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[drewthetower]

WHO: August and Everyone Else
WHERE: Network
WHEN: September 18th
WHAT: Prophecy Power Hour
WARNINGS: It's August. He swears.

[August...is looking confused, which is slightly better than annoyed or pissed? But like. He's also still pissed. Julian sits perched on his little raven perch just to the side, going to town on his dinner.]

I am going to find Nebiros and shove this deck up his demonic ass, I swear to fuck. Got the readings and the visions for the month, and it's stupidly vague and nothing good all at once.

[He holds up the Wheel of Fortune card, reversed.]

This son of a bitch just means "bad luck". Like no fucking shit, it's gonna be bad luck! It's Kaisou! We haven't had good luck in months!

[He sets it down, but a bit too harshly, and it causes his phone to fall over. He's quick to get it up, but if you're eagle-eyed you might see that August was doing a different reading, with the Six of Cups, Death, and the Empress laid out (though it's impossible to tell if they were upright or reversed, obviously).

It takes August a moment to get the phone back where it was. He's pretty distracted.]

The other two got a weird ass tree and a funhouse mirror jumpscare. So, y'know, generic ass bad new Halloween level shit. And my aunts are coming up this month.

[Ugh.]

Anyway, lemme know if anyone needs wards or some shit. I can't do anything if you want holy water or blessings, though. Go bother the churches for that.

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un: silverrose

[fionnuisce]

I'll bite and ask the obvious question I probably don't want the answer to: What do the other cards there mean?

[drewthetower]

other cards?

oh

nothing that was a different reading

[fionnuisce]

Well, so long as it doesn't indicate things are any more ominous than 'trees, mirrors, and generic bad luck'. That already sounds like enough to deal with, vague as it might be.

Unfortunately there's not a whole lot I can do for wards either. I never studied defensive magecraft in any notable capacity.

[drewthetower]

yeah no that's mostly unrelated to next month don't worry

do you want some? you gotta pay for paper and shit but

[fionnuisce]

Don't worry about me, prioritize whoever's less likely to be able to protect themselves. I'm more worried about the amount of kids liable to get in trouble than myself.

[drewthetower]

oh there are so many kids. I'm already getting stacks of wards for the high school since I just know either Nox or Elliot's gonna ask

[fionnuisce]

I wouldn't mind a few for the university, now that you mention it. I'll obviously compensate you for effort and materials, and if you need an extra pair of hands all you have to do is ask.

[drewthetower]

that'd be appreciated yeah. I already stick them up in the places I'm at a lot but I'm a business major classics minor. it's weird if I hang around the science labs and shit

[fionnuisce]

I'm teaching chemistry, I can handle the labs. If things really go to shit we'll at least have a fair amount of coverage.

un: lyreplayer | video

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ Orpheus, still getting used to his phone in true new arrival fashion, appears to have not noticed there's a camera on the front too, and has flipped it around so that he can't see the screen as he responds. As such, he's out of focus and not entirely in frame. ]

Oh, are you an oracle? You and - the 'other two' you mentioned. I guess it makes a lot of sense to broadcast warnings over these phones, like this. I wouldn't have thought of that?

[ Wait, he had something else he wanted to say. What was it again? ]

You said something about a tree too, right? And funhouse mirrors? Because I... saw something? Felt something? Something strange, earlier, and I wasn't sure what it was, but I think it might have to do with what's going on here?

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[drewthetower]

Oracle, seer, either works.

[But. Uh.]

Go on.

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ Nodding, Orpheus props his phone up against something off screen and picks up his guitar, putting the strap over his shoulder and strumming it a few times to test the tuning before starting to play a frantic, foreboding melody, each plucked note sharp and distinct like running footfalls. Without any further preamble, he begins to sing; ]

A tangled root has taken grasp
The people's eyes are open wide
A cold breath rises in a gasp
The mirror's purpose here defied

An empty shell once filled with light
Though too-bright, blinding, burned out fast
Now filled with creatures of the night
A grim tribute to autumn's last

Reflections split and lashing out
As things begin to go awry
Misfortune plants the seed of doubt
Its branches spread across the sky

[drewthetower]

[. . .]

Is this a new thing or do you like. Normally get weird songs like that outta no where?

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[end_singer]

[Being entirely unused to phones (or modern technology as a whole for that matter) and actually not really having intended to turn the video on at all, Nito can perhaps be forgiven for the terrible framing.]

Pardon the odd question, seer, but what is Halloween? It seems important to your warning, and yet I have no knowledge of it. For that matter, what is a funhouse mirror?

[He has no questions about the tree. Weird trees are perfectly normal things to encounter, so it seems perfectly reasonable for there to be one with a notable posterior.]

[themuseabandonsyou]

Oh, um. The vision - if that's what it was? - was really hard to hold onto. Like trying to remember a dream? So I had to find a way to remember it as well as I could as quickly as possible, since I didn't have anything to write on at the time.

[ He says, like the obvious first alternative is composing an entire song about it. ]

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[drewthetower]

[Oh boy.]

Halloween's a holiday at the end of October, very spooky and filled with candy. Funhouses are these weird ass carnival attractions with weird ass mirrors that distort everything.

[drewthetower]

With...a song.

[themuseabandonsyou]

Yes.

[ He says, with the look about him of a golden retriever that's just dropped something weird on your shoes and is waiting for approval or disapproval. ]

[drewthetower]

...if it works. It could be related to all of this shit, we'll know more next month.

[end_singer]

...So they are both things filled with mixed messages then. I suppose this means there will be festivities to celebrate the harvest then, and most should take care in that time and when near trees.

["Most" being basically anyone who doesn't have the option of just sleeping through the season.]

[drewthetower]

Honestly, not the worst takeaway from all this shit. I'm mostly pissed about my cards giving me the single most useless card in the entire fucking deck.

[themuseabandonsyou]

I guess so. I kind of hope it, um, isn't? It didn't seem like anything good was happening, with what I saw. Also, I don't know how I'd feel about being an oracle.

[ Now of all times would be an extremely ironic and upsetting time for that particular gift to manifest. ]

Video: UN: BRUNO

[wedonttalkabout]

Y'know, I really hoped this month would be a break- I mean it was LESS bad than usual and then Zodiac went and did all of that so I guess this month is terrible now. And next month looks worse.

I'd like one month, just one where all we see is a tropical island with little deck chairs where we can relax and just sip come cocktails. I don't think I'm asking for a lot here, I really don't.

[drewthetower]

I'd settle for "absolutely nothing happens" at this point, fucking hell.

[drewthetower]

Optimistically, it doesn't mean shit. But if it turns out to mean something, there's three of us already here and we are more than okay with bitching about seer powers.