Noise to signals.

[truerevelation]

[Is that birdsong on the Jaunt network? To start with, at least, before-]

Right, Piyo, I'm getting there!

[...cheep. chpee? hpeec. chp!]

[A slightly stressed Kanji speaks up again, though hiding it better now-] Uh. Hey. So everyone's... companions've started talkin' nonsense, ain't they? I mean. We all kinda heard Ryo.
Was wonderin' what sorta messages everyone's getting. If it actually means anything... I know that stuff gets cryptic sometimes, but this is kinda ... taking all the cakes. Still. It's got me thinking. Started when the Glatasshole got beaten, right? So what changed there?

...Ow! Peckin' me ain't clear communication either!

Comments

[ninjayeehaw]

Ain't sure this is gonna help all that much, but Rodeo ain't talkin' period. He was startin' t'get the hang 'f it in this form, but now seems like every time he tries, he just... goes an' starts tryin' t'dig a hole in the ground.

[truerevelation]

Huh. Well, doing stuff is still a message. Worth knowing, right?

[ninjayeehaw]

It's still somethin'.

[There's a long moment's pause.]

...Piyo's a Pogemon too, right? Y'all gettin' anythin' outta yer Bond from 'em?

[otomechapilot]

I got a spirit animal after it broke away from Pain In The Glats that can’t say anything but “Under me.” Like, as a command.

For reasons I need to tell you at some point I’m pretty sure it’s name is Gabriel.

[truerevelation]

So that's two lotsa "...down" sorts of messages. Huh.

Glad it got outta there for ya, though.

[youandyoualone]

Fidelite's current vocabulary has been reduced to a single word: "Treason."

[truerevelation]

Well, that's still pretty low, but ... not the same sorta thing. But ... damn.

[thornsofmalkav]

"Don't worry, it's just me!"

Selene's said that... God, probably a dozen times already.

[truerevelation]

... maybe she's tryin' to make sure you know it's her and not, uh, Charoite's buddy?

[Private in case:]

Or, y'know. Someone pretendin' to be a bunny again.

[Back open:]

Seems a bit straightforward if it is, though. Huh.

[theflyingone]

'You know this already!' Ruya was insistent on giving this as answer to anything said to her.

[ Sigh. ]

Of more interest to me was the Glatisant. 'Searching!' was all it could manage in the short time I managed to speak to it.

[truerevelation]

- hey, you got to talk to the thing? Nice work!

...question is what it's gotta be lookin' for.

Public -> Private x2

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah seriously.

[LET'S JUST PRIVATE THE REST OF THIS CONVERSATION]

I'm pretty sure it is her claiming she's not Shekinah--the real question is why.

Re: Public -> Private x2

[truerevelation]

She didn't already get a round, did she?

[Dang it he was trying to not get his butt pulled into the big questions. But no harm in speculating.]

Private x2 for the duration

[thornsofmalkav]

Not so far as I know. And, like, I wouldn't put it past her to go experiment with Questing Country on her own even if it's not her round. I mean, the last time she was here she taught herself how to make a valence by watching Lucifer.

[truerevelation]

Yeah. If there's one world - or bunch of worlds, Liminal thing, whatever - that I figure she'd wanna take a look at, this would be it. All this ... mystery stuff.

[theflyingone]

It could not say, though we tried asking it many things. And then it was killed. However, I've heard Naoya calling it a "Questing Beast". Something to do with the story of a King Pellinore?

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah, seriously.

And like, I'm pretty sure she can become a place. Like, there was evidently this little shrine in the psychecano last time that probably was her?

[truerevelation]

There was, huh? Missed that one. But ... They're ideas. I figure they're just as much places as people as anythin' else that ain't literally being the concept of ... whatever.

[truerevelation]

It's ... about as mixed up as anythin' else.

[Kanji's having a slight twitch inside - ugh, this is screwing with that too, it needs fixing...]

[truerevelation]

Huh. That's one I ain't heard of, but if anyone else has got more stuff on it?

[thornsofmalkav]

Only a couple people made it there. But yeah, exactly.

... if Shekinah isn't involved in some crazy stunt right now, possibly while underground or maybe being the ground, I'll eat my hat--and I don't even have a hat. I'll eat Jules' hat.

[truerevelation]

I don't even wanna know where that hat's been.

[ninjayeehaw]

Well, I'm glad it ain't just me. Don't make it any better, mind...

[he doesn't like this]

Rodeo ain't got no way a' talkin' t'me now, I think it's stressin' him out.

[thornsofmalkav]

I really don't think I'm going to need to eat it.

[truerevelation]

Yeah. Ain't gotta have any mystic crap to tell that with Piyo.