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[doubled_speed]

[Enjoy the screen coming alive with Tommy, local fast person. The world beyond him is a blur of sparkles. With the way his hair is going in the wind, he clearly was running somewhere.]

Okay, two things on the current state of the world.

I've repeated my test to try and and get to the new blinking light. Like Cayde said, someone's fucking with us. It doesn't matter how long or how fast I run at the thing. It's always the same distance away. Which, you know, wouldn't be so bad if it was reality warping, or like world maps in old school video games where you're actually just circling the world in an impossible loop or something.

No, the amount of distance you walk toward the thing is how far you need to come back. So at the moment, I'd seriously discourage expeditions, guys, gals, and all other designations. If that thing is just as far away when I've gone fifty miles, it's not something we can get to by traditional means.

[The colors behind him blurring on the screen now take on a decidedly pink tinge. Yes! He's getting into a fucking zone of hearts.]

In other news. No. I am NOT responsible for the glitter. But FUCK it makes me look amazing I bet. If you see a cloud of sparkles in the distance, that's me. Or is about to be me by you. Can any of you communications people set up, like, a network thing? That pings my phone off yours, like a GPS? So I don't accidentally go blazing past someone and leave them covered in a cloud of my sparkling dust?

Not that some of you wouldn't look amazing in rainbows and hearts and stars. You know, in my flawless opinion.

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[wearingthestars]

I can't get there by nontraditional means either. I tried porting. No matter how I worded it I couldn't get to it either.

Also- glitter is totally not MY fault either.

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[doubled_speed]

The glitter just screamed 'twink in need'. I thought it was you.

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[wearingthestars]

Guess who's not getting a personalized Valentine now? That's right, it's you.

[doubled_speed]

Dude, you know Valentines at our age are only given to, like, your mom and your significant other, right?

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[heypartner]

[ Don't mind this old man with his red bandana pulled up over his mouth and nose to block the baby pink glitter that's currently twinkling around him.

Sorry if his voice is muffled. He'll try to speak clearly. ]

Just a possibly stupid question here... anyone try binocs or a scope? It doesn't want us getting close but does it mind if we look close from a distance?

[doubled_speed]

[Well, there you have it, weird questions.]

Binocs? You mean binoculars? And telescopes? No, many. We haven't got that shit.

[heypartner]

[ He's a painfully practical man. ]

Yeah, binoculars. Not a single pair in this whole town? Well, that's annoying. Any idea if someone around here can make 'em?

[doubled_speed]

You could ask Stark, but he's busy with a lot of shit. So hit up the Agrii or the replicator I guess.

[heypartner]

Alright, guess I'll try that. Thanks for the help. Good luck with all that runnin'.

[doubled_speed]

Running is what I do. No need for luck. It's all natural.

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[kyley_b]

[Yeah, that's a hell of a lot of glitter and he has no intention of taking off his hat because if he does there's no way it's coming out of his curls.]

Okay, new guy here, hi, hello. Can I ask about the blinking light? Mostly about when it showed up?

Also, uh. You're not like... an elf or something, are you?

[doubled_speed]

[Yeah, there is TOO much glitter. But it makes Tommy look amazing, and he knows it.]

Yeah, definitely new. Never seen your face at the diner. The blinking light started after the invasion of the wolf-spiders ended. So only days ago. I've tried getting there twice. It's horrible.

[Wait, elf? Tommy actually stops and the process of skidding to a stop and the motion of the trail of glitter means it overtakes him, and soon there is just a glitter-covered person on the screen. Who starts to vibrate quickly, sending glitter out from himself in a cloud that slowly settles around him.]

What the hell? No ears, dude.

[kyley_b]

Huh. Okay, giant spiders, untouchable light. So way, way too early to know if there's a correlation.

[Now THAT is quite the sight to see. He snickers.]

Well, just checking, I don't know. You're covered in fucking glitter and have Orlando Bloom bone structure. You guys have giant spiders, it's not that crazy of a guess.

[doubled_speed]

[Well that wasn't the answer he was expecting. How... interesting.]

Dude, are you hitting on me?

[kyley_b]

What?! No! Jesus! [Oh, fuck his life.] Just a fucking observation, dude!

Also wow, seriously, going to focus on THAT and not the creepy light?

[lionunchained]

Good to know it is not a good idea to try and follow a random blinking light.

You're not responsible for it? Good to know. Also, I'm sure it makes you easier to track right now.

[doubled_speed]

[ooc: oops didn’t see you had hit up here. If you want to you can ignore Tommy’s tag on shiro’s and we could cover that here. Lmk what works best.]

I mean blinking lights aren’t always bad. But now it’s fruitless. And frustrating. We might need to ask the Agrii and that doesn’t help much very often.

And I guess easier to track is good. I just don’t wanna coat everyone else in this if they don’t want it. I try to be polite.

[lionunchained]

[ooc: Up to you. I'm good with multiple threads or making one shorter than the other]

Yeah... that doesn't make any sense that you can never get any closer or further away from them. Man, Pidge would have a field day with this trying to figure out why that is.

[Shiro laughed at that]

Leaving a trail of glitter in your wake. It's amusing to picture.

somehow never got this notif wow

[doubled_speed]

IT just makes my head hurt. It's clearly not teleporting or anything, but it never looks any more or less distant which means there's something affecting vision with it. Or, you know, it's ACTUALLY moving.

[Tommy laughs right back.]

I'm fabulous.

i guess dw didn't want us to tag lol

[lionunchained]

Huh... I guess we'd have to have someone stand and watch it while you are moving. If it never seems to change distance for either person then it is doing something not normal.

[Shiro grinned]

Clearly.

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[hulkintraining]

I've always wondered what a cyclone of glitter would look like.

One downside is you'll be a lot easier to spot now when you're at your speediest. There goes the element of surprise.

[Yes, creepy light, can't get close blah blah--but glitter.]

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[doubled_speed]

I could show you, if you really wanted to know. It would make quite a mess.

[Element of surprise doesn't matter here.]

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[hulkintraining]

Yeah. Which is why I would witness it from an appropriate distance.

[Not that he could out-run Tommy if the speedster suddenly wanted to cover him in his glittery dust.]

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[doubled_speed]

Aww, but you know you wanna be all glitter pretty.

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[hulkintraining]

If there was a rave going on, or a club to go to? Absolutely.

But I can do without the glitter bomb otherwise. It's true what they say. It does get everywhere.

[Guess who is not going to be happy when he finds out the glitter is inescapable.]