Game 042 [Written/Action] - Play Like There's No Tomorrow

[neverplaysfair]

[ The following goes up on the journals later on in the morning. ]

A rather large collection of sheet music appeared in the shops some time rather recently. If you were looking for any that you'd hoped would follow you to Luceti, I might have picked it up.

[ Soon after that, the sound of a violin can be heard coming from in front of House 38. If you're quiet, it can even be heard all the way from the town center. What's he playing, you ask? Well, anything.

Maybe your favorite song. Maybe something hauntingly familiar. Maybe a rousing song. Maybe it's even battle music!

Seriously, he'll be playing anything if there's someone with that canon here. Who needs a fourth wall.

Joshua is sitting out in front of House 38 on one of the chairs from inside, sheet music on his lap has he sight reads it. Care to stop by and listen? ]

Comments

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

[Oh, it can be heard from the center of town all right. It's shrill and shrieky and needs to be stopped before someone's ears explode.

Have an angry sort-of neighbor, Josh.]

Must you?

[neverplaysfair]

[ Hold on, he'll be finishing this one section before taking a break, after which he sets the violin on his lap on top of the music. ]

Of course not. But there's very little I must do here. Hee hee.

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

It sounds like dying cats.

[neverplaysfair]

I'd like to think that I'm not quite so out of practice.

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

Then you need better ears.

[Action]

[fortuneprince]

[Well it's been quite some time since Naoto last heard a violin playing. As soon as she walked outside of community building 4 she was able to hear it clearly. So she goes towards the sound and looks to see that this young boy is playing this nice music.

She can't help but smile and listen to it. Once he pauses to take a break she speaks] You play beautifully.

[Action]

[neverplaysfair]

Thank you. I was worried I might be getting out of practice since I haven't played since coming here.

[Action]

[fortuneprince]

You shouldn't be too worried, you sound perfectly fine. How long have you been playing the violin?

[Action]

[neverplaysfair]

A few years now. I took it up as a hobby to pass some time.

[Action]

[fortuneprince]

I see. I take it you collect sheet music as well?

[Action]

[so_shik]

[She's followed the sound from the center of town, leaving her shop and approaching the house.]

...oh, it's you. I was starting to wonder.

[Action]

[neverplaysfair]

[ He pauses after a little bit. ]

Wonder what, exactly?

[Action]

[so_shik]

Who was playing. Somehow I didn't think it was going to be you.

[Action]

[neverplaysfair]

Hmm. Why not?

[Action]

[so_shik]

You just don't strike me as the type, that's all. Where'd you get it from anyway?

[action]

[tehoniongirl.livejournal.com]

[the song isn't familiar, per se...and it sounds different coming from a violin, rather than an Irish fiddle, but it's been so many months since she heard a reel that she can't help but follow the sound.

When she finds the source, she doesn't interrupt. She doesn't want to. Instead, she finds a place to sit on a nearby curb and pulls out her sketchbook, foot tapping as she fishes out a pencil to draw. She might draw Joshua. She might draw people wandering past. But it's familiar. Like drawing Geordie while he busked for passerbys in Newford]

[OOC: hopefully this is okay?]

[action]

[neverplaysfair]

(( That's fine! ))

[ Joshua's concentration comes and goes when he sight-reads, but for now he's caught up in the piece, the unfamiliar notes coming a bit unsteadily but easily nonetheless as he plays on.

He hasn't noticed her yet. ]

[action]

[tehoniongirl.livejournal.com]

[she's not trying to hide, but she's not trying to draw attention to herself, either. That glow she'd originally seen around him might be gone, but there was still something...different about Joshua. Still, the music eventually wins over her curiosity, and it's his hands she ends up trying to draw. To the point where she eventually stands and moves closer to a place where she'll have a better view]

[action]

[neverplaysfair]

[ Oh, he notices that, and after a moment, he pauses to giggle. ]

Drawing again?

[ And he plays on like the interruption never happened. ]

[action]

[tehoniongirl.livejournal.com]

Call it a bad habit.

[she smiles up at him, then] Do you mind? I can stop.

[Voice]

[akumanotrill]

Can I come see what you have?

[Voice]

[neverplaysfair]

House 38.

[Voice]

[akumanotrill]

I'll be right over!

[and soon there's a knock on your door]

[Action]

[neverplaysfair]

It's open.

[ lalala getting a chair to sit outside on. ]

[Action]

[akumanotrill]

[gets in]

Hello?