Second Lantern - [Voice/Action]

[greenlongjohns]

I don't remember the experiments being as... annoying last time around. This isn't some new trend I've come into, is it?

[Today, John is out on the streets, performing the oh so simple task of picking up stuff at the shops. Besides food, he's in the market for a new coffee maker. The one in the new 'watchtower' isn't quite up to snuff. A

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[slaying]

Late for the speed-skating meet'n'greet? [ the jibe is gentlish -- after all, you can't be too crass with a stranger. buffy is also looking for ice-cream and so she smiles coolly by deep-freeze in the shop. ]

[greenlongjohns]

[Damn, and just as he spotted what he was going to pick up. He's not so concerned with other people's opinions that he won't pick up the ice cream, but it's not exactly something he'd like to advertise. He does have an image to maintain.]

Speed-skating? [You lost him right off the bat there.]

[slaying]

You know -- with all the spandex.

[ she grabs a pint of peanut butter fudge crunch. ]

[greenlongjohns]

[He fetches his own ice cream. Don't judge him, woman.]

It my uniform. And trust me, it's too cold to be wearing spandex out there.

[Voice]

[wise_maiden]

That probably could have been considered a fairly standard one, in comparison to what we've seen in the past few months.

[Voice]

[greenlongjohns]

How encouraging. What were the others like?

[Voice]

[wise_maiden]

In August after the earthquake, there was a 'reality' shift of sorts in which we all remembered ourselves as... well, alternate versions, I'd imagine. Perceptions, histories... whether it was one small detail or a larger one expounded upon. That was a tiring week. Later on during Halloween, there was a Shift that gradually changed the appearance of the village, people found their costumes to be stuck on and increasingly realistic, and some had to deal with gradually horrifying hallucinations. It was a mess.

As if that wasn't bad enough, the next month seemed to bring several waves of shifts all at the same time, so people were dealing with multiple effects at once, or in varying stages, and that one went on for two weeks.

[Voice]

[greenlongjohns]

[... well, damn.]

Well, that really puts my complaint into perspective.

[voice]

[pinkribbons]

I think they've always been pretty annoying.

[voice]

[greenlongjohns]

They were more... infrequent the last time I was around. I only had to deal with those thought bubbles.

[voice]

[pinkribbons]

Well when it's not experiments, it's politics or some kind of disaster. Nothing that happens here is good for us.

[voice]

[greenlongjohns]

The disasters I've seen, not so much with the politics.

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[erythrophilia]

[What a familiar voice this is.]

Perhaps it is, love. Fancy meeting you here again.

voice

[greenlongjohns]

[... ah. This one again.]

I didn't realize you were still here.

voice

[erythrophilia]

I'm always about somewhere or another. Surprised?

voice

[greenlongjohns]

No, not really. How have you been?

[lookslikeajob]

Well, what's the one that sticks out most in your mind from the last time you were here?

[It's good to get a baseline reading for these sort of things.]

[greenlongjohns]

Only the thought bubbles. There weren't any others.

[lookslikeajob]

Oh, I could have sworn there was at least one more... then again we did have other things going on.

Yeah, I'd say they're usually a lot more frequent.

[greenlongjohns]

We didn't exactly need experiments at the time to cause trouble.