THE LIFE INSTITUTION

PSIONIC

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[SCOTT]
Okay, I do need your real name.

[SPARKLEZ]
It's right there on the form.

[SCOTT]
You expect me to believe your full legal name is Captain Sparklez?

[SPARKLEZ]
I mean, yeah!

[SCOTT]
[sigh] fine.
Statement of Captain Jordan Sparklez, regarding... A strange crystal? I have to say something vaguely academic for the records.

[SPARKLES]
That's fine!

[SCOTT]
Statement recorded directly from subject June 28th, 2023. Statement begins.
Go ahead, Mr.... [quiet disdain] Sparklez.

[SPARKLEZ(STATEMENT)]
Thank you.
I guess it was last year, when this whole ordeal started. I found this box on my front porch, and well- I've never been one to pass up a good mystery! So I brought it inside and tried to check for any... fuck, whats the word... Proof of delivery? Like a sticker or something that would tell me who it was sent to. Didn't find one. But on the bottom, I saw a name, scrawled out in black ink.
My name. Jordan Sparklez.

[SCOTT]
And you opened it.
Why?

[SPARKLEZ]
I thought one of my friends was messing with me! Schlatt and Tom would definitely pull something like this.
Anyways-

[SPARKLEZ(STATEMENT)]
-Inside the package was, well, the crystal. Medium sized, Tower cut, a lavender color with white inclusions in it. It didn't look like anything I'd ever seen before- I mean, I'm no geologist, but it definitely didn't look natural. Why am I- It's right there. Why am I describing it to you?

[Scott makes a hm sound and writes something down]

Uh- After a week, I think, I started having... Dreams. Visions- I think. My... my memory's a little hazy, but I remember seeing a figure... She almost looked like a goddess. Dark skin, flowing and twisting clothes, shrouded in darkness, multiple limbs, you know. Goddess things.

At first, all she said was my name. Just my first name, though. The dreams slowly became more frequent. From once every two weeks to twice a week, then from that to every other night, then every night. Halfway through that progression, she started speaking other words. Like, "Hello", or "Child", or even rarely "Pathetic".
The first full sentence was... "I see you".
After that, the dreams slowly became more infrequent, even slowing down to once a month. Literally, every 30 days on the dot.
When it got to that point, I was able to respond. After I figured that out, we'd have actual conversations.
I think the last thing we talked about before the other things started happening was a... a family reunion I was supposed to be going to the next day. This was in... december, I think. Just around christmas. I really didn't want to go. She said she could do something to help me and... well, I'd trusted her.
And I'm still firm in that decision.

The next day, my uncle called and cancelled. Apparently, He suddenly got really sick and wouldn't be able to host. Obviously I felt sorry for him but... You know, I was a little relieved? That probably sounds horrible-

[SCOTT]
You're good.

[SPARKLEZ]
Oh! Great. Ack- I-I mean! I don't want you to think I wanted him to get sick or anything, just-

[SCOTT]
Just keep going.

[SPARKLEZ(STATEMENT)]
Right.
Well, That day I noticed... the crystal was glowing. Here, it still does it when I-
[fwoom]
Yeah.
Anyways, I figured this thing wasn't normal.

[SCOTT]
duh

[SPARKLEZ(STATEMENT)]
obviously! but, well, It kept making good things happen, so I couldn't get rid of it! I even asked my friends, and they agreed! so I just kept it around.

It's still making good things happen.

[SCOTT]
statement ends?

[SPARKLEZ]
sure.

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[SCOTT]
Well, I spoke to a few of Jordan's friends, and they verified his story. He even let Scar- Uh, Mr. Fairchild's old assistant, if I haven't noted that before- take a sample of the stone down to artefact storage. I made sure he marked the envelope he placed it in, as apparently in a notebook of Mr. Fairchild's I found, he had forgotten to do this many times.

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