peckenpaugh | A Spill of Ink...

Just before lunch, any students with open journals will find doodles of flowers creeping across their first blank page. As the purple flowers grow, word spreads from student to student and more journals open to watch the display. Darker and darker, denser and denser, until the whole page is a deep and glistening indigo.

That seems to be the end of the show, until somewhere a single pen is put to paper and white ink appears...

ʇɥǝ ƃɐɹdǝn looʞs ʌǝɹʎ nıɔǝ ʇodɐʎ

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Who has one of them and what are you doing to them? I've heard some people are burying them, but what else have you done?

I've buried mine a couple of times, but it only had a reaction at Thorntrail. Nothing happened at Mothgarden. Haven't tried it near the other houses yet, but maybe we should just to be thorough.

[...]

Plus, I put it in the fountain in the Motharden maze and it went ballistic.

Ooh, I hadn't heard about the Mothgarden fountain! That sounds exciting.

I was considering keeping one as a control, but... I'm very curious to see what would happen if we buried it outside Central Classrooms or in Deeplurk.

It [...] was.

Trudy has first dibs on mine, but maybe we can coordinate and get serious about figuring this shit out.

This is Claudia! I don't have sole custody over my mystery rock and I'm new to the whole thing but this is fascinating, and I love a good excuse to compile data, so I'm ready to hop in with both feet!

Re: ROCK BUGS

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Hot springs make them gold sometimes. Nuts other times.

The hot springs turns nuts gold???

[...] Bug rocks ?

Oh! Do you have a gold one??

ROCK BUGS

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i gave mine to the muscheron

I think someone said Pocket told them to do that! Did Pocket tell you? What happened??

no. at the beginning of the school year, i had a dream about a maple forest being ravaged. cut to stumps. i thought the dream was about the surly stump and that the cicadas might be connected.

the surly stump let me approach it and when i placed the cicada on top of it, the cicada buzzed like it was alive again. and then the muscheron came out to retrieve it and thanked me.

this happened in the beginning of october. i didn't have my cicada for very long.

Dreams again! How curious! I never cared about dreams before this year, but now it seems like they all got a little more interesting.

How can I get one.

I don't think I'm legally allowed to endorse the method in which I obtained a rock but [...] some teachers might be in possession of one?

Edited (claudia: might i suggest trying to murder a staff member) 2020-03-10 21:38 (UTC)

Hm.

Interesting.

[...] Please don't give a teacher a seizure [...................] and if you do don't tell them where you got the idea.

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I feel like an idiot writing this, but is it possible that they're [...] connected to certain people somehow? You got yours from a teacher and that went sideways. Part of the trance-thing included an [...] impression or something of Youngblood. And something similar happened to Chanel, but with Swint.

I don't know. Feels like it means something.

Huh. Well it seems like it would be stranger if it meant nothing if multiple people were getting impressions of someone specific.

I really hope we don't find out that their souls are trapped in these things or anything like that.

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Me
Imogen

I think. Idk I kinda forgot about it lmfao

Edited 2020-03-11 01:51 (UTC)

Oh!! So you haven't done anything with it?

Where did you get yours?

It's just been on my desk

Zero Sugar Pepsi gave it to me like a million years ago

Oh I bet she was ticked when she realized it wasn't a mouse.

I'm not sure what they do, but apparently they react strangely to elements? I'm going to go dip mine in the lake and see if it starts to smell like someone.

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They're collectors items. Beefy had some.

Any chance Beefy's available for further comment?