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| * What about aliens? Are there aliens in the future? |
| Sure, what did you think Allen here is? |
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* if after the ghosts and the time travel it turned out angels were real too, i think i'd completely lose it.
* i cannot handle another metaphysical revelation right now. |
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* Don't worry, don't worry!
* I'd still love you even if you were a raving madman. |
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* i appreciate that.
* cliff, how'd you end up a foster parent to an alien baby anyway? |
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* Oh oh, are they your bio kid??
* Oh my god... did you have SEX with an alien and you got pregnant!?? |
| No, I did not have sex with any aliens. |
I was married! I mean, I'm still...
N-- next question!
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| * Oh oh, what about lasers? Do you have lasers?? |
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| * hun, we have lasers right now. |
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| * Woooowww!!! That's crazy! |
That may be true, but: the lasers we got in my time are way cooler.
It's not just a red dot on the wall anymore, we got handheld blaster pistols, you can charge 'em up and-- |
| --But hey, why are we talking so much about the future when the now is so great! |
It's a beautiful day, isn't it? It's bright, it's breezy...
You guys are so lucky, you know? |
A town like this? It's so... peaceful.
It's like, you wake up in the morning and you know there's nothing in this place that could ever go wrong. |
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* cliff we're the number one haunting capital of new south wales.
* things regularly go wrong. |
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* Right right, just last year a cult tried to summon the Primal Spirit of the land to devour the town!
* It was sooo crazy!! |
Okay sure, but Jasper's family always deals with those.
And most of those end up being Headless Ed's evil plans, so once he gets exorcised? Everything'll be perfect. |
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| * you say that like it's a foregone conclusion. |
| C'mon. Don't you trust your old pal Jasper to get the job done? |
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| * "trust" is not the word i would be using to describe jasper as of late, no. |
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| * Aw no, what do you mean? |
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* jas is... he's always been kind of wishy-washy.
* when that's about dinner plans i can deal with it.
* but when it's about genuinely dangerous ghost encounters, where he's always calling in favours from me and he never says why?
* that gets incredibly frustrating. |
That sounds pretty noble to me. He's trying to keep you from getting pulled in too deep.
You know, protecting you. |
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* i'm not any safer for being ignorant, cliff.
* jas thinks if he never tells me about any of these dangers then they don't exist.
* like if he resolves it all himself, then nobody will notice and it'll be like it never happened. |
That's not just about him, though -- these are his family traditions!
You can't blame him for not letting you in on those. |
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* i can and i will.
* i'm already involved. sunny definitely is.
* she's been stolen away by ghosts or something-- i don't even know the full story because jas dodges me every time i ask why.
* she's my friend too, i deserve to know! |
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* Awww, don't worry.
* Hey hey, remember when Cece Speckle got stuck in that ghost-induced nightmare world for like three weeks? She ended up juuuust fine!
* I'm sure a firebrand like Sunny'll be okay! |
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* nnhhh...
* look, don't get me wrong, jas is my friend.
* i understand that he's been dealing with a lot lately, emotionally and otherwise.
* i'm sympathetic, i hope he works it all out. |
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| * Right right, so we're not taking him off the guest list for Saturday. |
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* he has not messed up that bad yet, no.
* i'm bothered but i'm not about to excommunicate.
* and frankly a party is probably the circumstance in which jasper's all-smiles attitude is at its most appropriate. |
| Oh hey, you kids are going to a party? |
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* Oh~? You didn't know?
* Moon-Soo's birthday is this weekend! |
| You're kidding! I didn't know I was in the presence of a birthday boy! |
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| * you're not. we're still a number of days out. |
| Nonsense! Birthdays count for the whole week, don't you know? |
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| * Yeah yeah!!! This guy gets it! |
| You're officially our guest of honor for this outing! What you say goes! |
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| * You hear that! You're king of the world todaaay~! |
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* Oh oh, Cliff! You know what this boy really likes?
* Hanging out at the computer store! |
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| * really, it's fine, we don't have to... |
No, no, it's not a problem at all!
I'm something of a gamer myself. I can check out this 2020s release lineup, it'll be nostalgic.
Show Allen here some real culture. |
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* Then it's settled!
* We could take a vote, but you aaalready know the answer! |
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| * hah, okay, you've forced my hand... |
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| * come on then. it'll be nice get my mind off all this ghost trouble. |
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