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[hackrid]

OK so... I've gooed pretty much everything that looks suspicious in this creeptastic little resort - which probably makes sense to no one - but! We're all still here so obviously I'm a little out of my depth.

[ major shruggage, usa, population: claudia. still, undaunted! ]

If you see anything kind of uh, out of place? Which I get is kind of -- everything. But you know the old saying if you see something say something? A funky necklace, or maybe an old Glockenspiel, you know: weird stuff. It would be cool if I could take a look at it.

Oh-- Claudia. Is me. Hey hey, yo! [ insert eyebrow waggle. ]

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[louisianawolf]

Gooed? [Hayley's eyebrows rise slightly, curious as to what purpose putting goo on something serves. Assuming that's what 'gooed' in this context means.] And how weird is not weird enough to mention? Maybe a scale of Not Weird Enough to Weird Enough.

[hackrid]

My desperation is a little high. I'll try pretty much anything at this point. [ also why she's making the bad choice of broadcasting her skillset, yep. ] Normally they actively do stuff and you can see a pattern but I am currently batting a thousand on that front.

Why? You got something hinky?

[louisianawolf]

I know how annoying trying to figure something out can be. Especially one where you keep hitting dead end after dead end. [see: her long search to find out who her biological family was ... only to find that they'd almost all been killed in pack infighting when she was a baby.]

Nothing specific at the moment, but where I'm from there are a lot of hinky things. And people. [and the award for Understatement Of The Century goes to...] Like magical objects, stuff like that. So, my own scale for Not Weird Enough to Weird Enough might have ran a bit off to what you'd be looking for, but in that case - the first sight of something specifically hinky, I'll let you know about it.

[Hayley's eyes glance off camera for a moment as there's a sound of a shriek of laughter in the background followed by the sound of a small tower of blocks falling over; that would be her nearly eleven month old daughter playing with building blocks on the floor a few short feet away. Her eyes glance back to the video feed.] Oh, right, and I'm Hayley. [she might as well introduce herself in return since Claudia gave her name in the original message.]

[hackrid]

Dead ends are definitely the annoying part. I'm banking on that whole "two pairs of eyes are better than one" thing, only y'know. However many pairs of eyes are here with us...

[ shrug. who knows the true depth of itinere? ]

But it is pretty groovy to have people that just kind of accept the weird. Normally I'm actively trying to hide and explain the unexplainable. Now you're saying you've got too high a tolerance for it? I'll never complain about my job again, I swear. [ lolz. ]

[louisianawolf]

Hopefully enough pairs to accomplish something -- that many sounds about right. [yeah, who knows?]

I haven't really taken a poll to see who here accepts the weird? At least two of us. But yeah I lived with it. Witches, werewolves, vampires, doppelgangers -- so, as you can tell from that, where I'm from is full of the weird and sometimes unexplainable. Or at least what most people would call so. [says the werewolf-vampire hybrid.] And hey, complain as much as you want about your job; I'm not judging.

[hackrid]

[ please excuse claudia's momentary stunned silence. ]

Sorry-- you just actually threw a whole different kind of weird at me, and I'm suddenly feeling super noob-ish. Wait, are there witches and doppelgangers here? Do I need to start carrying garlic at night?

[ mostly she's kidding. ...mostly. ]

[louisianawolf]

So your kind of weird isn't exactly things that go along with magical objects? [there are way too many categories of weird objects.]

If any from the same place I'm from are here, I sure don't know about it. Which is probably for the best -- one too many bad run-ins with witches there. The garlic wouldn't do much for the vampires, but a regular wooden stake would. For most of them. [except hybrids and original vampires, but ... details. plus, it's not like she'd be giving any information about how to kill her specific species. that would be dumb.]

[hackrid]

[ rapt with attention. that is how you could describe claudia right now. ]

I mean, I don't want to hurt anybody -- unless they're gonna hurt me. The whole blood-sucking thing is legit, then? Cause my version of magic isn't really like this. Consider this my Vampires 101 course.

Crap, hang on. I gotta take notes...