[A day or so after the Werewolf Mess]

[professorwolf]

[Lyall's voice pops back onto the network a good long while after his aborted, panicked message from when the full moon rose. His voice isn't panicked anymore, now, but it is tense, and he's talking a bit faster than he usually does.]

Well. So. It's Randolph Lyall again-- I'm back, and no longer a maddened werewolf, or, in fact, a Heraclide. I'm very sorry about all that. Very... very sorry.

But I'm not in liminal space. I had to punch through to get to the network, the way I punched through to the other Jaunt a month or two back now, and I'm fairly sure I don't have very long.

I appear to be... underground? The underworld, perhaps? I know some of us were going here, are you still here? I would... really very much like to get out of here, but I can't seem to get a proper portal open to liminal space. And even if I could, I would just have to come back down here when I opened it again, and--

[He cuts himself off, and starts again, a bit more steadily, but even more quickly, trying to impart information.]

--and even if no one can get down here, I did have another vision when I came to. Watch out for shooting stars. Either at dawn or dusk or some other time where the sun and moon aren't making a mess of things, there's going to be shooting stars, and then a very large earthquake. We may want to start thinking about disaster relief, or else finding whatever idiot gods or titans or whomever are going to cause it and stop them before it happens.

... but I really would like out of here, too. Please. If anyone can manage it.

Comments

[chalicejoker]

Yeah, it's...not something he needed to be doing. He didn't need any power over anyone, much as he might have thought he deserved it.

[professorwolf]

Lanides wasn't much better, to be honest. He was just quieter about it. Smarter. Not the best combination.

[chalicejoker]

...is it wrong that if I see their spirits floating around out here, I kind of want to kick their asses on principle?

[professorwolf]

[Lyall is surprised into a little chuckle.]

I don't think so. I imagine they would be very confused, though.

[He finds he rather likes the idea, honestly.]

[chalicejoker]

I could always explain it's because they're assholes while I'm beating them up.

[He might as well have a hobby while he's stuck here...]

[professorwolf]

You'll have to let me watch. Though you look enough like Karis that he'd be even more confused. I at least have some differences from Lanides.

[chalicejoker]

I can tell him I'm his conscience and that I'm here to get him back for never listening to me...

...not that he had a conscience, but hey, if it confuses him more...

[professorwolf]

Maybe he'll learn better, at least. ... Can the dead learn? I mean, the dead, here.

[Since he's technically dead twice over. Three times, now. And he likes to think he can still learn.]

[chalicejoker]

...I kind of don't care if they can or not. It's the principle of the thing at this point.

[Plus, he supposes it gives him something to do. There's not much to do here, he's found.]