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[lovesickkiller]

"Eeeeeew," Misa squeals, camera zooming in on what appears to be some sort of green slime clinging to the side of a house. Despite her obvious disgust, there is a series of clicking noises as she takes pictures of it from various angles. "It's so gross!! Is anyone else seeing these? What is it?"

"I wonder what happens if you touch it?" Comes Tony's voice from just off camera, as a pebble is tossed in the blob's general direction. It's not absorbed into it, so he figures that means it's totally safe enough to poke right?

"Stopit!!" Misa shrieks, video abruptly zooming out as she jumps away from the thing. The pebble falls to the ground harmlessly enough, but that does not comfort her much. The camera shifts, and she can be seen shaking a chastising finger in Tony's face. "We have no idea what it is, don't touch it!"

"Come on, what's the worst that could happen?" Famous last words, someone make sure that goes on his grave stone. "Where's your sense of adventure? I'm gonna touch it." Chastising only seems to have made him more inclined to do the thing that he's being told not to do.

"It could eat your hand- no nonostop!" Misa grabs Tony's arm and attempts to drag him away from the thing, but her efforts don't even slow him down. The video feed now shows his hand moving toward the slimy globule, with sounds of a one-sided struggle in the background.

"It's a blob it's not like it's got teeth," Clearly Tony had never played a table top RPG. And no, the dragging was less than effective. Instead that just meant Misa was pulled along with him while he reached out to experimentally poke the thing.

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[solvethepuzzle]

It is difficult not to notice the commotion. Shepherd's Haven is a very tiny, very quiet community. And phrases like "what's the worst that could happen" and "it could eat your hand" are a bit alarming.

So naturally, instead of actually going outside, Nathan just sticks his head out the window of his house to examine what is happening. Oh. Well. Tony is more likely than some to be completely fine even if something is dangerous, but that hardly means that he should just go ahead without considering that it might not be a good idea.

"Tony . . . are you certain that's a good idea?"

A question. Not a demand.

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[numberedshepherd]

Lazarus is another who hears the commotion before he sees it on the Network, and it brings him hurrying from the town hall where he's been diligently working to do something nice for the one-year anniversary of the move to Shepherd's Haven. Obviously if any community member starts to scream and raise a racket, it's a concern of his, but Misa, Nathan or Tony are all specific and cherished priorities and as a result, his steps are quicker.

"Hey..." he greets breathlessly, touching Misa's arm with the kind of comfort and familiarity that certainly didn't exist to this extent before they relocated from Japan. "What's this about?"

His eyes fall to the slime.

"...touch it," he suggests after a moment. "I've done so with about a dozen already, and frankly I want to see what will happen when Tony does."

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[witnessme]

[Luca doesn't want to be left out if there's trouble. He dashes over from the building they keep the vehicles in, where he's been tinkering experimentally with his motorcycle. He figures it can't be so different from cars, but he's still afraid of breaking something.]

H-hey! What's happening? What are those slime things? Did you get them back from an echo, Tony?

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[jasminebloominginshadow]

... You guys okay? You seem to be in...

[Jasmine pulls some sunglasses from off-screen, and puts them on]

... a sticky situation.