{"id":10164,"date":"2024-06-10T16:24:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T20:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=10164"},"modified":"2024-06-10T16:24:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T20:24:14","slug":"of-the-many-looks-people-have-given-me-over-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/of-the-many-looks-people-have-given-me-over-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Of the Many Looks People have Given Me Over the Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar-e1443983489508.png\" alt=\"by jen\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>spooky, grim, unearthly, and rebellious<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAnd I will cut off the sixth finger, this very day.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>wore a top hat over a hoodie<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe doorman knows your movements.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>foil-covered room<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 909 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of the many looks people have given me over the years (<em>spooky, grim, unearthly, and rebellious<\/em> among them), furtive is my least favorite. I prefer to be the furtive one in any and all interactions. I turned my attention back to the nanobot app and entered the homing command again, paying careful attention to each glyph. During my Digital Mystic training, my partner and I devised a mnemonic song for remembering the purpose of each arcane squiggle. I could remember that much, but not who my partner had been. That must be a clue!<\/p>\n<p>I stared at the glyphs and let my mind drift back. In my memories I saw a hand wearing a haptic glove with too many fingers. &#8220;I stole this from my brother,&#8221; a feminine voice said. <em>&#8220;And I will cut off the sixth finger, this very day.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Had I ever heard of anybody with six fingers who might have a sister named Ursula? The only six-fingered individual I could remember was someone who was kicked off the Academy&#8217;s beatnik team when he <em>wore a top hat over a hoodie<\/em> to a competition, but as far as I could remember he was an only child.<\/p>\n<p>But could I trust my memory?<\/p>\n<p>Stomping footsteps announced the pharma man&#8217;s approach, and with him the nanobots I needed to restore my faulty memory. I gave him a furtive look and whispered, <em>&#8220;The doorman knows your movements.&#8221;<\/em> His eyes went wide with fright.<\/p>\n<p>To safely transfer the nanobots from the pharma man to myself, I would need a <em>foil-covered room<\/em> in which to work. This being a summit facility, there must be one nearby. &#8220;Follow me,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in order<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stichomancy Writing Prompts\" href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompts\/\">about stichomancy writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompt-generator\/\">try our stichomancy writing prompt generator!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>spooky, grim, unearthly, and rebellious \u201cAnd I will cut off the sixth finger, this very day.\u201d wore a top hat over a hoodie \u201cThe doorman knows your movements.\u201d foil-covered room Tune in next time part 909 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments Of the many looks people have given me over the years (spooky, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[91,341,305,403],"class_list":["post-10164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-clothes","tag-robot","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10167,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10164\/revisions\/10167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}