And now for something completely different

[failgoyle]

Okay, so I've been spending a lot of time in Liminal since every time I go out, I get harassed by wind spirits...

...but I think I just lit upon something really awesome while hiding in the Workshop!

[What follows next is a musical interlude played on computer parts.]

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[tailforbrains]

Did you just make them? Don't you have to be pretty advanced in liminal stuff to make things that... complicated?

[She crouches down for a closer look at one. It looks pretty complicated, all right-- more complicated than any machine from her time, anyway, though she's seen worse when Traveling in modern times and beyond.]

[failgoyle]

Well, yeah...but I know this sort of thing inside and out! I took stuff like this apart and put it back together all the time when I was a kid.

[tailforbrains]

Even with the tail and horns and stuff, you come from a time with this kind of machine?

[That's curious. Most of the non-humans seem to come from a time more like hers. If not exactly hers, in the case of the Drow.]

[failgoyle]

Well, yeah.

[There's a long, awkward pause.]

I. Uh, I didn't always have the tail and the horns. That...kind of just happened when I, um, got taken by the True Fae...

[tailforbrains]

Like. Fairies?

[Neeshka looks skeptical, even holds up her hands and makes little flapping motions at her shoulders, like little fairy wings. Because true fae are probably closer to elves, in her world, albeit elf sorcerers or something... the "fae" she's met were more along the Tinkerbell type.]

[failgoyle]

Not like pixies or little tiny cute pop culture fairies!

Faeries. Like every single fairy tale omnipowerful magic witch or monster or whatever kind of thing you can think of, only worse.

[tailforbrains]

So like. Demons or minor gods or something.

[She's trying to understand, okay. It just isn't part of her particular worldview.]

[failgoyle]

...that's probably a better comparison, yeah.

[There's a shudder.]

[tailforbrains]

Okay, demons suck. I mean, my great-granddad or somebody was one, and that's been nothing but trouble for me.

I met a few once. They were pretty awful. So if demons kidnapped you, I guess, um, I'm sorry?

[She's not great at sympathy, but comparing them to demons makes it more personal.]

[failgoyle]

Thanks. It was pretty awful...

[Change of topic! Need to have a change of topic! He grabs a keyboard.]

But, anyway, here's Wonderwall.

[The hard drives start cranking out a cover of that song, just as he says.]

[tailforbrains]

[She looks at them blankly.]

What's a wonder wall?

[failgoyle]

It's, uh, the name of the song that's playing now. Wonderwall.

[tailforbrains]

Is it about a wall?

[Enjoy having someone completely unaware of modern pop music, Jules.]

[failgoyle]

I...uh...

[There's a little muttered singing under his breath as he goes through the lyrics, and...]

...I'm not actually sure what it's about.

[tailforbrains]

Then why did you decide to make the little disk things play it?

[She doesn't really care all that much, but Jules is fun to needle at a bit.]

[failgoyle]

I don't know, I just did!

It's just a song!

[And needling him is so easy, too.]

[tailforbrains]

[It really is. It's a fun pass-time.]

Oh, calm down. Gods, you over-react to everything, even me asking you a question about a song.

[She looks amused rather than annoyed, though.]

[failgoyle]

I'm not overreacting!

[There he goes overreacting to being told he's overreacting.]

[tailforbrains]

[Which she is totally going to point out.]

Says the guy over-reacting to being told he's over-reacting.

[failgoyle]

I'm not overreacting!

[He totally is.]