Good Night, Dear Thundercoil

Good Night, Dear Thundercoil

Arcadian Calendar ████████ — Fulwish TV Staff Support System (Ver. β) Operational Log ██:00 "Arcadia News" Rerun ██:06 Abnormal behavior and Wishpower readings detected in TV Station staff member "thundercoil." No correlation found with any existing records saved. Auto-soothing protocol activated. Attempted communication via internal broadcast. No meaningful response received. Protocol 1: ineffective. ██:07 Attempted to trace imagenesis-related medical histories. Attempted concurrently with Protocol 2, Wishpower cookie deposited into feeding slot. ██:12 Cookie ignored by the staff member. Protocol 2: ineffective. ██:13 Staff member exhibited convulsive symptoms, accompanied by a severe Wishpower fluctuation condition. ██:15 Final Protocol "Manual Service" initiated. Notification dispatched to this system's developer. Audio log is as follows: 00:00:03 *arcadia slang*! What the heck is going on out there!? Something's off about the moon, a giant die is filling every screen. Is this the end of the world? 00:00:08 *howl* 00:00:09 Thundercoil, my dude!? Did you just... full-on swallow those wispae!? 00:00:10 *indeterminate howling* 00:00:13 C—C'mon thundercoil, snap out of it... 00:00:17 *thunderclap* 00:00:18 *Sound of rocks shattering* 00:00:30 Ha, ha, ha! You missed! I'm still alive! No, no, I don't want to die. 00:00:35 I've still got a plan, yes, yes the Director taught me about it. 00:00:41 Words have the power to soothe, yes, I just need to, yes, to somehow, empathize. 00:00:47 "Calm down, thundercoil, my bro!! I brought you Wishpower cookies!" 00:00:58 *howling, accompanied by the wind* 00:01:03 *arcadia slang* Argh, it's gone completely berserk! 00:01:10 "Thundercoil!! Listen to me!" 00:01:16 "I brought you Wishpower cookies!! Thundercoil, my bro. I know everything that's going on around you inevitably makes you feel insecure!" 00:01:25 "It's okay, you're safe! Nobody here wants to hurt you!" 00:01:50 *silence, wind rustling* 00:01:58 D—Did it work? There's no more thunder! 00:02:00 Hey! Heh heh! I knew the Director was right! I'm okay! I'm going to be okay! 00:02:06 That's right, thundercoil. The Security Bureau's definitely on it, the heroes from the Astral Express too. They'll figure something out! It'll be fine! 00:02:16 *silence, accompanied by low, heavy exhalation* 00:02:20 Y—You don't have to respond. Just focus on calming down. 00:02:25 And don't worry, thundercoil, remember what Director Fulwish told us? As long as we truly believe it, deep inside, 00:02:29 then all of us will f—find "Happiness"... 00:02:30 *enraged howl* 00:02:31 *thunderclap* 00:02:32 Wh—What? Thun— 00:02:32 *shatter* An electrical current has been detected flowing from the developer's device to the main server. The system will temporarily enter Safe Mode to mitigate any potential threats. End of Record