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voidtreckernet2021-02-12 03:00 pm
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Video Day 22 Jelly Event
[There's a very worried young man on the screen that looks a lot like a twenty-something-year-old Jack, maskless and flesh and blood.]
"Angel? Angel baby... Answer me. It's daddy. Can you tell me where I am, sweetheart?"
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[Oh. this is not good. Not Jack too! He's so smart. He'd be a great consultant on figuring this out. A young-looking purple-haired woman appears on the screen, and it definitely looks like her hair is what's holding the ICP rather than her actual hands.]
[Is this what his human self was like?]
First of all, are you healthy? Not hurt or anything?
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"Huh?" [Someone who knows him by his new name? Must be a coworker... Except that doesn't look like anybody he knows down in Coding. Or, you know- has met ever.]
"Uh, I'm fine. Who is this?"
[And what was up with their hair??]
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Look, this might be a little hard to understand, but there's been some sort of incident that made a lot of people younger. Or significantly different.
You were staff aboard this train, and the Jack I know is a little older... and different... [and has never mentioned having a daughter]. You may want to look around the room you woke up in a little for further evidence. Sometimes when something this strange is happening, it's hard to take people at their word.
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[That's a name he feels like he would have remembered. He listens to her with a quizzical expression on his face, occasionally glancing around the room as if to confirm what she's saying.
An incident that de-aged people? Its all too unreal. R&D got up to some crazy stuff, but not this level of weird. If they had, the president would be hurrying to try and market the stuff as some kind of cream to rich old people!]
"Staff? Why would I work on a train...? I'm a coder. Look, I really have to find my daughter, she needs m-"
[His eyes finally catch on the life-sized gold bust sitting innocently on a set of drawers.]
"Hold on... Is that-?"
[Holy shit, it kind of looks like him? John reaches out, tracing the angles of the face with an incredulous expression. The jaw is a bit squarer and wider and there's some strange.... staple things (???) on the sides and under the chin. But it really does look convincingly like someone had taken his face and aged it up maybe ten or fifteen years?]
"Is this supposed to be me?" [He asks, angling the ICP to include the bust.]
"Cause if so... Wow. One, that's really weird. And two, I aged really darn well!"
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[Royalty have statues of themselves all the time, she has portraits of herself, it's not that strange. It's just... fancier... than she expected.]
[But okay!]
That is you, though.
I don't think your daughter is here. You've never mentioned her to me. But the train is pretty compact and if you want to look to be sure, I could help you.
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"That makes two of us. Kinda cool though. Or is it tacky? Maybe both."
[His expression turns serious again when she says his daughter probably isn't on the train.]
"Yeah... That's not really a surprise," he says with a frown. "I don't really. Uh. Tell people about her. I have a picture though if you can help me search."
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My cabin isn't far from yours. Should I meet you outside of it?
[She's going to help him look just to put his mind at ease.]
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[He shrugs.]
"Hurry up though, I'm not gonna wait around. I gotta find her."
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[But oh, it's going to hurt when he realizes she's not anywhere.]
[Entrapta knocks on his cabin door not ten seconds later. Sandra isn't with her- she left her with a girl that was having problems phasing through things. But that's alright. She doesn't think she's going to be as productive as she normally would be when there's a situation like this, one where there's no hope of fixing it.]