[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

[alienates]

They apparently do not have a single, psychotic empress ruling over everything, so I'm not entirely sure how their system works.

[ after three years of a meteor with kanaya only paying attention to a drunk rose, and terezi off the bend because of gamzee, that gave karkat time to make friends with dave and argue about how stupid earth is. ]

[terezias]

The humans did not seem to be at war, either . . . .

[WHY DOES AMERICA, THE LARGEST EMPIRE, NOT SIMPLY EAT THE OTHER ONES???? #alterniansociology]

They are a very strange species.

[alienates]

Maybe they just haven't advances to the point just yet where they've developed having a strong army for something like that?

[ because the answer is, obviously, that they are weak. ]

[terezias]

That could be it.

[She seems a little doubtful, though. Humans have the Internet and lolcat videos, after all.]

What do you think is behind the changes?

[alienates]

It could just be Qri's incompetence is finally showing its ugly head.

[ it's hard to say since he doesn't really know much about how the translation device works. ]

[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.

[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.

[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?

[alienates]

Do you have any idea how many times people have gone through multiple loops just to fuck with us? A lot.

[ hell, both of them have done a lot of bullshit for the sake of fucking with people. ]

[terezias]

[Her mouth turns down into a moue of distaste.]

Gamzee Makara does not count.

[alienates]

Hopefully we will never utter that raging slurry flap's name ever a-fucking-gain.

[ they probably will, when they eventually decide to Talk About It. but they've avoided the topic very well so far, so why change that? ]

It's either that or they're showing us their incompetence.

[terezias]

[Yeah, let's just . . . continue to speculate about Qri.]

That is essentially what I meant by "accident." Although I suppose it could also be Shehui doing something.

[alienates]

Would they be able to interfere like that?

[terezias]

[Thoughtfully:]

I don't think we know what they would or would not be able to do!

[alienates]

Okay, so in the off chance it is them, what benefit would this give them other than being mildly inconvenient?

[terezias]

I would call it more than mildly convenient. We cannot talk to half of the coven. It would make things easier if they wanted to act against some of us.

[alienates]

But which some? It'll mostly work for the people who don't understand anyone at all.

[ the people who come from very specific worlds that have their own language. ]

[terezias]

That is true. [ . . . ] How many people do you know like that? It is possible the Shehui government is targeting one of them in particular.

[alienates]

I have no fucking clue. It's hard to ask now, with the whole not understanding them.

[ ... ]

Although we could probably easily find out if we summon everyone together?

[terezias]

[She thinks about this, and a smile slowly spreads across her face.]

We cannot use the signets. We would have to go door-to-door.

[alienates]

Can I retract my idea?

[ that sounds awful. ]

[terezias]

[She cackles.]

You do not want to be door-to-door meowbeast herders?

[alienates]

Terezi, if it were the other way around I would be absolutely delighted to slam the door in their faces.

[ he can only assume someone else would do the same to them. ]

[terezias]

That is half the fun.

[She pauses, her finger on her mouth in a thinking pose, and seems to reconsider this.]

Correction. That is approximately eighty percent of the fun.

[alienates]

I refuse to have a door closed right in my face. I will then be forced by the laws of the land to dig a tunnel through the door using nothing but my enamel clampers to make them pay for it.