backdated to the day after the shift from clonetemple mountain to basketballroom

[thornsofmalkav]

Guys! Guys, there's a Titan here! I think it's a Titan? He's huge and naked and hanging crepe paper from the chandelier and I don't think he's noticed me yet.

I'm gonna try to fly up and stab him. Survey dudes, please give me back-up, he's fucking terrifying.

[OOC: Anyone who wants can handwave seeing Eren in Titan shifted form trying to help decorate the basket ballroom. Or even doing his shift. Sadly, Thorne missed the shift happening which is why this.]

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[professorwolf]

Wait, wait, why would you stab him? He's just hanging crepe paper?

[Lyall does not know what a titan is aside from a pre-Greek-god being.]

[thornsofmalkav]

He's gonna eat people! Armin told me about this shit!

[timelessinventor]

That's just Eren, Thorne darling. He is a shifter of some sort. He is only hanging decorations. He's an extremely helpful young man.

[professorwolf]

Thorne, I could eat people. You could eat people. So could Lupa and Gale. That doesn't mean we will.

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah, but we have minds! Titans don't! And I work really hard not to kill people when eating!

[thornsofmalkav]

EREN IS MUCH SHORTER THAN THIS NAKED FUCK.

[professorwolf]

But... if he didn't have a mind, would he really be, er, hanging paper? That doesn't seem like a thing a mindless monster would be doing. I really should know. I've been one before.

[timelessinventor]

Shifter, darling. Conservation of Mass does not apply when supernatural elements are involved.

I have seen a tiny person become a huge person. I will stake my reputation on the fact that is Eren. He is doing a fantastic job.

[sombercomedienne]

What the mirthless fuck is a "titan."

[amadine]

[What. No, really, what.]

Is naked paper-hanging a declaration of war on your world?

[thornsofmalkav]

[... if she wasn't already so panicked she would listen to your logic because it's reasonable. But. But.]

Do we want to take a chance and then someone get bit in half?!?

[thornsofmalkav]

No! But these guys are monsters on Armin's! They're super fucking dangerous!

[professorwolf]

Perhaps you can at least ask him what he's doing before you stab him? Just to be sure?

[thornsofmalkav]

Big naked mindless motherfucker that eats people! And not in the socially responsible way I do where I try my best to leave them alive!

[thornsofmalkav]

He doesn't look like Eren either! His face is fucking weird and he's missing skin!

[willyousee]

Thorne, no! Not without reinforcements!

[amadine]

Is it doing anything dangerous? Outside of the abstract possibility of stepping on someone if they get underfoot.

[timelessinventor]

Listen to yourself, Thorne. Does a werewolf look like themselves when they are in wolf form? He is a shifter. He has a form different than his usual.

There is no need to panic. I spoke to him when he started. He was... not extremely responsive, but he was certainly aware of what he was doing.

[sombercomedienne]

How did it get into liminal?

I know I am kind of inexperienced myself but... what the heck is it doing here. Is it gonna get sent on a Jaunt? Aren't we clumsy enough at this without throwing predatory nonsentients into the mix.

[thornsofmalkav]

But--! But he's right there--!

[bite_the_hand]

[Eren was trying to mostly ignore the Network, except for when he was board. Right now? He was in his titan form, a full 15 meters tall (just a hair under the height of the ceiling itself) but positioned crouched down on his knees to better work with the chandelier he was currently helping to decorate. This was his first attempt at dexterity rather than strength, and he was very pleased with how well this body was handling the task despite the large hands. Pleased enough he was doing some rather tone-deaf humming as he worked. Which in this body sounded more like growls and probably did not help her realize her mistake. But there were still a few keywords that would yank his full attention back to the Network, and "titan" was at the very top of that list. Immediately he tenses and goes quiet, quickly looking around the room.]

There's a titan!? [Despite not streaming his actual voice, there was quite a bit of surprise and fear and anger in his mental tone.] What do you mean there's a titan!? There's-

[...Wait. He's a titan right now. Oh. Oh fuck. He can't defend himself either with people around his feat like this without serious risk of hurting someone!]

THORNE WAIT!

[backwordscompatible]

[...a titan? Like, as in the Greek mythology kind? Or was that Roman? But, more importantly:]

Why is it naked?

[willyousee]

Form an ambush! Do not charge in without anyone to assist you - especially when you are unsure of your weapons! Strategy! Behavior! Scouts! Reflexes!

[Thinking too quickly for his broadcasting to keep up hang on.]

The ones which do not search out and kill immediately are often smarter than the others, with faster reflexes and able to form strategies of their own - you need reinforcements!

[thornsofmalkav]

I don't think they make clothes that big!

[thornsofmalkav]

[OKAY SEE THIS IS LOGIC SHE CAN LISTEN TO.]

... okay, I'll wait, but if it attacks someone I'm going to in to distract it.