Sixteenth Spool of Thread-[Voice]

[so_shik]

Um...guys? Just a heads-up that All Passions will be temporarily closed for a little while. I'll still take orders and make things, but I won't physically be at the shop for a long time, not until I can be mobile again anyway. Sorry for that.

Buffy, looks like we're going to have to postpone the lake-date for a while, but how about you drop by House #10 for dinner sometime this week to make up for it?

...actually I think it might be okay if anybody who needed something made or just wanted to talk to me can drop by House #10 during the day, so there's that too. Such an inconvenience, sorry again.

Comments

[so_shik]

...have you met Sho Minamimoto yet? Creeper with a megaphone?

[emp3thy]

...

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During the May experiment.

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[so_shik]

May...that was the one with the spirits and the power-cap reduction, wasn't it?

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[emp3thy]

He summoned some bear monsters.

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[so_shik]

Noise...Minato, he's a reaper from the Game.

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[emp3thy]

And he attacked you.

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[so_shik]

Yeah, this is twice now.

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[emp3thy]

Are you going to be all right?

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[so_shik]

I'll be okay if I avoid him until I figure out why my psych doesn't work. If I could defend myself at least this wouldn't be that bad.

...but Haruki set my leg and I'm just resting it, so I'll be okay on that part.

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[emp3thy]

It doesn't work at all?

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[so_shik]

It worked during the May experiment but since then, nothing.

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[emp3thy]

It should still work now. Just not be as powerful.

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[so_shik]

Then why...ugh, this is so frustrating!

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[emp3thy]

How do psychs work, exactly?

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[so_shik]

Hmm...[give her a sec, she'll be digging through her little bag and soon she holds up one of the pins she's still got to the camera so Minato can see] Depends on what pins you've got. I can only control a few, Neku can control a lot more than me. Each pin has a different psych and a different k ind of attack.

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[emp3thy]

What's powering them?

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[so_shik]

Honestly? I have no idea. At first I thought it was just the fact that we were in the UG but...Minamimoto's work. Maybe it has to do with death.

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[emp3thy]

They only work well if you're dead?

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[so_shik]

Maybe. But they worked during that experiment. Ugh, I don't know!

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[emp3thy]

You could test that.

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[so_shik]

...are you telling me I should kill myself?

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[emp3thy]

Let someone else try the pins.

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[so_shik]

Okay, come here.

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[emp3thy]

All right.

[brb, walking to house #10.]

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[so_shik]

[and whenever he arrives to house #10, Shiki's sitting in the living room with a...lump of fabric and cotton in her lap, but she's also got her bum leg propped up on the table and a pair of make-shift crutches leaning against the couch. Her journal's sitting next to her, along with her little bag of stuff she usually has. Oh and of course, Mr. Mew. Whenever Minato walks into the house, he'll see that the living room's a normal set up with a couch and everything but it's cluttered with random things like tribal masks, some tiki heads being used to prop things up, all sorts of papers, possibly a few alien crop-circle designs, random costumes from the Brigade's past shows, some balloons from Usagi's party, and most prominent of all, a toy dinosaur sitting on the table next to Shiki's foot.]