soul_campaign | Fourth Brew | Video | June 4, just after midnight

[When the video starts, there’s only a view of the dimly lit Kishin Chamber’s ceiling and the sound of a Texas twang that’s rarely heard over the network. The voice is a bit distant, as if the speaker is talking to herself rather than the device, and colored by a level of level of exasperation usually reserved for a certain nerdy nuisance of a sorcerer.]

Jiminy Cricket! Not this place again! That cotton-pickin’ contraption always picks the worst times!

[ Really, couldn’t it just leave a witchy person to brew in peace, solve the occasional murder, and fix a supernatural problem once in a while? The voice trails off into a frustrated sigh and less intelligible mutterings. Something about a date? And a soul trapped in a mirror…]

[But the mumblings stop a few moments later when Lily notices the communicator lying on the floor. Dag nab it! Is that smartphone thing on, too? Is that what she dropped when she landed sprawled on the ground?]

[Finally, Lily’s face comes into view as she leans over the communicator, red lipstick slightly smudged and the curl coming out of her 1920s style Marcel waved hair as several brown locks escape from a chignon at the nape of her neck. There’s a bit of a bare shoulder visible for a second before she draws back and only her face can be seen again, expression uncertain as she addresses whoever might be listening. She doesn't like these gadgets but she needs help.]

Um, could someone tell me what day it is? [It had been weeks by her reckoning but she knows how BREW likes to muck with time.]

And I need help with a clothes problem. A woman would probably be better. I can’t go back to my apartment like this…

[Then, she recalls the last thing she remembers about this place being tossing her keys on the kitchen counter after getting back from grocery shopping.]

Dag nab it. I don’t think I have my keys either...

[is there some person in charge of the apartment buildings with spare keys who could let her in? Or does she need to call a locksmith after she gets out of this place?]

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The date is June 4th, 2013. [No it's not, Hyoubu. That's like, three years in the future. :| ]

What in the Sam Hill? That can't be right!

Edited 2013-06-15 04:45 (UTC)

Okay, sorry. I was just pulling your leg.

It's really 2023.

That can't be right either! You don't look any older than the last time I saw you!

I was sent back at some point too, you know. I only returned about a month ago.

Even if that's true, I've talked to a few other folks I know and none of them look any older either. [No, Hyoubu, she doesn't believe you at all.]

Did you ask them when they got back?

No but if they actually were gone that long, I'm sure they would have mentioned it.

Edited 2013-06-22 05:07 (UTC)

Then maybe they were replaced with robots.

[...okay. He's not even trying any more.]

That sounds even less likely than all of them being gone.

Hey, you don't know what those Witches might have been up to while you were gone!

I really doubt it. And just how would you know if you were also gone as you claim?

Because I'm a robot.

And if you were, that means you lied before. [So, why should she believe him now?]

That should be pretty obvious, shouldn't it?

Yes, it is, young man. [She remembers that time in the park and still doesn't believe him about that either.]

I wasn't lying about my age, though.

[Why are you still calling him young man like he isn't, like decades older than you. Geez.]

Edited 2013-06-28 04:44 (UTC)

[sarcastically] Of course not. And I bet you've got a bridge to sell me, too.

Sorry I don't really deal in bridges. The group I was a part of did used to sell caviar though.

I wouldn't buy caviar from you either.

I'll have you know, Pandra's caviar was first class.

Well, I still wouldn't buy it. Besides, caviar is a bit too fancy my tastes.

You should try different things from time to time. It keeps life interesting.

I do. But caviar doesn't make much sense when you live alone and don't throw highfaluting parties. [And even if Oscar were here, her gobgoyle familiar would have preferred cookies over caviar.]

You could give it as a gift. It even comes in a nice box and everything.

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