[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

[quakeitoff]

a: questions, questions

[Keiichi has NOT ever experienced the Qri Migraine, and then once that passes he just feels... off, and people are milling around looking confused, so-- he waves down folks he would recognize from the coven's apartments at random, launching into a spiel as soon as he has their attention.]

Hey...! How are you feeling? Do you know what's going on? Oh, well, I guess I don't know that's something going on, but things just seem off, right? It's just sort of strange! I was feeling pretty awful earlier too, but I guess maybe that doesn't have anything to do with anything-- what do you think? Are you okay?

[...Well, that rapid-fire spiel might be a lot even for a person that did speak Japanese, so if you don't...!! Good luck!]

b: language labels and game time!

[And, later during this mini-crisis once everyone sort of has an idea of what's going on...! Too much of a social butterfly to let something like a paltry LANGUAGE BARRIER stop him, Keiichi's taken to spending even more time in the rec areas of the apartment complex than he normally does-- after all, ping pong or Shehui's equivalent of Uno transcend the need for language! And in the meantime during the signet power outage, he's taken to safety-pinning an index card to his shirt like a makeshift name tag, on which he's written "Japanese" in both... well, Japanese, and English.

He's currently sitting at a rec room table, sorting through a stack of board and card games to try and pick out ones that don't rely so much on shared language. On the corner of the table is a small stack of index cards, some safety pins, and two pens, in case anyone else would similarly like to advertise which languages they can speak! Take one? Or just otherwise respond to Keiichi's cheery grin and wordless-but-enthusiastic wave?]

w: for wildcard

[Or, hey, maybe something else is going on! You tell me!]

[mesmerevenant]

[ At first Jun thought that his migraine could be attributed to his new glasses, which he finally has. When the telepathy and language issues happen though, it becomes obvious that this is something far more serious.

Thankfully, he can speak English, Korean, French, and even some Chinese—but he'll be out of luck with all the Japanese speakers.

All the more reasons to advertise his skills as a translator, at least? In the rec room and just outside the apartment complex, Jun'll be posting up a sign with all four aforementioned languages and the contact details of his cellphone, should anyone get desperate enough to ask for help. ]

[terezias]

[Terezi can be found either in the garden or outside the building, scribbling what looks like a grisly execution scene in sidewalk chalk: there's a large monstrous creature (recognizable as His Honorable Tyranny, if you know your troll culture) and a lot of horned faces looking on as some dastardly villain is hanged. She seems cheerfully oblivious to the idea that her defacement of public property might be unwelcome; she'll greet you with a chirpy,]

Hello!

[in "Alternian" that sounds oddly like English, or, if that gets a blank face, she'll simply hold out a stick of chalk and point out a bare patch of floor. Maybe you can try Pictionary?]

[osuni]

a; thanks qri

[thanks for that ear-splitting, spine-tingling, bone-crushing headache qri, what would Okuni do without spontaneous PAIN out of nowhere?

Not accidentally drop this serving tray of free samples all over the nearest person's shoes, for one thing.

Okuni, for once, didn't actually mean to cause chaos -- she's too busy squatting down on the ground, a hand on her forehead as she tries to reorient herself -- but today's boss is yelling at her in Shehui gibberish and it's just. a lot to take in.

she'll apologize very nicely as soon as she gets all her sense back, promise.]

B; pictionary????

[Now that Okuni has more or less understood what's going on -- she's doing her best to Deal in the only way she can.

so have Okuni hanging outside the coven apartments, armed with a white sandwich sign board and a marker.

the sign board has a very detailed picture of a rice ball on it.

that's it. nothing else. and from the way Okuni immediately accosts anyone who's trying to enter the dorms, it seems as if this message of hers is very important!! (it's not, she's just hungry. feed her.)]

[witchwithoutacause]

[ Hey you know what's cool walking down the straight and having your head explode. Amanda is truly and wholly unprepared; she doesn't even tend to get normal headaches that much, except for like, minor knocks to the head because she's a reckless idiot. So, if you wanna like, find her scrambling to get to a bench or a seat or something so she can curl up and suffer, that's cool.

Hope you speak English. ]