forward dated to two days into the bone library

[thornsofmalkav]

... guys? Does anyone else hear the bells?

[No. No, you're the only one who can hear them just yet, Thorne.]

Comments

[willyousee]

....Bells? No. What do they sound like? Small? Large? How many?

[thornsofmalkav]

Churchbells. I've been hearing them since I woke up this evening.

[willyousee]

...That is interesting. [How are the rest of them not hearing bells?] Can you share what you are hearing perhaps?

[claudiometer]

...nnnnnnnnnnno?

Also bells don't strike me as all that Death-y or Justice-y? Also also sound effects usually kick in when Liminal ticks over, don't they?

[thornsofmalkav]

... okay. This is kind of spoopy. Possibly even straight-up spooky.

[claudiometer]

If we were at home I'd start working on how to de-whammy you. But we're not, and the only Artifact I have with me definitely doesn't do bells.

[thornsofmalkav]

Sure.

[There's a pause in which only the silence of the library can be heard to anyone else than Thorne.]

Like that.

[thornsofmalkav]

Do you really think I've been whammied?

[claudiometer]

If you're the only one hearing it, that's the closest parallel I've got.

[willyousee]

[There is a long moment of quiet.]

Thorne... [Alcuin is gentle, but a little worried.] There is nothing there. Just the library. I cannot hear any bells.

[thornsofmalkav]

... they're there. I can hear them. Big ones and little ones. I can even hear which direction they're coming from.

[thornsofmalkav]

I don't feel whammied.

[claudiometer]

It doesn't always feel like anything in particular. But... we're not at home, so it's probably not that, but damned if I know what it is.

[thornsofmalkav]

They're definitely coming from a certain direction. Maybe I can follow them...

... maybe I should follow them.

[claudiometer]

Maybe you shouldn't follow the thing only you're hearing alone?

[thornsofmalkav]

I think it's important.

[amadine]

No bells. Just a lot of creaking bone and rustling paper.

[thornsofmalkav]

... well, this is annoying.

[Maybe her Malkavian craziness is finally kicking in. (Thorne, it kicked in when you decided you were the destined savior of vampirekind.)]

[amadine]

You haven't gone and learned Questing Sense, have you?

[thornsofmalkav]

Nooooooooo, not that I know of.

[Which is too bad, because she kind of wants to learn it.]

[awitchdidit]

To be completely fair, bells can be representative of Death. Especially when the person for whom the bell tolls is already dead.

No offense, Thorne.

You could squeeze them into Justice in the divine authority sense if you really wanted to focus on European churches, as well.

[thornsofmalkav]

Not offended. Anyone who doesn't know I'm dead will find out sooner or later.

[failgoyle]

...have you maybe been listening to music a little too loud?

[claudiometer]

Famous last words of many a Warehouse agent: "It's probably nothing, I'll call you back."

[Somehow Pete managed to say this before finding a relatively mundane 'probably nothing,' but Artie still harped on the subject a lot around the time Claudia started working there officially.]

[claudiometer]

And if someone else can confirm hearing them, I'll re-evaluate.