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[Hello all. Enjoy a dude offering a panorama shot of the city at sunrise from the top of one of the dormitories. As it moves around it becomes clear it has to be the Gray building because the others are all seen in the shot. And then there's the Tell Phone being turned around the rest of the way to catch a perfectly framed shot of a white haired youth grinning wide.

Because hey, if you aren't going to use your baller skills at social media, what the fuck are you doing with your life?]

Yo all. I'm Tommy. How much hell are we in here? Figure you should let the new guy know. I think I met a few people when I first got here, sorry I've been laying low for a bit. Been getting jobs all lined up to keep me and the kid fed. Still, I wanna know what all shit has been going on here. Some of you are experienced, I've heard about these Aspects, but stuff gets fucked up in specific ways, right?

So tell me. Weirdest thing you've ever experienced here. Best story gets some of these coin things? Or you can pet the sloth.

Yeah, I know you guys gotta get this whenever someone new shows up. But the last place was fucked and I need to know what I'm getting into now that I'm in it on my own.

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There were evil spooky spirits recently that impersonated someone important to you. When they got you alone though they were made up of a bunch of gross materials and pretty awful to look at. Then there was some pollen that made it impossible to not tell the truth. Both were pretty weird.

[Ouch, those both sound horrid.]

Well that's coins for the devastatingly beautiful lady. But seriously, evil spirits is the worst. I don't know how to mess with those things. I'm more brute force and ghosts don't deal with that.

And you can't outrun pollen.

[ She lets out a tiny chuckle. ] Luckily their physical form could be destroyed. Though I guess we don't have any real proof they won't just come back again in another form. [ Well. She hadn't actually thought of that. Now she's just depressed. ]

It felt like you couldn't get away from the pollen at all.

Well, if they make new forms, I'll blow them up or something.

[Well, you could hide in the water, but what's that going to do? The moment you come up for air, bam, pollen.]

But hte pollen is done now?

Well, I really hope they don't come back. They were creepy, especially with who they tried to impersonate.

[ And it upset her more than she wanted to admit. ]

Seems to be. Lucky you! It'd have been a pretty welcome to show up with it going on.

[Well, he hopes they don't come back either. He's too new to have to deal with this shit. Or so he felt.]

I've dealt with worse. The last place? Bared your memories to EVERYONE.

That sounds pretty bad. How did it do that? What kind of memories?

Private ones. Intimate ones. Scary ones. It... It never seemed to matter.

[They were always personal though. His powers coming in. His pride over his uniform. Memories that weren't his but also were.]

It was like someone really being in your head. They could feel the emotions of it.

Yup, that sounds definitely not good. We haven't had anything like that here yet.

Well that's a relief. I like not having my stuff all out there.

Though...there are some theories that this place may get it's ideas from us. That's probably not helpful to hear.

Wait... That is literally the worst thing ever.

We don't know exactly but the planet itself is sort of...sentient? And it's kinda a newborn that's learning. Not everything it learns is really good though. There's also a portal that can pull things in from our worlds and other places too.

...

[Give him a moment. Living planets. He hates this. Thanks.]

Okay, so we're going to get killed by a baby planet. Fun.

I don't know if it'll help any, but I don't think it wants to hurt us.

That doesn't help. Wanting and doing aren't the same

Motivation matters sometimes.

Motivation matters a lot of time.

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