kai-un dorm

[parttimesoldier]

Who: kai-un + visitors
When: post-arrival
Where: kai-un dorms
What: surely having a good time after all of THAT
Warnings: tba???

[So that was fun! Surely they have earned some time to rest. Surely.]

Comments

[bowtiedbones]

That’s something very very good!

[inexorableiron]

[Hamn nods and his smile wavers]

Fuckin' dolls though. You think we might get used to seeing 'em?

[bowtiedbones]

I still haven't seen any of the dolls. Maybe they'll go away eventually?

[inexorableiron]

Here's fucking hoping.

[bowtiedbones]

They're scary and jumpy now, but if they keep showing up they're just going to be like pigeons. Or mice.

[inexorableiron]

Great, so they're gonna find new shit to throw at us.

[bowtiedbones]

[ah...]

Probably.

[inexorableiron]

[Sad puppy elf ears]

Damn...

[bowtiedbones]

[she looks down at the skull in her hands and pets its beak]

We might be here for a few days.

[inexorableiron]

Yeah. Shit. Man...

[Hamn is just going to come to a sit and close his eyes]

I'm not givin' thr fuck up.

[bowtiedbones]

Just a few days. Not forever.

They'll slip up.

[inexorableiron]

I just gotta be ready when they do!

[bowtiedbones]

...right! We'll stay sharp. Stay ready!

[inexorableiron]

Vigilance is key, lady dude.

[bowtiedbones]

I can be vigilant! I'm a researcher! They'll be my new subject.

[inexorableiron]

If we gotta fuckin' set watches, I oughta be good. Unless they used asshole magic to mess with my eyes, dude.

[bowtiedbones]

Watches probably aren’t a bad idea. Haunted houses are scarier at night.

[inexorableiron]

Huh. I wonder how come that is.

[bowtiedbones]

There's a couple theories for when it comes to real spirits. Like I know I get better results with my summonings at night, especially if I can hit midnight. But for humans, or for anybody creeped out by the dark, really— and that's what it is, being creeped out by the dark. Even if there's nothing there, you'll imagine things. And if there is something there, that can be a boost. There's less going on. There's no distracting noises, there's less visual distractions, there's less activity going through and disrupting their formation.

A ghost can't haunt a packed crowd in a park, but one scared person in a hallway can give them their full attention.

[inexorableiron]

I dunno about that last part, lady dude, like, maybe it really is just the not seeing thing. Because ghosts and zombies and shit like that, I've seen 'em all in big wide open places doing their fucking worst before. Hallways are tight. It's hard to get in a good place, but a field? They can swoop all over the place without getting fuckin' cornered.

[bowtiedbones]

I only really know how the ones at home work. I could put a ghost in a field, or a um, zombie, but that would be one under my control with my magic to support it. The independent ones are really fragile. There's not a lot holding them together.

Your experience is probably closer to whatever's going on here. I can make a really good dragon, but natural hauntings are only something I've read about.

[inexorableiron]

They suck, pure and simple. I dunno if this is like what anybody here's used to though.

[bowtiedbones]

There was one guy earlier who seemed kind of familiar…? He thought we might have been brought here as part of a giant ritual.

[inexorableiron]

...

Like by giants, lady dude, or... ?

[bowtiedbones]

Like giant like large-scale. Like we're not here for our individual values, but as a collective.