Game 045 [Action/Voice] - And a Five, Six, Seven, Eight

[neverplaysfair]

[ Well. It wasn't enough that he had been forced to track down every mermaid he could find and berate them one by one, outside world this, Malnosso world that...

Of course not. Experiments always had to go the extra mile, didn't they?

So this fine day, Joshua could be found clad in all red with a crab hat on his head, in the fountain. Singing. With his journal open. ]

In Luceti...!

In Luceti...!

Darlings it's scarier outside the barrier, take it from me!

[ Of course, the Malnosso had to give him his own musical number. Of course. ]

Comments

[neverplaysfair]

[ ...

Swimming for the surface and taking a deep breath the moment his head is above water. B| ]

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

[Line. Face. Hisoka follows grumpily, raising his head above water only past his mouth.]

Quitter.

[neverplaysfair]

It's nice to know that you don't value breathing, but some of us have our priorities in a slightly different order.

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

I don't have a problem with it. You haven't even tried to take a breath under here.

[neverplaysfair]

You also have fins.

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

Just the one.

[neverplaysfair]

One more than I have. Point stands.

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

So you'll grow some gills. Where's your sense of adventure?

[Hisoka is aware that this sounds absolutely nothing like him. He just can't really help all this sudden enthusiasm.]

[neverplaysfair]

At home, in a box on my mantle. Sometimes I take it out and admire it.

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

...Look, I know it sounds stupid, but I really need you to go exploring with me. Didn't you say you had to do what I told you?

[neverplaysfair]

I might be exempt from being told to go drown myself.

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

[Well, Mermaids are kind of accidentally murderous like that in a lot of mythologies.]

You won't! You'll adapt! Come on, Joshua!

[neverplaysfair]

[ Good thing Joshua is wonderful at not listening to others, then! ]

If I were going to adapt, I would have done so already.

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

But you haven't even really tried!

[neverplaysfair]

Are you sure?

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

I didn't see you trying to breathe while you were down there.

[neverplaysfair]

And have you been with me for the whole experiment?

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

No. [So?]

[neverplaysfair]

I've already tried it.

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

You didn't try it hard enough.

[neverplaysfair]

And I won't!

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

Since when have you been so boring?

[neverplaysfair]

Since about the time you decided you were out to kill me.

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

I'm not out to kill you! I just want you to swim with me.

[neverplaysfair]

Underwater, where I can't breathe, for presumably longer than a single minute at a time. Sounds like murder to me.