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[AUDIO] @M.HUGHES; OBSERVATIONS AS OF JANUARY 25 [OPEN]

[He sounds so tired. His words are clipped, professional. Jovial, fun-times Hughes is apparently gone for the time being. He can't keep that act up right now.]
I'd like some input here...a distraction that I can put to use.

Tell me about the lantern colors anyone has seen besides red or green. I want to know what's...different. I don't need names or specifics, but it would be helpful to know what to expect. For us ALL to know what to expect.

I don't know what good it will do. I don't know what good anything we've tried will do.

[He suddenly clears his throat and he coughs to cover it. For a second he thought he had heard Envy's voice coming out of him again. He knew he should have done text -- but this was part of another test. He needed to see if the voice, the eyes, if that was just him or...someone else.]

So talk to me. Tell me if I sound different. Help me solve this puzzle.

[He snorts. It would almost be a laugh if it wasn't filled with such bitterness.]

He told me I died because I was a smart man. I'm starting to wonder if that was just nothing more than a lie.

[He pauses and it's almost like the message is done, but he speaks again.]

Green. Envy. It's not lost on me, but that's only relevant to me, so the green light can't be just doing that. Please, I hope some of you still have enough of your wits about you to reply to this with some information.

[He almost begs, pleads for someone to respond. He can't be left alone with Envy's voice and Envy's eyes telling him he's a monster. He can't listen to Gracia's cutting remarks either. He needs other voices and he hopes that a few of you out there can give him that.]

(ooc: Note that Maes's Lantern is GREEN. So he doesn't actually look or sound different to anyone but himself. Of course, he THINKS he sounds like his killer)

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seen blue a couple of times
don't remember it well
they were acting weird though
they didnt change on the outside not like red
i don't know how its different from green though i wasn't paying attention

[ Sora knows that this is Maes, but the personality? Different. Way different. He doesn't want this to be another Link situation. He's lost enough blood for one week.]

if it makes you feel better you sound like you??? your voice is the same

Acting weird how? I need you to be specific here. Like were there similarities in behavior?

And red is outer changes? Like eye color or shape?

[Like his eyes...but his lantern is green. Hmm. He tries to calm down after seeing the last part.]

Good. Thank you. Green must be mental or emotional somehow as well...right? But how is it different from blue? Maybe what is perceived...shit. Still not enough.

i didn't know anything was happening the first time
tbh i'm still not sure if there was something happening
i'm more sure that something happened to me
i remember my lantern turning green but i was
not me
sort of

the people i've met who had blue and green weren't acting like themselves
but green's more not themselves?
and blue's more like
themselves but one thing's different
i don't know i don't think my lantern's turned blue

red is people changing on the outside though i remember that
people growing parts that shouldn't be there
horns and spikes
i don't know if it's dangerous but it seems like it hurts a lot

Okay, so blue and green seems to have something to do with behavior or maybe memories. Definitely altered perceptions with green, I can vouch for that much.

Red sounds more physical, external. Could mean the interior of the person isn't effected as much, unless someone changes based on their pain tolerance.

Keep an eye out and tell me more if you think of more.

Edited 2020-01-26 04:08 (UTC)

i don't think this is happening to me as much as some other people so i'll be out and around trying to help
if i come up with anything new i'll let you know

if it makes you feel any better i don't feel like i'd be able to figure out anything by myself so knowing that you're working on this makes me feel better
you're pretty smart in a "deserves to live" kind of way imo
thanks

I appreciate that Sora.

I'll check in with you soon if you don't.

yeah take care of yourself :)

[ Pause, then a hilarious smash cut to the 27th, after Riku makes a post about some dumb kid who got himself stabbed because of the lantern irregularities :^) ]

hi mr. hughes it's been a while are you okay

Edited (whoops it's mr. hughes) 2020-01-26 23:59 (UTC)

The green light is still present, though less bright. It's gotten better.

How are you?

good to hear! i've been really worried about you but i haven't had a chance to get back to you until now

i've been better but still alive
uh
well
alive
you know

anyway i figured out more about the green light if you're still looking for green light info

I know.

And yes, please. I may have had a green lantern, but I've already noticed that the effects still vary a bit from person to person.

yeah they definitely do :///

my friend was seeing and hearing things? there was one point where he thought i was someone else and starting attacking me. he snapped out of it pretty fast, luckily, but while we were going to look for help, he was still seeing and hearing things i couldn't hear. i dunno what they were - if you want to talk to him, i can see if he'd be cool with that - but they weren't enough for him to see me as the guy he thought i was before.

i've had green three or four times now, but they're always the same. remember when i said there was more than one person here with me? i don't know if i'm just acting the way he does, or if he's actually waking up, but it's him. i remember what he does, but it's like i'm the one who's asleep, except when it stops, i remember what he does, and when it starts, he can remember what i've been doing. like i said though, i don't know if it's him actually waking up. i hope not.

If he feels up to it, but I don't know if the specifics of what are heard really matter. This seems to be a psychological effect more or less and that means each person's psyche is going to find a different way of presenting symptoms.

I wish I could tell you something more definitive for your case. My only recommendation would be to pay attention and see if you find yourself acting like him even when the light isn't green. I thought I was turning into someone unrelated to me entirely, so it's likely just another aspect of the green light. However, I also don't have your complications...so if he is waking up the easiest way to tell will be if you notice it without the effect of the light.

uh im not gonna pretend i know what that means exactly but
it does feel like it just sort of gets you where you live huh
it really blows

that's good advice
should be easy
we make some pretty different decisions and we worked really hard to keep things separate
i have a way to doublecheck if he's really been waking up or not but it's kind of hard to do on purpose
but i'll keep an eye out in the meantime

thanks mr. hughes

Basically what you just wrote. The details are going to be different for each person, because it messes with your brain.

If you need my help with anything else, let me know. You know where to find me.

yep! same goes for you too
let me know if you need help
we're all in this together :)

You sound the same. I think.

[He can't tell with geography not making sense anymore.]

You're still Mes Hughes, right?

Thanks. It's...that's a reassurance.

[There's still a part of him that sounds skeptical.]

Yeah, Maes Hughes.

And the green light is telling you something different?

[He's not sure what the connection between the color and "envy" has to do with how he feels. He should envies those who aren't affected, but who wouldn't?]

Mine's also green. It used to be blue, but I don't know what that did.

If it's an effect of the light, yes. Though the voice I've been hearing hasn't been coming from the light.

[Don't worry. The 'envy' thing is his own personal problem that he's trying to turn into a joke.]

How have you felt with the green, if you don't remember the blue?

It's...really similar to this one time I ate some mushrooms off the ground, only it's less terrifying but more confusing. Beacon looks like Beacon, but the shapes are all wrong. I keep thinking trees aren't there, or that people aren't people.

Like now. I'm seeing your name on the tablet, but is it really you? Am I talking to you, really?

I am...but if you're still hallucinating I don't know how reassuring that actually is.

[There's a sound like someone is laughing before Quentin clears his throat to answer.]

You sound fine? I don't know what you're supposed to sound like but-- you sound pretty normal to me.

Also, my lantern in blue. It was red, and it was just hilarious. I grew tentacles-- [and the rest of that sentence just peters out in giggles before Quentin gets a hold of himself] It hurt like all f-- [more giggles, too close to the microphone] But I fee fine now. Really, I feel great.

When it went red, I think my lantern broke? I think this means I might be dying?
[And the happiness is clear enough to be heard even over the network.]

Maybe that is why you died. Smart people die all the time.

Thanks...I think.

[That isn't exactly reassuring since this person doesn't know what he NORMALLY sounds like, so it's not like that would be helpful. Envy hadn't SOUNDED like he was inhuman.

Also, something seems a little weird about this guy.]

You certainly sound like you're in a good mood. I don't know if I could laugh like that if I had just experienced a physical change like that. Why do you think you're dying?

My lantern? It just-- it just cracked.

[And there's still the distant sound of Quentin giggling, but he's trying to swallow it down to keep talking. He sounds happy.]

And if our lanterns fall apart? So do we? And by we I mean 'me'. I think-- so, you know how sometimes people die here and they don't come back? Maybe it's because of this? Maybe their lanterns just-- poof! Fell apart.

[The laughter is closer to the microphone now.]

Maybe I'm next. I don't even know why I laughing.

Hmm. Well, cracked isn't the same as destroyed. [Obviously, or they wouldn't be having this conversation. He glances at his own lantern and decides to ask.] Did it turn that way around the time of the light change on your lantern?

Yeah. [Breathless and gasping, like he's been laughing for too long. Like Quentin can't quite catch his breath to speak properly.] It just cracked, as if I had dropped it and the light changed. Maybe the red light means something. Besides that I'm dying.

I think the two might be related. That's not to say that we have any evidence that it won't shatter...but we also don't have evidence that it will. It's still holding together, so is mine, so I think we're okay.

I don't think the red light means your dying.

I think-- I think the cracked lantern means I'm dying. But it's okay. I feel fine. Or, you know-- [Still breathless and still giggling under his breath like he's heard a joke.] I feel fine now. I hope it happens when I feel like this.

I can see the appeal...but I think I'd want to go out with my own mind in tact.

Hang in there, the cracks might not mean you're dying at all.

My mind is intact! I'm just-- when I think about the sad things? I feel like laughing. It could be worse, it could be so much worse.

I don't know what you sound like normally.

I've seen blue. I don't know what it does, not really. [She didn't stick around. She watched her own lantern pretty carefully.

No changes yet.]

True. [He probably should have just called the people he did know to ask such a question, but posting to the whole network meant gathering information about the other colors out there. She responded, so he'll focus on that.]

But what did you notice when you saw the blue lantern? It's one of the few I haven't heard much about yet.

I didn't stick around to notice anything. [It might have been more cowardly than she likes to admit to acting, but considering what she had heard from the other colors?

She hadn't had anything to defend herself with.]

It's not helpful, but it's the truth.

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