what in the longdark spitting-pit is that
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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)
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?
----
with Minus (kappa)
with Mark (kappa)
with Max (Benedict)
in Terraria (kappa)
with Emma (Marri)
with Erin (Rockeye)
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Date: 2014-11-16 11:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-11-16 11:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-11-16 11:19 pm (UTC)He leads her up to the door of- Smith Hall, it looks like. There's some receptionist, or something, behind a window in the front.
"Excuse me- this is the physics department building, right? I need some help figuring out who to talk to about something unusual."
Turning to Pyay: "Pyay, Earth no mweelsrow- school... 'study' mweelsrow."
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Date: 2014-11-16 11:24 pm (UTC)"What?" asks Pyay, sighing. "School what muilsroo?"
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Date: 2014-11-16 11:35 pm (UTC)"Pyay- Pyay 'study' English, school 'study' mweelsrow."
"Something unusual like... probably magic. Or extremely advanced nanotechnology. Or something like that. This girl here does something really strange."
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Date: 2014-11-16 11:36 pm (UTC)"Sohng English," mutters Pyay.
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Date: 2014-11-16 11:43 pm (UTC)And...
"Song English? Wait- Pyay... Song... when...?" He turns to the receptionist: "She, uh, doesn't speak English, I've been trying to teach her- has some weird thing going on with her language, has two names. Not the important part."
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Date: 2014-11-16 11:45 pm (UTC)"So what does she do?" ask the receptionist. "...Mouse? What's with the, are those live mice, what."
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Date: 2014-11-16 11:54 pm (UTC)"She, uh... switches things. Properties of things. I don't know what the limits are, but she's switched the colors of chalk, turned food into other food... the mice are for, um, I think she switches tiredness and awakeness, so she doesn't have to sleep. I don't know how it's possible, no."
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Date: 2014-11-16 11:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-11-17 12:02 am (UTC)He hands the two items to Pyay. "Mweelsrow 'color'- uh, Song, English... 'blue' and 'red'? Same mweelsrow as chalk."
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Date: 2014-11-17 12:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-11-17 12:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-11-17 12:10 am (UTC)And then Pyay tilts her head and swaps the colors and offers the objects to Max.
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Date: 2014-11-17 12:13 am (UTC)"Thanks, Pyay. Or... thanks, Song? Thanks Pyay and Song? Thanks."
Max hands them back to the receptionist.
"I promise I didn't have a blue paperclip and red rubber band on me. Or, paint, or anything."
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Date: 2014-11-17 12:15 am (UTC)He calls the head of the department and says there's somebody interesting here.
"Pyay muilsroo, Sohng English."
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Date: 2014-11-17 12:28 am (UTC)Well, they could be. It could be anything, because mweelsrow and clowns and mice and Nloggy and all kinds of things that violate precedent. The trick is figuring out whether it's true- the distinctions between "person" and "body" and "name" and have proven to be tricky.
"I Max. One name-" -again, simplifying- "-one person. One body," he says, gesturing to himself. "You Pyay... and you Song... two names, two people, one body?"
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Date: 2014-11-17 12:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-11-19 12:18 am (UTC)He can ask about the normal thing, though.
"Earth, all people one person. Nloggy, all people two people? Or only Song and Pyay?"
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Date: 2014-11-19 12:20 am (UTC)The receptionist, having got the professor's attention, hangs up the phone.
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Date: 2014-11-19 12:26 am (UTC)"Baby? Small person? Like-" he digs out an old photo from his wallet, of his ex-wife cradling their son, and shows it to her.
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Date: 2014-11-19 12:28 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2014-11-19 12:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-11-19 12:44 am (UTC)A man in a dress shirt and large, round glasses steps out of a nearby stairwell. "I was told there was something interesting down here?"
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