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Name: Lex
Date: June 7th
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anyone know how turning into a monster will affect body modifications? or how the modifications might affect turning into a monster?

i think i'm growing claws

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that'd be great

i'm lex

WELL, IT'S GOOD TALKING WITH YOU, LEX!
I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS,
AM PERFECTLY SUITED TO DOING GREAT THINGS.
SO, WOULD YOU LIKE A REPLY THROUGH THESE WATCHES??

is 'the great papyrus' your full name?

as for a reply, watches work

IT'S... REALLY JUST PAPYRUS.
'THE GREAT PAPYRUS' IS MORE OF A SELF-CHOSEN TITLE!
SOMETHING COOL, CONFIDENT, AND ENCOURAGING.

KIND OF LIKE COOLSKELETON95, THE USERNAME THAT WILL BE CONTACTING YOU AGAIN, WHEN I FIND WHAT WE'RE SEARCHING FOR.

so can i just call you papyrus? or should i call you coolskeleton95?

CALL ME PAPYRUS.
SOME YEARS AGO - NEVER MIND HOW LONG PRECISELY - I MADE THAT TO BE MY COOL UNDERNET HANDLE.
THIS... ISN'T EXACTLY UNDERNET.
SO IT'S JUST A COLLOQUIALISM NOW, AND A FAMILIAR NAME IN AN UNFAMILIAR PLACE.

like paper, right?

this is Definitely an unfamiliar place

JUST THE SAME!
A CLASSIC NAME FOR AN EVEN MORE CLASSIC SKELETON.

BUT, THE STRANGE THING IS, THAT IT'S NOT -THAT- UNFAMILIAR TO ME.
EVERYTHING LOOKS LIKE SOME OLDTIMEY HUMAN MOVIES... THE CLOTHES, THE BUILDINGS...
BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE MONSTERS AND HUMANS LIVING TOGETHER.

did you just say that you're a skeleton?

the buildings and clothing do, yeah. some of the animals and plants and magic and monsters... not so much.

THAT'S RIGHT! A SKELETON MONSTER.
THEY SEEM PRETTY RARE HERE... I'VE ONLY SEEN ONE OTHER.
(AND HE'S MY BROTHER, SO THAT DOESN'T COUNT.)
I GUESS THAT MEANS I'M FROM A DIFFERENT WORLD THAN THIS ONE AFTER ALL...
AND SO ARE YOU?

no flesh at all?

yeah, i'm definitely from a different world than this one. no magic there. not like here.

NOPE, NONE AT ALL.
I DON'T NEED IT! IT WOULD WEIGH ME DOWN.
AND I'M ALREADY PLENTY WEIGHED BY MISSING MY MAGIC.

are you changing?

HUH? NO.
IT'S ONLY BEEN ABOUT A WEEK.
AND BESIDES... I'M HOPING THAT MONSTERS DON'T TURN INTO DOUBLE MONSTERS.
MONSTERS SQUARED?
AN VERITABLE EXCESS OF MONSTER, ANYWAY.

that would be interesting, but yeah
probably super uncomfortable

i hope for your sake that it doesn't happen
at least then you'll get some magic - not back, but again

[Super uncomfortable and how, just ask him about that dream. (Do not ask him about the dream).]

THANKS! I'M HOPING THE SAME!!!
THEY TALKED LIKE IT'S DEFINITELY NOT GOING TO HAPPEN, AND THEY SOUNDED PRETTY CONFIDENT...
ESPECIALLY SINCE MY BROTHER'S HERE FOR COMPARISON.
AND HE HAS THE MAGIC.
TALK ABOUT INJUSTICE.
I'M GOING TO HAVE TO ENCOURAGE HIM TO DO COOL THINGS WITH IT FOR ME.

did you guys arrive at the same time?

what kind of cool things?
they don't have magic where i'm from so
not really sure what the options are

EH, JUST ABOUT.
I FOUND HIM A LITTLE WHILE AFTER I STUMBLED OUT OF THAT MIRROR ROOM...
OR MAYBE HE FOUND ME, IT'S A LITTLE FUZZY.

[That first hour or so was when he first saw the stars, after all. And then that pulling drew them to the room with the chairs and the meeting and all the summaries of what had happened. It was a busy night for a skeleton's memory.]

AND, LOADS OF THINGS!
I WOULD SHOW YOU MINE, BUT, THAT'S OUT.
SO IMAGINE IMPRESSIVE ARRAYS OF BONES, BOBBING AND WEAVING THROUGH THE AIR, WAVE AFTER WAVE...
ARRANGED SO PRECISELY THAT I SPELL OUT WORDS LIKE IT'S NOTHING.
AND MAGIC HERE SEEMS EVEN MORE VERSATILE THAN WHERE I'M FROM.
THE SAME PERSON MIGHT MAKE FIREWORKS, GROW FLOWERS, AND CARVE ICE SCULPTURES...
IMAGINE THE COOL SELF PORTRAITURE THEY COULD WRIT LARGE UPON THE WORLD.
I BET THE BRIGHT WALL WOULD BE IMPROVED BY A BRIGHT SMILING FACE OF A SKELETON WHO BELIEVES IN THEM.

showing up here was pretty disorienting for me, too

[ but radiation sickness will do that ]

so your magic all involves bones? your own bones?

i mean you could also just paint it

THE IMPORTANT THING IS, WE'RE ALL IMPROVING NOW.

[Aside from the part where they maybe are growing claws and fur and scales and such. Though, maybe some call that an improvement.]

BUT, OH MY GOD, NO,
THEY'RE NOT -MY- BONES. EW.
THEY'RE JUST BONES I MADE BECAUSE MAKING BONES WAS WAY EASIER THAN ANYTHING ELSE.
WHEN WE MEET UP, I CAN SHOW YOU SOME!
I HAD A FEW TUCKED AWAY FOR A RAINY DAY, AND THEY HAVEN'T DISPERSED YET.

i mean if they were your bones i'd think it would hurt but some people are into that

that would be awesome, though

i can. show you my claws?

OH MY GOD, PLEASE DON'T LEAD INTO A BONER JOKE.

YOU CAN SHOW MY YOUR CLAWS...
TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE INDUSTRIAL NAIL CLIPPERS ARE CLIPPING AS INTENDED.

IF THEY DON'T WORK, I'LL NEED TO DOUBLEDOWN THAT SEARCH!

oh, i hadn't even thought of that

well then once you find some, we'll do some show-and-tell

OH. THEN, I'M SORRY FOR ASSUMING!
I'VE JUST HEARD THEM ALL, SO MANY TIMES.

IT'S A PLAN! I'LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN I FIND SOME.

i mean that makes sense
it probably gets pretty old

i'll wait to hear from you

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[text] given how far after we've gotten, would you rather we handwave or backtag the delivery?

[text] i'm pretty flexible! we can always handwave and have them meet up again later too

[text] how about a backtagged snowball fight? i'm trying to catch up with july before Moon & Plot

[text] works for me! i know the feeling haha

[text] excellent o/\o