text @PAPYRUS - New Years

[spaghettimonster]

HAPPY 1962!!!

IT'S HARD TO CALL THIS A NEW YEAR... SINCE THIS SEEMS LIKE THE PAST TO ME.

BUT DECEMBER IS OVER! AND IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT'S SUDDENLY FEBRUARY.

HOW ABOUT.

HAPPY NEW OLD YEAR!!!

[But don't be fooled - it's the start of 1961! Despite Papyrus optimistically posting this at midnight on the dot, everything from the TV countdown to physical calendars to outstanding bills says otherwise.]

Comments

@aragaki

[petsthedog]

[Time bullshit. Of course it's time bullshit. At least the sky isn't green, though. The last thing he needs to deal with is the fucking Dark Hour now.]

no it's still 1961
some new bullshit is going on

[spaghettimonster]

SO YOUR TV IS SAYING THE SAME THING...
GLAD TO KNOW THIS ONE'S NOT BUSTED.

[Because a glitch in an old analog television could definitely cause all the other hints of time loop on display around the house.]

[petsthedog]

either the people who run this place are fucking with us or this whole place exists because someone messed with crap they shouldn't have touched and we're in for some real shit

[spaghettimonster]

WELL, WHAT'S LIFE WITHOUT A LITTLE DABBLING IN FORCES BEST LEFT UNTOUCHED.
NOT VERY INTERESTING, I BET!

[petsthedog]

boring's better than dead or in a coma

[shinji is here to be a wet blanket about messing with supernatural shenanigans, sorry papyrus,]

[spaghettimonster]

[It's okay, Shinji. Every jokester needs a straight man, and every optimist needs a wet blanket. Contrast is the spice of life, or something.]

SO TRUE. I DON'T WANT TO BE EITHER OF THOSE THINGS!!

[petsthedog]

yeah well
root for the "someone's fucking with us" option then i guess

but we're already getting monsters around here so
i wouldn't hold my breath

[spaghettimonster]

MONSTERS, HUH?
WHAT AN UNDENIABLE WORD FOR THEM.

[It's uncomfortable to even type, but easier to avoid stammering by text. At least now he has an idea why the profession of 'monster hunter' might not be the most unsettling thing in the world.]

BUT I'M NOT SURE, WHAT MONSTERS HAVE TO DO WITH TIME FUCKERY.

[petsthedog]

[That's...certainly a reaction. Shinjiro squints a little at the message on his radio.]

there something else you'd call those things that tried to kill us?

anyway, what they have to do with it is we had time fuckery in iwatodai
an extra 25th hour every night at midnight
and things would come out at that time, called shadows
they'd feed on people's minds and leave em in comas

[spaghettimonster]

I MIGHT HAVE CALLED THEM NIGHTMARES,
BUT YOUR SHADOWS SOUND EVEN MORE NIGHTMARISH???

[Also, possibly literally nightmares, since an extra hour in the middle of the night sounds like dreams stretching on too long.]

DID PEOPLE REALLY FALL DOWN, JUST LIKE THAT??