ⲓⲛⲃⲟⲭ: ⲁⲣⲟⲥⲁ𝓵ⲩⲣ𝛓ⲉ ⲏⲟⲱ

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𝕥𝕖𝕩𝕥 | 𝕡𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕖 | 𝕔𝕒𝕝𝕝 | 𝕧𝕠𝕚𝕔𝕖𝕞𝕒𝕚𝕝 | 𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟

Comments

[retisense]

Yeah, everything's fine with me. I mean, as fine as it can be. I was just checking in because no offense but you seemed pretty messed up when you showed up. So, you know. Are you less messed up now?

[stations]

Oh
Yeah that's fair
Things were kind of
weird
back home
I'd say my general baseline is significantly less messed up now

[retisense]

Seriously, no offense, I don't blame you if shit was weird and you looked like a mess, I can pretty much promise I've looked worse.

Glad you're less messed up though. I'm just trying to catch my breath. Are you used to this kind of thing? Weird otherworldly paranormal crap?

[stations]

Unfortunately, yeah, kind of way too used to it.
What about you?

[retisense]

Not used to it. I mean, I'm used to fucked up stuff, but not this kind of fucked up stuff.

Sorry man, it's rough.

[stations]

What kind of fucked up stuff is your normal kind of fucked up stuff?

[retisense]

Mostly just survival horror and creepy stalkers. What kind of supernatural nonsense are you used to? Any particular genre?

[stations]

Eldritch beings, demigods, and raccoons, mainly
also sometimes lawn gnomes that may or may not be omens of bad tidings

[retisense]

You know, besides the raccoons that stuff sounds almost easier to deal with. I wouldn't wish a month-long shipwreck on my worst enemy.

[stations]

The raccoons are definitely not to be trifled with.

You were shipwrecked? That sucks. Was it like a Lord of the Flies situation?

[retisense]

Those little fuckers are smart and mean, you're a braver man than I if you trifle with them.

Yeah. Though I'd have KILLED for an island to be shipwrecked on. All I had was an orange dinghy and pretty much no food or water.

[stations]

The ones back where I work are like... mutated. I'm not kidding, one of them is like three feet tall. I've seen it get run over on no less than two occasions. It's definitely going to outlive me.

Oh wow, that's like the second worst possible way to be shipwrecked.

[retisense]

Oh my god, that's messed up. Like, run over by a regular car or are we talking Mack truck?

What's the worst way?

[stations]

Once was a car, the other time was one of those big redneck overcompensating for something jacked up pick-up trucks.

Not having a dinghy.

[retisense]

Yikes. I hope I never meet those raccoons.

[Oh wow, that's like, the first time someone's made her laugh about her crappy backstory.]

You've got a point there. I watched some episodes of some TV show about people who got dropped in the water with nothing to float on. Doubt I could've survived that one.

[stations]

( It would legitimately blow his mind to know that made her laugh. He wasn't trying to be funny. It's super not the first time that's happened to him — for some reason, it's kind of a regularly recurring accident in his life... )

Me neither. I definitely don't do enough cardio for that, and I'm pretty sure I'd somehow manage to mess up floating within an hour.

Sorry about your month long shipwreck, by the way. I thought it in my head and totally forgot to say it.

[retisense]

[She has a bit of a twisted sense of humor, what can she say? And maybe this might be a little part of why she likes him.]

I don't even know if I CAN float. I don't make a habit of going in the ocean very often, or even other really big bodies of water. Just not my scene anymore, you know?

No reason to be sorry for it, but thanks. It's just a thing that happened and now it's done. I just wish other people would leave it in the past too, you know?

[stations]

Is there someone else here that keeps bringing it up? If not, it seems like this might be a good place to make the whole leaving it in the past thing happen. Pretty much all you'd have to do is tell me to shut up, and then you just... win automatically.

[retisense]

Oh, no! I don't mean this now, I mean at home. No one here brings it up too much, and I was the one who talked about it in the first place, so no big. Don't shut up.

[stations]

Right, yeah, that makes
way more sense
obviously

[retisense]

Back home I have a few actual stalkers because of some stuff that happened when I was out there, just people who get obsessed with survivors of situations like that. Those are the guys I mean (they're all guys, ugh).

It's actually kind of nice to have someone to talk to about this who's NOT creepy. Feel free to talk about your shit anytime if you want. Promise not to be creepy.

[stations]

Oh man, I know how that one feels. I run this blog back home and I got a few really, really weird followers. One guy showed up at my work dressed like the grim reaper. He tried to convince me I was dead to lure me into his van. In hindsight, it's embarrassing it almost worked.

Not that it's exactly same as like surviving a horrific tragedy but
People are weird

[retisense]

Holy crap that's kind of terrifying. I mean, if you're used to weird supernatural stuff going on it's not embarrassing that you kind of went with it. Wtf was wrong with that guy though? Wow.

People are super weird. And on that note, I bet I totally would've read your blog.

[stations]

I know, right? Apparently it was full of like lotion and fanfiction, which I guess is better than saws and tarps or something.

Thanks for giving me the Stupidness Out. You're right, honestly the grim reaper showing up at the gas station wouldn't have been the most abnormal thing to happen that week.

He wound up in the blog after that, so maybe that helped make up for the fact that he got super tasered by a cop for it.

[retisense]

[Well, that gets another laugh.]

Oh my god. It is better, but I'm not sure by how much. Gross.

There you go, you own that abnormal life, sir.

Okay, enough teasing, you have to tell me this story for real. Unless it's super uncomfortable.