September and secret nsfw october shenanigans

[insinning]

Who: Emil Sinclair (Vogel) and anyone/everyone
When: All over September
What: Catch all, exploration, overflow + dungeon runs; lots of feelings and grieving and murderous thoughts.
Warnings: Nsfw in 25/9 thread just to be safe

 

"Over all the hilltops
Is quiet now,
In all the treetops
Hearest thou
Hardly a breath;
the birds are asleep in the trees:
Wait, soon like these
Thou too shalt rest."

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[insinning]

[Oh. He hadn't thought of that before. Maybe it was because Mithrun had been described to be in a daze but]

... if he was fighting someone here...that would make more sense.

[ He has forgotten about Mithrun's skills as an edge punisher]

[tinged]

No matter what, he would fight. Even if it was something he couldn't hurt.

[ they turn their head to look at the water fountain. ]

Even if it was something calling from the water's very depths.

[insinning]

[Sinclair frowns, squeezing Hani's hand]

...yeah. He was always fighting. He didn't just give up like that.

[Sarabi...

He hadn't forgotten about any of that either. He steps into the fountain, without letting go of Hani's hand]

If he fought someone...then the fight would have gone through here. But it should have restored itself. That's what happened last time someone tried to PK me in this area.

[tinged]

[ hani keeps him steady. ]

Not if it was a glitch. They don't - or can't - fix those glitches. The winds still whisper, our armor is still special in beautiful and awful ways. He might have fought a "someone" - or a "something," if you don't believe data can form its own thoughts, have its own feelings.

[ fingers curling into a tighter grip. ]

Do you remember my post on the network? When we explored that beautiful tree in the lake, there was a ringing that seemed to daze Master, and in the water... a draw. Something tugging us deeper and deeper. What was in there? Did it come out at last?

[insinning]

...I remember.

[He frowns, squeezing Hani's hand in turn]

There's something out there, that wants us to hurt. It's everywhere. The wind, the hidden dungeons...Zelkova can act independently. There might be something else like Zelkova too.

[tinged]

Yes, I think so, too.

[ and still, hani wants to talk to it. them. ]

Whatever he encountered was not hurt. There is no blood in this fountain and no blood at the impact. I suppose we don't know if glitches can bleed... In any case, it came from the fountain, out of the water, I think. Then went to Mithrun-kun, Morgan-kun.

[insinning]

Mithrun was soaked through. At least, up until he got to the gate. He was confused. In a daze...but he received a message from "dv" telling him to go to "Recursive Fool's Errand."

[Oria was right. It's mocking them. Mocking Mithrun. It rankles something in him]

So he went to the dungeon.

[tinged]

DV...

[ that alias again. ]

Then this is where everything started. This place, then Recursive Fool's Errand. Then... the casino? Then... his avatar's final destination.

[ they still won't say it. ]

He started bleeding in the dungeon. We can only assume it was because of the monsters there. But after the dungeon, his wounds didn't heal when they should have. And at the casino, something happened.

[insinning]

[ Trying to trace what happened is hard, because there are so many variables. Without the other witness... ]

I don't think he was attacked there. Or fought anyone. We would have seen more damage on the machine. But there wasn't anything but blood.

[So maybe they were shoving each other? Or Mithrun leaned against the machine? Sinclair has been avoiding it too]

Mmm...then, at some point, he must have eaten something to cause his mouth and tongue to become swollen...and those scratches. The way he was holding his throat...it was like he was choking...

[tinged]

Fishing on the bridge at Mac Anu, above the canals. If the flounders are anything like the real thing, they're very boney. Their spines are sharp.

[insinning]

[ HMM ]

I don't think I managed to catch any flounder to test. But...

[Shall they try fishing here despite the lack of water?]

[tinged]

[ they pull at his arm. ]

We can test it, but you aren't allowed to eat it. Alright?

[ absolutely not allowed. ]

[insinning]

Alright. I'm a picky eater anyway.

[He nods, and goes for the fishing rod. Time to try it out]

[tinged]

To Mac Anu then?

[ they'll steady his hand as he gets out of the water, brushing any stray droplets. ]

... but will you be alright with seeing his avatar?

[insinning]

[Sinclair looks down for a second and thinks. He wont be alright. He's been avoiding it for the last couple of days for a reason]

I'll survive. I have to. Lets go.

[ But then a thought hits him. Why would Mithrun do something that mundane when...?

He looks at the impact site, that looked like it was Mithrun's size]

But can I try something first?

[ He moves returns to the fountain and...throws in his fishing line]

[cccorp]

[ For some reason, despite Lumina Cloth not being one of the locations to fish in the first two levels of the fisher profession, the fishing line... is cast? Vogel is currently under fishing mode right now.

But a while later, Vogel will feel a pull on the line! And should he reel it in, something launches from the waters and slams into him at full force. Now there's a Vogel-shaped crater in the same wall! It all happened too fast to see clearly, but whatever that thing was... sure looked hella spiky. It will not show up again. ]

[tinged]

[ ?! ]

Wow!

[ hani peers into the water curiously, trying to see the creature that launched vogel, but there's nothing there. aw.

oh, wait, vogel...!! hani hurries over to him. ]

Are you alright??

[insinning]

I ..think we found the source of the crater...and the thorn...

[Oh

that was not expected

Ow

He'll just lay there in his hole for a little while

are there any spiky bits left over for them to investigate or]

[cccorp]

[ Lumina Cloth is a root town that has PvP-enabled throughout the location. It seems that the fish are also involved. Good thing Vogel is a Lord Partizan with all the tankiness to boast about.

But yes, there are spiky bits left over on Vogel's armor. Don't they seem familiar? ]

[tinged]

It seems so!

[ hani offers him a hand and a party invite. ]

Let me heal you up, Vogel-kun. Good job, I think! Um... now we have a lot of these, but please don't eat any.

[ they mean all the spiky bits of course. ]

Should I put them all into my inventory?? Do you have space?

[insinning]

Let's put them into your inventory.

[Accepting the hand and party invite. please help him, Hani. ]

But I've got space too. It actually hurts.

[Are there any effects with the spikes? Anything to stop him from being healed?]

[cccorp]

[ Nothing happens! Spikes are just spikes. ]

[tinged]

It hurts? I'm sorry. [ very earnestly: ] Next time I'll catch you.

[ don't mind hani spamming ul repth to heal vogel up 100 HP at a time... if it even works!

as they do, they'll take out the single spike-thorn-quill from their inventory so the two can compare. ]

An exact copy, I would say.

[ aaand once vogel's taken care of and the items are compared, hani will slot them all into their inventory with an, "alright!" now [P/GTHR/FSH/FQ] x1 has become [P/GTHR/FSH/FQ] x10 probably?? ]

[insinning]

Thank you, Hani...

[ Smiling as accepts the heal. Hopefully it helps? Otherwise they'll go back to Hien.

Actually they need to go to Hien anyway]

I wonder if he accidentally swallowed this when he got back to Mac Anu...

[ There's only one way to tell right? They need to go back to Mac Anu]

[tinged]

Accidentally...?

[ tugging vogel to the gate for fancy teleportation magicks. ]

... On purpose?

[ knowing mithrun... ]