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[epicbraille]

[ Snake is familiar enough with the COMP to respond to audio and video posts, but text posts have eluded him. Until now. ]

I'm giving the voice to text function a try. How does it look, is it accurate enough? Hello world! Smiley face

[ It's great being a Virgo. None of this event nonsense really matters. You can spend all day making posts like this one.

Of course he's going to use voice > text for his responses. Thank goodness technology is flawless and there'll be no typos or tricky homophones to deal with. ]

Comments

Re: Voice

[ghost_shield]

Don't worry about it. Really.

*Ugh.*

Hey, you haven't been feeling a weird sort of tension all weekend, have you? Only I've been feeling really pent up and anxious, and I'm pretty sure it's not a purely natural thing.

*Mostly because it reminds him of whenever demons back home got too close.*

Voice

[epicbraille]

[ Snake takes a second to think of an answer.

Usually he'd give Nicholas a flat out no, but when someone is worried or anxious you don't just leave them out in the cold. ]

Not that I've noticed, but you're definitely not the only one feeling such effects.

Re: Voice

[ghost_shield]

Well, at least that confirms something. Which is better than nothing.

But why is it only affecting some people and not others? I have a really bad feeling about this. ...beyond whatever effect is causing the anxiety and paranoia. ...I think.

Voice

[epicbraille]

They must have something in common, that much is obvious.

[ At least assuming this isn't a natural phenomenon. ]

Getting the most obvious two out of the way - both men and woman are being affected, as are adults and children.

Re: Voice

[ghost_shield]

Well I'm glad I'm not the only guy in a sea of women and children or something.

This is really obnoxious. It's making it hard to concentrate on much of anything. I've even had to put seance work on hold for a while because I can't use my focus well enough to DO it.

[epicbraille]

Seance work...

[ Could talking about work distract this guy from his weird mood? It's worth a shot, certainly. ]

You're a spirit medium?

[ghost_shield]

Medium, investigator, pretty much. Just awakened my Persona, but I don't really think I'm going to be deviating too much from my regular work otherwise.

[epicbraille]

If you won't deviate too much from your usual routine then I have to ask, how does a medium spend the average workday?

[ghost_shield]

Well, on a good day, I go out and investigate issues with hauntings. If it's genuine, I talk with the ghost, try to figure out why it's lingering. Eventually I try to figure out how to best satisfy the needs of the ghost without causing troubles to others, and then it can finally depart.

On a decent day, I do a seance or two, help others communicate with their dead loved ones. It can be pretty touching at times.

...on a bad day, I have to pretend I know how to talk to people's dead pets.

[epicbraille]

[ While it's all very interesting - he makes a note to ask about those good days when Nicholas is his usual self - the last part of that description makes him laugh aloud. ]

Which is more common, the good days or bad days?

[ghost_shield]

...sometimes, it honestly feels like the bad days.

*Uuuuugh.*

[epicbraille]

You must be well versed in the pretend art of talking to dead pets, then.

[ghost_shield]

Apparently "arf arf" can mean anything from "Don't worry about me, master" to "By all means get a new pet, move on without me" to "Oh my God it's the fat biddy again go away."