inourhead: (g-c ~ longdark)
Holly / Crystal ([personal profile] inourhead) wrote2014-10-17 11:05 pm

what in the longdark spitting-pit is that

This was a bad idea this was a bad idea this was a bad idea.

Holly runs as fast as she can but the demon's faster. She has no idea where Lightning's gotten to; maybe he found a tree to climb. She on the other hand has been diverted into a treeless hill and she's careening down a slope, trying very hard not to trip.

And the demon's gaining on her.

She's never seen anything like it and neither has Crystal; maybe Book knows what it is but Book's asleep. It's mostly mouth - it looks like a cross between a floorlength mirror of a mouth and a snake to propel the mouth along.

And Holly's not fast enough.

The mouth catches her.





But it doesn't hurt.

Where are we?

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with Minus (kappa)

with Mark (kappa)

with Max (Benedict)

in Terraria (kappa)

with Emma (Marri)


with Erin (Rockeye)
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[personal profile] unblinkered 2014-11-13 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
He's uncertain for a minute about what she's alarmed by- and then notices, and points to the distant city. "Skyscrapers."

He walks up to the automatic doors, signalling her to follow.
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[personal profile] unblinkered 2014-11-13 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
"It's... a long story. That involves her being a wizard. She did some wizard stuff to the mice too much, or something, and a bunch died, and now she needs new mice to do wizard things to. D'you guys sell live feeder mice?"
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[personal profile] unblinkered 2014-11-13 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
He sighs.

"Yeah, I'm off my meds. I'm a crazy person. D'you have live feeder mice or not?"

He picks a rubber chew toy and a rawhide bone off the rack next to the counter, and hands them to Pyay with the accompanying shaking gesture.
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[personal profile] unblinkered 2014-11-13 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
He shoots her an annoyed look. "...Pyay, mice. How many mice? One, two, three, four...?"
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[personal profile] unblinkered 2014-11-13 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Eight," he tells the clerk. "Eight mice, for crazy wizard purposes."
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[personal profile] unblinkered 2014-11-13 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
Max hands over his credit card, and hands Pyay the box of mice.

"...Jerk." he mutters, when they're out of earshot. "Even if I was off some kind of meds... kids've got no respect."
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[personal profile] unblinkered 2014-11-14 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Max watches the... what was it, mweelsrow, with interest. She can just... size? With the other things, he could have imagined... something changing color, something changing texture, something siphoning ATP... but those were bits of rock. The things-inside-rocks don't have anything in common with things-inside-mice...

But he's not especially shocked, which surprises him enough to make up for itself. He should be seeing this as a paradigm shift, a new wrinkle in his ideas about how her magic works, but... perhaps...

And then she offers him a mouse.

"Me? You can... mweelsrow my sleep to mouse?"
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[personal profile] unblinkered 2014-11-14 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
He's not sure whether... would it even be safe? Does swapping things rely on detailed knowledge of what the things are made of? If Earth human biology is different from Nloggy biology... could something go wrong?

Max can't think of how to ask those questions, and elects to have them answered directly.

"OK," he says, slowly. "Uh, OK means yes."
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[personal profile] unblinkered 2014-11-14 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
...It's a bizarre feeling. It's not like drinking coffee- almost the opposite, and a lot faster. He doesn't feel more energized, mentally, but rather his whole body suddenly feels the way it does when he gets out of bed. He hadn't realized there was even a noticeable difference- the change, after all, is normally gradual. He jumps, and then moves around experimentally.
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[personal profile] unblinkered 2014-11-14 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Everything seems to be fine- there's parts of his brain trying to figure out what just happened, and there's parts of his brain trying to tell the other parts that they know what just happened, and they're having trouble communicating, but otherwise there are no adverse effects.

He walks to the car, and...

...isn't sure where to go from here, actually.
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[personal profile] unblinkered 2014-11-14 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
So...

He could call up Gloria and see if she's figured something out.

Or... he could drive her down to Rutgers-Newark's physics department, get their people started on figuring her out. 'In addition to, if not instead of'... that's what Gloria said, right?

He sits in the driver's seat. "We go school- not Gloria school. Person try... send? Send Pyay Nloggy."
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[personal profile] unblinkered 2014-11-14 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
He gets on the road. He makes sure his phone is on- it's been a while, Gloria might call at any time. Though... he doesn't know how long it takes to explain this kind of situation to child services.

Speaking of child services... oh, hell. Seatbelts. He stops and pulls over.

"Pyay- need 'seatbelt'. Seatbelt safe." He points out the seatbelt and plug thing, then demonstrates his own seatbelt.
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[personal profile] unblinkered 2014-11-14 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Seatbelt-" he reaches back, pulls out the seatbelt on the seat next to her, and points to it. Then plugs it in, unplugs it with the button- to make sure she doesn't think it's some sort of... trap, or restraint- and then points out her seatbelt again. "Seatbelt."

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