[WORLD TWO | SIGNET MELTDOWN MINGLE]

[spellbindmods]

Who: Anyone!
Where: Everywhere
When: Day 197-200
Open/Closed: OTA

[ If you've never experienced that ear-splitting, spine-tingling, bone-crushing headache that comes with Qri doing...something...then you're in for a treat. It lasts for about an hour on the first day, though usually it fades after a while and things go back to normal.

This time, you aren't so lucky. As soon as the headache passes, you notice there's a certain something missing within you. You may not notice it immediately, but the next time you hear someone talk their words might be equivalent to gibberish. When you go to ask someone what's going on with your telepathy, you find that your words just circle your own brain, no one answering because the message simply can't be received.

This...may be a problem. Hopefully you know how to play charades. ]

Comments

[witchwithoutacause]

[ The one for 'witch' sounds closest to what she's heard once or twice. Akko's English was really good though...

Amanda repeats that familiar one, nodding. ]

[idolpedia]

[Uuuugh, Terezi. Why did you make such a grotesque picture?

And because she isn't thinking, she starts speaking again...only in Japanese.]

there is no such thing as a "beakbeast", [Quotes included] Terezi-san! It's a penguin!

[terezias]

You are speaking a strange human language again.

[terezias]

[That . . . is not how she expected Jade to interpret her comments. She looks down at the drawing of His Honorable Tyranny with amusement.]

I do not think that would be possible. I have never had much of a taste for other trolls anyway. No, I was going to be the legislacerator. It is--was--an important job.

[terezias]

[Yeah, they're kind of flying blind here, but Terezi seems thoughtful.]

It could be some accident of hers! Which raises the question of what she was trying to do, because I do not think "make it harder for us to talk to each other" was it.

[witchhooded]

[ oh! the correction is appreciated. her eyes light up, then. ]

Soooo, you wanted to investigate stuff! Like, crimes and stuff. [ maybe terezi can figure out if jade's a us citizen. WHO KNOWS? ]

[terezias]

[She swooshes the chalk in her hand like it's a cane.]

I wanted to catch criminals and enforce TH3 L4W. It is a job that often involves investigation.

[alienates]

It could have been if she wanted to fuck with us.

[ his opinion is not very high. ]

The fact that it hasn't been fixed yet says a lot.

[witchhooded]

Like a big name California lawyer in the movies? [ you know, like legally blonde.

not at all like legally blonde, because terezi's not blonde. ]

That's pretty cool! I just met a lawyer the other day. You would probably be a lot more thorough and make sure to not charge someone falsely.... I think. [ probably is the keyword here. ]

[idolpedia]

[R-red. A little embarrassed.]

Penguin. It's a penguin.

[quakeitoff]

[he has no idea what you're saying]

[he nods anyway though, shifting through his limited English vocabulary to try and come up with a way to phrase the question he wants to ask-- he makes the "breaking" gesture again, and then adds:]

Um, um-- before?

[alienates]

[ this is all very unfortunate because karkat is fucking shit at charades, so there's a long moment before he starts tapping at his forehead. "headache" ]

You mean, when our think pans were hurting a lot?

[soulcomet]

[Terezi is a saint for refraining from the leetspeak. but yeah, Madoka is just gonna stare at the writing with the blankest of expressions, because two out of three of those words turn what little rules of English she remembers on their sides, and they've also broken her brain.]

[hmmm.]

[after a moment of wracking her brain, she leans over and writes "GOOD GUY" underneath Terezi's writing. next to the guilty troll, she writes "BAD GUY >:(" emote and all. does she have the gist of it?]

[terezias]

[Close enough! This analysis gets a THUMBS UP from Terezi.]

Yes!

[terezias]

I do not know what your human "California" is! But I believe a lawyer is the closest human approximation.

[She perks up--or at least looks curious--at the mention of a lawyer.]

Is this lawyer part of the coven? Or someone from Shehui?

[terezias]

[Terezi tilts her head at Dia.]

I am not familiar with that human term. But it has a beak, and it is a beast. Hence, a beakbeast.

[terezias]

[She reaches over and pokes Karkat in the shoulder.]

Be serious. Do you really think she would go to all this trouble just to fuck with us?

[soulcomet]

[oh heck yes, she's two out of two so far! and she's feeling bold enough to try a more complicated question via chalk drawings.]

[Madoka draws her closest approximation of Earth, or at least some sort of planet, surrounded by a bunch of question marks. Jade had mentioned to her earlier that Terezi is an alien, if it weren't obvious enough already. so Madoka would like to know more about her planet!]

[idolpedia]

[SHE JUST, SHE...CAN'T EVEN. So whatever. She's making her penguin cute now. Drawing a little bow-tie on it.

YOU DO YOU, TEREZI.]

[witchhooded]

It's somewhere in the US! I've never been there. [ jade doesn't know what a california really is. she doesn't know about their red hot chili peppers or their in n out burgers. ]

The former, his name is Apollo Justice. That is so fitting, it is almost silly!

[terezias]

A human legislacerator named Justice? [ . . . ] That is very fitting.

[terezias]

[She shakes her head, and, okay--on a new blank corner of the floor, she draws a planet in white, with pink and green moons included.

After some consideration, she adds a little spaceship zooming away from the planet.]

[witchhooded]

Hehe, right? I told him it's like a comic book character. Do they have troll comics?

[quakeitoff]

[that isn't what he meant but he can guess what Karkat THINKS he means, and that's SOME kind of communication, so he nods enthusiastically!!!!]

Yes! "Ouch!"

[terezias]

We do, although many of them are parables about the hemospectrum. Propaganda, if you will.