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[peacefulexplorer]

Hi. I don't usually send open messages but frankly at this point i've run out of options

knowing how things go this is probably the rifts fault somehow and i wanted to know if we're the only ones

so. basically. since I woke up I've been floating about two feeet off the ground. and i cant get down.

also. my roommate's turned into a cat.

does anyone have any advice

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Make sure to put away anything they could get sick from eating or choke on. Get a litter box. Scratch them between the ears. Make them an instagram account and get a million followers by having them do unlikely things for a cat to do. Omg make them ride a tiny scooter!!

But fo reals, it's a Rift thing, it's all over. We're working on it. Count yourself lucky it's not worse.

[peacefulexplorer]

cat care's pretty straightforward. pretty sure he's managing it like a champ

I figurd it was the rift, and also that it seems to be universal

whats an instagram

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Photo sharing website. Oooh, or a Vine, that'd be pretty great too. That's 6-seconds videos. Been killing a lotta time watching them today. Seriously man, you have a cat who can actually understand and follow directions, get on this!

[peacefulexplorer]

somehow i don't think he'd appreciate that

have you been hit with this thing too? Haven't worked out a pattern yet

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I sure have. And unlike the perception fadey thing, it's actually a lot easier to determine who's been hit this time, and it seems to be A LOT of people actually. No obvious pattern yet - or like fifty DIFFERENT patterns, which, yeeeaah.

[peacefulexplorer]

yeah Im still figuring what the criteria here is. no connetion between cats and levitation I've been able to work out yet

why what happened with you?

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Oh, yanno, ceased being a physical entity, trapped inside a computer, no biggie. It's ironic, really.

[peacefulexplorer]

oh god that sounds awful

are you okay?? how are you texting me now?

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A phone is a computer. Not that I'm trapped in a phone. Just, yanno, interfacing. All good, amigo.

It's actually not entirely unlike the Dreaming. A brain is a computer too, yanno, electrical impulses, and it's possible to store a person's entire memory on a hard drive if you've got enough space and you know how to work the programming.

And the brain's programming is REALLY good at imagining sensory input even when it has none. I've got a little simulation running, it's all good. Bit jarring at first, especially given my new "body" had waaaay less capabilities than my actual body, everything was so slooooow, could hardly think, but now I've got it all set up.

[Let's not clarify why he knows so much about this. Turns out he gets even LESS of a filter when it's just think-to-talk instead of type-to-talk.]

[peacefulexplorer]

[That sounds way more workable than being crammed into feline shape for a day or two. The man's good with computers, Daniel knows that much, and it translates pretty well.]

certainly sounds better than floating.

should only last a day or two right?

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That's the hope and the norm. No guarantees. Actually for a few people it's already ended.

As a bonus for me, I suddenly don't have to deal with all the imperfections of my body. Like, I'm sorry, but my parietal and temporal lobes have never quite lived up to my standards. Processing stimuli and all that.

And, well, yanno, it's certainly a lot more USEFUL than floating. Well. Maybe. You're not FLYING, right? Can you control it at all? Does gravity apply to you? Cause like, yeah two feet, you said, so it's always two feet off everything, just like uhh. Ooh, I know, like you're a glitched video game sprite/model, still able to interact with everything, but your physical body APPEARS to be two feet over ground? Oh but like, if you want to pick up your phone, do you hold it in your actual hands, or does it appear to be floating like two feet just underneath your hands? Can you put your hand through the ceiling for two feet before you actually hit something solid?

[peacefulexplorer]

[Oh god. He definitely wasn't expecting that much information.]

I havent tried to experiment outside the apartment for obvious reasons. I can still reach under me and access things below but I have to reach or climb down on objects. Its more like my personal plane of reference has shifted but everything else is still normal

can still hold everything and function well enough

and at least my communication skills are unaffected. unfortunately interference with that seems rather common

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So basically you're a hovercraft.

[peacefulexplorer]

that's one way of putting it?

basically it just means I cant really go out. would draw quite a bit of attention Id think

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Going out's way overrated anyway. No thanks.

Anyway there's ways of circumventing the attention thing, but it can be expensive and/or hard to get hold of, and hopefully it won't last long enough to be necessary.

[peacefulexplorer]

yeah I'm hoping this will blow over in a day or two. the rain didn't last long, just a couple days.

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Like I said, it's ended for some people already. Still trying to figure out why.

[peacefulexplorer]

hmm well i'll keep you posted if i figure out anything