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[luxating]

FORM: Crystals
SENDER: Lux
RECIPIENT: You!
WHAT: Real surveys are for organized people
WHEN: Pre-Ghislain
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: Results will be written down for a project IC, so maybe don't talk about super secrets unless you want them out there.

So Kostos —

[ see she can be charitable and give credit to people who don't want it as a way to brag ]

— Said and I think it's a really good idea, that we ought to be studying the stuff that comes through portals. Because there's like a whole project and everything, but I think we've all been more focused on making sure our hands don't fall off.

So, if you're a Rifter, did anything come through the portal with you? If you're not, have you found anything from one? What about people who vanished, do you know if they left anything behind?

[ belongings, or meat chunks ]

Also say if we can we borrow it for some tests, and if it's alive whether it's got an anchor, or if there's anything else about it that seems, uh, 'Fade-Touched'? That's what you guys call magic, right?

And if you want to help more than answering questions, let me know! Or if you've got better questions, or if you're doing it already. We should totally team up.

Comments

[byblow]

I found a box of— [ he lowers his voice ] —ladies’ undergarments.

They stretched.

[ Elastic is Fade-touched, right? ]

I gave them all away, but nobody who took them has turned into a demon yet, so that’s something.

[luxating]

[ what ]

Like... stretched the people?

[byblow]

No, no. That would be awful. The cloth stretched. Like, a lot. It could fit anything.

[chainlightning]

I have a picture! A portrait of a hero called Ziggy Stardust. My friend Ruby told me about him.

[luxating]

Oh! So he was from her world, too? Is that common?

[heirring]

You can test my traveling case if you like! Though really, it seems perfectly ordinary. I'm sorry that I don't still have the birds that were in it. You could have dissected them, which I don't believe is a very politic thing to want to do with most living things that come through the portals.

[Wysteria, stop giving people ideas.]

[luxating]

I suppose I wouldn't want to be dissected unless I was dead already —

[ yeah generally people frown on that ]

— Were they alive? Coming in, I mean?

[zombra]

I dropped in with a gun, but it's gone now. Got my backpack too, but it mainly just had clothes and stuff. It's not glowing, and hasn't grown legs and ran away, so I think it's normal.

[luxating]

A gun? Could you talk about what you mean by that?

[periastron]

I have a mutant koala.

[luxating]

How's it a mutant? Like, next to a normal koala?

[ what the fuck is a koala ]

[strangel]

When I fell in through rift my sestra came with me, and much giant wedding cake. Each layer was different flavour. This was very important for helping us all survive in frozen lands. And there was being fishes and monster scarecrows with knives.

[luxating]

Your sister? Did you guys decide to come in together? Were the scarecrows and stuff already there?

[dashing]

Is this for the Rifts and Veils project? Your findings may be of interest to them.

( or total garbage but whatever )

[luxating]

I'm not sure what other project it'd be useful for. But if you have any ideas!

[motherfucking_ghost]

I didn't find them, but someone found a box of stupid obnoxious sunglasses out of a rift, and if you wanna borrow mine to look fly as hell [church please] just say the word.

[luxating]

You should know that sounds like a totally suspicious denial.

[provenforce]

I have a box of cambiblocks that fell through a rift. They seem pretty normal but if you really want to test them I can part with a few.

[luxating]

What's pretty normal for a cambiblock?

[rowancrowned]

I have the belongings of several departed rifters, [ he squirreled them away like a man who doesn't really know how to death with permanent death, he means, ] and an elk.

Who will remain in one piece, but is of good temper and would not mind being examined.

[luxating]

Did anything change about them when they left?

[faithlikeaseed]

[why how absolutely timely,

and how much he's not going to say about things falling out of rifts.]

I've a pair of slippers that came out of a rift in a whole box of of the same--they all make animal noises, but I don't know there's anything else unusual about 'em.

There's a fellow around who was offering to buy and sell rift items, too; or was. So there's a market in them that might be worth keeping an eye on.

[luxating]

Yeah? I guess you can't make it to every portal first. If it's profitable to open them up, seems they'd be more likely to work with people who want them open.

[ venatori or whatever ]

[foundmyselfagain]

I found a box of fuzzy animal-shaped slippers that make noises that correspond to the animal they look like. If they're nefarious, then we're all fucked, because I gave out a bunch of them to various people.

I still have a few spares, you can have a pair if you want. But you can't have the ones that I use.

[ Those are HIS mooing cow slippers. ]

turns up late with starbucks

[shri]

I arrived in ceremonial clothing from a grand event, including my jewellery from the occasion. Along with my child's swaddling clothes.

[ What else? Well, nothing about going into the fade, no less. ]

I... do not know enough about all the creatures here to say if it was just that event, but there were... little-winged things. They bit, horribly. Someone call them faeries? But I have not seen them since I arrived. They were terribly hungry and bit and tore flesh as much as they could.