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"Y'know, I've been thinking. About this whole...baking thing."

**Shadow is standing alone, in the center of a plain, empty room. The customary eldritch horror/festive birthday cake appear ...

It looks like another year has gone by, and now that the passage of time has been decidedly more....uniform, for me than in previous years, it has given me time to reflect. Like on how being pursued f ...

Wow, will you look at that reaction! Jen(kins) is totally winning this debating game! She should join the school's debate team.

Ah, it's great to be back! I've forgotten how much I've missed being at a fixed point in time and space. Feels like it was just yesterday when I left.

...or maybe 3 years ago? Six centuries from no ...

Another year of sailin' the seven seas be behind us, mates. And a great many more years of pirating be waitin' us, beyond the horizon! Until next year, fair winds and following seas to ye all!

**From within the depths of last year's birthday cake, amidst the noise loud chewing, growling, and demonic chanting, a familiar voice is heard, as if coming from a radio**

"Ah...hello? Testin ...

One more year before the mast it be, mateys. All this mask wearing, and ye'd think me...a ninja! A pirate, confused as a ninja! It not be proper! But steady on lads, steady on, and soon we'll have fai ...

**In the center of the room, on the same table from last year, the tattered journal remains untouched, the Mako Tea and cookies unconsumed. The customary birthday cake....nowhere to be seen....**

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Arr...we be in rough seas, me hearties. Batten down the hatches, keep a weather eye on the horizon, look after yer crew, and we'll make it through this squall yet.

**Raises a mug of grog to all, b ...

**In the center of the room, on a lone table, stands a well-decorated, two-tier birthday cake with vanilla icing. A tattered journal lies waiting to be read next to the cake...only a few entries are l ...