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

[imaglyphwitch]

I wouldn't want it to go that far. Pretty sure I remember you being grateful your head wasn't detachable anymore.

Then again? You'd at least make a GREAT headless horseman for the next few days!

[onerthes]

Oh... I will probably make use of it when I'm done being aggravated. I might as well be a very authentic disguise, yes? There should be at least some use in this.

[imaglyphwitch]

Exactly! Besides, it's at least more practical than other disguises! Imagine if you were some kind of animal!

[Which Luz WOULD be for a few days, but she doesn't know that yet].

Thought now that I think about it, you'd probably be able to adapt to THAT too. You have before.

[onerthes]

Hah. Being an animal can be fun. Did I ever tell you about the time I was a bear?

[She was, for a whole month. And she just decided to enjoy being a bear the whole time. It was so simple.]

Adaptation is a skill you learn when you have to do it a lot.

[imaglyphwitch]

No! I think I'd remember you telling me about being turned into such an awesome animal!

[Seriously, how do you have so many great stories Vira Lorr]?!

So you've been turned into a lot of things then. I guess if I'd been in Deerington as long as you, I might be used to it too.

I'll admit though, I might have been really grumpy about losing my head.

[onerthes]

[Three years in the horror show. Three years...]

Oh yes, it was actually very fun. I would rub up against trees, claw off bear bread, trundle around, roar and scare people. It was great fun. I think we were convinced it was about some sort of moral lesson, but I lost myself in the moment.

But some transformations are far more fun than others. The ones tied to deaths were far less kind or pleasant.

[imaglyphwitch]

[Ugh. Luz gave her all the sympathy].

Moral lesson? How exactly are you supposed to learn that when you're doing bear things? Honestly, I'd love to know what that was like!

[Oh, to be sure. That was probably quite awful. Luz knew a little something about that].

[onerthes]

I honestly don't know. If you ever see Shiro, maybe ask him if he remembers what the lesson was supposed to be? He was there thaat far back, and so was Lance.

[Blah blah, something something, too much attachment and not dealing with your personal problems. Her solution had been to just not deal with them all month and be a bear. She really hadn't gotten the point.]

[imaglyphwitch]

[Luz couldn't help but laugh a little at this].

So you were supposed to learn a lesson, but you didn't learn anything and wound up turning back from being a bear?! What was even the point then?

[Honestly, Luz was jealous. She loved the idea of being a bear].

[onerthes]

Heh, well. most of the time those lessons never lasted past a month, so I guess the dream just failed to give me one successfully?

[She was laughing a little too. This helped, honestly. It got her mind off of the situation a tiny bit.]

[imaglyphwitch]

Man, and I never got to see you in that form either! That's a shame.

I always wondered if bears actually eat honey as much as cartoons seem to suggest they do.

Is it possible to just be inconvenienced by a thing and not even know why? That seems like cheating!

[onerthes]

Mmmm, you never know. Maybe I'll turn into a three eyed cat next time. [She sighed and smirked a little.] And they eat honey, berries, fish, mushrooms, all sorts of things. It depends on what's available.

And I was absolutely a little cheater there, hehe.

[imaglyphwitch]

That would be a problem for me. Despite knowing it could be no one but you, I love cats, and I'd probably be forced to spoil you like crazy.

[Luz wouldn't be able to help it: she loved cats]!

Heh, I should have figured you'd do that! But that's probably most bears, right?

I am somehow not surprised by that!

[onerthes]

I'd be a kitty. Spoiling me would be a requirement. [She said that with such pride and pleasure.] It's one of the advantages of cats, after all.

They're very ... well, tehy're not that picky as eaters. They won't eat anything, but they do eat quite a bit. So yes, definitely not something to be surprised over, anymore than knowing I will turn their curses to my advantage when I can.

[imaglyphwitch]

[Luz nodded, laughing]. If I turned into a kitty while around my girlfriend, I think I'd be in heaven!

[Mostly because they were dating but also because Lexi liked cats as much as she did]!

You mean storing a lot of food in you so you can hibernate a few months?

[This was teasing of course. Luz doubted Vira needed a real reason to hibernate].

[onerthes]

[She snickered.] See, you already have the right idea. You'd get to rub up against her ankle and purr until she pet you and pampered you. It would be perfect in its own way.

Yes. For a huge amount of time. It was a pity it was in Spring, or I would have gotten the chance to try out hibernating. Imagine sleeping for three months.

[imaglyphwitch]

You know, being pampered by my girlfriend would normally be something I wouldn't like, but as a cat? I think I'd like that.

[Again, if they'd been switched, Luz would be just as doting, especially if it was involving Lexi].

I can't imagine that at all! I have way too much to do in the house! I'm afraid it would be all burned down if I left for three months!

[Which she might not have felt so strongly about had this not happened to Ruby and Ange]!

[onerthes]

I think that's the one thing that would make me unsure of it. You never know what could happen in the whole of three months, so it's far too long to sleep.

But it's an interesting thought.

[imaglyphwitch]

Exactly. I would be scared too much would be happening while I was away.

Oh, it is! I've never slept that long before! I imagine you'd be pretty refreshed afterward!

[onerthes]

Nice long naps were definitely a thing when i was a bear. It was oh so luxurious. Actually everything about being a bear was kind of luxury. I wonder why nobody enjoyed the experience besides me.

[There'd been a looooot of angry people, but they might have not missed the point like VL did.]

[imaglyphwitch]

Now I wanna be a bear.

Sure would beat being cut up in an abandoned blood barn where you don't WANT to fall asleep.

[Luz is totally joking about this because she just relived those memories and is trying to minimalize its damage to her psyche slowly].

[onerthes]

It's better than so many things. maybe we can convince Bauphomette next year doing her month?

[imaglyphwitch]

Yeah, ok! She might not be my Pthumerian, but each of them have some kind of wisdom or, uh, experience they share with Sleepers, right?

[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.

[imaglyphwitch]

That's kind of where I lie!

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