Slightly backdated.

[talkyourwayout]

[It's early in the morning when a new post on the BBS goes up.]

Guys, it's Louie. I want to see if anyone else knows anything about this. I mean, the weirdest thing happened last night.

I think I went home. Not just for a night, either. I mean, maybe it was some kind of dream, but it felt so real, and I had a weird dream that was definitely a dream. I think. I don't know! That felt pretty real, too.

Has something like this happened to anyone else?

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[talkyourwayout]

Nice? Not exactly the word I would use. It was crazy, I mean... Not just the going home and the weird dream, but the stuff that happened at home, too.

[paradoxical_personality]

What happened at home?

[You can't just throw that out there then not be expected to explain it]

[talkyourwayout]

It's a really long story, but uh. Long lost family, basically.

Also I almost died.

[paradoxical_personality]

I know we're just writing words on a bulletin board- but you don't sound all that thrilled to learn more about your family.

[Hel didn't even know how to respond to what Louie wrote next. There was a considerable delay between the application of the magical script]

That better be an exaggeration. [It's not as if she'd given him permission to go to her realm prematurely.]

[talkyourwayout]

No, I'm glad, but I didn't know anything about my mom for most of my life, and now she's back and it's a lot to get used to.

And no, it's not an exaggeration, this sort of thing happens to me on pretty much all of my family's adventures.

[paradoxical_personality]

[A Mom... huh? Hel had someone she considered to have been like a mom to her but that wasn't the same thing. That being said Frigg had been there for her, while Louie's hadn't until recently. It was a little irritating to think about it like that]

What was preventing her from seeing you before?

Why doesn't your family do anything normal like attending a harvest festival? [Then recalling the last harvest festival Hel attended where most of the attendees fell into what could have become an eternal sleep she rethought this] ... or have a board game night.

[talkyourwayout]

Oh, we tried a board game night, once. It really, really didn't go well. Neither did the festival in South America.

But my mom, she was on the moon my whole life. Her ship crashed in a asteroid storm.

[paradoxical_personality]

How can board games go so wrong? [The festival she didn't question]

[Okay, that last part was nowhere near anything Hel expected. Also Space travel wasn't really a thing in her realm...]

Guess she couldn't really help it then. [What sort of a ship could even make it to the moon?] Also it's fortunate that she is a duck instead of a rabbit or Tsukuyomi might have never let her leave.

[talkyourwayout]

Shrink rays and angry little civilizations.

What's a Tsukuyomi, and why would it care if mom's a rabbit or a duck?

[paradoxical_personality]

Sounds like something out of Niederberry.

We're still trying to figure that out. [Unable to miss taking a cheap shot at Tsukuyomi... but then Hel explained]

Tsukuyomi is an Aesir not a thing. She's the Goddess of the Moon that presides over Yamato. [Not to be confused with the Moon Goddess that calls Asgard her home] She has this odd obsession with rabbit-themed merchandise.

[talkyourwayout]

Wait, you think this Goddess of the Moon person would see someone as merchandise if they were a rabbit, though? That's messed up.

[paradoxical_personality]

Maybe this is my fault...

[Since she didn't often make attempts at levity, and when she did it was understated]

It was a joke. Tsukuyomi might be crazy for other reasons, but she wouldn't really hold a rabbit-Therian prisoner.

[talkyourwayout]

Maybe you need to learn what a joke is. I've heard worse ones, for sure, but if you have to explain it, it's probably not a good joke.