During the second fourth wall liminal

[darkhourdear]

 Um, guys? There's definitely a voice in the thunder but I can't hear what it's saying. Has anyone else heard it? I mean I could only hear it with Sithen ears, so probably not but... I can try to analyze it with my Persona, but I'm not sure what good it'll do.

And... I guess has anyone figured out anything about it this time? There's a lot of stuff.

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[truerevelation]

Yeah.

I've got it loud and clear.

[Kanji does his best to mentally duplicate the tone of the voice.]

"Hurry up, please. It is time."

[darkhourdear]

[...well that doesn't sound good.]

Time for what?

[itsananimalthing]

Didn't hear that, but if anybody's got diabolin form still, don't fuckin' use it. Whatever's watchin' us is even worse then. And it's impatient.

There's a big data dump of visuals in the rocks, too, if you interface, but I'm still sortin' out what it all is. It's familiar. And also impatient. So hey, guess they've got a theme goin'.

[truerevelation]

Hell if I know. I've been tryin' to crunch the data further, but that's all I'm getting.

[darkhourdear]

That goes with what Kanji said... apparently the voice says 'Hurry up please, it's time.' Which... is a polite way of being impatient, I guess?

I have Interface too. Would it help if I came over?

[darkhourdear]

That sounds, um. Not great.

[leftbehindagain]

I haven't been paying as much attention to the thunder, but check this out.

[What follows is a livestream from one of the rocky areas. The visual seems to be just rocks, at first, but behind one of the taller ones, one can just make out a hooded figure in brown. Determining their gender, never mind managing to see their face, is next to impossible.]

They disappear every time there's not something between me and them, mostly on the periphery. Just the one as far as I can tell.

[itsananimalthing]

Any rock'll do, don't have to be the same one. Take your pick.

[itsananimalthing]

That's why I tried the diabolin form. Figured if there was really somebody there, might get a sense. Didn't get any sense of that guy, that I could tell, unless this "hurry the fuck up" feeling is him.

[darkhourdear]

Ok, I'll go try it. I'll tell you if I figure out anything else, ok?

[darkhourdear]

I haven't been out there yet. Did you have to do anything special to see him?

[leftbehindagain]

Conditioning doesn't make the paranoid feeling any better, but doesn't make it worse, either. It just makes that guy more obvious.

[leftbehindagain]

I wouldn't be surprised.

The question is whether they're telling us to hurry up, or our hosts.

[hiding_honor_in_darkness]

The only voices I hear are the ones invading my mind!

-=the voice is new and as panicked and angry as one can sound in their own head. rest assured he's standing out in the pseudo-desert yelling at nothing=-

Who are you and what do you want from me!

[darkhourdear]

Um... hi! My name's Phillip. [this is the correct answer to 'who are you' right?] And I don't really want anything? Though, I guess I did ask for people to tell me stuff so... that, I guess.

You're new here, pretty sure? This is the psychic network. Basically we can all send messages to each other in our heads. Wash posts baby pictures a lot!

[theanguissette]

I've heard naught but the thunder. The Trumps and their foul games, is what I would suppose. Anything more particular than that, I cannot say.

[darkhourdear]

Yeah, it's pretty quiet. Even with being Sithen I couldn't make out the words, but Kanji says it's "Hurry up please, it's time."

...Do you like dogs? [there is a reason for this question. not a good reason, necessarily, but a reason.]

[itsananimalthing]

Pretty sure all this attention is focused on us. Ain't sure, but it's likely the attention's comin' from the Trumps, too, so doubt it's them talkin' to themselves.

[itsananimalthing]

Sure. Just don't be surprised when it's a little overwhelmin' at first.

[This is coming from Riddick, who is pretty much never overwhelmed. So... you know... take that into account.]

[solvethepuzzle]

[He gradually crawls through everything being said here, and, after a few moments deigns to offer something up himself.]

That sense of paranoia inflicted on us is not natural. Protections against the eldritch are able to clear it.

[thornsofmalkav]

Most of the details from the Liminal come from two poems by T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land and The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Mostly the first. I can give people the text if they want? Like, I'm learning cantrips from Kanji so this would be good practice of the Amanuensis one.

[Her English major was good for something at least.]

[thornsofmalkav]

... that's a direct quote from The Waste Land. From the second part.

[leftbehindagain]

Talking amongst themselves, maybe? We've got a lot of extra people around again. Maybe one of them wants the others to get on with things already.

[hiding_honor_in_darkness]

Madness is what this is, surely. -=he is taken back a bit by the jovialness of the reply. it actually unnerves him even more=-

My thoughts are my own and I will not have them overtaken by the likes of you!

-=never again=-

[darkhourdear]

[...no kidding.] Yeah, ok. I'll be careful.