beaconkeeper | IN THE NIGHT IC INBOX

( look at all the robin fanboys in here... )

Robin, can you answer? Is there another way you can communicate?

Even a flashing light. Morse code. Anything.

[Robin's response doesn't come until late evening on December 6.]

Hey. I'm here now. Sorry.

I swear I wasn't behind that.

( it feels sad that he's slightly distrusting of the late text that finally arrives. he's never heard Robin's voice, so how would that have any power to make him feel more assured?

at least an answer is something. )

Here now... what happened? It's been days. Weeks since that footage.

You don't have to tell me that. I know.

( he couldn't even see the video, he'd had to have someone explain it to him — and he'd still been worried. )

I... don't really know. The forest spirits started acting up around when that feast started, and then Rastus wasn't answering my calls... Some of the green eyed spirits broke in here not too long after I realized something was wrong.

It only felt like a couple of days to me. I've had network access since the bulletin went up, but

I needed some time. I had some repairs to do anyway... Had to fix the signal.

The green eyed spirits are the ones that are capable of getting in our heads, right? That might explain how you lost time. I wonder if they had some part in a good number of us being trapped in dreams for two weeks.

Have spirits ever attacked you like that before?

Is it fixed now? Is your power back? Is there anything we can do to make things more secure for you up there?

( sorry for all the questions, robin.. .. . . . HE WAS WORRIED, OK... )

Yeah, those are the ones. I don't know how else those hallucinations could've been possible, so, yeah. There's a damn good chance they were behind it.

Eeeespecially with them getting on the network. Ugh.

No, they've never even come in the lighthouse before... Not uninvited, anyway, and def not the green eyeds. I don't mess with them. They're usually super duper rare in town, too. I've never known them to be so aggressive.

It's fixed now, yeah. It's back to business as usual up here. They didn't mean to fuck up my computers, it just kind of happened as a byproduct.

[She's silent for a few moments.]

They won't kill me. I'm safe.

Isn't it worrisome that they're escalating? What does that mean for all of us?

( for rare creatures, they've been showing up more and more lately. Matt can't quite decide what that might mean. )

They don't have to kill you for you to be in danger, Robin. I couldn't see that video, but from what I heard? It doesn't sound like what I'd call "safe".

...I don't know. I've been trying to research, but I can't find much of anything about the green eyeds. They were, like, two steps above Beacon's version of Bigfoot before all this. We knew they existed, but barely.

OK you're right but like... I would really like it if you would let me believe that I am!! There's not a whole lot else that I can do right now except really really hope they're not gonna come back because killing me would suck for everyone!

Do you think there'd be something in the library? I can't exactly find it myself but I can point someone in that direction.

There's got to be something more we can do for you. Are there particular spirits that listen to you especially well? We could send something with them to help you fortify your defenses.

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