[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

[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.

[terezias]

That is because you are no fun and take things too seriously.

[alienates]

How absolutely goddamn dare you insinuate that I take things too seriously.