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XIMILIA | Assorted Ephemera

☠︎ notebook and thread tracker
💀 these are the jokes, kid 💀

This isn't a book that's easy to stumble over. If it's not on Sans' person, it's wedged into a dusty crevice, carefully hidden underneath piles of dirty laundry, or shoved into some other hard to reach place. If you do happen upon it, the first few dozen pages contain joke after joke -- each one cornier than the last.

The next several pages are blank. When the words return, the names of a few crewmates may stand out between half-formed gags.


This IC journal will function practically as a CR chart and thread tracker. All CR (current and past) will have their entries detailing Sans' current impressions of them, his guess at a soul color [brief write-up here], an OOC relationship score [see star key for more information], and a list of threads with quick notes based on each interaction.

This journal exists as a tangible object in the game! Extremely perceptive characters may be able to catch a glimpse of Sans writing in it. Questions about its contents will get a pat response; something vague about work-shopping his material, followed by a dopey oneliner. If your character has reason to be especially curious, it is possible to find and read through its contents ICly... but it won't be easy.

Happy snooping!


👽 newt geiszler

Human guy. Pretty sure he’s grown, for all he acts like he’s still in stripes. Kinda reminds me of Papyrus, but like… also someone else? Can’t remember who. Dunno if that’s a good thing or a bad thing yet. Still not sure exactly what he thinks of me… I slipped up and told him a few things a little more truthfully than I should have. If the resets follow me here and this notebook sticks around, note to self: do that differently next time.

Scientist in the purest form. Asgore would’ve been all over this guy. Hell, I was in the middle of screening new Royal Scientists when I got pulled over here, I would’ve been all over this guy. He’s fighting his own war where he’s from, but the monsters he’s fighting aren’t like ours. I kinda think he’d be down to help us break the barrier, if he knew about it? If I could bring something like that back to the Papyrus, it would make all this worth it.

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additional notes:
first meeting - getting to know you, getting to know all about you...
this guy is a real monster fan, and i’m talking the energy drinks. way nicer than he has any right to be. he’s that kind of annoying where you like him, and that just annoys you more. probably a genius. definitely useful. talks your ear off, though.

gyeongje orb - you can't just ask someone for their blood
thought we were going to run down some thoughts on a cure, then i wound up running my mouth instead. don’t think the bridge is burned or anything, but i gotta watch my step.

gyeongje orb - an honorary monster becomes an honorary skeleton
exactly how interested can one guy be in monsters, exactly? is there a term for this… like, a monster furry? i don’t got fur, so… boney?

gyeongje orb - it's like 5am and you're at my door asking for a ride to ihop
making nice with this reckless idiot was a mistake.
🦾 bucky barnes

This human is a sci-fi guy from the 1940s (some version of earth probably, I had to bounce outta that conversation before i could ask). Do not call him a nerd. I thought he was gonna take a swing at me over the earpiece, but when I looked through the rest of his post… I think that’s just the way that dude is with people? Heck, maybe he thinks of me as his new best friend.

If he’s from the past, that means he’s probably a little behind on the knock knock joke advancements of the last hundred years or so. I’m gonna blow this dude’s mind with an interrupting cow.

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additional notes:
first meeting - throwing spaghetti at the wall
things learned: not the mayor, not a nerd, not impressed with my schtick.

😾 ratchet

I thought this guy was another monster at first, but spoiler alert to myself: he isn’t. He’s from some other planet, which… is actually pretty cool, but I don’t think we’re gonna go get coffee somewhere and chat about intergalactic travel any time soon. Guy keeps hanging up on me. Me! Can you believe that?

I’m up to three so far, and counting. If any future Sanses are reading this, see if you can beat my record.

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first meeting - here kitty kitty
prank achieved! did not go over… great, but he’s a nice enough guy. i think i may have gotten a little too real with him, though. hard to tell. he leans on the sarcasm a little too much, if you ask me.

gyeongje orb - hang up number 1
so it looks like ratchet’s espionage attempts (that i helped with, nbd) were successful. he’s not really the ‘gratitude’ type. oh well, you know me. always going the extra mile to make a new pal.

gyeongje orb - two truths and a liar
okay so this guy may play coy, but look who’s reaching out my way! maybe we’re gonna be buddies after all.

gyeongje orb - hang up number 2
okay nevermind, definitely not buddies. he’s some sort of mechanic, though. doesn’t know a thing about magic. he looks so much like one of us, it kinda throws me a little when i get a big reminder that he isn’t.

👻 so-yeon

I met a girl today, the one we’re supposed to be fighting. The “ghost girl.” Her name is So-Yeon. She’s… real determined. The monsters here, they’re not really monsters at all. They were her family and community. Something or someone terrible changed them. The world sees them differently now, maybe they see themselves differently too, but I’m pretty sure So-Yeon still sees them exactly the same way she always did. Maybe I’m a little starved for it, but something about the way she talked about monsters… I kinda feel like she sees me the same way? I dunno. I guess I forgot humans could put themselves on the line like that.

And… I guess I forgot how much pressure it is, to have so many people relying on you to bring them hope. She told me her plans and I judged her for them… talk about regrets, heh. It’s not like there aren’t monsters in the underground who want the same kind of revenge back home. But Pap would want me to keep trying to get through to her, and… I dunno. I feel like I owe it to them both, maybe. Yeesh. Being this far from home is making me sappier than usual.

Oh, one last thing: she likes jokes! Note to self: brainstorm a few more for her next time we cross paths. The kid’s been through the wringer (uh, kinda literally, but that joke ain’t that funny), she deserves a laugh or two.

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first meeting - i've heard of being ghosted, but this is ridiculous
‘stay out of the courtyard when the bell rings.’ [ ADDED A WEEK OR SO LATER: ] ← future sanses, call a guy named syrlya and read this to him. you gambled on this and lost. don’t mess it up again.

gyeongje orb - attempted apologies (1) (2)
she was there! left me a… bracelet thing. and a frog, which was got me pretty good i’m ngl. whatever magic is in this bracelet, i think it’s gonna lead me to their encampment. maybe i’ve still got a chance to make this right.

👩‍🦰 monika

There’s a human here. Red hair, skinny. She went for the kill as soon as she saw me. I think she may have been waiting for me. Came this freaking close to getting dusted. I haven’t seen her since. It’s all starting to feel like another bad dream heh.

Gotta watch my step.

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first meeting - megalovania but the bpm increases every time an attack misses
what the hell did newt say to me? how he was sure all the humans here would be totally chill? i’m gonna trip that guy next time i see him

🪴 syrlya

There are people here who kinda read as humans to me, but… y’know, not? Syrlya is one of those guys. The specifics are kinda lost on me, but I know he does magic. Abilities I’ve counted so far: teleportation, portals, offensive magic… I’m sure there’s plenty more. I’m gonna have to be a little stealthier if I wanna find out exactly what, I doubt the guy’s going to be giving me a magic demonstration any time soon.

He made some inferences that may or may not have been correct about my loyalty to the crew. Then he made some more inferences that, y’know, I maybe didn’t react great to. Gonna have to make nice eventually, he’s proving himself to be a leader around here and the last thing I want is a determined guy like that deciding I’m a liability to his plans.

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first meeting - anything you can do i can do better
met a guy today. real funny, even if he doesn’t always mean to be. workaholic to the extreme, though.

gyeongje orb - aye aye cap'n
haha forget what i said before. screw this dude. [ ADDED LATER: ]y’know when you wake up and immediately cringe? yeah. i might’ve played this one wrong. future sanses, take note.

👓 kim katsuragi

Another human. His name is Kim, he’s got a kinda quiet, serious energy. Haven’t decided how I feel about him yet, but he doesn’t seem to mind a little joking around. Couldn’t be all bad.

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first meeting - bar crawlin', info drawlin'
met a dude outside a bar in the merchant district. totally feels like the kind of person who’d pick up the tab if you “forget” your “wallet” aka i think i’m gonna be drinking with him more often.

gyeongje orb - the truth comes out
checked in with that kim guy about what’s going down. he didn’t seem to buy it straight away, which… y’know, can’t fault that. not sure if i convinced him she’s for real. we’ll see.

🌟 astral

Another non-human, non-monster. Feels like the pendulum swings a little closer to human than monster with this one, but I’m not sure if the form they take is their real one. A lot’s still unclear. I’m gonna have to do a lot more digging to get their deal.

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first meeting - what came first, the game of chicken or the escape plan
surprisingly hard to get out of the palace. i had to get the help of this astral person to sneak past the guards. not a bad partner, all things considered.

🌵 shinjiro aragaki

Oh man, this kid. Human. Tall. I kinda thought he was one of the adult ones until he opened his mouth and started getting all pouty with me. Capital-C Cactus over here. I wish I could say I knew how to deal with teenagers like that, but I dodged it completely with Papyrus. I’d say there are people around here who may be better suited to helping him out, and there probably are, but he keeps turning up like a bad penny.

I bet that lady from the ruins would know exactly what to do with him. Heh, maybe I should knock on some doors...

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first meeting - that's what we call 'tsunderescue'
was getting hassled by some jerk when this extremely tall kid showed up and chased him off, right before doing everything he could to chase ME off haha. i dunno if i’ll run across him again any time soon, but i probably owe him a favor...

gyeongje orb - two truths and a liar
talked to that kid again through hermann’s little team building thing. i was right. this kid’s got baggage above my paygrade.

gyeongje orb - two truths and a liar (take 2)
… unfortunately for him, we keep running into each other haha.

👊 goro majima

Human. How many is that now? So many.

This one’s got a… uh, wild energy. He stuck up for me so I guess I owe him one, but man. He runs really fast. And punches really hard. The kind of dude you watch for five minutes and then need to immediately take a nap.

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first meeting - never fear, the human tornado is here
how many more times am i gonna need to be rescued around here? if i had any pride, it’d be dying a slow death.

✨ jiang yanli

Another human, from another time again. It seems like that’s pretty common at this point. Wherever she’s from, manners are important. This one -- her name’s Yanli -- she holds a lot back, but not in that been there, done that way. I think she’s just super polite or something.

She kinda reminds me of that old lady behind the door in Snowdin. I haven’t thought about her in a while… if this girl’s anything like that, I bet there’s someone really hilarious under all that formality. Just needs a little education.

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first meeting - can you give me a hand over here?
haha oh man, i met someone pretty cool today actually. super proper chick, right? very polite? then proceeded to hand buzzer me like a PRO. sure, i had to show her how to do it, but she’s a natural.

🥃 renfri vellga

Human Actually, jury’s out on that one. I can count what I know about her on one hand: name’s Renfri, drinks like a sailor, keeps different hours than me, has more of a chip on her shoulder about monsters than i do. It’s weird.

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first meeting - nice to meetcha, pass the bottle
met my roommate today. she stepped right over me to go get drunk in the corner. we’re gonna be buddies, i can tell.

🥸 richie tozier

Human guy, no news there. This one’s funny, though. Like, he’s got jokes. A lotta jokes. Kinda feels like an outta body experience. Y’know, if I was tall and had a bunch of meat hanging off me. He does stand up too, back in his world, only it sounds like he was actually pretty successful at it? You’d think it’d be enough to make a person happy, but he comes off as even more of a sad sack than me. It’s kinda impressive. Wonder how he feels about puns?

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first meeting - of all the gin joints in all the world
ran into an orber standing outside the bar like it owed him money. i feel like this dude spends a lot of time in bars, if you get my meaning. not bad to talk to, though. people are so task minded around here, feels good to trade stupid jokes again.

gyeongje orb - check it out, richie tozier from derry had an idea
wow. i did it. i found someone even more over this place than me. richie, the guy from the bar. once again: good for a laugh.

📿 yzak jule

Human. Yep, again. I feel like I should stop starting these entries that way. This one wears his hair the same way as the last human who came to the Underground. It’d be weird if they were literally anything alike haha. He actually reminds me more of those old lady monsters around Snowdin who buy up all those delta rune necklaces “just in case.” Everybody needs a hobby, right?

Note to future self, or whichever self is reading this: buy this kid a whole mess of toerings. Trust me, he’ll appreciate it.

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first meeting - amulets, pendants, and talismans (oh my)
was out walking when i met another member of our pretty massive team. another kid this time. how many people does viveca need to get these orbs back, anyway?

🧮 hermann gottlieb

Another human. Took me about two seconds to figure out he and Newt came from the same world -- Hermann’s a scientist too. Our disciplines intersect, actually. We even have the same favorite. I feel like we’d get along great if he was a little less of a stick in the mud, but who knows. Maybe we’ll be getting drunk and doing algorithmic relay races by the time I get around to updating this entry.

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first meeting - i expect your answers on my desk by five
ran into a guy in the hall, pranked him with math, then ate some dumplings alone in my room. just another day in paradise.

gyeongje orb - so you "hate each other" huh (wink wink)
dear diary, today i learned that hermann and newt are going steady and lemme tell ya. sounds exhausting.

👑 clara oswald

Big, tentacley, unknowable geometry alien. Just kidding, it’s another human (did i getcha?). This one’s tiny, almost as tiny as me. I thought she was a kid until she started talking. I guess even adult humans grow this small. All this time I figured humans didn’t bother with stripes ‘cuz they all look alike, but now I’m reconsidering that. They should absolutely be wearing stripes.

Anyway, Clara. She’s actually pretty funny? I mean, I don’t feel like we’ve had a single real conversation yet, but lemme tell ya. Those are kinda my favorite people. There’s more to figure out, maybe a lot more, but I think I’m gonna enjoy the ride with this one. Gotta get your laughs where you can.

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first meeting - the lord and lady of perpetual lies
i think i had my first real fun since showing up here. her name is clara, but honestly she could’ve been making that up. i really wouldn’t put it past her. it was awesome.

gyeongje orb - don't steal my bits
note to future sanses: don’t do big ‘address the group’ posts anymore when you’re tired, hungry, stressed, or y’know what. just never do them again. doesn’t go well for you.

gyeongje orb - the lord and lady meet again
found out more about that clara human (it is her real name, fyi). and by ‘found out’ i mean, i don’t know what i learned really. kinda feels like we both agreed to move on past whatever that last thing was without ever talking about it again. hope it stays that way.

gyeongje orb - party favors
well well well well well guess who was blowin’ up my phone today. still waiting to see where this one goes, i’ll keep you posted.

🤖 wheatley

Robot. Not like a MTT situation, just a regular robot. Come to think of it, I’ve got no clue what he was built for. Why does this guy exist? I gotta figure out how to ask without coming off like an asshole, ‘cuz I’m pretty sure this guy would take it personal.

Also, I gave him some shit about ‘monsters’ already. Don’t wanna be a hypocrite now do I? looool

soul: None, he’s a robot.
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first meeting - a robot and a skeleton walk into a banquet
is it just a thing that robots everywhere get really huffy and opinionated at parties? next time i need to find a robot i’m gonna start dumping red wine on the floor and see if any show up to start gagging.

gyeongje orb - sensitivity training
doesn’t it suck when the worst person you know says something you agree with? jk, wheaties doesn’t even come close.

🐺 dusty fields

Pet a dog in the woods today. It was pretty dope. Makes me miss Snowdin.

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first meeting - see the stick? go fetch the stick!
The dogs around here are really friendly.

🍄 ellie

Another human teen. That makes three (so far) with journal entries in this book. This one reminds me a lot of the Shinji kid, only with a role swap. She was trying to help the people around here and I basically dropped her off a building. It’s okay, though. Nobody died. All good in the hood.

That said, I’m pretty sure her world was uh. Grim. The whole thing popped off because she saw me turn some guy’s soul blue and asked me, all chill, if he was dead. Like, no screaming, no freak out, just ‘did he die’? What’s that about.

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first meeting - i'm sorry, did you want to get OUT of danger? my bad
note to self: maybe cool it on the teleporting outta danger thing until you know this city a little better.

gyeongje orb - what is this place, exactly?
ellie gave me something to think about today. i’m not gonna write it down. i’d rather give myself a solid chance at forgetting about it. .

🪄 sabriel

A human, I’m about 99% sure. Also pretty sure she’s a teen? Or close to a teen. She’s become like, chief wizard of the team, which hey. Gotta respect that kind of determined ambition. Sabriel (Sabs, as I call her -- she loves it) seems determined to teach as many people magic as she possibly can. I’m still not entirely sure what that’s about.

Her magic follows something called The Charter. She says it’s in everyone, which has got me wondering… what would it be like doing another kinda magic? Thinking about that kinda makes me feel like trying to imagine how it’d be to walk on my hands.

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first meeting - hashing out some details
finally got some face time with sabriel. i’ve seen her around before now -- she’s the magic girl. couldn’t get a great read on her. doesn’t seem like someone who’d appreciate a good bad joke, but who knows. i’ve been wrong before.

gyeongje orb - i've heard of charter schools, but this is ridiculous
so get this: magic isn’t magic everywhere. yeah, i know. kinda feels like i just discovered that for some of these worlds, gravity goes the opposite way or all those immutable laws of physics could get the mute button pressed on them at any time. so that’s fun.

⚗️ edward elric

Human. Teen. You know the drill. I’ll be honest, this one kinda stings. He and his brother made some sort of terrible mistake that cost them almost everything. That’s why this Ed kid is here, to set it right. He was hurt in the attack. We’re not sure what’s going to happen to him. Finn’s got some magic and everyone else is working on the cure, but… I dunno, man.

I promised him he’d be alright. Never gonna learn my lesson with promises, am I?

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first meeting - you've got a brother too, huh?
somebody’s hurt because i didn’t intervene when i could’ve (should’ve?). a lot of somebodies actually, but isn’t it just like me to barely register that until one of them mentions their kid brother back home? i thought i was over feeling ashamed of being a terrible person, but doors are really opening back up for me here. should i be happy about that?

🧑‍🎤 donquixote rosinante

Met somebody new today. Honestly, couldn’t get a lot out of him. Didn’t even see his face, but he seems to give a crap about what goes on here. Dunno if he’s human or not, actually. Smart money’s on human tho.

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first meeting - inside the actor's studio
i think this mission is making people kinda prickly. myself included.

😈 zelda spellman

there’s a woman around here that kinda sets off my alarm bells. not sure why yet. maybe i’m just being judgemental (ha ha).

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first meeting - nice to meetcha lady
the longer this mission goes on, the less i feel like i’m getting to know the people on our team. isn’t that kinda backwards? well, maybe it’s just this one human lady i met today. she’s tough to get a read on.

⏱️ river song

Who the hell is this woman?

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first meeting - some people just keep surprising you, don't they?
met somebody today who is either really, really good at bullshitting me or someone i need to keep a socket on at all times.

💯 clarke griffin

Another teen? Not sure yet. Still getting to know her.

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first meeting - down to brass tacks
There are people around here I’m still getting to know. Not sure if we’ll ever be close, but the missions give me an excuse to learn their stories at least. never know what’ll come in handy.

🐈‍⬛ erik stevens

I thought I was good at playing things close to the vest. I’m outta my league around here, it’s gonna wreck havoc on my rep.

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first meeting - fursona non grata
what exactly constitutes ‘team building,’ anyway? feels more like an excuse to poke at each other’s cracks lol

🎺 lan xichen

Another human. This one’s kinda unique, though, at least in terms of skill set. All I know about this guy is that he does some wild stuff with a flute and is good at schmoozing the worst kind of people. He should suck, right? And yet he genuinely seems like a nice guy. Weird, right?

… Eesh, I think I just described a more likable version of myself. Womp Womp.

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first meeting - two truths and a liar
it’s the little things that help keep me going around here.

gyeongje orb - secrets of a lord
that suk-ju guy deserves worse than some glue around the head. not sure i’m okay with how i’ve started thinking about him. it’s probably for the best that lan’s the one with the access.

🚀 james kirk

Still trying to work out who I can trust around here. Jim’s another human, but he’s got a vibe I vibe with (heh). We’ll see if my instincts are wrong on that one. Wouldn’t be the first time.

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first meeting - two truths and a liar
skin… how do people walk around with that stuff? creeps me out.

🤡 eddie kaspbrak

Okay, so get this. There’s a dude here who spent his entire childhood fighting killer clowns and bullies and all sorts of other crap. He calls himself a “risk analyst.” This guy’s gotta be full of crap, right? If he’s not, maybe he and that River person should be the ones leading us haha.

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first meeting - two truths and a liar
man, i miss board games. i wonder if we’re ever gonna get a chance to do anything genuinely fun on these missions. if two truths and a lie is the closest thing to leave we get around here, i’m gonna burn out faster than usual.

🩸 finn

Things have been kinda crazy the last few days. Found a piece of paper I was using underneath my bedroll. I don’t think Renfri’s the snooping around type, but I gotta be more careful. It’s from right around the time I first talked to Finn and we went to the network about So-Yeon, so I guess that explains why I was a little scattered.

Anyway… belatedly:

“There was an attack tonight, the one So-Yeon warned me about. I stayed out of the courtyard like she said. A lotta other people… didn’t. I still think it was the right choice. I don’t know these people yet. Finn understood right away, at least. That’s the kid I met tonight. I’ve seen him around the merchant district, kinda making an ass of himself a little bit. But then hey, surprise surprise, he talked to So-Yeon tonight. She blessed him with some sort of power that staves off the curse. I dunno if it’s magic or what. Magic means so many different things here, it’s hard to keep up.”

“But back to Finn. He’s a human (what else is new), and I’m gonna be honest. We were so focused on the task at hand, I didn’t even think to ask him much about himself. I thought he was some sort of So-Yeon in disguise at first. We just recorded this post and I’m still not sure how the bombshells are gonna go over. More tomorrow after I get some shut eye.”

“Okay, so, few things: I fucked up. Maybe massively. I’m not even gonna talk about that yet, it’s still unfolding, so. Back to Finn. The kid is… uh, how do I put this? Really willing to put it all out there for this “cure.” Like this kid seems downright willing to die for it. They’re taking his blood, they’re planning all sorts of experiments… we’ve got a determined crew on this team, alright? Syrlya is practically drooling over him (no shock there).”

“Is this kid, like… okay? I’d say he’s determined too, but it feels different than that. I dunno. I got a lot to think about.”

Okay, that’s it. Time to go burn this lol.
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first meeting - are you a secret ghost lady, yes or no?
i dunno what this finn kid said to her, but i think we’ve finally got enough proof to go to everyone else with the truth so-yeon was trying to tell me. carpels crossed.

joint post w/finn - ghost girl spoilers?
tonight wasn’t my finest hour.




☠︎ inventory
description of where sans keeps his things


☠︎ personal goal
rundown of the personal goals