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

[onerthes]

It's difficult to say, and honestly? If there's a Pthumerian who thinks I need a lesson? I'm not currently interested in learning it, so I don't care to guess. It's just as likely to be a prank...

Though I will say it does not seem like Cloverfield's style. I doubt it's them.

[entreats]

[ Ange thinks, and then huffs. ]

Well, they don't often seem to mess in each other's months. [ From what Ange has seen over the past year. And while she won't claim to know Cloverfield's exact style very well, she's willing to go by Vira-Lorr's judgement on that one. ]

Unless you're saying you instead went out of your way to piss off a specific Pthumerian recently.

[ .. she wouldn't put that entirely beyond Vira-Lorr either.

Not even just in a negative judgey sort of way, mind you. It just seems like the sort of thing that might happen, considering Vira can be so headstrong (pun unintended) in her own way. ]

[onerthes]

No, they really don't... but there's always the possibility that there's more than just the ones known for each month. [She made a sour look.] There's mother mercy after all...

And no, I try to minimize my interactions where possible. Generally.

...

Hopefully.

[entreats]

[ ...

Wait.

Hold on there for a moment.

Ange squints as she's thinking. Staring at her Omni. ]

You aren't trying to tell me that you might've gone and pissed off that one, are you?

[ Not that Ange will disagree with the fact that she sucks and all, but.. you know. It just seems like a generally bad idea.

The exact kind of idea that might leave someone more or less headless, for example. ]

[onerthes]

I do everything in my power to stay away from that woman. It's been successful so far, but I couldn't tell you if she didn't suddenly decide to take an issue.

...

It's HER after all. I never assume with her anymore.

[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]

[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?

[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 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.

[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. ]

[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.