Email to Literally Everyone In the Mansion

[xp_hawkeye]

To: [Literally Everyone In the Mansion]
From: [Barton, Clint]
Subject: Nine Ladies are Dancing...

Morning All -

Today continues the trend of our vending machine adhering to the 12 Days of Christmas, even though several of us aren't actually Christian, but whatever. It's dispensed a pack of nine teeny-tiny-itty-bitty musical ladies in dresses from various eras -- I think, anyway, clothing's not really my hand. Fi, I'll attach an image, please help -- who spin to me and... guys, they look weirdly realistic and kind of like they're actually dancing? Their legs and arms move and I can't see anything that indicates hinges? It's weirding me out.

They all play various songs from the ears they're allegedly from, but there are at least three that are songs I've never heard (I know, I know, not surprising) but I'm pretty sure two of those three having singing, which I didn't think music box things did? But again, I don't even know anymore with this vending machine. I'll upload all of the recorded songs to the database soonish. Give them a listen. I could use some group-think on these. Cause if there's singing, it's definitely not any language I've ever heard and, while I'm not fluent in more than Russian and Bad English, I... can't figure out even what region they might be coming from, so expertise in languages (DOUG) might be helpful.

I'll have to check the log list on the machine to see what everyone else might've gotten today, which I'll also do shortly and then update on the journals


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. We're still monitoring everything and, while we're still seeing the now-expected weirdness from the vending machine, we've seen a couple minor abnormalities with the wormhole as well. We've added a "time item received" column to the log list of everything acquired from the machine so we can see if there's any actual connection between those abnormalities and the vending machine dispensing things we didn't ask for or add to it.

As a famous scientist once said, "The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down."

Yadda yadda, so forth and so on, other official stuff. Guys I am tired.

Anyway, once more unto the breach, etc.

Comments

Email to Clint

[xp_darcy]

Yo bro I feel like your email cut off and now I can't get through to Matt's phone or yours, do we need to come storm the castle?

[xp_hawkeye]

To: [Darcy]
From: [Clint]
Subject: RE:

W-'r- fine, need e-eryon- to stay a-ay from the Cha-le. I-ll let you k--w when we'-- avail-ble. Syst-m glitch. --rry to wo--y you.

DO -OT STOR- CH-PLE. Ser-ou-ly.

SCIENCE.

[xp_darcy]

To: [Clint]
From: [Darcy]

Yeah, okay. System glitch? Are you two trapped? Who else is down there?

[xp_hawkeye]

To: [Darcy]
From: [Clint]
Subject: RE:

Pos--bly tr--p-d. Wh-le team. For-- fie-d m-yb-. Prob--m is, don-- kno- wh-- c--sed gl-tch. Safe --r n-w. Hav- fo-- a-d wa-er. Will te-- y-u if th-- cha--es.

Need e-eryon- to stay a-ay from the Cha-le.

[xp_darcy]

To: [Clint]
Cc: [Team Magic, eXcal]
From: [Darcy]

Obviously I'm not the boss of anything so I'll just say I trust all of the team to do their best to solve this. If you're not free by Saturday morning I'd really appreciate it if you let the rest of Team Magic take a shot at it from this side.

Also you and Matt gotta stop getting into things that give me grey hairs, I'm too old for this shit. ♥

Reply to all

[xp_daytripper]

Darcy put Team Magic onto this. We've done all we can, but there's no way in and it's not magically sourced. So all signs point to the wormhole, I s'pose?

A.