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come_sailaway2023-09-23 04:29 pm
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"Which way ought I go from here?" [Open and one Closed]
Who: The Daedric Prince of Madness and YOU!
What: Who knows? Could be anything!
When: Mid to late September
Where: Various
Warnings: Body horror, general existential dread, transformation horror, other warnings to come
"You must be mad, or you wouldn't have come here" [Atrium]
There's a new gentleman about the Serena Eterna. Or perhaps he's something other than a gentleman. Perhaps he's a cat, or a cloud, or a bad idea. The face he wears is different for whoever he meets.
Currently, he's leaning against a balcony railing, looking down into the atrium of the Serena Eterna, whistling like a mockingbird. Do you approach, coaxed or driven by fear and fancy?
"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast" [Closed for strangearchitecture]
"Helen!" he slides up beside her, holding a plate as if it's a steering wheel. He, of course, does not actually have a vehicle; that would be against the rules. His appearing next to her is inexplicably accompanied by the sound of a window being rolled down, however, because comedic effect.
"My dear semi-sinusoidal seductress, I don't suppose you've heard the rumors of the infinite cheese shop on board, and the fortress of cheese that lies within its depths?"
"A grin without a cat is the most curious thing" [Hallway outside Stellar] [CW: potential body horror]
Amongst all the flowers, a fungal grotto has appeared in the hallway outside of Stellar. It's a strange sight indeed, filled with curtains and irises of fine, wispy mycelium and dotted with fruiting caps of vibrant yellow-oranges and metallic purples. There are also woody roots and stumps, out of place in a fungal environment, that periodically release clouds of green, sweet-smelling spores. If you pay close attention, the bursts of spores almost seem to come and go at a rate suspiciously like someone breathing.
"At least I know who I was when I got up this morning" [various] [CW: transformation horror]
The Prince of Madness is in a frightfully fickle mood, and without much warning, perhaps not having even given you a customary greeting, he brandishes a staff in your direction and lets loose a blast from it. In a peculiar sensation, rather like becoming water and going swirling down a drain faster and faster, you find yourself stretched and squashed into a new form. Perhaps your mind is unaffected, or perhaps you immediately begin wondering if you've always been this way, and the thing you were before was but a dream. In either case, it's going to be a weird couple of hours while the effects wear off.
(In particular I'm looking for at least one person to become a sentient pinball, but I'm up for anything, in the direction of both something harmless/inanimate and something large/dangerous. The suffering can go both ways here)
"I can't explain myself, for I am not myself" [stern, various] [CW: general existential dread]
Across the stern of the ship, in various places, there's a sound like a man howling and weeping, and the sound of fingernails scratching against metal and chalky paint. In a twisting line, the words "The sea knows what isn't. The sea knows what can't. Is the sea a thing that is? Am I, because it is?" are being scratched into the paint and the metal of the ship over and over again.
"A most uncivil offer" [Sports Deck]
Oh tarnation! Oh tribulation! Here he is in a place where he might ply his craft with sword and crossbow, yet he's brought neither. But perhaps someone eager for a sparring partner might offer to lend him one?
"Is it labelled 'poison?'" [Wildcard]
What: Who knows? Could be anything!
When: Mid to late September
Where: Various
Warnings: Body horror, general existential dread, transformation horror, other warnings to come
"You must be mad, or you wouldn't have come here" [Atrium]
There's a new gentleman about the Serena Eterna. Or perhaps he's something other than a gentleman. Perhaps he's a cat, or a cloud, or a bad idea. The face he wears is different for whoever he meets.
Currently, he's leaning against a balcony railing, looking down into the atrium of the Serena Eterna, whistling like a mockingbird. Do you approach, coaxed or driven by fear and fancy?
"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast" [Closed for strangearchitecture]
"Helen!" he slides up beside her, holding a plate as if it's a steering wheel. He, of course, does not actually have a vehicle; that would be against the rules. His appearing next to her is inexplicably accompanied by the sound of a window being rolled down, however, because comedic effect.
"My dear semi-sinusoidal seductress, I don't suppose you've heard the rumors of the infinite cheese shop on board, and the fortress of cheese that lies within its depths?"
"A grin without a cat is the most curious thing" [Hallway outside Stellar] [CW: potential body horror]
Amongst all the flowers, a fungal grotto has appeared in the hallway outside of Stellar. It's a strange sight indeed, filled with curtains and irises of fine, wispy mycelium and dotted with fruiting caps of vibrant yellow-oranges and metallic purples. There are also woody roots and stumps, out of place in a fungal environment, that periodically release clouds of green, sweet-smelling spores. If you pay close attention, the bursts of spores almost seem to come and go at a rate suspiciously like someone breathing.
"At least I know who I was when I got up this morning" [various] [CW: transformation horror]
The Prince of Madness is in a frightfully fickle mood, and without much warning, perhaps not having even given you a customary greeting, he brandishes a staff in your direction and lets loose a blast from it. In a peculiar sensation, rather like becoming water and going swirling down a drain faster and faster, you find yourself stretched and squashed into a new form. Perhaps your mind is unaffected, or perhaps you immediately begin wondering if you've always been this way, and the thing you were before was but a dream. In either case, it's going to be a weird couple of hours while the effects wear off.
(In particular I'm looking for at least one person to become a sentient pinball, but I'm up for anything, in the direction of both something harmless/inanimate and something large/dangerous. The suffering can go both ways here)
"I can't explain myself, for I am not myself" [stern, various] [CW: general existential dread]
Across the stern of the ship, in various places, there's a sound like a man howling and weeping, and the sound of fingernails scratching against metal and chalky paint. In a twisting line, the words "The sea knows what isn't. The sea knows what can't. Is the sea a thing that is? Am I, because it is?" are being scratched into the paint and the metal of the ship over and over again.
"A most uncivil offer" [Sports Deck]
Oh tarnation! Oh tribulation! Here he is in a place where he might ply his craft with sword and crossbow, yet he's brought neither. But perhaps someone eager for a sparring partner might offer to lend him one?
"Is it labelled 'poison?'" [Wildcard]
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"Oh! Well, if it's April I'll be handing the paperwork to, I don't mind at all. Perhaps I could shape the paperwork into lots of tiny umbrellas, and deliver it via drinks!"
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"I think they'd love that!" he says, a little squeakily. "I mean, I don't think they'd read it, but they would love it!"
Aaa now he's on the spot. "I was thinking like a human guy! For a bit! To try it out!"
*They don't actually, because ants don't have the right kind of throat, but it's a damn good impression of it anyway.
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"Dealer's choice!"
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But don't read that and think that it missed all of the ants, oh no. Like Dorothy's house in a hurricane, all the parts of Victor that are on the floor or table are picked up and pulled into the vent in a blur, in a stretching of limb and a melding of carapace. There's a solitary moment of silence. And then the ceiling tiles -- which were not designed to suddenly hold the weight of a human -- give way, and there's a second, less magical blur as what went up comes down again.
CRASH, and then a stunned-looking guy is sitting naked on the table, among bits of ceiling tile and the broken remains of a bowl of cherry trifle. The first part of his new body that he discovers is his tailbone, because it's the part that hurts the most. But it honestly doesn't rain on his parade.
"Haha, holy shit!" Victor says, and then claps his two hands over his one single mouth with its one single voice, and then takes them away again to say, excited and amazed: "Wow! I, like, can't smell a freaking thing!"
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"Um, please don't make me forget who I am this time, by the way!" He probably should have remembered to say that sooner. Or said it in a way that communicates its dire importance. Hm. "Like, it wouldn't be as big a deal as the ball thing but I just! Kinda don't want you to--"
He is, it should be noted, rocking like a bug on his back, trying to figure out the trick to movement with 4 limbs instead of 4000+. "I- I got this!" he insists, even though Sheo didn't ask.
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Left, right, grab the table, hand bounces off the corner because it doesn't have any claws and its hairs are these dinky little things.
"--a bunch of memories from anomalies that are sort of down on paper in the files and stuff as fake, but like--"
Left, right, grab with fingers this time, roll, okay he's onto something here.
"--says who, you know? I kinda like most of them--"
Aaand there's a slap sound as he lands on his belly on the floor.
It's great, by the way, that they communicated all this without Victor coming off as having even one fear, so that Sheo can still think he's cool.
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"Wait, should I have clothes before I go?"
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