[F12-PP-PT] Where Nightmares Tread [Slimin 2, the talkening]

[Shiina 0]

"Of course it is." Shiina remarks without a whole lot of context to what she was responding to, bobbing her head from left to right in time with CC's playing and staring intently at the stage and all of the festive streaks of color. "OH your violin? Right, its pretty messed up right?" The songstress responds quizzically to Miki as if she knew more then she let on. "The names Mochi, Shiina. Yeah like the food. I know its weird but tough tiddies." The girl cackles wildly and presents a hand to shake. The music amplifies as the girl laughs, causing one of CC's amps to blow and send a spray of sparks and the lights to fall dim. "Oops, my bad." Shiina remarks scratching the back of her head, turning toward the reader of this post and whispering beneath her breath. Cupping her mouth with her hand. "What?, it wasn't on purpose. Go read Lessa and Jomei or watch Sinnamon getting frisked by a cactus you gooners instead of judging me with your eyes."

Turning back to look at Miki, the girl smiles wide. "So if you want to find your violin." Shiina becomes silent, nodding every so often and tilting her head. "Got it." she remarks to the cave, holding her arm out and presenting a pair of devil horns to CC still trying to figure out how her machine blew. "Rock on dude. Anyway, ahem." Shiina remarks clearing her throat and becoming dead serious.

"Where a spire of time was lost but is a stage, where tired memories and old instruments have been reduced to ruin from age. Under a myriad of prancing petals in the lands between, where all truths are made real and no lie can be seen. That is where the strings of silver have been renewed."

Shiina finishes the speech, the light on her eyes fades as she shuts them. "Whatever that means, amirite?"

@Miki @CC

[Miki 0]

The girl comments on her violin like she knew what happened to the one she originally had. How could she though, Miki didn't know this girl. "Ooo I love Mochi. The strawberry one is my favorite, I like your name Shiina. It has a nice ring to it." They would both laugh and Miki would jump a bit when the amp blows up on stage. "How the heck?" questioning but then slowly looks to Shiina with a brow raised. This girl knew things that she shouldn't, there was something about her.

The girl would speak again about her violin and finding it. This is when Shiina froze but was nodding like she was responding to someone or something that couldn't be seen by the naked eye. Seeing the girls eyes switch and her voice change and speak in a different tone that didn't even sound like it should of came out of the girls mouth. 

When the girls eyes shift back and her voice normalized like whatever happened was normal. "Okay, hold on, wait a minute." She flops backward on her butt and leans against the cavern wall but continue to look at Shiina. "You can talk to ghost? Somehow you make object burst with your laughter and you know things about me that I have not told anyone but my mother." She would start naming of all the crazy but was it actually that crazy? She hadn't even said her name since she had come into the game so how did she know this. "Are you like a fortune teller or something?" She knew that those existed but wasn't sure if she believed in it. "Who are you Mochi, Shiina?" She was honestly asking because she needed something. "Also yes, that statement didn't give me any headwind on where to find my violin if it is even in the game." Miki was genuinely confused. 

[CC 0]

Playing away with her strange captive audience and yet she felt like the captee here. Who these girls were was quite the curious question, given they seemed to arrive out of nowhere and she wasn't exactly in the middle of a busy street. Song after song concludes and every so often Candice can pick out one of them in the dark, actually seeming to enjoy the music wholeheartedly. It was as endearing as it was creepy. Half way through another verse, the amplifier behind her on her right begins to spark and burst in a loud boom. All she can make out with her ears ringing is the faintest hum. "The hell was that?" CC extrudes in a sharp bite, in all her time as a professional musician she'd never had an amp burst at such a low volume and usually there was some warning. This thing seemed to just dial straight up to 11 with distortion and get overloaded, but she hadn't touched any dial or stepped on any pedals. The fuck?

Candy presses the guitar into the stand after tucking her head through its strap, leaning it against the back and tracing the line for some break or ground in the cable. Nope, there wasn't any fault. It causes her focus to fall on the amp itself. Her hands begin to run down its length and trace the spots where it blew up, and the damage mirrored when it was pushed too hard. In the back as her hearing was starting to come back, she is caught by a phrase from the dark.

The volume carried and in it she heard some strange vibration, like an echo impossibly large. The cavern itself felt more alive, the howl within it more vibrant and audible like a creature breathing in her ear. Holding her head CC moves toward the stage, shaking it back and forth trying to find some ground in reality. Picking up her guitar, the strings make sound despite the lightest touch. Out of nowhere her instrument roars ablaze in color like it had a mind of its own. A girl that had been running on autopilot had a prompt scream into view on a HUD she barely paid any attention to causing her eyes to become wide and addled:

<<Virtuoso Dynamo: Ringing Dischord>> Unlocked.

"What the actual fuck is happening!?" Candice shrieks shocked and a little scared, having done nothing.

"Rock on Dude"

@Miki @Shiina

[Lynn 0]

"Yeah, I guess... Haha." The fake laugh really had her deciding if she could get away with strangling Eruda in some back alley. Its not like she wasn't wearing decent boots or whatever, this place just sucked. Big time sucked. "What gave it away?" Lynn comments after a sigh of relief now that Eruda was taking on the burden, allowing her to get her damn foot out of the mud. "Maybe, I gotta say...you're pretty cool. Strong too, obviously. Thanks for showing me around." The girl was about as friendly as one could be, practicing a decent amount of faux appreciation that was very well masked as honest. Trudging along behind Eruda a bit begrudgingly mostly just along for the ride and to pull a new friend and ally. "Last delivery for the day?" the blonde asks quizzically of her travel companion, trying to rationalize the statement to logic. "You did this more then one time? More then once a week?" God was she a glorified delivery boy or something, why would anyone willingly do this more then once?

A hand escapes Eruda and moves to tap Lynn. "Oh, its great to meet you Elda. I'm a...." how could she sound cooler then she was, This chick was obviously some sort of bad ass high level, only seemed fitting to try and impress her. "Helios." Clasping the other blondes hand in her own, she gives it a single hardy shake but fuck if the other girls grip wasn't tight enough to break her fingers. High levels are scary people, don't even realize how over the hill they were. Lynn focused on what she could on her map, trying to learn directions or whatever gamers did. It wasn't really clicking but, yep it sure was a map in the corner of her screen. it existed.

@Eruda

[Eruda 0]

Walking into one of the settlements looking back as she hears the slush of the woman getting unstuck. She would smile as she complements her. "Thanks, you are pretty cool in by book too." Not a murderous freak, check. Not an ass hole, check. Decent company, check. Pushing a door to a building open with her back, entering with a turn and a friendly greeting. Setting the crates down on the counter top and taking something from the shop keeps hand with a nod. "Uh yea, usually about five a day. Sometimes its just a few items that shop keepers have requested. Other times it's crates of goods that they need, typically twice a week depending on the product." It was a little much to understand but truth in the words.

"You want to grab a drink?" Eruda would ask as she finds that she is still follow. She would smile at the introduction, more so that there was a pause when the name was said. That meant two things to her, it was not a real name or like her, it was only a half truth. Eruda didn't trust new people easily so giving the name Elda wasn't a lie because it was real but at the same time it couldn't be tracked because it wasn't her user name. Opening another door but this time for of tables. She wasn't going to eat anything because she would soon eat with Rai but she still had a little time. She wanted to wait for the rain to ease up before she started heading back. Eruda would order green tea. The woman orders Boba and they talk a bit more just hanging out for a bit. 

Time would pass and the rain had finally stopped. She would say their good bye's after Eruda had shown the girl to the warp gate. 

[Illisandra 0]

"Could have fooled me, creeping around basically tip toeing. A little closer and I could have lopped your head off." Scanning the chick she takes note of the weird clothing choice mixed with a scythe. "Still a pretty weird place to try and pick fruit or whatever." Illi sized her up, checking for telltale signs this was some sort of demon or specter trying to get one up on her, but every sign pointed to a living breathing human girl. The way her eyes focused, the way her chest rose and fall, the way the grass folded with her stance as she adjusted. The smell of foodstuff lingering on her person, all of it reeked of real. The white colored chalk like rock had her attention, even though her words were flowing pretty simply toward the blonde. "I gotta..." She points and starts to follow the trail of white stones, and absolute chaos breaks out while her back is turned. 

Illisandra only catches the ass end of whatever had occured, and the left over image of a bee now brutally carved into two pieces for some damn reason. "Little much don't you think? You get a kick out of punching leaves too?" A sour twist of her nose, she'd huff and catch the slightest tinge of sulfur. "You smell that? Huh..." Another glance toward Freyja has her dismiss the girl, she probably had zero clue the significance. It just went to show that although they both used scythes the modus to how they functioned and their knowledge was drastically different. The long purple pigtails sway as she starts to trace source of the scent, actively huffing the air and it dawns on her after a bit. The source was Freyja "Why do you smell like sulfur and brimstone? Talk. Out with it"

@Freya

[Freya 0]

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