[WORLD TWO | SIGNET MELTDOWN MINGLE]

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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]

[ In more magically dense places Amanda... might be able to muddle through cat? She was pretty sure talking to animals was possible without her wand, at least.

...here she was just a little lost. At least her headache had downgraded.

Amanda tilted her head, and pointed at her own collarbone too for a moment - oh right. Amanda nodded quickly. ]

[toblueskies]

Yours is working? [ with the cat gone, Ritsuka finally reverted to speaking Japanese. she misinterpreted the answer to her unobvious question. ]

[witchwithoutacause]

Uh. Um.

[ Amanda blinked. That was wrong. Oh god. What is going on she should be able to magically understand - those fuckers fucked with their magic translators? ]

Cone. Knee. Chee. Wuh?

[ ....h e l p ]

[toblueskies]

[ that was unexpected, indeed. Ritsuka is momentarily stunned but, well, she shouldn't be rude with someone's accent. an attempt was made... even if it didn't answer her question. ] Konnichiwa.

Are you able to reach anyone else? My head hurts and I don't know what happened. [ she talks so fast, I'm sorry. ]

[witchwithoutacause]

...nope.

[ Well she tried but the only Japanese person she's really met before coming here was... actually pretty good at English! And Amanda never had time to learn more than like five words. ]

Uh, sorry? Hello? Do you... know any English?

[toblueskies]

[ no, wait, she understood that. now it was Ritsuka's turn to be nervous because while she's studied English it's definitely not something she's very fluent in. ]

I — hello — yes, I do. A little?

[witchwithoutacause]

Sorry, I don't really... actually speak any Japanese. But we should be able to understand each other.

[ It sounds like Ritsuka can at least communicate a little in English, so that's nice? ]

[toblueskies]

[ she nodded, hesitantly. ] Yes. All right.

[ this is going to involve a lot of pausing and correcting herself, Ritsuka can already tell. ] I am sorry for the cat. It was helping. [ she gestured to herself, then the bench. ] Can I sit?

[witchwithoutacause]

[ Amanda's not in any rush - she'll slow down a little from fast-talking city girl, just a bit. ]

It was helping?

[toblueskies]

You did not hear? He said to move. [ as if it's perfectly normal to understand cats. ]

[witchwithoutacause]

I don't speak cat without magic.

[toblueskies]

[ blink.

blink blink. ]

The animals speak to everyone. Every time. [ don't they??? ]

[witchwithoutacause]

...you can talk to all kinds of animals? All the time?

[ Damn don't let any really curious witches near this girl. ]

[toblueskies]

Yes. [ Ritsuka sits down and stares at the ground like she's just come to some kind of horrible conclusion about herself. ] Yes, I think... so.

[witchwithoutacause]

That sounds really useful.

[ Although Amanda's wondering how this is a revelation for her. ]

[toblueskies]

Is it not okay. [ no wait, that's the wrong phrasing. ] Is it not ... Can you talk to them?

[witchwithoutacause]

Not here. I would need magic that I can't use here.

[ That should be intelligible yeah. ]

[toblueskies]

[ did she hear that right?

surprised, Ritsuka pointed at Amanda, and reverted back to Japanse, using the term for various kinds of magic users; sorcerers, magi, or witches. ]

[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. ]