90 posts
Scout of Sound
Played by Glow
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Post by unstableequilibrium on May 22, 2016 1:47:24 GMT
Inside the tightly-packed hive, there was only a small and doorless load gaper at the side of the large room. Right now, Samuel was glad there was any at all, grasping the vaguely chalk-like substance as he felt his stomach heave again. Leaning over the toilet and clutching it tightly, the man let out whatever residues were left in his stomach before letting out a few heavy breaths. The singular window shone a small ray of light into the room, looking out downhill at the rest of the lowblood slum that bordered the large city in the distance.
Samuel took a few more deep breaths in, before falling backwards into a sitting position, letting out a quiet sigh. Small droplets dripped off his more metallic hand as he noted in slight annoyance that he'd cracked the material and whatever liquid was connected to it was leaking out onto the hard stone floor. His other hand went upwards, slowly rubbing his forehead as he tried to clear his mind of the repeating sound that just seemed to keep echoing on and on.
'You won't forget me or my song, right friend?'
Her voice stayed stubbornly repeating his head, the comment made by his co-player at the height of his use of aspect power against the Black King in the final battle, when he wasn't as experienced with Sound. The cyborg let out a quiet whimper, moving his other hand to the same spot and pushing against his head, trying to force the distant sounds of clown horns and chiptune bells out of his head like it was a physical object. He didn't want anyone to see him like this - he just... needed some time to work it out, to clear his head. S-sound was the aspect of isolation, after all, he was used t-to it as his native aspect. It didn't matter that there were probably hundreds of trolls living around him in the tightly packed blogs of vaguely cuboid housing, or that he was going to have to go into the session soon or that...
The laptop flashed a few messages on-screen, left by itself at the other corner of the room. It couldn't really be called much of a house; it was just about seven meters in length and about the same for its other dimension, the ceiling barely high enough that the replayer didn't bump his head against it (the scrapes in it that looked remarkably linear showed the previous occupant hadn't been as lucky). All that mattered right now, though, was getting this stupid song out of his head. The fear was i-illogical, completely stupid, he'd loved clowns when he was in his original presession, one mishap s-shouldn't have done anything, he was stronger than this, he had a freaking mechanical arm...
But that subtle smirk just kept popping up in his memory.
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19 posts
Thief of Breath
Played by Mara
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Post by maternityDeparted on May 22, 2016 12:48:49 GMT
The first thing Maggie had noticed upon coming to, upon seeing the grey skin that marked her new presession as Alternian, was that her illusion body was somewhat stick-like, in her strong maternal opinion. The sort of body she would have nagged into eating a little more if she'd run into it in the context of a session potluck. Gently taken by the hand, dragged to the food table. So her first course of action had been to treat herself to a meal. Spartan, she only had lowblood money in this pseudo-fake life of hers, but troll cuisine was quite flavorful to the point of being almost sickening, even when almost disgustingly cheap.
Then, it had been the next task of tracking down her coplayers. Hence why she was here now.
She was a bit nauseous. She'd flown before, of course, with as many sessions as she had under her belt it would have been a miracle for her to have not ascended once! But to fly by essentially grabbing herself with her own powers and propelling herself forward like a petulant child would a rag doll... she'd nearly impacted into multiple building faces on her way over. But with careful tread and a number of chitin-like bandaids slapped over her the joints her T-shirt left exposed she made it to the maze of hives in record time. Considering she also lived in it's midst! It was quite the sprawl, like a toybox full to the brim of Legos spilled. No organization, no order. The skies buzzed with other psiionics busy with their days.
She alighted by a window as generic and colorless as any other. Nearly pitched herself through it, but she managed to slow herself to a hover in time. She knocked, a thin and bony knuckle rapping out her presence through grimy glass.
"Hello there? It's me! esotericStarlights!" AKA, maternityDeparted's temporary name in golden hue, until she changed her Trollian identity back to her actual tag.
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90 posts
Scout of Sound
Played by Glow
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Post by unstableequilibrium on May 22, 2016 14:03:38 GMT
The sound of knocking seemed to be far louder than it was to Samuel, simultaneously dragging him back to reality and causing him to freeze up. Moving one of his hands to push himself to his feet, he gave a weary glance towards the source of the noise, trying to analyze the situation but finding it slightly more difficult with his head still pounding from the haunting refrain. Staggering forwards, he let out a hushed curse as he nearly tripped up over his own feet. He just about made it steadily to the nearby wall, leaning heavily against it. The name of the person was familiar; as far as he remembered, MD had used it to message him when he first got into the session, so the mystery voice probably was said coplayer of his. It never hurt to be cautious or keep up appearances, though.
Even if leaning against a wall clutching his head in one hand was only slightly better.
Trying to block out the haunting refrain from his head so he could think a bit more clearly, Samuel turned towards the window, briefly glancing outwards with his more robotic eye. Through the darkness, he saw a single person outside, glowing faintly with psionic power. Considering what had been said before, that essentially confirmed the identity of the person, but he still didn't want anyone to deal with him when he was like this. Nonetheless, it would be far worse to try and get them to go away or pretend he wasn't in (or more accurately would take far too much effort, especially the damn headache), so he tried to clear his throat, letting out a few jarring coughs before hitting his hand against his chest a few times to try and clear it out a bit.
"Y-yo, sorry, you can come in, it should be open." Samuel stated, trying to steady his voice a little as he stumbled over to the glass, fumbling around at the latch. Eventually, the 'click' sounded and the lock opened.
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19 posts
Thief of Breath
Played by Mara
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Post by maternityDeparted on May 23, 2016 13:27:04 GMT
There was just a bit of a delay before the window was unlatched. Not much, but to a girl like Maggie it was a good eternity of worrying lack of progress, update. In general she was worried. The circumstances of their meeting, a lack of food for one of the involved parties, was already cause enough for concern. Her native maternal instincts, yet to be fully dampened by the murder game, in fact slightly developed by the advent of theoretical maturity. They sent twitches worth of tremors through her nerves with each microsecond that passed. She could have looked inside, in theory, but she kept her eyes averted. Politely watched the drywall, in deference to a possible preference for privacy.
"... it should be open."
Well, it was open now. Maggie's thin digits gently shoved the panes of window aside. She was quite the tall specimen, so she had to duck her head to properly pass. She scanned the insides, her host, all almost before she was even fully inside. It really didn't assuage her worries, the general scene. She made a good attempt at polite smile, flashing a few roughly hewn fangs. Slightly bronzed yellow, as Maggie believed from experience was a sign of beauty within troll society.
"I didn't bring much, but it was a matter of logistics." She could have emptied her fridge (meal vault? Troll terms were quite literal but somehow still hard to grasp at) and come over with it's contents in tow, but she didn't quite trust the developed psiionics that weren't quite hers by birthright. She offered what she did bring, a slightly oil-stained doggy bag. "We can get more food later, I brought the bits. Are you alright, food concerns aside?" She kept a careful, appraising eye on him. Watched his response. Tried to be subtle about it all.
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90 posts
Scout of Sound
Played by Glow
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Post by unstableequilibrium on May 23, 2016 15:46:06 GMT
One of the small rings around his right eye rotated a bit, making a slight ticking noise as Samuel adjusted to the new input of light and looked over the other person. 'Guess she wasn't kidding about that whole acting thing.' He mused, considering his visitor was most certainly a Troll, if the psiionics hadn't already proven the fact. Moving away from the window to allow his tall coplayer into the room, he gave a slightly strained smile and a peace sign to the visitor, moving his other hand away from his forehead. "Hayo. Nice to meet you in-session."
As she made her way a bit further into the house, he followed her away from the window and the cold breeze blowing inwards, making sure to keep one hand on the wall to steady himself. Wouldn't do to just tumble over when he was trying to keep up some sense of stability. Thinking about it all also helped clear his mind a little, which was always a positive. Hearing the somewhat apologetic statement about the amount of food taken, he gave a small shrug in reply. "It's no issue, I'm sure I could a-always scavenge something around here even if you weren't going to bring more later." He frowned slightly at the stutter in his voice, the emotion only crossing his face for a moment before returning to its usual neutral look.
"Oh, uh-" Samuel began, a small bit of surprise in his voice being smothered down before he continued as she asked about him. "Uh, yea, I guess so. Just a little... tired, I guess." Always easier if you tell a bit of the truth - just that he'd been 'tired' for years now instead of just the immediate moment, but it was an easy way to get out of awkward questions. Tapping a quiet beat with metal fingers against the wall, he took a moment before he continued. "Just occasionally get a bit twitchy and have to calm down, it's nothing to worry about."
If his thoughts had been any more coherent, he would've winced at the lie. He was pretty good usually at misdirection of the conversation, but when he still had that odd beat in his head that he couldn't get rid of it made it difficult to concentrate on anything in particular.
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