[Voice/ action in Albert's apartment]

[shippingmath]

[There's a sound in the background before anyone starts talking, a sound that is almost suspiciously like the loading of a gun. Before anything more ominous happens, though, the noises stop, and a man's voice speaks up.]

Well, this is hella entertaining. They're getting uncreative with their invasive afflictions. You'd think they'd be eager to come up with new and interesting ways to get reactions out of us, instead of rehashing shit they've done before.

For you newbies, it means that this has happened before. At least this time I'm not fucking barking.

This is Dirk, by the way.

[For a few moments, there are some more random sounds- a little mechanical click-click-click, that continues until the recording cuts out.]

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[shippingmath]

Dash?

[Well, it's definitely her voice. But kind of off. Not to mention she's been around long enough to know about curses.]

You've got her body, huh. Yeah, it should last a week unless changing the length is how they're fucking with us this time around.

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[adashofsalt]

Shinjiro. [A short, succinct introduction for Dirk. The formalities and a 'nice to meet you' implied but never spoken.]

So they can happen again and again?

voice

[shippingmath]

[Dirk's fine with that. It's weird to hear for Rainbow Dash, but he's never minded skipping over the small talk.]

Apparently, but repeats ain't usually common. Unless they have a collection they've cycled through since before any of the current foreigners showed up.

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[adashofsalt]

A lot of people must not be here long enough to see it repeated, then.

[Many of the people he'd warmed up to or knew from back home had disappeared recently. He wondered if he would too, and what would happen if it came to that.]

Wonder if someone wrote'em down somewhere.

[Which he considers for a moment, but nope. Hooves. Writing, what do?]

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[shippingmath]

Turnover rate's pretty damn high, yeah, though I can't say I've kept an exact tally of who arrives and who stays.

[It'd be one of the most depressing jobs in Vatheon, probably.]

Someone might've. Or you could borrow some veteran's SFC, and look over the network to see the curses you can find. I'd volunteer, but this one ain't mine and it only goes back a couple weeks.