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

un: eudaimonikos | video

[eudaimonikos]

You want me to put that back on for you? It's a little more complicated than sewing, but I bet I could do it with a few screws.

[Michael: ever a font of disturbing skills!]

un: GoldenFlowers, video

[the_obedient_servant]

[It is with a dead serious expression that they activate the video.]

Alright, calm down. Let's not lose our heads now.

[............Dead serious.]

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[tempredmental]

Looks like you're missing something there.

[Like, you know... a connection between your head and torso...]

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[givetheslip]

How are you still speaking? Or breathing?

[Alive at all, basically. Maria has grown accustomed to many of Trench's oddities, but this...

It's a little much.]

[imaglyphwitch]

Ugh, no way.

And just when you were getting used to having it stay attached!

video; un: ushiromiya

[entreats]

[ This definitely is not the most gross thing Ange has ever seen.

And she knows the same goes for the person experiencing it right now. It's probably why both of them can remain relatively calm in the face of this, huh? Especially since it seems like the usual kind of Trench nonsense that sorts itself out in the end..

.. whenever that end is. ]

Are you sure there's no way to keep your head a little closer to your neck?

[ Look, even if Ange isn't sure whether there's a way to permanently attach it again before Trench does so - and Ange is a little reluctant to use her magic for this if she's up against Trench's own magic, a Pthumerian's power - there's got to be a way to make this at least a little more comfortable, right. ]

video | un: graham crackers

[possessum]

( Peter's capability to handle Weirdness has finally begun to expand...... Such that he doesn't even pass out when he sees Vira-Lorr sitting there in two literal pieces. This is progress for him!

That said, he's still looking at least mildly unsettled and horrified as he turns on his feed, swallowing hard. "Are you okay" feels like an exceptionally stupid thing to ask. Do not ask that, Peter. )

Do you uh... need some help? Like.... around the shop?

( He can imagine it must be... difficult to really get anything done.. or to stay safe if her head keeps rolling around all over the place.... )

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[kaientai]

"Again"?

If this isn't your first time, maybe you should've quit while you were ahead!

[ he's stupid and not sorry. ]

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[survivalthroughhate]

The expression "You'd lose your head if it wasn't attached to your body" seems appropriate right now.

[Maul is clearly taking none of this seriously judging by the expression on his face.]

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[azurestar]

Don't get ahead of yourself, Vira, maybe you can leave the shop after all. I hear the headless horseman's back in town and looking for an intern.