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[mindofathief]

[The texting function is so finicky and takes forever, so this voice messenger works much better. There's half a minute of Duster poking at the tablet, checking if it's working.]

Oh.

Hello? Can everyone hear me? I'm at the scrapyard near the edge of the forest. I met a spirit that threw a locked box at me, and I need help breaking it open.

[Why couldn't the spirit be like a normal ghost and leave behind a present box instead?]

...If whatever's inside is important, I don't want to accidentally break it.

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[mindofathief]

[He turns on voice after a few minutes.]

Hi? We have it open, but...there's a lot of stuff in here. Do you have any bags?

[mysophobic]

[ Instead of an audio reply he gets...another text reply. He's sorry Duster, but he's mute and can't talk!! ]

Bags? I have a few, yes. If that's all you need I can come by right away! Nothing bad came out of it, right? Everyone's...okay?

[mindofathief]

[Typing takes ten times as long as talking! How do people respond so quickly?]

Yeah. We found some shiny cards in here. They might be important.

[mysophobic]

[ Well when you grow up having to type to speak you get hella good at it. ]

Cards? That's interesting. I wonder why a spirit would have something like that?

[mindofathief]

Spirits could like strange things. If they like shiny cards, then we should it like an important gift.

[mysophobic]

You're right! They might be important, especially if they were in a locked box.

I wonder if these spirits know how to play card games then...?

[ Who even knows. ]

[mindofathief]

...

We can always ask for the rules.

[mysophobic]

Do you think they'd really share with us? It might be a good thing to help pass the time here. I'm not sure what everyone else does here for fun though.

But maybe making a game everyone can participate in won't be such a bad thing!

[mindofathief]

Either way, I don't know how to use these cards. They have all these numbers and descriptions, so I'm sure there's a special way to score points.

[mysophobic]

I guess we'll just have to wait and see, or just make up our own rules? [ Either way he's totally gotten off point. ]

But you needed bags, right? Does that mean you found other things inside the box as well?

[mindofathief]

Yeah. I found a lot of cards.

[Sounds of shuffling.]

I didn't know so many could exist at once.