outer_divide | [Video] Week 37

[Hi there people of Verdana. There is a man with a dog, both trying to look especially harmless. In fact the dog's main purpose on the screen is to reassure everyone that Atticus really is nothing to worry about.]

Well this has been barrels of fun, huh? [He can't hide the slightly sheepish look, he's trying really hard to though. Publicly taking the blame for the whole... altered time reality thing isn't something he's really looking to do but he's gotta know how much of this is him and how much is... anyone else.

Someone had to screw up something along the way right? It wasn't just him.]

Just out of curiosity did... anyone [And there's just enough emphasis on it that someone remarkably perceptive might catch the quiet anyone else that is faintly implied by his tone.] do anything in particular that might have caused any of... well... time shenanigans? Not the traveling bit but the arriving part of the deal.

[Private to Belle]

Hey, I know you're probably busy with all the changes but can Oberon hang out with you for a couple days? I guess the lakes are still intact but I've gotta see it for myself.

((OOC: Fari warning! Genesis might be threadjacking periodically as she is staying with Atticus now and likely hovering nearby laughing at him.))

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[Since Thor does recognize the voice as the one that panicked at him, at least, he is forgiving of any tension he might pick up. Though for now, since he's not the most observant godling on the planet, he hasn't picked up on anything.

Do have a slightly comical expression of confusion, though, Atticus.]

Wonky? I do not know that term. Do you mean the changes here, in this time? I cannot help you there. It surely must have come from something that was done in the past timelines, not mine.

[He pauses, then offers, with a slight smile,]

Unless the mighty tentacled beasts or bone golems from the far future have some affect on previous times. I would not put it past them.

Uh... wonky is kinda like weird? If we could get online I'd look it up on urban dictionary for you. [He does that a lot for Leif just to reinforce that people say these things.

Or he used to... goddamn vampires.

This is a serious thing, he knows it is. But... ]

You seriously had tentacle monsters? [He's not going to burst out laughing, really he's not, but goddamn kidnapped by aliens and given to tentacle monsters. He's pretty sure he's seen this anime.]

Weird. I will remember that.

[Not that he knows what an urban dictionary is, either, but he'll let that slide, since apparently they don't have those here, either. He'll just be happy to trust Atticus that it's what the word really means.]

But yes, there were seriously tentacle monsters. I fought with them on two occasions, there, though I only succeeded once.

[He would have succeeded the second time, too, if it hadn't been for Elissa. Ah, well. The godling just cocks his head innocently at Atticus, and asks,]

Is there significance to this?

[Thor was defeated by tentacle monsters... holy. shit.

Nope, sorry Thor, he's in too good a mood and this is just too damned funny. He can't stop himself from laughing but at least he keeps it to a minimum. One hand gets pressed over his mouth and the other waves it off, trying to excuse himself before he can trust himself to talk again.]

No, not really, sorry... there's... cultural significance to tentacle monsters I guess you could say but... it's... never mind, it's ridiculous.

[Thor takes a minute to figure out just why Atticus is laughing-- it's really not that funny, Atticus, at least not from his perspective-- and then he gives him a rather less amused look of his own. He doesn't really like being laughed at by strangers. It wasn't as if he didn't fight bravely when he had the chance, or wouldn't have done a better job of it had the monster not vanished.]

I am obviously not understanding something. Regardless, it disappeared before I could give it a proper battle. It was very disappointing!

[Chew on that one, there, Atticus. Mun is not sorry.]

[Brighid give him strength. It took every ounce of willpower he had to keep from falling over laughing right then and there.]

I'm sorry... that sounds mo-pff- [No, no he can't do it. He shakes his head hard, hand coming up to slap over his mouth. Speaking is beyond him, this is too funny and Thor looking so damned grumpy only made it worse. Well, of course he's grumpy if he had tentacles-

And then he's smashing the button on his phone to end the feed so he can roll off the couch in a fit of hysterics. So sorry Thor.]

[Thor stares down at his communicator in consternation. He doesn't get it. What was so funny...?

He's starting to think maybe this fellow, whoever he is, is a little crazy. It's the only conclusion the two points of evidence he has thus far points to.

Though, as he puts the communicator away again, he does decide he might have to ask someone what the significance of tentacles is on Midgard. Maybe someone else will have a better answer for him than laughter.]

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