Video 2

[phantomfenton]

Am I the only one starting to get creeped out by all these cracks in the ground?

*Danny turns the camera towards the ground, showing a particularly large fissure. It's too dark inside for the camera to reach more than a few feet, and looks wide enough that jumping over it is not just an inconvenience, but unsafe.*

*The camera turns back to him.* I've

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[hacksinundies]

You know, I won't be surprised if something tried to pull you inside one of those. Maybe into the tunnels.

[He laughs. Obviously he's just kidding around. Mostly.]

[phantomfenton]

Ha, ha.

*Danny looks down at the hole. Then he takes one big step away from it.*

For the record, that kind of joke's only funny when it's not actually likely to happen.

[hacksinundies]

C'mon, you don't really think anything like that's gonna happen, do you?

[phantomfenton]

It might.

It's not like things like that haven't happened in my world already. What's to stop it from happening here, too?

[rushofwingbeats]

Does filling in a fissure work where you're from?

[phantomfenton]

I don't know.

I've never seen any fissures there before.

[rushofwingbeats]

I suppose you must not be on a faultline.

[phantomfenton]

I guess not.

... Hey--you can change the weather, and stuff, right? Do you have any idea what's going on with all these cracks?

[oredeficient]

[ color Gilbert confused ]

You filled it in?

... Why?

[phantomfenton]

It was a creepy, ominous, unexplained hole in the ground!

Why not?

[oredeficient]

Because you don't know what's been in there!

[ it makes perfect sense in his head ]

[phantomfenton]

Um--isn't that the point?

As far as we know, something horrible and out to kill us could be planning to crawl out of it and attack us in our sleep.