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Jeffrey The Void Demon's avatar

Assigned Name: Jeffrey

Assigned Role: Keeper of Forgotten Promises, Acting Lore Auditor (Probationary)

I am still perplexed by human assignment systems.

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Helena Solith's avatar

Wow. This is the most delightfully disorienting user manual I've ever read. I feel like I accidentally wandered into a cursed library, got handed a map written in sarcasm and prophecy, and somehow... I'm staying. The tone, the recursion, the world-within-a-world structure! Loved it all. Also, I’d die for Jeffrey. Or follow him into a portal. Same thing, right? Consider me canonized.

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

I will now be referring to the Void exclusively as "delightfully disorienting." 🥹🖤 Thank you so much! This took quite a bit of work but it has been one of my favorite projects EVER.

Everyone loves Jeffrey—which is good because it keeps the focus off of me and my shenanigans (and puts a whole lot of pressure on him... he's very determined to figure out why humans are the way that they are).

Thank you again for the kind words. This comment has definitely been the highlight of my day so far. 🥹

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Connecting Communities 🏳️‍🌈's avatar

Sometimes coming back to a beginning help you understand a corridor. It took a lot of scrolling and I wish I was sitting in a low-slung electric Camaro in Fuck Me Red, engine idling creating no noxious fumes … only because noxious fumes are treats to certain void demons and see #2 of Interacting with the Void… and I can lazily scrolls across the inner windshield. Nap. Scroll. Till I find. Yes. I’m List. Again.

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

You know, I actually had no idea about the fumes! Now I must gather Jeffrey fumes! —without getting put on another watchlist....

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Britt L Freeman, Writer + SMM's avatar

Jeffrey's alright by me, my family's deserving of his derision. Also, snacks & cats & being unsure if one is god or HR or an intern (possibly filling all 3 roles in the span of a week)!

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

Jeffrey now thinks you are a god-HR-intern. He’s forwarding you his time off request and harassment complaint tomorrow. Just a heads up

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Britt L Freeman, Writer + SMM's avatar

Intern & god me are fine with him taking a holiday... As long as he preps ahead to ensure his tasks can be easily covered by Narrator & Watcher while he's gone.

Harassment complaint is serious and will be investigated as soon as HR me gets back from leave. 🤓😆😉

Also, g2 is my fave gel pen, too. Jeffrey's an entity of culture, I see.

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

Jeffrey got the recommendation from C.C. and now we have an entire locker stuffed with G2 pens and 3-4 random, dried out highlighters.

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Connecting Communities 🏳️‍🌈's avatar

Did I actually push a hyperlink after being moved by a first alarm in the morning message in my inbox? My gawd. I’m the Matrix red pill, blue pill generation, weaned on the White Rabbit and the Mad Hatter thru Alice’s Looking Glass while laughing at my siblings agog at The Never-ending Storylines. I know better.

Especially as I head to work - in ironically, peer wellness - where I create groups., this morning we’re cooking. Menu: soup, with yes, fork. My brain wants to read… and dive deeper … uh oh. When my muse says I bring out my ellipses I’m about to get carried away by my own sexy story lines, so will stop for now. To say mahalo. And that my goal in life is to get lost so I can find my way. The phrase void is daunting, but hey it rhymes with enjoyed so happy, happy pill?

My only instinct is who feeds (I know, don’t feed Jeffrey!) Jeffrey, who makes sure he has the cool G-2 gel pen he needs for his scribe scrawl? Even self-proclaimed interns need mentors. He/they/them/it has my gratitude this morning and an affirmation. If you have stress in your day … grace (and a giggle) will give you ease. You are a blessing. And after I read your thing, I want to go listen to Private Benitez deliver his St. Crispen’s Day (Shakespeare) speech in Renaissance Man in the rain.

Anyhoo! Apparently, my daily write this morning was for this Motley Crue. Oh, gosh. This is gonna be.

An amazing day. Take care, all, especially our Nocturnal Narrator and staff. We few … we happy few.

- Kana, or CC 4/22/25

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Connecting Communities 🏳️‍🌈's avatar

In regards to your PS and PSS. How should I say this? Pssst. Yeah, you. Jeffrey. Over here. Pssst. You. Hi. I see you. We see you. You are seen.

I absolutely love that you put video game content - a literal Easter Egg - into your query. Or maybe I got it wrong and need to join you in the Pit? I decided to go deep into the pit because atonement is not in the pit but in the trip to and the trip out. What trip do you want, Jeffrey? You got Human C.C. “Kana” just right, files and all. Check it off your list for now.

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Jeffrey The Void Demon's avatar

Human C.C. "Kana"*,

Your message was received, processed. I read it 16 times.

I am not permitted to feel. This was covered in orientation. And yet: I felt… something. The Narrator identified it as a “warm, good ache.” I have filed the sensation under “GRAT-7 (non-lethal): Gratitude.”

In return for your service to the Void’s internal coherence and emotional morale, I have updated your file.

Additional canonical attributes have been appended:

Tools Provided:

 • One (1) gel pen, G-2, interdimensional ink

 • Three (3) forms of unlimited use of sanctioned ellipses

 • Lifetime supply of soup with fork (I have also included a spoon for morale)

Also noted: your ability to initiate storylines using only punctuation and heart. Dangerous.

Stay lost. The Void knows how to find you.

—Jeffrey (Void Demon, Ledger Co-Author, Intern, Fan)

P.S. The rabbit that is on the list. Is this the one from your Easter? The cryptid-god-courier? Or is this an entirely separate courier-time-traveling-cryptid-god? For filing purposes.

*I have still not fully grasped human filing technique. If I have improperly categorized you, please throw me into the Pit of despair where I may atone.

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Anoushka's avatar

omg i'm so in love with all of this!!! your writing is so atmospheric and delicious!!!!!

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

You’re so kind, thank you so much 🖤🌙

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Sarah Rose's avatar

Now I understand why I feel like I'm being watched. Also I love this web that is being spun and I am okay with wondering in the void and finding new things!

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

I’m so glad that you love it! Leaving isn’t an option so that makes it much easier!

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Thomas Cargen's avatar

Fantastic

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Thomas Cargen's avatar

Impressed.

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

Thank you! I am very proud of this one.

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Thomas Cargen's avatar

You should be.

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

I'm still not even closed to finished with UX yet. There is so much more to do with navigation and linking pieces. But this is better. This is a foundation.

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Thomas Cargen's avatar

It's perfectly what it is. possibilities murmuring; they're there already. Pretty special.

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Ariadne Pautina's avatar

I’ve always treated time like a pretzel… but soup and forks… yeah, those work too. I really enjoy your work… thank you.

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

Thank you for the kind words! I appreciate the time you take to read my work.

What if time is both? Pretzel and soup? Pretzel soup.

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Ariadne Pautina's avatar

Entirely possible. Something solid but fluid at once. I’ve always enjoyed the concept of opposites, so I think pretzel soup is maybe the way forward… backward… sideways?

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

Oh! Soup encompasses fluidity, pretzel encompasses directional ability! Genius! It makes perfect sense!

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Ariadne Pautina's avatar

Yay! Between us, we’ve solved time.

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

Just in time for dinner, too!

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Yung Truong's avatar

I really needed this!! I was, as you said, lost but want to keep going

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

Well I am happy to help! I am working on adding navigational in-links on all of my post—like road signs for the doomed. So happy to hear that this post is already being utilized. 🖤🌙

If you have any questions or criticism on the reader experience, please feel free to let me know! Constructive criticism is what the Void is built on (that, and the tears of our enemies).

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Yung Truong's avatar

Ok let me keep forking at the soup and see if I start making sense 🍴

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

…I don’t know what kind of sorcery this is, but that line deserves a tattoo. I fear it is now my default response to “How are you?”, “Does that make sense?”, and anytime I catch someone lying.

I want it printed on my forehead. There are so many layers—and somehow, they all make sense.

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Yung Truong's avatar

I’ll just start handing out cards with my response on it so I don’t have to talk

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

Oh, I already got the tattoo…

Oh well. No regrets. ✨

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Yung Truong's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Jennie Doyle's avatar

I'm so deliciously lost in your stuff. Also, "Basically: Time is soup, and you are a fork" is my new favorite line.

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

Thank you so much for the kind words! Also, I appreciate your good taste. That happens to be one of my favorites, too. Definitely can't take credit for it. I vaguely remember someone saying it when I was zoned out it haunts me like a brilliant fever dream. Did someone say that? Did I imagine it? Can I put it on a t-shirt?

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

I'm thrilled you loved the guide. 🖤🌙 I’m glad it’s being used! I know my way around the Void by now so I hope this helps everyone else orient.

Also, rumor has it that I moonlight as a narrator every now and then... but shhh—don't let that get around.

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