imeeji_frontstage | happy late halloween!! cw: needles

Who: :)
Where: :)
When: 169 morning

[ if you happen to catch a glimpse at a TV screen, bright and early this morning --

the signal on the screen is live! and it seems to be split into two halves, vertically. on one side, you have a dimly-lit image of an angel in a straightjacket. there's light illuminating them from above but the surroundings are too dark to decipher where they are exactly; one can see, however, syringe needles protruding from various spots on the angel's body, many of them connected to tubes that lead offscreen. The tubes are filled with a blue light, as though extracting the angel's essence, though many needles stab through with syringes emptied of their contents and only serving the purpose of making a pincushion of the creature now.

on the other side of the screen, there's two idols chained up against a dungeon wall, hands bound above them and manacles on their ankles as well. those who've been in the House of Mirth previously may recognize it as the dungeon -- the sconces on the wall are lit, this time, clearly showing the previously-dark surroundings.

there's a figure beside them, easily seven feet tall. they're wearing either a mask or maybe it's just their real head -- it's an elongated goat skull, at the very least, with long, twisted horns. they're wearing a dark black cloak that seems to hide almost all of their body. they're holding pliers, but even their hands are gloved as if to hide anything identifying. and when they speak -- their voice is filtered, warped as if coming through a loudspeaker. ]

Are we all ready for the show to begin?

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[and quietly shows up]

[He doesn't even greet with "Hello, Maiden" distracted as he is.]

There's not much we can do in this situation.

...it, ah, seems not, no. [frowns]

[Waves the floating chair over to him]

Then take a seat. And let me know if you think of something, no matter how ridiculous.

...I, ah, assume no one was contacted, correct?

Not of the people who have checked in, no.

I, ah, see. [frowns more, in thought.]

...

Are Hurricane and Nemesis still not on speaking terms with SensitIV!?

I do not, ah, know. Hurricane has occasionally called me to help heal his unitmates, but other than that...

Have you ever healed him specifically? Ever since the Hunger Games.

Once, on day...133? After, ah, a bad game, but his unitmate was who brought me to him. [he means capitalism game.]

Edited 2019-11-03 01:26 (UTC)

[Dryly:]

Well.

Maybe he won't be able to complain about who heals him.

I would, ah, hope that he would complain out of earshot, at least.

Well if he does---

Thank you, Maiden. For offering your services so speedily. Always good to have a White Mage or two...

[Pointing to Anubis]

On deck.

That is, ah, what I can do, so...

[tries not to yawn. this is too early for him, too.]

If you need to rest, there's a bed on the balcony.

[Blue Eyes's pet bed. Which has been upgraded and tended to more than Intensity's own bed]

I will, ah, be fine, but thank you. [he just needs tea, really.]

[Brb Yelling at Nine-Nine to get Maiden tea]

[someone else might joke about it hopefully not being maiden tea, but that would have to be someone else.]

...I, ah, wonder...

About...?

I do not, ah, know either of them well enough to guess whether they...did something foolish...or whether it was abduction.

But an abduction could have, ah, been accomplished in much the same method as temporary transfers, could it not? I remember that the times I was temporarily transferred, I had gone to bed and woken up elsewhere.

That's true.

And we still don't know anything about how transfers work outside of they are handled by Bel's people.

So it is entirely possible...

[Especially as this is looking more and more like a kidnapping]

Or, ah, an imitation of the method.

Either, ah, way...

Either way---

[As the feed progresses]

It looks like you might be right. This looks like a kidnapping more than a plan go wrong.

It, ah, seems so, yes...

[folds his hands in his lap] ...and not one with, ah, a ransom demand, it seems.

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