is

Frog Cat: is your Lyf not alive then? 

Frog Cat: Think Lyf mentioned a ghost

Frog Cat: Is that Lyf yours?

Mournius: wait they’re real???

Mournius: I thought’

Mournius: I saw them. During rehearsal

Mournius: think it wa sthem 

Mournius: im not

Mournius: they werent them though. They just

Mournius: watched

Frog Cat: Ghost?

Sunshine: ghosts can fuck right off

Mournius: absolutely not if its them then

Mournius: google searching necromancy rituals

Sunshine: non-lyf ghosts

Sunshine: possessions fucking awful

Sunshine: believe me

Mournius: no possessions

Mournius: but. If it menat i could fucking talk tom them

Mournius: just

Frog Cat: I work at a paranormal institute could see if we have any books on ghost summoning?

Mournius: yes yes yes yes please

Mournius: I dont

Mournius: i dont know if it was them. But they

Mournius: it was the same height, but. Didnt have a face

Mournius: was rainbowy though and thats how they

Mournius: if anything would don that itd be the bifrost

Frog Cat: Lemme see if Lyf’ll take me to the Institute

Frog Cat: They’re an eldritch taxi

Soapface: hey so is mine

Soapface: very comfy eldritch taxi

Frog Cat: The hallways aren’t comfy, but Lyf is. They’ll probably carry me and cover my eyes. They don’t like me looking at the halls.

Memory: you all. You know Lyf

Mournius: know them?

Mournius: fucking

Mournius: yeah tgats a word for it

Mournius: I didnt even get to hug them before

Mournius: fucjing

Mournius: and nwo theyre dead

Mournius: possibly a ghost

Mournius: possibly someone snuck hallucinogens into my food

Memory: same. On the hugging and the. Them dead

Memory: havent seen a ghost. But. 

Memory: nobody here remembers them. At all. 

Soapface: what the fuck

Soapface: thats a crime

Soapface: how could anyone every forget Lyf

Soapface: …

Soapface: alright I might be the wrong Marius to be saying that. but

Memory: IVY doesnt remember lyf

Frog Cat: Ivy? She doesn’t forget anything.

Soapface: my point stands

Mournius: how would she forget THEM???

Mournius: how could anyone forget them\

Soapface: the bifrost can cause memory loss

Memory: i

Memory: if i start forgetting thm someone slap me

Memory: all i know is i talked with them after like. A week of trying to

Memory: trying to grieve? I guess? Fuck. 

Memory: and raphaella had the fucking nerve to tell me she couldnt think of why i was upset

Memory: at least we were all out of prison. And. and planets had been destroyed before. 

Memory: and none of them remember anything about lyf. At all. 

Mournius: fucking

Mournius: jesus christ

Mournius: at least my crew rememebrs them

Frog Cat: Holy shit.

Frog Cat: I- I’m sorry

Frog Cat: if everyone forgot Lyf I think I would break.

Frog Cat: barely functioned when I learned they were gone. If no one remembered them? 

Frog Cat: I’d- I don’t know. Sob for eternity.

Mournius: yeah thats looking roughly like the shape of things

Mournius: theyre still forcing me to go to fucking rehearsal

Mournius: if I have to hear Jonny’s Lyf impression one more time I think I’m gonna have a breakdown

Memory: they dont understand why im upset

Memory: ivy keeps forgetting that ive even mentioned the name lyf

Memory: i dont even have pictures

Frog Cat: Would. Would a picture of mine help?

Frog Cat: I don’t know how much they’ll look like yours but. If it would help.

Soapface: I can send pictures of mine too

Soapface: lost all the pre-bifrost ones, so they wont look much like yours, but I have. Many of them

Frog Cat: I think I have some of them pre-Distortion and some of them now

Memory: i

Memory: that would be nice

Memory: given the track record theyll probably. Disappear off my phone. But. evidence that they exist somewhere would be

Memory: yeag

Soapface attached 10 images, each of Lyf in different expressions and situations. There’s one of them angrily scolding an octokitten, one of them asleep next to Marius on a couch, one of them sleepily putting salt in their coffee, one of them sticking their tongue out at the camera while sitting next to a window leading out to the stars. The fifth is of them holding Ivy away from Tim by the collar, a grumpy expression on their face, two taken secretly while they’re reading, one of them painting, a selfie taken of them kissing Marius on the cheek, and one of them lying on the floor with their face shoved into a pillow.

Frog Cat attached four images, one of Lyfrassir before the Distortion with Jonny leaning against them. Their hair is dyed white, their roots beginning to show. There’s another before the Distortion with Nastya on her wedding day. There are two post Distortion, one has Quarter on their head and Marius and Tim in their arms, their tentacles around Ivy, Raphaella, Jonny, Nastya and Ashes. The second one is of Lyfrassir leaning against the door of their halls, a twisted happy smile on their face.

Memory: i

Memory: its not them exactly but

Memory: theyre real

Memory: theyre. Theyre out there

Memory: i was starting to

Memory: thank you

Soapface: do you want more

Soapface: I am very happy to provide Lyf pictures

Memory: wouldnt mind

Memory : its not exactly them but

Memory: its closer than ive gotten

Memory: every time i try to draw them it comes out wrong

Soapface attached 5 images. There’s one of them sitting on the floor, absolutely covered in octokittens, another selfie of them holding a cup of tea with Marius leaning into them, the Toy Soldier smiling in the background. There’s one that seems to have been taken by someone else, as it shows Nastya and Lyf trying to yank Marius out of the vents. There’s another one of them sitting in the rafters of the ship, raising an eyebrow at the camera, and a selfie taken by Marius of the two of them lying in flowers on an unknown planet.

Frog Cat: I could probably get you some embarrassing ones when I get home.

Frog Cat: Nastya has a collection.

Memory: dont need embarrassing just need

Memory: just need existing

Memory: ….why wont they print

Frog Cat: Photos are. Weird with them. Had to take photos of polaroids. 

Frog Cat: Digital doesn’t work right

Soapface: digital can also be funky for them here but that’s only if they’re like. Eldritching out

Soapface: might be another thing with the memory stuff?

Memory: probably

Memory: whatevers doing this it

Memory: it isnt funny

Memory: just. If theyre dead thats. Thats absolutely devestating and i will probably mourn them forever but them getting erased lik this?

Soapface: that should be illegal

Soapface: but like extra-illegal

Soapface: because laws are meant to be broken

Soapface: law you cant break

Soapface: ever

Frog Cat: it sounds horrifying to have the memory and existence of someone you love erased.

Soapface: memory fuckery is the absolute worst I hate it

Soapface: all memories stay unfucked

Soapface: especially Lyf memories

Soapface: those are the best memories

Frog Cat: Seems like the Stranger if it’s our eldritch stuff

Frog Cat: Lyf says it isn’t. But if it was. It would probably be the Stranger.

Soapface: isnt Stranger like clowns tho

Soapface: are clowns causing memory issues

Sunshine: yep and i have grdeges

Sunshine: both

Sunshine: clownns nd identity criseees. 

Soapface: killing all clowns

Soapface: no more clowns

Soapface: all clowns dead

Frog Cat: there’s a thing called the Not Them. Replaces someone and takes everyone’s memories of them, replaces them. Stranger. Bad. 

Sunshine: cloowns hld my lyf captive in a bsemnet for sixx weeks

Sunshine: triedd skinning them

Soapface: yup killing all clowns

Soapface: lyf is staying far away from clowns

Soapface: i like their skin very much and would prefer it to stay on their body yes please and thank you

Groundhog: agreed next priority after time loop

Groundhog: their skin and their shoulders and their tiny freckles and their everything are staying

Groundhog: well apart from

Memory: i

Soapface: their freckles <3

Memory: they have freckles?

Memory: i. I didnt remember

Soapface: mine didnt before the bifrost

Soapface: so maybe yours didnt

Soapface: but they have little silver ones now

Soapface: very cute

Memory: i. After the bifrost

Memory: like. They survived?

Mournius: mine didnt

Soapface: mine did yea

Soapface: thought they didnt for. 50 years

Groundhog: mine didnt initially but im gixing that

Groundhog: both hurray and boo for time travel

Frog Cat: …The Bifrost sounds like hell

Soapface: bifrostv is homophobic and fucked up and evil and aggehh

Soapface: except for when its a bifrosty thing Lyf does

Soapface: but they done like the bifrosty stiff that much

Sunshine: like bloodssneks. cute.

Soapface: bloodsnkes are fuckjing adorable

Soapface: and the gunpuppoies

Baron von Dummy: dont know if my lyf has anything bifrosty going on, but. Did find rainbow blood somewhere. So. very worried.

Frog Cat: GUNPUPPIES????????

Soapface: gunpuppies :D 

Soapface: also various other. Squamous things

Soapface: when they get surprised or angry sometimes they’ll accidentally just kind of animate objects

Sunshine: three cheers for thor the lizard

Soapface: we have Mocha the coffee gecko

Soapface: no clue where she came from

Soapface: she spits coffee at people

Soapface: not a squamous thing though

Frog Cat: Lyf has tentacles. Uses them to hold us. 

Frog Cat: They’re also a hallway.

Soapface attached 4 images. The first one is of a gun that has a jaw and has sprouted small doglike legs, running down a hallway while Tim and Lyf chase after it. The second is of Nastya staring at a stray bloodsnake with a very tired expression. The third is of Lyf glaring at a mug that has sprouted teeth, and the fourth is of Jonny getting eat alive by a squamified rug.

Bucket: okay. So. question. Hair touching. How much of a thing is that.

Soapface: hair touching

Soapface: that is

Soapface: yes

Soapface: that is a yes thing

Frog Cat: I. Don’t know. 

Frog Cat: Mortal here.

Frog Cat: My Lyf likes to braid everyone’s hair whenever they can though.

Soapface: imagine being mortal

Soapface: but yes

Soapface: hair touching

Soapface: that is a

Soapface: very very very very very very very important thing

Bucket: my lyf hates me and is on drugs and is patting my hair.

Soapface: yeah uhb thats

Soapface: them touching your hair?

Soapface: that slike. Hair is like. A family and lovers and QPPs things only

Bucket: . . .

Bucket: okay so imighthavemessed up then

Soapface: congratulations?

Bucket: they were staring at my hair! And

Bucket: never mind

Soapface: i would suggest investing in shampoo and conditioner

Soapface: just. In general

Soapface: not just lyf stuff my scalp has felt better than it has in centuries. But also. Lyf.

Frog Cat: Lyf is very big on hair care.

Frog Cat: Lucky for me I was already using all the right stuff for my hair and so was Raph

Soapface: I did not realize my hair was considered curly until they told me. so.

Frog Cat: You.

Frog Cat: You what?

Soapface: look

Soapface: I was keeping my hair very short

Soapface: and i got banned from hair care nights my first week on the ship

Soapface: got let back in now. but

Frog Cat: You. 

Frog Cat: How do you Not Notice?

Frog Cat: Actually. How did Ashes not notice????

Frog Cat: They notice everything.

Soapface: I think they assumed I already knew

Soapface: which. Lyf did also

Soapface: was a very fun conversation

Soapface: my hair is in much better shape now

Sunshine: took care eof myhair back home

Sunshine: bu dontwant to lose the braidi got so

Sunshine: waiting abit 

Sunshine: :( 

Memory: ill. Keep that in mind. In case lyfs alive. But. 

Mournius: same.

Mournius: still dont

Mournius: i want it to be them so fucking bad. But.

Mournius: the chances arent

Mournius: ivy would spout some numbers. But I think all I can say is that I dont think im that lucky

Memory: hey the one thing to learn from me

Memory: ivy can absolutely be wrong

Frog Cat: I don’t think Ivy’s been wrong before

Frog Cat: Nevermind she thought Scuzz was dead.

Frog Cat: Scuzz is not dead.

Soapface: damn I dont think ive seen scuzz in like. Centuries

Soapface: someone should probably drag her out of the vents soon

Soapface: I think the last time I saw her was ehhhhh

Soapface: actually i dont think ive seen her since before Nastya went Out

Soapface: which. 

Soapface: means she was literally just vibing in the venst during the base Incident

Frog Cat: I haven’t met them yet

Frog Cat: Lyf is close to her though

Memory: havent checked if scuzz can remember lyfs name for more than half a minute

Memory: nobody on the ship so far can so

Memory: maybe?

Soapface: if anybody can its Scuzz

Soapface: they do not follow the rules of reality

Memory: i mean. TS and Ivy so far 

Memory: ive checked

Soapface: not even ts?

Soapface: damn

Frog Cat: Scuzz was thought dead yet somehow is still human after three years. Reality bends to her will

Memory: unless maybe it thought the others were playing a game and gaslighting me for no reason and wanted to join in

Memory: if so fuck ts

Memory: but. Ill check scuzz.

Frog Cat: I hope someone can at least remember their name

Frog Cat: You’ve got us if they don’t.

Frog Cat: We’d never forget Lyf

Soapface: if I got amnesia and forgot them again i would die

Soapface: never forgetting them nuh uh nope

Memory: again?

Soapface: aforementioned base incident

Soapface: everyone on the crew lost their memories while we were doing a supply run on some planet in the middle of the Rose Red war

Soapface: got stuck there for like. 6 months

Soapface: but lyf showed up and it was great and I got to kiss them! Eventually!

Soapface: aaaaaand then they hated my guts for another like. Year. 

Soapface: but then they forgave me and i can kiss them every day

Bucket: yeah, eventually

Soapface: also bucket dropped a bucket on my head during it

Bucket: are you going to tell me you didn’t deserve it

Soapface: oh no absolutely not

Soapface: i was being an Idiot

Soapface:  Idiot with a capital I

Bucket: also sent cookies 

Soapface: yeah but Brian is still pissed about the bucket thing. So. Bucket.

Memory: wait people can send things between dimensions?

Soapface: babyyyy

Soapface: you can get random people on the internet who for some reason can summon shit to just throw things at people for you

Soapface: or you can send alternate versions of your partner a bunch of baked goods

Soapface: or drop buckets on people’s heads

Frog Cat: Or send you fried pickles for. Some reason.

Memory: so if I went on there

Memory: do you think I could get. pictures of. of my lyf

Memory: a picture would be nice.

Soapface: maybe?

Soapface: we have gotten some. Ominous things

Soapface: if you can tal;k to that immortalmailman guy you might get something from her?

Bucket: go on with my username, don’t mind sharing the account again

Soapface: I just use Lyf’s account mostly

Soapface: its just kind of a general crew account really

Bucket: mostly

Soapface: you’ll never get my personal account

Soapface: its a secret

Frog Cat: We all just steal Ashes’ account

Frog Cat: Scuzz might make one I think

Memory: maybe. maybe I’ll ask

Memory: what’s your account then bucket

Bucket: doctorbarontsct

Bucket: don’t ask what the tsct stands for

Frog Cat: How many are on that account?

Frog Cat: I’ve spoken to like. Three? I think????

Bucket: popular account ig

Bucket: name at least

Memory: okay I’ll try it

Soapface: uhh yeah theres a lot on there

Soapface: wait @groundhog dont u use that one also?

Groundhog: have i?

Groundhog: or is that a future thing 

Soapface: oh wait yeah

Soapface: pretend I never said that

Frog Cat: Too many people on that account to keep track of.

Soapface: i think ive seen one or two others pop up on there as well

Soapface: one talking about clowns. Which. With context. yech

Bucket: huh

Bucket: think he’ll pop up here?

Frog Cat: Which One?

Frog Cat: There are Too Many.

Soapface: maybe we can summon him by talking about him???

Soapface: clown Marius summoning ritual

Frog Cat: Clown Marius?

Frog Cat: Is he a clown or does he hate clowns?

Soapface: something about hating clowns i think

Soapface: given what has been discussed i think hating them is most likely

Frog Cat: Yeah that’s fair.

Shit He’s Gay: hate clowns yep 👍 

Frog Cat: Hello!

Frog Cat: Also Mourninus I have that ghost book!

Shit He’s Gay: okay that name’s unfair

Frog Cat: No :3

Frog Cat: Everyone in here is gay

Frog Cat: Maybe you’re just

Frog Cat: extra gay

Mournius: ghost book yes please

Mournius: can you send a step by step guide to necromancy or

Mournius: how to talk to ghosts??? Maybe???

Mournius: think they made a few chittering noises a few times idk

Frog Cat: No necromancy

Frog Cat: It’s about ghost summoning I think

Frog Cat: How could I get this to you?

Frog Cat: I didn’t think about that part

Mournius: uhhh no clue

Mournius: dont have tumblr

Frog Cat: Hmmmmm

Frog Cat: What if I take a picture of it?

Frog Cat: It isn’t one of Ivy’s so it Should work.

Mournius: yes please

Mournius: is there anything about music summoning ghosts?

Mournius: because they’ve popped up like dozen times and ¾ of those times it was during rehearsales

Frog Cat: Hello! If you play the whiskey gasoline song they may appear just to punch you!!

Frog Cat: Lyf stole my phone.

Mournius: thats

Mournius: not a bad idea actually

Mournius: i could

Mournius: if i play by myself maybe they’ll come closer instead of just being in teh doorway tho

Shit He’s Gay: who has nickname changing privileges 

Soapface: no clue

Frog Cat: I don’t think anyone does.

Shit He’s Gay: fuckkk

Shit He’s Gay: are we sure

Soapface: do you thimk if i could change nicknames id willingly be soapface.

Shit He’s Gay: i mean weirder nicknames have occurred 

Frog Cat: I just assumed Ivy set my name

Frog Cat: She calls me a frogcat

Soapface: you get soaped thrown at you one time smh

Shit He’s Gay : the only one i told about that thing was lyf and the last time I saw them they were getting 

Shit He’s Gay: well they were pretty dead so

Shit He’s Gay: clowns can fuck off forever and ever amen

Soapface: yeah my lyf is never going near clowns

Soapface: i have heard too many bad things about them

Shit He’s Gay: good fucking call

Frog Cat: Clowns are evil

Sunshine: agreeed.

Soapface: herby deciding all clowns should fuck off forever and stay away from every Lyf ever for the rest of time

Shit He’s Gay: bit late for mine. maybe. but signed. 

Frog Cat: Signed. I don’t think they could do much to a hallway. But. Still signed.

Frog Cat: Lyf says they’ll feed the clowns to Jonny

Sunshine: signed

Mournius: signed

Mournius: well. Being around clowns would mean their alive. And i dont think they ahev skin right now

Mournius: but still. No clowns

Groundhog: signed and. Gayboy there what do you mean maybe

Shit He’s Gay : this was the first time i met lyf? circus thingy? they said something about meeting in a prison later

Shit He’s Gay: so maybe that can go better. and i can fix things. 

Soapface: fuckling time travel

Soapface: okay rundown on prison. Everything