[OPEN] ===> Kalfour: Return

[bizango]

Return from where? Well you have been watching the sky for some time now, though why you would do such a thing for so long has somehow managed to slip your mind. That’s alright though. You have been enjoying yourself at least! The fires starting up at the very edge of the horizon are quite pretty against the evening sky.

However, they’ve started creeping closer now, as have the meteors and it’s finally starting to make you nervous. You have to make sure your moirail survives, and from what everyone’s been saying, that won’t happen until she’s playing the game. Which means you have to start soon too. You take another long look at the sky, and then slip down from the roof and in through your respiteblock window. It takes you a minute to find your husktop in the dark and as it turns on, you descend the stairs and settle on the step just outside your door. Hopefully everyone has started the game alright so far! You haven't been doing a very good job keeping track. Whoops!

restlessMediumhas signed on.

restlessMedium [RM] has started pestering meticulousPedicure [MP].

mp~
are yOu ready tO play the game yet~~

Comments

[bizango]

Oh~yes~
i've talked tO her~~
she seemed niCe~
even thOugh she said she was talking tO aliens~

[deadpanlife]

oh
you mean the ones who don't know a |ot of basic stuff
i've ta|ked to some of them too
they're okay, most|y
just
weird

[bizango]

...

there's mOre then One~

[deadpanlife]

apparent|y yes?
i've spoken to about three different peop|e who don't even know things |ike what a |usus or a recuperacoon is
a|iens is probab|y the easiest exp|anation but
it's a|so ridicu|ous

[bizango]

i spOke tO One whO~
was maybe using wOrds that didn't make sense~
i thOught they were just~
trOlling thOugh~
in the internet sense~i mean~

[deadpanlife]

i hope so
even though three is a|ready pushing it
maybe it's just coincidence

[bizango]

yes~that dOes seem~
like a lOt fOr it tO maybe just be a jOke~

[deadpanlife]

there
can't rea||y be a|iens out there
right
or i mean
a|iens that can somehow contact us on the network
that's just si||y
right

[bizango]

maybe anOther planet in the empire~
gOt ahOld Of the prOgram~~

You... didn't really think that was possible though. It seems sort of sloppy of Her Imperious Condescension, though you are OF COURSE not actually blasphemous enough to think that particular thought.

[deadpanlife]

that wou|d be awfu||y
brave?
of them
if that was true anyway

...The idea still seems so surreal that you have a hard time wrapping your mind around it.

[bizango]

prObably~
maybe stupid~
wOuld be a better wOrd fOr that~
i think~maybe~they wOn't last lOng~
it that's what happened

Unless, you suppose, trollkind dies out before She can deal with the problem? You wonder if even the Empress will die with the planet...

...

NO YOU DON'T what a horrifying thought that is for a good citizen like yourself! Pretend that was never mentioned at all!!

[deadpanlife]

we||
it probab|y isn't going to matter for |ong
what with the meteors and
wor|d
ending

You are trying to not sound so relieved about the world ending. This planet and species has long outlived themselves and frankly deserve whatever kind of horrible fate awaits them, which in this case would be meteors. One less cesspool in the universe.

...But that's a terrible thing to even think of! No such thoughts exist in your thinkpan. Nope. Not at all.

[bizango]

nO~
i suppOse maybe it isn't~

You manage to snap yourself out of your usual routine of questioning why you were chosen for this when there's a whole planet to pick from before you get to far. It's still a sort of. Depressingly existential thought though. You lean back from your husktop and look at the fire along the horizon again...

[deadpanlife]

though i guess it's on|y a matter of time before the meteors reach the forest too
that wi|| be fun i'm sure

Read: You are not looking forward to it.

[bizango]

they're getting ClOser here~
ahaha~
it's sOrt Of~
sCary aCtually~~

Scary and... quite pretty, if you're honest with yourself, which is something you try never to be.

[deadpanlife]

urm
that is worrying
very worrying
fire is
very bad
has Merzet answered you yet?

[bizango]

It actually takes you a moment to respond! Because

ahaha~
yes~aCtually~
he answered just nOw~
we'll be Okay nOw~~

You will leave out the part where he's stressed out about something because, let us be honest, Merzet is always stressed out.

[deadpanlife]

urm
good |uck

You feel that you don't need to say what Kalfour is going to need luck for. Merzet's nice, but he makes even you feel like a bastion of calm cool-headedness.

[bizango]

...another, longer pause. Welp.

Oh~
yes~thank yOu ps~
i think maybe~
we might need it~~

[deadpanlife]

did something happen?

Because this...doesn't seem like a very good sign...

[bizango]

no
we|| be okay

Which is to say. Nuvola is probably dead and both you and Merzet are panicking about it. Totally fine, right?

[deadpanlife]

You are seeing your own quirk. This definitely doesn't look like a good sign.

are you sure?

[bizango]

yes

No.

Now you're drifting and focusing on what your hands are doing is so fucking hard sometimes, you just want to leave your husktop again, but you have an important job to do. So you stay, against your better judgement.

[deadpanlife]

you do not sound fine

You are genuinely worried but there is literally nothing you can do. It feels terrible.

[bizango]

No response.

You have left the situation in hands more capable then yours. Hands which have unfortunately not realized there are other windows open. Whoops.