inourhead | 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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inourhead

"Fkoooohk nook...?" She doesn't seem to expect an answer; she doesn't know how to translate this yet.

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follow_the_leader

Emma stares at her blankly. Does she think Emma meant it's just her, maybe? She points at the world map from earlier. "People sleep," she says, and jabs her finger at a bunch of spots. "People sleep, no klaonso eat people. People no know klaonso. People sleep."

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inourhead

Crystal-Pyay taps her chin, then holds her hand about a couple feet off the ground. "Person." She holds her hand at about her eye level. "Person."

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follow_the_leader

Emma supplies the words for "child" and "adult".

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inourhead

"Adult sleep?" She starts jabbing her fingers at random places on the map - not even cities, random tiny towns. "Adult sleep adult sleep adult sleep adult sleep?"

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follow_the_leader

Ooooookay, if this turns into an awkward sex conversation Emma is changing the subject.

"Yes, adult sleep," she says, still bewildered. She encompasses the whole map with a hand sweep. "Adult sleep. People sleep."

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inourhead

"Emma and zero Emma and zero Emma and zero, people one one one one one...?"

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follow_the_leader

This girl looks like she's around Emma's age. How did she not get the sex conversation already? Emma does not have the vocabulary for this and she is not explaining with gestures.

"Um. Adult and adult, people two, bed, child...? Emma and zero."

Not that her parents haven't been trying to find her someone Well Respected from the five families, but they haven't actually succeeded yet.

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inourhead

Crystal-and-Pyay - looks quizzically at her.

Then she goes and stands slightly to the left of her original position and holds her arms up and says, "Crystal! One person." Then she steps to the right and makes a different gesture, hands by her sides and palms out. "Pyay! One person." She stands where she was standing. "Two people. Crystal. And. Pyay."

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follow_the_leader

Emma- stares. She cannot possibly mean what she thinks she means.

"Emma, one person. Alli, one person." She points at Crystal-and-Pyay. "Two people?!"

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inourhead

"Two people! Crystal and Pyay. Crystal not-sleep, Pyay -" Wobbly uncertain gesture. "...sleep. Pyay not-sleep, Crystal sleep. People two two two not sleep."

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follow_the_leader

"But- but- but-" Emma splutters. She gestures at- she doesn't even know what to call her now. Crystal? Pyay? Is... one of them... sleeping? "One person, not two."

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inourhead

"...Mmmmm. Not Crystal and Pyay - people two two two - one child," gesture over here, "one child," gesture over there, bundling-up-combining gesture, "two children - child and child. Not Crystal and Pyay, Crystal and Pyay..." She lacks the vocabulary. "People two two two two. People, people, not Crystal and Pyay." Pause. "Crystal and Pyay and Praip. Praip -" A gesture removes "Praip" from her body and puts them somewhere else. "Crystal and Pyay, Praip and Fwaysyee."

Now she looks sad.

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follow_the_leader

Well, Emma thinks she understood half of that if she was lucky, but she can at least respond with the obvious thing.

Map wave. "People one." She imitates the bundle-up gesture. "People not know. People not know... mice sleep, people not sleep. People not know cup crystal, cup silver, cup crystal." They haven't gone over silver, but hopefully it's obvious in context. "People not know. People one."

She doesn't know what to do about the sad part. Someone she left behind, from the sound of it? She's been good about not using her own language, for the most part, those were probably names? "Crystal and Pyay good...?" she asks tentatively. "Sad-" she mimes it, "no good?" She'd offer help, if she had any kind of vocabulary for it, but basic vocabulary is the rule of the day.

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inourhead

"Crystal and Pyay and Praip and Fwaysyee walk, walk, walk. Tlaaaa - not klaon - tlaaaaa - mmm - walk walk walk -" She jogs in place. "Eat Crystal and Pyay. Not know - Praip and Fwaysyee."

Edited Date: 2014-10-20 05:59 am (UTC)

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follow_the_leader

Emma supplies the word "run" sort of automatically, then attempts to process. So- the thing that keeps people from sleeping caught Crystal and Pyay, and- ate them? "Eat Crystal and Pyay, and- Praip and Fwaysyee- run?" she suggests. "Run good, Praip and Fwaysyee good?"

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inourhead

Crystal - or Pyay - shrugs. "Tlaa eat Praip and Fwaysyee, not know."

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follow_the_leader

Emma pats her awkwardly on the shoulder. "Run good," she repeats. "Not know, but... eat bad, run good. So, run, good."

This is as close as she can to "as long as you don't know, might as well assume the best."

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inourhead

If Crystal-or-Pyay got that, it's not clear. She shrugs again. "Eat Crystal and Pyay. Crystal and Pyay -" She gestures. She - they - don't look very eaten.