I need you to do me a favor I was going to wait for you to respond, but dunno if I have time for that I'm not the time traveler here I'm something else, and I'm not ready to keep turning into that, so you're getting this message instead Thalia and Annabeth are off-network now. they don't remember anything. the last thing we really talked about was the fact that we're half-bloods you know what that is, strider? half-god your brother pointed out I'm probably one of hermes' kids. fuck that guy. hermes, not your brother point is...there's a lot of things I've remembered in the last almost-five months that've given me a pretty clear idea of what kind of person that other me was so I'm cutting my loses, I guess. before things get worse everything would've gone to 'Beth if she'd stayed on the network, but she's not you've been doing this since the beginning so...gonna do something if you ever come to the cabin and I finally don't remember anything, check the dj equipment. you'll have a key there that you can use to open the storage closet in the back by the bathrooms and the conspiracy board and all of my notes about everything will be there. take them and do whatever you want with them. maybe they'll help, who knows maybe I'm already too late. who knows anyway you can still keep djing if you want. if I ever forget all of this bullshit with retrospec at least I won't forget that part, so it won't seem weird guess that's it
[They have cased the joint Multiple Times, because the second Dirk realized Dave would allow this, he leaped into the prospect. He is the clingy older brother; it is him. Anyway, the 24th was a Saturday, so they had lunch and a fun activity, but also Dirk asked if Dave would meet up with him later at night!
It's time for a ZOO BREAK IN. Via FLIGHT.]
I hope you're ready to go full secret agent, Dave. We have an animal cuddling mission to complete.
It's been busy - since right before graduation and then sweeping into after. Sure, Dave was someone that she still managed to see when dance practice appeared on her schedule for the day, but still - she can't deny that she sees him less than before. Less than she wants to.
So it's during this day off that she texts him - early.]
[attached: a picture of photos like this. The numbers aren't perfectly crisp, although the texture of the stone walls seems to be]
From the Super Secret Meetings. [except not, obviously.] They were found on the closed down subway walls. Apparently, the numbers keep changing. No explanation why.
Just updating you on a few things. First, I remembered another stupid argument with my AI sunglasses. Point two, and related, my sunglasses now appear to be advanced enough to hold that AI. Thankfully, he isn't there. For the hat trick, I am now physically better suited to the lifestyle I had.
[ okay that's move in day and he doesn't have time powers. he leaves this one for a few hours before he has a spare second to respond, since he's Legitimately Doing Things. ]
[Dirk shows up promptly on time for their usual meet-up. He knocks at the door and has his hands in his pockets. It has been early a week, and Dirk still doesn't know how to go forward.]
[ there's a few minutes pause before the door opens. dave looks more or less the same as he did on monday. neutral and closed off and - less tired than usual maybe, but it has nothing to do with dirk and everything to do with not even needing to sleep. it's mid summer and hot and he's still insisting on jeans and a long-sleeves shirt, dressed more for fall than anything else.
he doesn't open the door wide enough for dirk to come in or see inside, but instead slips out and twists his key in the lock before letting the keys drop back into his sylladex. his hands go into his pockets and he simply asks: ]
[of course since Retrospec's being fritzy he won't get these till after the plot. so hey, future dave: enjoy the antics of Ami on painkillers.]
Dave we have a time problemo! there are a bunch of days thata re just MISSING their names are july 31 feb 1 feb 2 wait no. makes those febs into augs! haha I can't believe it I forgot waht month is best maid of time of all time!! sorry i canst top laughting that's so funny ok 4 real tho ur the leading authoritative on time so pls help to locate the missing days also are u doing ok? that thing should of been the thing i saked first asked* alright bye I'm gonna fall asleep
Hi, Dave! You can't hear this, I know, but I wanted to leave you a message anyway! I hope you're safe wherever you are. I'm really trying hard to get you back ASAP! I know you're doing that, too!
I'm really looking forward to when you come back. Don't forget you promised you'd show me your fossil collection, okay? It's definitely a promise!
[ Half an hour later, she makes another impulse call. It all comes out in a rush: ]
If I draw you fanart everyday, will that get you back sooner? If I read your entire comic, will that help? I want to do more than—
[ She takes a deep breath. ]
You said I was like a fairy tale once, but I hope this will end like a fairy tale. The Disney kind, the happy kind, not the really sad, painful, and tragic ones that Disney based their movies off of.
Can we get that kind of fairy tale ending, Dave? Or at least an ending where I can see you and hang out with you again? That's all I really want. It's not really a fairy tale. It's only a tale of a friend wanting to see her friend again.
[ She laughs. It's a little sad. ]
Sorry! I hope you don't hear this one. I hope you're safe! Please be safe.
davenka where are you i do not know where i am look
[provided is the image of Anya on the jungle trail - she's a brave explorer]
right now is when i think davenka would have a funny joke even if it a little long it would make me laugh but i am not as creative as davenka i will have to find you soon yes ?
Hey Dave, hit me up when you Oh who am I kidding, none of my texts are going through. Look, you're probably way better equipped to handle this than me. Or a lot of people, actually. But let me know what's going on when you get this. If you get this. I'll keep you posted from here in the jungle.
[towards the end of the second week, after seeing the other groups from the tapestry-]
Status update: we raided some jungle temple, I stole a crown. Jumping across an obstacle course of death is a lot less exciting when you don't have extra lives. On a side note, you're a pretty cute cat. Although I bet if you can't laze around and have everyone shower you in affection for being a cute animal, you're sort of missing half the experience. Sorry about that. Hang in there, buddy.
Anya crashed in on a dragon? That was also a thing.
Then everyone got dumped at the beach - that's.... that's nice. Anya's disoriented, yet again, if only because this is becoming quite a bit for her to keep up with. Even with her naturally passive personality that accepts things as they come, it's a little overwhelming. At the very last, one of the knights got dumped with her and she still has all of her supplies - armor, machete, sword, rifle, and all. To be honest, she still looks pretty set to star in an rpg (sans the cool hat).
But people are starting to head over to fight the monster that took the ocean - but... unfortunately Anya isn't sure how to make it there. There's a moment where she stops, stalls, and she's very, very glad she did.
Because out of the corner of her eye, she sees Dave - and nothing else matters quite as much.
Her heart leaps in her ribcage and she turns to face him entirely, running against the pull of the sand to rush toward him, shouting carelessly:]
Davenka! Davenka Davenka - Davenka!
[Words are hard? Words are super hard, right now.
So she hopes that her feelings of crushing relief, hurdling excitement, and boundless affection manage to get through to him as she immediately moves to give him a giant hug.]
[ words are definitely hard. dave hasn't seen anyone besides talking animals outside of his own team for the past few weeks - and he definitely hasn't heard any of the little russian nicknames he's familiar with. he turns, and he looks pretty much the same as ever - although he's never worn the shirt or the basketball space jam jersey carelessly tossed over it before - and immediately lets his sword drop into his sylladex so both arms and hands are free to catch anya in the hug.
he likes to use the diminutives yuri and anya throw around, but caught by surprise his reaction is: ]
An! Holy shit, you're all right. [ and they had the pictures, but none of them had context, and the word of a sphinx wasn't worth a whole lot when it came to worrying about friends. ]
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I was going to wait for you to respond, but dunno if I have time for that
I'm not the time traveler here
I'm something else, and I'm not ready to keep turning into that, so you're getting this message instead
Thalia and Annabeth are off-network now. they don't remember anything. the last thing we really talked about was the fact that we're half-bloods
you know what that is, strider? half-god
your brother pointed out I'm probably one of hermes' kids. fuck that guy. hermes, not your brother
point is...there's a lot of things I've remembered in the last almost-five months that've given me a pretty clear idea of what kind of person that other me was
so I'm cutting my loses, I guess. before things get worse
everything would've gone to 'Beth if she'd stayed on the network, but she's not
you've been doing this since the beginning so...gonna do something
if you ever come to the cabin and I finally don't remember anything, check the dj equipment. you'll have a key there that you can use to open the storage closet in the back by the bathrooms and the conspiracy board and all of my notes about everything will be there. take them and do whatever you want with them. maybe they'll help, who knows
maybe I'm already too late. who knows
anyway you can still keep djing if you want. if I ever forget all of this bullshit with retrospec at least I won't forget that part, so it won't seem weird
guess that's it
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if it helps i think a lot of people arent ready to keep becoming what they remember
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june 24. i can't accept not being the first person in your inbox so i'm going to destroy it
It's time for a ZOO BREAK IN. Via FLIGHT.]
I hope you're ready to go full secret agent, Dave. We have an animal cuddling mission to complete.
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7/1 | text
It's been busy - since right before graduation and then sweeping into after. Sure, Dave was someone that she still managed to see when dance practice appeared on her schedule for the day, but still - she can't deny that she sees him less than before. Less than she wants to.
So it's during this day off that she texts him - early.]
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i can make the time for both of us
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7/01
aradia
my name was aradia
i just remembered
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where you were all blah blah blah its absurd we never talked
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07/04
On a scale of one to ten, how down are you to go carolling to Never Gonna Give You Up in public?
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JUNE 25 BECAUSE I FORGOT
From the Super Secret Meetings. [except not, obviously.]
They were found on the closed down subway walls. Apparently, the numbers keep changing. No explanation why.
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it is
you should have said i would have come to pony up or something
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... *drawer
i didn't even notice...
bless you lucy
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July 3
Thought you'd like this crap that was in the unlocked Retrospec building.
Ryoji has your eyes and time powers.
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thanks
who the fuck is ryoji
wait nevermind ive heard the name
yato knows him
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July 6 SORRY
First, I remembered another stupid argument with my AI sunglasses. Point two, and related, my sunglasses now appear to be advanced enough to hold that AI. Thankfully, he isn't there. For the hat trick, I am now physically better suited to the lifestyle I had.
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scars or just muscles
did you lose weight
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July 8 DOING EARLY BC SPELLBIND TOMORROW
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okay wtf is the thread above this THAT IS RUDE AF /giant gestures everywhere
the end of the striders' fraternal relationship
is this bingo related
it's not okay is what it is
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ can't be helped
now i'm gonna have to actually finish reading hs to see just how badly things went
hs has an ok ending they just fucked themselves over here
that's....... good?? i guess???? boys please
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ alas
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but be aware my standard for weird news is p dang high
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7/24 | text
there is something I want to do
but it might be mistake ?
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so whats up
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7/28; text
There's some sort of war in the school I used to go to in my past.
[ YEAH JUST PROVIDE NO CONTEXT AT ALL thanks man ]
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sorry what
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where are you heading out to you cant say that and leave
i mean you can but dude
[ like dave kinda knew it was coming but WAY TO DROP THAT NEWS, YURI ]
do you know what you want to do
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8/03; 1 of ???
Dave we have a time problemo!
there are a bunch of days thata re just MISSING
their names are july 31 feb 1 feb 2
wait no. makes those febs into augs!
haha I can't believe it I forgot waht month is
best maid of time of all time!!
sorry i canst top laughting that's so funny
ok 4 real tho ur the leading authoritative on time so pls help to locate the missing days
also are u doing ok? that thing should of been the thing i saked first
asked*
alright bye I'm gonna fall asleep
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daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaave this is important
pick up your text
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week 2, late at night; voice message
I'm really looking forward to when you come back. Don't forget you promised you'd show me your fossil collection, okay? It's definitely a promise!
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If I draw you fanart everyday, will that get you back sooner? If I read your entire comic, will that help? I want to do more than—
[ She takes a deep breath. ]
You said I was like a fairy tale once, but I hope this will end like a fairy tale. The Disney kind, the happy kind, not the really sad, painful, and tragic ones that Disney based their movies off of.
Can we get that kind of fairy tale ending, Dave? Or at least an ending where I can see you and hang out with you again? That's all I really want. It's not really a fairy tale. It's only a tale of a friend wanting to see her friend again.
[ She laughs. It's a little sad. ]
Sorry! I hope you don't hear this one. I hope you're safe! Please be safe.
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i do not know where i am
look
[provided is the image of Anya on the jungle trail - she's a brave explorer]
right now is when i think
davenka would have a funny joke even if it a little long
it would make me laugh
but i am not as creative as davenka
i will
have to find you soon
yes ?
please be safe
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there is blue and red
i followed the blue because i miss it
but the red made me think of you
and your anime eyes
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event texts for 8/24
Hey Dave, hit me up when you
Oh who am I kidding, none of my texts are going through.
Look, you're probably way better equipped to handle this than me.
Or a lot of people, actually.
But let me know what's going on when you get this.
If you get this.
I'll keep you posted from here in the jungle.
[towards the end of the second week, after seeing the other groups from the tapestry-]
Status update: we raided some jungle temple, I stole a crown.
Jumping across an obstacle course of death is a lot less exciting when you don't have extra lives.
On a side note, you're a pretty cute cat.
Although I bet if you can't laze around and have everyone shower you in affection for being a cute animal, you're sort of missing half the experience.
Sorry about that.
Hang in there, buddy.
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Anya crashed in on a dragon? That was also a thing.
Then everyone got dumped at the beach - that's.... that's nice. Anya's disoriented, yet again, if only because this is becoming quite a bit for her to keep up with. Even with her naturally passive personality that accepts things as they come, it's a little overwhelming. At the very last, one of the knights got dumped with her and she still has all of her supplies - armor, machete, sword, rifle, and all. To be honest, she still looks pretty set to star in an rpg (sans the cool hat).
But people are starting to head over to fight the monster that took the ocean - but... unfortunately Anya isn't sure how to make it there. There's a moment where she stops, stalls, and she's very, very glad she did.
Because out of the corner of her eye, she sees Dave - and nothing else matters quite as much.
Her heart leaps in her ribcage and she turns to face him entirely, running against the pull of the sand to rush toward him, shouting carelessly:]
Davenka! Davenka Davenka - Davenka!
[Words are hard? Words are super hard, right now.
So she hopes that her feelings of crushing relief, hurdling excitement, and boundless affection manage to get through to him as she immediately moves to give him a giant hug.]
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An! Holy shit, you're all right. [ and they had the pictures, but none of them had context, and the word of a sphinx wasn't worth a whole lot when it came to worrying about friends. ]
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