[posting from his laptop in the Center of Camp]

[inthemoodnow]

Okay, so now seems like as good a time as any to get organised. There's that countdown clock and all of those cryptic notes of doom and lots of mysterious beautiful strangers. Speaking of which, if anyone has the phone number for that engineer? Hook me up. I've thought of a few more questions I'd like to ask him

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[spookmagnet]

[Also in person] I already volunteered myself with the doctor dude, but I figured, might as well come over here, too. If there's something I can do, let me know.

[kagekachou]

You work in a healing capacity, then?

*despite his height, he seems like a pretty bland, unassuming kind of guy, just there taking notes... though there's something kind of... odd. there's something tense about him, which wouldn't seem so weird, given the circumstances, except-

oh wait, it's not him that's tense, it's his shadow. that's what it is.*

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[spookmagnet]

I can, though I'm pretty crappy as a healer. I, uh-

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[spookmagnet]

[Oh Christ, that shadow is not acting like a shadow should.]

[spookmagnet]

-Tatsumi, it was Tatsumi, right? [Tony is trying not to be obvious as he attempts to examine other shadows around for signs of things being not right.]

[kagekachou]

Yes, that's correct.

...is something the matter?

[spookmagnet]

I hope not! Sorry, I'm a little jumpy, I guess. [Nothing else seems wrong, but that one shadow . . . Tony sends a flare of power out, igniting a Wizard's Lamp behind Tatsumi in a quick burst of light, hoping that the shadow will react normally and he can believe everything's fine.]

[kagekachou]

*that shadow reacts normally -- but as Tatsumi jumps to look behind him, other nearby shadows pull themselves up, tense and ready*

[spookmagnet]

[The lamp is gone, since Tony only fed it enough power to keep it going for a second, just long enough to test. His thoughts right now can be summed up as: "Oh. Shit. Does the kitchen even have lemon balm?! Act cool, Tony. Act cool."]

Christ, my eyes! Man, did you see that flash?

[kagekachou]

Yes, I did.

*and he's staring at Tony, very seriously and not so much suspiciously as expectantly*

[spookmagnet]

[Tony really needs to get his boyfriend to give him acting lessons.]

I should . . . go. Go and see what that was. Yeah.

[Of course, he's trying to head off in the entirely wrong direction.]

[kagekachou]

*ah ah ah not so fast -- reaches to stop Tony with a hand on his shoulder*

Foster-kun, what just happened?

[spookmagnet]

[Oh god, they always want to grab me, why do shadows always want to grab me?] You know what? I have no idea, but that's a great question. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus?

[Keep calm and quote movies.]

[kagekachou]

Foster-kun, I think that you know a good deal more than you're letting on.

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[spookmagnet]

Me? Not really, I barely made it through night classes to get my high school diploma. I'm pretty bad at knowing things.

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[spookmagnet]

[This . . . isn't working. Not surprising, it never works. Tony shakes his head.] Okay, fine, but I'm warning you, you try to take me, and I will kick your shadowy ass so hard, you'll be seeing stars. Stars gone supernova. I've learned a lot since the last time I faced your kind.

So what's this one calling himself? Or herself. "Shadowlord" again, or are we going for something a little less "bad Canadian TV" this time?