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[oleaeuropaea]

WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, NEEDLENOGGIN FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 018.07.154.55 *** NEEDLENOGGIN has joined 018.07.154.55 <needlenoggin>hiiiii you've reached vash!. <needlenoggin> i'm probably sleeping or eating right now so leave something for me and i'll get back to it!

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<purevanilla>

[purevanillacookie]

[This message is sent the day after the event ends. After Pure Vanilla wakes up and has horrible memories of a dream like quality that he, nonetheless, feels is real. His hands, colored in crimson, digging into Vash. Settling around his throat.]

My friend, forgive me if this message is unwanted, but I have... memories, of the last week. I am unsure if they are real, they feel like a dream almost, but they cling in a manner that tells me they are not.

I fear I hurt you. Terribly so. I

May I speak with you? Someplace public, over coffee or tea. I would like to ascertain you are all right. If. Ah. If you would allow it.

Some time after October 1st time isn't real

[missleadingquestions]

[Vash opened the floodgates when asking about The Steel Samurai. You see, Maya has had this manga photocopied for years, and just recently even had to give Ianthe a run down on samurai.

A definitely photocopied but very attentively spiral-bound copy of what is clearly a Compiled volume of the series shows up at Vash's door one day. On top of that, she's included several illustrations with simplified depictions of Samurai armor and clothing to the best of her memory, made into diagrams where she has notes on the different parts of clothing. It includes a list of famous samurai, some of whom may very well have existed In Reality, but undoubtedly others who are from Maya's favorite samurai from home. There's lists of Samurai Movies as well— Seven Samurai among the 'real' ones, and Samurai Summer & Bushido in Blue among those exclusive to Maya's world.

There is also a simple illustration of what she remembers Japan to look like from a map, with a star over Tokyo, so that poor Vash has any reference for what the Neo-Edo the Steel Samurai is so dedicated to protecting is. There's also such notes as "a lot of our friends here are from this place" and some pictures of yokai enemies the steel samurai faces, as well as the definition of a "kaiju". Most of these notes are recycled from what she's sent to Ianthe and others, but they're quite clearly lovingly curated.]

<purevanilla>

[purevanillacookie]

Are you free? I would like to show you something!

<KrisKringle>

[getmeoutofthedraft]

Ho ho ho! Your Secret Santa recipient is Marco Evangelisti!

Get Marco a present by December 26, and if you can't figure out how to deliver it, you can drop it off (clearly labelled, please!) at Crowe Clinic up until the 24th.

THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT MARCO:
- Imaginatively enough, he's "marco" on the network;
- He's a merman;
- He's a computer wiz kid;
- He lives out by the lake with his husband;
- He's very well-meaning.

Happy Christmas!

[This is going to age like milk when he finds out said husband - A.K.A. one of Hawkeye's best friends - is gone. Oh, well.]