Freakout Time [Maybe 2 hours into the new liminal]

[mytearsaremine]

[Not long after liminal changes over, but with time enough for the psychic network to start quietly bubbling again, a voice is broadcast into the fray: and that voice is loud.

For once, it isn't Jules. Instead, it's a teenage girl's voice, and while emotions and tone don't translate over the network without a little more experience than she's had, it's still pretty obviously as much of a scream as one can make when one is brand new:]

GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!

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[mytearsaremine]

"Thanks. I appreciate that a lot. Now I just have to figure out how not to do it again, and we'll be great." She finally seems to get ahold of herself the rest of the way, and the girl-shaped shadow solidifies the rest of the way into an actual girl, about fourteen, blonde, green eyed beneath a white glow, and with six shadowy tentacles on her back.

"There we go, that's better," she says, sounding relieved.

[failgoyle]

"Oh, hey, you can turn it off! Kinda. Better than I can do; I just hide behind my Mask." Unless the Mask didn't work right. Which was happening more and more often as the Travelers he ran into were the sorts who had enough magic to see through it. Awkward.

[mytearsaremine]

"Kind of. Every time I freak out about something, I basically lose the human form thing. I guess what I really am is the shadow-thing...." She looks up and blinks at him. "Uh. You're not purple anymore. And your tail and horns and stuff went away."

[failgoyle]

"I know how that goes," Jules sighs. "What I really am is a weird purple gargoyle-thing, and...really?" He looks down at himself. "I...I think you're just seeing the Mask. It finally kicked in."

[mytearsaremine]

"So usually people see the skinny guy with regular hair?" Jolie guesses, moving further out into the room to retrieve her backpack, which she'd dropped when she went shadowy and, thus, intangible. "I guess that's pretty useful. You can't freak people out, like that."

[failgoyle]

"Yeah." Jules nods enthusiastically. "That's what it's supposed to do, kind of hiding in plain sight, keeping my head down, minimizing the screaming."

[mytearsaremine]

"But you can't turn it off if you want to? You just have to I guess... hope it glitches at the right time if you want people to see the real you?" Assuming he'd want anyone to see the real him. She'd understand if not, too.

[failgoyle]

"That, or..." Jules hesitates. "There's a thing I can do, kind of a contract, where I basically need a rose and some blood and then the other person has to agree to do a favor for me..."