Video - UN: Runeseeker (CW for Body Horror/Headlessness)

[onerthes]

If you want to get ahead in life, I recommend keeping a good one on your shoulders. The alternative is troublesome.

[Badum Tish.

That dryly delivered and awful joke was said by Vira-Lorr's head, which was resting on a metal plate in front of her. She was seated in her fortune teller's booth, relaxed back and reclined in her chair, wearing a particularly high necked Ao Dai that completely concealed the clean cut from sight. Trails of smoke extended from within the collar, floating upwards. Her head, meanwhile, was resting in the spot that the crystal ball usually would, looking about as acrid and "Over every last minute of this" as she possibly could. There was no way in which she was pleased by this.]

Ahem. It appears that some of the masks are a bit too effective at making us seem like monsters. This was an experience I was not planning to have again. But, rather than search high and low for blood in this situation? I will tolerate it as long as I must until it returns to normal. The discomfort is ... minimal. It's just very disorienting.

However, until this remedies itself, I will be sticking to the shop closely. I don't have a collar to keep from losing my head after all, you understand. And... [she switched which leg was crossed on top of each other and, in the process her leg accidentally bumped her head, causing it to topple over with a yelp of distress.]

This! This is exactly why I am not going out right now! Damnit! I'll have whoever's head for this!

[The answer came when a small litwick hopped up on top of the table and waved at the camera angle beatifically, touching a button and blessedly ending the feed.]

Comments

[entreats]

It's probably not that hard to stay away from her, given that I hardly ever see her around here.

[ Don't misunderstand Ange. She definitely thinks that's a good thing. Much less of any Pthumerian would be great, but less of that one in particular is even better. ]

Though randomly getting pissed at people over nothing sounds like her style. [ .. a pause, and then Ange adds: ] Sound.. ed like her style? I'm not very sure how much of anything here is her doing at all.

[onerthes]

That's perhaps... kinder than some of them deserve. But! I believe that they each think that they have something to guide us.

...

Ok, most of them. I really don't think Marina is trying to teach us anything.

[onerthes]

[She sighed and smiled a little, sadly. Shrugging was ... weird right now, but she added one in afterwards.]

It's absolutely her style from the past, but I think that just speaks to how weary of her you and I are. We've dealt with her for far too long, haven't we Ange?

[onerthes]

Getting technical and studying this carefully?

I believe that my head was technically not separated, not now and not before. I think there was a mystical link between the points, causing it to appear like they were not together, allowing me to drop it? But technically the blood flowed between as did the air.

...honestly, it'd be fascinating if it didn't give me a splitting headache. All wordplay intended.

[imaglyphwitch]

That's kind of where I lie!

So...you think Mariana just sort of IS, or do you think she's just cruel?

[survivalthroughhate]

Magic is an interesting subject of study. I've been meaning to spend more time at the Archives to see if they have any knowledge on the specific kind that stems from my clan and culture.

[entreats]

.. yeah. [ It's hard to forget her encounters with the other, after all.

Especially that one time, in that odd dream - where she had been together with Vira-Lorr too, making this feel even more like some sort of shared experience. ]

It makes the way she's relatively quiet here almost weird. It's not like her at all when she isn't being dramatic and making absolutely everything everyone else's problem. [ Their problem, most of the time. ]

[onerthes]

I'd say she is not intentionally cruel, but her actions even lacking malice are ultimately naturally harmful. She's somewhere along the line of simply being what she is, but also being dangerous by nature.

[imaglyphwitch]

Right, I can understand that. I guess that's why they thought it was OK to try and manipulate her, from what I heard.

But I don't think they'd want to do that. Something about her seems very unpredictable.

[onerthes]

I don't know how to handle her. On the one hand, there's a clarity that she is under some sort of penance? But at the same time? She is still causing us all problems.

...It worries me. She worries me.

[onerthes]

For no other reason than not to think of my circumstances, not to mention sating my curiosity what sort of magic are you speaking about?

[onerthes]

Ah... yes... him. [A sigh.] I also think he thought he could get away with it at the time. She is well beyond any of our power within the span of this world because of the limits we're under, not to mention unpredictable.

Dangerous. Definitely.

[imaglyphwitch]

That was my thoughts. Granted, I don't know a lot about being a god and what that includes either. I've only just been hearing about this guy.

Any encounter with water that wasn't that one where you were a squid? Wound up being pretty dangerous.

[givetheslip]

I've found that battling a few monsters is an excellent way of dealing with my frustrations.

But then my frustrations may be lesser than some people's — I haven't transformed into some other form so far.

[There's always time and she will make no assumptions about the future.]

[survivalthroughhate]

The kind from my own world that Nightsisters are able to wield. Technically, Nightbrothers are not supposed to learn about it, but I think my mother would have taught me eventually had I stayed on Dathomir with her.

[Talzin had already broken a lot of traditions that were in place regarding how Nightbrothers were supposed to be treated when it came to her eldest son and she'd been well-aware he was Force-sensitive. Maul has every reason to believe she meant for him to be her heir in regards to her wisdom and knowledge.]

[onerthes]

mmm. It varies from person to person. The actual things that get to us the most are never the same. If I've learned one thing. This world will always find yours eventually. [She got a rueful look, shrugging and tapping her forehead suggestively.]

Having a way, even fighting more monsters? It can work. I imagine you're with the Hunters then?

[onerthes]

well, the truth is he's a type of "god" that is different from what I think most consider a god. He's a person of such great power that he might as well be a god, rather than something that brought his world into existence.

...and admittedly the water just seems to be hazardous in general, yes.

[imaglyphwitch]

So he's just really powerful then. Well. That's still pretty scary, if he can get people forgetting what a menace Darth Maul is in comparison.

[Not that she thought Darth Maul WAS, but considering what that guy was trying to accomplish, Darth Maul was at least not of the mind that Sleepers were just expendable fodder.

She hoped].

Varian and I almost got eaten once by one of those monsters, and I was possessed by a ghost in the Lighthouse. I know pretty well not to mess too deep in Trench waters.

[entreats]

[ Ange pauses, seeming to consider this. ]

Are you planning on doing anything about that?

[ .. you know, when Vira-Lorr's head is properly attached to her body again, for one. But Ange just can't help but wonder if the other has at least been considering something. She wouldn't put it past Vira, that's for sure. ]

[givetheslip]

Not formally, but I've given some thought. Mostly I've been doing some guard work at the depot, exploring what I can of this land. There's a lot to learn.

[It doesn't help that an awful lot of people seem to think she's from very far in the past, even if they're from entirely different worlds.]

[onerthes]

That works. I don't know that I believe any of us truly have to 'formally' work with one group or another. My own efforts help two of them, but I doubt either the scholars or walkers consider I am fully in their ranks.

And if you're still settling in, taking it a step at a time is wise.

[onerthes]

He appears to be incredibly powerful, though I am working with whaat others have said about him. I am not capable of testing him that way anymore.

[She nodded quietly.]

I think the worst we encounter in this world seems to come from the depths. It surprises me people don't try to get further and further inland.

[onerthes]

Mother Superior? No. At the most, what she has done is still not to the point where I feel it needs to be responded to. When I'm more up to it, I intend to prepare in case the Zealots ore coming.

But.. well, let's just hope she doesn't change that perspective.

[onerthes]

I have to assume it was somehow distinct from the Force, which you've spoken. What were they capable of doing in your world? Ours were very elemental in nature as a rule.

[givetheslip]

It's been a couple of months. I'd think that would be long enough.

[What, her, impatient? Never.]