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text; dated 12/20ish

[semicharmed]

You don't happen to know of anybody randomly growing angel wings after that angel/devil party, do you?

[onlyvibes]

What? No.

[and then a beat or two later:]

Why?

[semicharmed]

Just wondering.

[ Matt devotes a moment to serious consideration of whether he can leave it at that.

... Probably not. ]

because I have these wings

[onlyvibes]

You have wings.

[That's...weird...though maybe not as weird as it should be considering the stuff that happens in this house.]

How long have you had wings?

[semicharmed]

A couple hours, maybe half a day?

They kind of appeared while I was out ice skating.

[ A pause between messages. ]

Incidentally, if you run into this guy, you don't know me

Make a match on Butler!

[onlyvibes]

Maybe it's Christmas related?

I didn't think they were going the horror route with the holiday, but it wouldn't surprise me, either.

[And then after that last message:]

Okay. What happened?

[semicharmed]

I thought maybe that was it, but if I'm the only one, that'd be weird, right? Like, weird in a way that's out of character for the pattern of weird so far

So, Heinrix might be under the impression that he has to kill me to save everyone here from hungering chaos.

[onlyvibes]

Yeah, that's true.

[a pause while he tries to make that last sentence make sense.]

Why would he think that?

[semicharmed]

It's how things work where he comes from, apparently. He has some understandable trauma about it, but it's kinda inconvenient for me at the moment.

[onlyvibes]

You're not giving me as much context as you think you are.

[semicharmed]

[ Hmmmmmm.

Okay. Matt goes back to first principles and tries again. ]

Heinrix and another guy, Marazhai, come from a universe where a god named Slaanesh has eaten most of the other gods, as well as what sounds like countless souls

there are things that draw Slaanesh's attention, like certain types of souls, as well as the use of magic and magical analogues

it creates something they identify as "chaos"

and apparently when chaos has advanced to a certain point within somebody, it risks attracting She Who Thirsts (Slaanesh) which is bad news for everybody because of that thing where they've eaten a ton of gods etc.

one of the signs of chaos infestation is, notably

growing wings

[onlyvibes]

[well, ok, that's better. At least in the sense of Gideon being able to understand. Still sounds like a mess, though.]

I see.

I've never met him, but if I happen to run into him I won't mention you.

[semicharmed]

Fabulous, thank you

although if you know anybody who'd be willing to flirt with him, he was surprisingly responsive to text messages

so that could slow him down

[onlyvibes]

Parisa is the most effective flirt I know.

[semicharmed]

Yeah ...

She's a force of nature.