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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anabstercorian" data-source="post: 217041" data-attributes="member: 2550">Alex is only just waking up...  His alarm goes off and he rolls out of bed with a grunt.  "Ugh..."  He sighs and sits up, slipping out of his fuzzy bunny slippers and heading for his bathroom.  "At least I slept well."He dresses casually and quickly, grabbing a big breakfast omelette before he steps in to his studio, carefully avoiding the biggest messes.  Gingerly, he sets up a canvas, and stares at it for a while, before he begins to sketch out rectangles at random, eyes almost closed, hoping for a patten of some kind to emerge...  He needs to do this, he needs to get this out of his system.  Get that awful memory out of his head or learn how to cope with it.(Craft Paint check +8, Psychic Focus +2)About half way through, he looks at the painting...  His lines are off.  Right angles aren't quite right.  Straight lines wobble.  He dashes it to the side in a sudden fit of senseless anger, taking a straight edge and right angle to trace with, wanting to get it RIGHT.  Perfect.  Geometric.  Like the memory...  So perfect it's wrong, so perfect anything resembling life is gone, without the comfort of constant entropy to remind you of the flow of time, a perfection where life, death, time are all lies...He can hardly remember painting it, but later, almost at noon, he looks at the finished painting.  For now, it'll stay here."Oh, <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />, Steven!"He throws himself at his car and peels out of there, tossing on some flipflops instead of bothering to get real shoes.</blockquote>

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