[Netbook] [Mid-month, a day or so after Loop's post]

[ephemeralflow]

[The handwriting on this page is distinct enough to be familiar to those who've read Timekeeper's comments before - a neat script, albeit missing some of its signature little hooks and arrows at the end of letters, and less mechanically precise than usual.]

Hello everyone! I hope you're all doing well. As I've come to understand it, some of us have been lured into the woods this month and come back different. Insofar as we can tell, those who have done this appear to have swapped timelines with a different version of themselves. A little rough immediately after we all had to deal with doppelgangers, I know, but please don't panic if someone you know seems a little off.

That being said, hi! I'm Croissant Cookie. Loop tells me that the version of myself who was here before was called Timekeeper Cookie, and that she's... quite different from me. I don't know much more than that, but I'm not really sure how appropriate it would be to pry, so sorry to anyone who was expecting her instead. I also apologize for not writing this sooner - I've been quite wrapped up in getting things sorted so I can work on this timeline issue.

If you want to help, Loop asked who went into the forest on a previous page, it would be great if anyone who did could go there and answer honestly! Or just answer here if you don't want them teasing you. I won't judge, I did the same myself after all. :)

Comments

[ephemeralflow]

I... see.

[Croissant frowns as she reads the uncoded part of the entry, not quite sure how to feel about this at first.]

I really don't like that any version of me reminds you so strongly of something like that... although... I guess if the other you liked Timekeeper anyway, that speaks to her character despite our differences. Or... maybe she's not so different from me where it matters?

[She bites her lip, then shakes her head and gives as much a tiny laugh as she can muster.]

Well, if it were me, I'd be giving myself an aesthetic makeover as soon as I knew. One question though, sorry if this sounds silly to you, but what's a "dorito?"

[ghostharasser]

It's hard to say without knowing either of them. I do think that this other me ...I won't say he's as different from me as you and Timekeeper are, but there's a lot about him that feels ...off. Whatever went on in that dimension, Trench I guess, it changed him. It's kind of spooky.

[A long pause.]

Oh. Uh. Doritos are a triangle shaped corn chip usually covered in cheese powder.

[ephemeralflow]

Experiences make the cookie - er, person, I suppose. That's why it's never easy seeing yourself or people you know from other timelines, no matter how used you are to time travel. I don't think it's something to be sad about, it's just... different! ...But I don't think anyone can help that weirded out feeling either, heh.

[She drops a long pause here as well. They're both feeling it in this clock tower tonight, man.]

Ah, I see! That makes sense, cheese cookies are rather fond of triangles too.

[ghostharasser]

Mabel threatened to eat him with guacamole once.

[He would have paid a lot of money to watch her crunch on his stupid corn chip ass, too.]

The really weird looking photos, I think he treated them with magic, because I have an entire two pages in here that outlines photo development with blood magic, using something called "bloodstones" which uh. It seems to heavily imply he's using his blood to do this. Which is weird.

[ephemeralflow]

That's... well, when it's what you have to work with then you do, I suppose. What an unnerving way to use magic, though.

[She picks one of the weird photos out of Timekeeper's stack, squinting at it.]

I don't suppose he outlined the exact effects, did he? To me this looks a lot like an overlay of concurrent timelines. A uh, lot of concurrent timelines. How much time travel does my other self do...?