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Library, Thursday 12/15

Something odd was happening on the island, that much had been made clear when some people weren't quite themselves yesterday and when other people had simply appeared today causing trouble.

One person had notably disappeared (at least it was notable to Belle that Five couldn't be found) but she was trying not to worry about that at the moment. He could certainly take care of himself.

At least it wasn't snowing in the library like it was outdoors and the library had helpfully provided plenty of extra chairs and tables to research at in case anyone happened to come in for that purpose today.

[~~please hold for some OCD~~
Have at it, team science and research!]

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"It's a pile of books with no overarching artificial intelligence," Aloy said. It sounded more like frustration than anything else. "But right... yearbooks. Books of years?"

Edited 2022-12-15 20:11 (UTC)

"Books of students who graduated in a year," Belle said. "With photographs from the school year. I'll just bring some over to show you."

Because the library kept shoving them at her. You'd think it could just give someone in here whatever book would be the most helpful.

Aloy sat up. "Is there one for 1995?" she asked.

Because had that one felt like a useless rabbit hole.

"1995," Belle said. "There may , I haven't looked yet today. I'll check."

She came back holding a whole stack of yearbooks from the 1990s. "Why 1995?" she asked as set the pile down.

"I met an old enemy of mine," Aloy said, holding out a hand for one of the books. "He looked exactly as I remember. Except he had this small chain on him that didn't look anything like his usual... well... fashion sense, I guess. So I looked it up. A vintage 1995 Barbie keychain."

Belle handed over the yearbook from the top of the pile and started flipping through the next one.

"There's a note," she said, pointing. "And this is..." She flipped back to the cover and nodded. "It is 1995. That seems rather unlikely as a coincidence. Especially on this island. Here, see? It says there was an invasion! By 'some guy who threw evil toys at us and his buddy'? I haven't seen any evil toys. Have you seen evil toys? And, oh, that's good. It seems to have been'resolved without casualties, he just went away after we set them all on fire.' I assume they mean the toys were set on fire. I hope that's what this means!"

"Fire can fix a lot of things," Aloy said. She reached up to touch her Focus, realized it wouldn't do any good, and rubbed at her temple instead. "Well, it sounds like the exact kind of stupid coincidence this island loves," she says. "Anything else? Something actually useful?"

"This part might be," Belle said, pointing to a second note on the page in a different handwriting.

Hey, so I know this like, went fine this time? But the weird guy's buddy was like, super-weird. I got trapped in this closet in 203 and heard him ranting the whole time. So don't have any idea what he was talking about, but I figure we should like, reference this? For future us's sake, or something? I don't know, that sounds smart...

Here's what I remember:

"Now, remember, we've got to go back quite a bit to wake up ol' Slothy and wind him up,
Take a pit stop in a galaxy far, far away, a long, long time ago to give a couple of old nerf herders a change of heart,
Turn mr. Bullet into a speedster, more fun lobbing him at things later,
And, hm-- pass a cracker on to a mad wizard, shall we?"

Like so freaking weird, right? Find me if anybody figures this out!!! --Kelly

"That seems like something, doesn't it? Perhaps someone else here could make sense of it?"

"It sounds like gibberish," Aloy said, but she looked thoughtful. "'Change of heart'... wasn't radio talking about how people were acting differently, yesterday? That's what made me realize this attack probably wasn't a one-time thing."

She sucked in a breath. "Guess we should check that, talk to some people, yeah."

Edited 2022-12-16 08:14 (UTC)

"There were people acting differently," Belle agreed. "I'll see if I can't find anything else in here and perhaps ask some of the others."

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