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: 2014-11-17 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 12:44 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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Date: 2014-11-19 12:46 am (UTC)"She can do something that looks a lot like magic," says the receptionist. "She swapped the colors of this rubber band and that paperclip there."
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Date: 2014-11-19 12:55 am (UTC)"It's not a trick, Dr... whoever," Max says. "This girl's thing- I brought her here because she actually seems to be able to do something that- god, it's- it's something you're going to want to look at under a microscope."
"Not a doctor. Professor Liu. Let's see it, then." Liu turns his attention to Sohng. "You have something to show me, miss?"
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Date: 2014-11-19 12:57 am (UTC)Sohng blinks at Professor Liu. "...What?" she says.
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Date: 2014-11-19 01:01 am (UTC)Max grabs a blank white piece of paper and a green sign-in form from the desk, and hands them to Sohng- or, Pyay, if she's about to do muilsroo.
"What's she meant to do with these?" asks Liu.
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Date: 2014-11-19 01:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-11-19 01:10 am (UTC)Liu stares at the paper. "It must have been... sleight of hand? Where's... look, let me. I've got..." He hands her a key off a ring of keys, and some unidentifiable piece of black plastic of about the same size.
"Uh, you don't want to do that. It's not- if you need that key, it's a real thing, and I don't know if the key's shape will stay intact if she swit-"
"It's for the photosensitive materials closet. There's twenty more just like it. I mean to be sure you're not all picking props to hornswoggle me, understood?"
Max looks helplessly at Sohng and/or Pyay and asks "Mweelsrow?"
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Date: 2014-11-19 01:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-11-19 01:28 am (UTC)"Pyay- Pyay mweelsrow, yes? Thanks." Max turns to Liu. "So... this is important, right? This is the place to be for this?"
Liu stares quietly at the key and plastic for a moment. And then wheezes at Pyay, "You- how did you- where?"
"Liu ask how mweelsrow," Max offers by partial translation. "She claims to be from another world. Parallel universe, teleported here somehow. So that's... another thing to look into. She wants to-"
Actually, he never asked, did he? He's not confident about whether Sohng knows "want" or "go", but...
"Pyay and Sohng want go Nloggy?"
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