@lonk; audio; January 31

[sublimebeast]

Uh. Hi.

I'm sorry to anyone who's had to be around me over the last... I dunno. However long it's been.

I wasn't myself and I know I messed up real bad.

I'm better now.

...I mean, I'm still dead but I'm alone in my own head again or whatever so that's nice.

How is everyone else?

Are you all okay?

[A long pause.]

Right. Yeah.

That's all.

How I do make this thing stop ag--

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[equinoctials]

Self defense, mostly. There's some weapons training. It's on the bulletin each week.

[sublimebeast]

You’re a servant of Zant!?

[evulsed]

Zant, huh?

Is he the one that did you in?

[sublimebeast]

No.

[evulsed]

And here I almost thought you might have had a heroic death to go along with all this hot air you're blowing.

[sublimebeast]

[His death was hardly heroic. What sort of warrior lets his heart be mysteriously stopped just by hearing a name?

He can't let this bastard know he's struck a nerve.]

Shut up!

[...Nailed it.]

[sublimebeast]

That's on the network, right?

Sounds like I'm gonna have to get used to this thing.

[evulsed]

Oh dear. Our little hero didn't go out the way he should have.

So much unfinished business.

[sublimebeast]

We all went out somehow, right?

How'd you die?

[evulsed]

In battle.

[sublimebeast]

Against Light?

[sublimebeast]

You mean like...I dunno. Lift a torch from the Bonfire over a building in town and bring it down again at night?

[arsarcanum]

Hahahaha! It's a, um. A metaphor! You gotta make a schedule. A pattern! That way it won't matter when the sun's up - when you start going out and seeing your friends, you'll feel like you're forgetting something if you don't go out and do it. That's how the light in your heart works when all the other ones go out! It remembers that it has friends to see, and that makes it so stuff like time doesn't get away from you. Does that make sense?

[equinoctials]

Yeah. Takes getting used to. Good luck.

[evulsed]

Now you're getting it.

[sublimebeast]

Do YOU know how to use them?

[equinoctials]

What, the network and the tablets?

[sublimebeast]

Yeah.

I could really use any tips from anyone who can give 'em. There's not a guide or anything, is there?

[He wants to at least get himself to a place where Sora's advice on tablet usage makes sense.]

[sublimebeast]

Uhm...

I think so?

[He decides to interpret all of this as "make yourself a schedule".]

Yeah.

It makes sense.

[sublimebeast]

If you hurt the people who live here in Beacon...

[equinoctials]

You'd want to talk to someone more savvy. Daylight has a real knack for it.

In fact... there's no one better for the job of making instructions than someone who doesn't know the technology.

[sublimebeast]

[Link clicks his tongue as he considers this.]

That does kinda make sense.

I'll see what I can do.

[arsarcanum]

... Yeah, that made more sense in my head. [ Sora has been living in his head for YEARS. ]

Anyway, don't worry if you can't make it right away! I'll always be around. Just catch me when you're ready!

Uh... Also... Don't let Vanitas get to you? He's just always like that.

[sublimebeast]

You know him?

[arsarcanum]

Ish? It's, uh. A reincarnation thing. He knew him in the past. From what I remember... yeah, he's just like that.