synopsychic | Open Broadcast (Walkabout)

Who's us, and out of where?

The goddamn tomb or whatever the hell this is where I've been stuck for a week! That's where! Do you know how much we hate this place?! A lot! A really fucking lot, that's how much!

[Dude can you pick a pronoun and stick with it. But there are more important things at hand right now.]

Do you know how you got there in the first place?

Probably I got here because some fucking bastard thought it would be real fun to knock us out and keep us with the dead people. Under a spell. A spell that wouldn't let us move for a week. Do you want to know what we plan to do to the person responsible for this when we find them? Because I've had a lot of fucking time to think about it!

...ah. Sounds like the dragon caught up with you.

What kind of tomb is it?

...What? That dragon everyone was going on about did this?

Why?!

And it's the kind of tomb where someone felt like decorating all of the walls with skulls. And bones. And more skulls. They're even embedded into the ceiling, in nice decorative patterns that make us want to smash all of them into pieces, because there are fucking skulls everywhere. And it's not like someone hasn't already desecrated them all by using them for interior decoration!

If I knew, I'd tell you. Probably because it could.

hmm. Is it underground? If so I might be able to help you out.

I'll make sure to ask it then, when we find it and we burn out its eyes.

Yes. There's dirt and rocks behind the skulls. I know this, because I've had an entire week of having no choice but to stare at them!

Okay, underground I can work with. Of course, first I have to get there, but the map I found early on said there's a part of the city with a lot of catacombs. Probably a good starting point.

[Not... that he knows how he's going to find this guy in the first place, but hey. He won't get lost down there.

He'll just be a little green when he gets there. :D?]

Would you mind company? I believe that my direwolf, Lady, can help seek him out- but I would prefer to be escorted, rather than adventure through the grounds alone.

That would be great, actually. As long as you don't mind me being green for the duration - I'm going to have to use a Questing Country thing.

And that works out well, since I'll be able to navigate pretty well down there but I wasn't sure how I was going to find him in the first place. [Teamwork!]

Lady may be a bit startled by it- but I do not mind, and she will not harm you. It should not be hard to find him with her aid, given that I don't think there are many living in the catacombs.

[Jumping forward, to just before they find Matthew]

Through sheer force of will, Matthew has somehow managed to not violently murder every skull he can find. For a given value of 'murder', seeing as all the skulls were dead already.

Instead, he managed to distract himself by systematically going through every single body part and making sure that they really can move them now. And then they check everything again, just to be sure. By the time Naoki and Sansa are near, they've gotten up to checking that all of the toes on their left foot wiggle obediently when he tells them to.

Matthew probably wasn't expecting one of his rescuers to be green. But Naoki can't use underground-navigation instincts his usual shape doesn't have, so Gorgon it is. Which means he's green right now - a nice minty shade - and his hair is...

Well, right now it's tentacles. It's a thing.

"Oh good, it worked. Let's get going before the dragon comes back, shall we?"

Well, it is a strange rescue party- to say the least. The tall girl standing behind Naoki looks completely and utterly mortified to be here, and is currently brushing a cobweb out of her hair, nose turned up. And they're accompanied by a massive direwolf- who's stuck closely to her mistresses side, peering curiously at Matthew with golden eyes.

"I agree- we should leave." She says softly.

There is one blink at the very odd rescue party, before Matthew promptly decides that he doesn't give a damn about the answers to any questions at all, he just wants to get out.

"Yes! Leaving! Leaving is good!" they say, hastily shoving their sock and shoe back onto their left foot, before standing up. The process looks entirely ungainly and awkward, seeing as at this point 'movement of limbs' is still somewhat of a new and exciting experience after the last week. "Point me in the direction of the exit and I am so there."

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Two near-strangers and a direwolf is really pushing the amount of company Naoki can stand, at the moment. It'll be better when they get back to the exit and he can let this go. For now, though, he's just going to have to suck it up, and try not to take it out on them.

"Back the way we came, then. Don't worry, I'll be able to find it."

Sansa peers curiously at Matthew's actions- then nods gently. "Are you alright to walk on your own?" She asks, ignoring the tug at the back of her mind that's asking her why she thought coming along on this rescue mission was a good idea.

"I'm good. We checked that all the toes still worked. And they do!" they say, with what was possibly a slightly deranged grin. They follow as quickly as their only slightly wobbly legs will have to take them, and if he has to occasionally touch the walls for balance, well, he's obviously just saying goodbye to the skulls stuck in them.

...It's a really, really good thing his eyes aren't even slightly yellow. Let's just leave it at that. Naoki still wishes he'd pick a pronoun and stick to it, but it looks like that's too much to ask, and anyway, right now leaving is the important thing.

The catacombs have been here long enough to be a bit of a labyrinth, but no worse than any dungeon he's seen. And the whole reason he did the Gorgon thing in the first place is because it makes it far easier to navigate this kind of place. He's keeping out ahead of whatever light Sansa brought (really, it's not helping him much at all), but close enough that she and Matthew can still see where he's going.

It's a long walk, but pretty uneventful.

Sansa's a little weirded out at this point, but her perfectly practiced manners keep her from telling too much. She just smiles politely, nodding her head and holding tightly onto the lantern she's holding- trying not to trip over Lady, who is underfoot as usual. "Oh, good, I'm glad to see you able to move. Are you feeling well in all other aspects?"

Matthew is definitely giving Lady a wide birth - she is still his Favourite New Creature, sure, but that doesn't mean that tripping over her is something that he wants to do with anything owning teeth that large.

"Yup. Totally fine. And I will be even more fine when I am somewhere that is absolutely not here," he says, stubbornly refusing to admit that after a week of paralysis in a cavern under the ground, he is far, far from 'fine'.

If Naoki had to guess, he'd say this guy's significantly less fine than he is, and he's not all that great at the moment. Admittedly, he'd be doing better if he'd dragged Kanji along, but he can always go pester him later. This was kind of important.

Still, better things to do than fuss about that.

"Could be worse. At least the dragon was more interested in impersonating you than doing anything to you directly. Incidentally, you're probably going to have a lot of people blaming you for inhaling a horde of puppies."

Thankfully, Sansa's manners can keep the conversation flowing enough for the three of them. She just nods politely, trying her best to hold her head high -- not too high, because her height is not helping with the entire not getting cobwebs in her hair thing -- but high enough.

"It shouldn't be too much further, and we can get you somewhere safe. ... And a warm bath, perhaps." She crinkles her nose slightly- but it's the only sign of disturbance that she'll show, though internally she might be a little annoyed by the situation. "It shall be fine. We know it wasn't his fault, the entire... puppy inhaling business." At this, Lady sneezes- but if it's the dust, or something else, is unknown.

"I...what?!" he said, eyes going as wide as saucers as he stopped to stare at the two of them. It said something that as eager as he was to get the hell away from here, that was enough to make them literally pause. "The dragon was kidnapped me, trapped us in a tomb for a week, and then stole our face? And then decided to...inhale some puppies? How the fucking hell do you inhale puppies! Why would you bloody well want to?!"

He took a deep breath, but it didn't help with the rage, with the fury that someone had dared to to this to them, to pretend to be them while all the while they had been trapped and wondering if they would ever be free again. He clenched his fists, and the inhuman blue in their eyes flashed with anger.

Just as quickly as he'd stopped, he was off again, striding even faster in his haste to get out. "We are going to destroy it," they hissed. "We are going to find it and then we are going to make it regret meeting us."

"They weren't real puppies, just magical constructs. And dragons apparently eat magic. So why it would want to is probably 'it was hungry, and it could.' We're lucky this thing doesn't seem to be terribly subtle, or we'd have no chance to finding it at all."

Which still leaves the question of what it even wants, but that's for another time.

Right. Catacombs. That sounds about right.

I'll just...be here, trying not to get myself cursed for all eternity for destroying some skulls. Even if the skulls totally had it coming...

Try not to be too hard on the poor defenseless skulls. They didn't ask to spend a week staring at you either, I'm sure.

I'll be there as soon as I can.

[he pauses]

Thank you.

You're welcome. No point in making you find a way out on your own if I can help.

[ ...new phone who dis? ]

Um. Sorry, who are you?

I'm the guy who wants to get out of this goddamn tomb, that's who the bloody hell I am!

Please try to stay calm.

We will be calm when we are not surrounded by skulls!

Who else is down there?

Dead people are down here, okay? It's just me, and the dead people! Now do you know how the hell I can get out of here or not?!

I'm sorry, I don't actually have any idea where you are.

But we'll work on it.

Fine.

[after a moment, he adds to that, somewhat begrudgingly]

Thanks.

Do you know what direction the tomb is in? If not, it's alright. I can see if Lady can sniff you out.

No? Except "down". Down is a good direction.

And I have no idea who Lady is, but if she can find us and lead us away from the dead bodies then she will be our new favourite person slash creature.

Lovely.

She's my direwolf. She looks frightening, but she is very tame- she will not harm you unless I ask it of her, so please do not be frightened should you see her. I'll try and get some help and head there as soon as possible.

You have a...pet direwolf?

Actually, never mind. I don't care if you have a pet kraken. Lady can look as scary as she likes, and she will still be our favourite creature ever.

It's a very interesting story. Perhaps I can tell it, once we've come to get you.

I would love to listen to it as long as I can listen to it far, far, far away from here.

[he pauses for a moment]

Um. Thank you. For looking for us.

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