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burned my house down with a crystal ball once;

WHO: Nicholas Dicholas Wolfwood, the seers of Kaisou, and you.
WHERE: Libra and Gemini
WHEN: end of the month-ish
WHAT: mirror mirror on the wall, what's gonna happen in the fall? PROPHECY POST!
WARNINGS: none that come to mind

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[ the camera is being puppeted by somebody else--given the glimpse of a mechanical finger, it's probably a long-suffering Vash who was asked to film before... Wolfwood? decided to...

... if you are familiar with Nicholas D. Wolfwood, weirdo living on the edge of town with other weirdos and his current pinnipedal status, it's probably not weird that there's a big gray-black lump of seal stuffing its head under the sand. if you are unfamiliar with Nicholas D. Wolfwood, somebody's taking a weird video of the gothest little blubberbeast in the harbor and uh. gently trying to cajole it. ]

Heyyy, Nico, c'mon! You said you had a smoke thing you needed to post about?

[ the Nico-seal snrfs. sand leaps from newly revealed nostril-holes. it's followed by the hottest glower a seal's ever given a camera. ]

Stickin' my head in the sand makes the ringing shut up for a couple of seconds, blondie, let me have this. Or shoot me. I'll take either option.

[ the camera goes into turbo mode as the idiot holding it needs to tell you that NO, NO, SHOOTING IS NOT AN OPTION WOLFWOOOOOOD and the seal rolls on his back, staring out at the ocean as if urging it to wash up higher, higher, and claim him for somewhere far and away. please. God. do him a solid for once, you cosmic asshole. ]

Will you shut your yap-hole for--needlenoggin! Stuff it! You're not helping! [ he's throwing a flipperful of sand and angrily rolling over, God's angriest powdered donut as he flops this way and that on the beach. ]

Apparently the magical predictive bullshit livin' rent free in my brain wasn't content with showing me a stupid bell, but I keep hearin' a friggin' bell too. It sounds like a bell. Good luck figuring out what that portents to--maybe the other assholes have something meatier.

Wishin' bells on all of you.

[ head goes back in the sand until the camera cuts off and the cameraman's voice hits a new decibel of catastrophically fretful. ]

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So.

Not to alarm anybody but I definitely got a ping on the Alarm system about, like, a footrace between Pokemon? I didn't get to see how it ended so we can't fix betting or anything, but. Yeah. Watch for danger if a bunch of lil' critters get together to do some running.

And apropos of nothing in particular @/hikari-vi I need to borrow Koukou. I promise I will return him entirely intact and with no additional criminal record. Probably. definitely. Definitely! Capital letter for how confident I am!

Koukou? Really?

I mean, I'm sure you'll look after him but... if you're hoping he'll win a race, you're going to be really disappointed.

... I've got nothing on what bells could possibly mean.

As far as my own territory goes, I've got the Hermit, upright. [They hold up the appropriate card.] The general meanings for this one are solitude, soul-searching, introspection, spiritual enlightenment, inner guidance... that sort of thing. Withdrawing to focus on bettering yourself or possibly even recovering from difficult situations.

oh yeah no not even slightly baby hit a DNF in the vision I had

but it's what he does separately of the race that I feel a compulsion about. something I must make come to pass.

[Unusually for Dr. Ratio, he's appearing on a video feed this month. He seems drained and irritated.]

Ordinarily I have a quote from a book to present at this time. ...This month, I have nine. Take that as you will.

[And he begins to read them off from torn-out notebook pages, one by one, dropping the page dramatically into a pile after each is finished.]

“The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.” Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia.

“No matter where I go, I still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but I'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that I can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as I'll come to defining myself.” Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun.

“A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.” Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

“People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified — how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don't know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things.” Richard Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.

“There was something wrong with her. She did not know what it was but there was something wrong with her. A hunger, a restlessness. An incomplete knowledge of herself. The sense of something farther away, beyond her reach.” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun.

“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.” Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, and please remind the internet that the man wrote things other than Lolita.

“There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished.” Carson McCullers, The Sojourner.

“It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.” Norman Cousins, Modern Man is Obsolete.

“My entire life consisted of musings, calculations, practical works and trials. Many questions remain unanswered; many works are incomplete or unpublished. The most important things still lie ahead.” Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, as quoted in Air & Space Smithsonian.

[Recitation finished, he seems almost defeated.]

...I dearly hope I don't come up with any more before the month is out, but I will relay them if I do.

That... sounds like him alright.

Well, I'm usually a proponent of free will and the visions are just suggestions but... sounds harmless enough, so sure! Have fun with Koukou. I'll be sure to supply you a list of dos and don'ts, as well as any gear he needs.

Also take him to the Pokemon Cafe as a treat, okay? He deserves one after fulfilling destiny.

[Venti hums softly as he turns on the voice.]

Mm, the winds brought to me some old voices from my past this time. Specifically, the voices of my parents. It was an old conversation I had with them in my childhood.

[There's a moment of silence.]

I think today's gonna be a self-care day for me~! Oh, and I guess make sure you guys take care of yourselves next month. It sounds like it might be rough.

[Takame had no expression on a good day and less of one when he reported what he saw of the future. But this time he appeared... very noticeably somber. Like a fresh wound was just pressed into while staring him straight in the face.]

... I dreamt of my mother and father in a time before our home was taken and we all changed.

[He shook his head lightly.]

I do not know for certain what that may entail... but the days ahead may be taxing. I apologize for such a dour view in my report.

O splendid Muses Nine,
Within my heart you dwell divine!
O beautiful Muses Nine,
What I would give to make you all mine!

This prophecy has been endorsed by Apollo.
Please do not like, smite, comment, or follow.

[The anonymous cat behind the screen may or may not be screaming internally or externally.]

[actual un: bacchus, let's be real]

LMAOOOOOOO YOU RLY JUST CAME RIGHT OUT AND SAID IT HUH

Apollo.
Sunshine.

That was public. This is a public feed.

[8 months keeping it a secret and he just... tweeted it out.]

I got that stupid fuckin' Reading Rainbow song stuck in my head and now I know shit from that show that I definitely never knew before. 'Cause that's what I wanted, more useless garbage in here.

I probably forgot something important like someone's birthday for this to get lodged in my skull. But if I have to suffer, so do you:

1. It ran for 26 years, which is how long it feels my headache about this stupid show since I got my prophecy has lasted.
2. It got more than 250 awards. Yes, I do know all of them now. Yes, I wish I was dead.
3. There were 155 episodes and 21 seasons. Remember when shit wasn't cancelled after 1 season?
4. The theme song was written by Steve Horelick, Dennis Neil Kleinman, and Janet Weir - they did this to you.
5. It's an app now. Because everything has to be a fucking app.

It won't stop. I promised I'd hold back on the booze for my kid so if someone could just come and smack me across the head with a brick to simulate the feeling of a bender for me to get this shit outta here, I'd appreciate it.

[There is an audible little hopefully gasp from the shortest of bookworms.]

The Muses? Could it be?

[When they visit that means-]

[Suddenly Eve is excited for summer to end.]

[ There are many things Persephone is sensitive about. There are many things she gets very murderous about. But the muses? That hits a specific nerve, and she is Not Having It Today. All the pain from losing Calliope comes rushing to her like a flood.

She really wants to punch something and Apollo is right there. ]

I think it would be wise for you to shut your mouth before I find a way to shut it for you, Brother mine. You are crossing a line

Amongst the somewhat more ominous offerings of my fellow seers, I'm pleased to lend more weight to Ghilly's supposition that we're to have a pokemon race of some sort. I was part of the proceedings in my vision, after all, though I've no intention of physically participating when it comes time.

...Though I do hope there are size categories. 'Twould hardly be fair to have one of the wee ones race against pokemon anywhere near Coffee's size, wouldn't it?

[Yes, he named one of his pokemon Coffee. Don't worry about it.]

[Gods, that drunkard needs better hobbies than bullying me! I'm older!

Harumasa, fortunately, is the one in control so he gets to do the best thing for everyone here. Except Dionysus.]

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[Harumasa lowkey freaking out, but by god he's doing his best. They all knew this would happen eventually, but GOOD LORD.]

He says he knows that because he wants everyone to know he still loves the Nine Muses.

Help.

[COWARD. Call 'im a coward, Kame-kun.

No, he feels the searing pain coming on already please stop.

Fine, I'll do it myself. ]

COWARD

[Takame Kesi has now thrown his phone onto the floor.]

[Neither Harumasa nor Apollo know what the context behind this is. They know it's related to the Muses since Persephone hasn't been this aggressive since the first prophecy post Harumasa posted to. One can definitely imagine the two of them looking at each other with a huge question mark above them.]

It's Harumasa. I'm not gonna ask, it's clearly private and painful. I just want to know if you'd like for me to ask my sister to call you?

[HELP HOW BROTHER. HELP HOW.]

Yeah, I think all of Kaisou knows that now, Apollo, don't worry.

[Yet again he is so thankful the Lord is as aroace as a God comes.]

Okay, deep breaths. They know Pythia is connected to Apollo, but most people don't know that you're Pythia. So you're still fine.

[Somehow, this read receipt feels more smug than the last one. Or maybe that's just imaginations running wild!]

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My Lovely Heavenly Star, I thought we were avoiding Her Majesty’s everything, not flagging it down like an airport runway.

[August holds up a card: Five of Swords, Upright.]

Someone somewhere has ambition and doesn't know how to fucking stop it. Also sneaky as fuck. So....yeah, keep an eye out?

[GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY IT'S ALL GONE TO SHIT]

Okay. Okay. Yeah. That's true. I think I've been pretty careful about that. And HOPEFULLY it's obvious by how I've been anonymous that those who do know about Apollo, but not about my seer ability, won't say anything.

"As far as I was aware, my dear Sister didn't have any interactions with the Muses. Clearly, that's not the case with THIS version of my Sister!"

I feel like I need to go into hiding at this rate. Not from Her Majesty yet, just in general.

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