emotionshare overflow pt 1

[softlyfalling]

Who: Idols and Feelings
Where: Around
When: Day 236 (and maybe some backdated 235)

[ we're probably going to still hit captcha, but ]

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[purrrnicious]

[On her way out, keeping one arm tucked close protectively and her emotions are extreme unease, uncomfortable in her own skin, in a sense, and hyper-awareness with little spikes of alarm at sudden motions and sounds.

Other than the way she flicks and turns her ears, she's outwardly calm.]

You're just going to sit here? It's the busiest area.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Mood immediately brightens because it's his cat and whatever he was puzzling over seems to vanish in a blip. Efficiently compartmentalized to be dealt with at a later time.

There is some mild concern at her own unease and hyper awareness. Weren't things supposed to be better on avante? But it's also only been a few days, so---]

Someone taught me a trick on how to deaden my emotions. I'm testing it out.

Could be useful someday.

[But obviously he's not good at it]

[purrrnicious]

[There's no way she'd ever be able to manage that.

There's a sense of reassurance when she picks up on his mood lift.]



What? How?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Concentrating on something that produces a neutral reaction.

Like a reset, or so it was explained to me.

[Shifts to give space on the lobby couch, but then gets up instead]

You want to move somewhere less crowded?

[purrrnicious]

Yeah. For the whole game, actually.

[She moves towards the door, though she stops to wait for him.]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Follows her out of the lobby, highly amused]

Might I interest you in a getaway vehicle?

[purrrnicious]

Only if it's a cool one.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You don't know what golf is, so you can't say a golf cart isn't cool.

[Said by someone who obviously thinks that golf isn't cool]

[purrrnicious]

[Warmth, amusement.]

You're not exactly selling it.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

If I gadgeteer a laser to it, does it then become cool?

[As this starts self-driving itself to their location]

[purrrnicious]

Guess it depends on how lame the thing we're starting from is.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[And the golf cart ambles into view.

He gestures to it grandly with 100% teasing as it pulls up in front of her]

Your chariot, my Lord.

[purrrnicious]

[She laughs a little.]

Yeah, lasers aren't saving that.




[She climbs in anyway, a little awkwardly.]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You're right. I should put a rocket launcher on this thing.

[And climbing in the driver's seat and immediately gunning it at a speedy 15 mph down the road.

Where are they going?

Fuck if Intensity knows. He's just glad he has enough noodle strength to operate machinery without FiN powers again]

[purrrnicious]

[She pulls her legs up, one arm still tucked against her, and glances out at the passing buildings, idly curious. And while there's contentment with her company, there's still that underlying unease that doesn't seem to be fading.]

Yeah, I'm still waiting for you to get a tank or something.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Just a hint of unease at that comment. But logic and practicality smother quickly and efficiently as if it has happened many times before]

I'd consider it. But there's nothing worth blowing up here.

How's being a Knight? Now that you can assess it minus bullshit flower effects.

[purrrnicious]

[Some confusion on her end as she catches that –– what's wrong with tanks???]

Weird. They don't have locks on their doors and there is, like, a lot of stone in there.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

What do locks do against infinite swords?

... Which I've been meaning to ask -- do you have to re-buy all your abilities?

[You have infinite swords, don't you?]

[purrrnicious]

Yeah. They gave my points back, so at least there's that, I guess.




[Of course she does.]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[A spike of irritation directed at the production]

... That's almost insulting.

No, not almost. That is insulting.

[purrrnicious]

[Just a touch bitter:]

The way things have been going, it's almost generous they didn't keep the points, too.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

And I suppose they just expect you to adjust to the new normal?

[Assholes</i]

[purrrnicious]

That's how it goes when we all first get here, isn't it?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

. . .

I don't like that it was done as part of her game. In that place.

It reeks of something against standard procedure.

[purrrnicious]

[Well that unease just increases with a strong flavour of dread –– welcome to her existential terror, it's a fun place.]

You know her?