Game 051 [Voice/Action]

[neverplaysfair]

[ Day 6 ]

[ Early morning (locked to Tsuzuki) ]

[ The best part of waking up in a body that isn't yours is finding out the company said body keeps when it sleeps. Which is why the first thing that Joshua notices, upon waking up in a place which is distinctly not House 38, is the other person in bed with him. ]

... I think I missed something.


[ And after that fun little interaction resolves itself, Joshua picks up the journal and reaches out to the person it might be a bit important to contact about this. ]

[ 100% filtered to Joshua and Hisoka because he isn't quite sure which is the necessary one in this sort of situation ]

I do hope that my body is over there with you.


[ Morning onwards, open ]

[ Joshua and Hisoka are wandering around town together. But to anyone who knows them, something seems odd... ]


It's rather hard to believe that you wouldn't have any way to make mental defenses.


If you want to figure it out while you're in there, be my guest.

[ Feel free to run into the two of them. Clearly they want to be bothered. At least I'm sure Hisoka does, since he isn't the one with the headache for once. ]

Comments

[cynicism]

... Have you started heading out yet? It takes a while to get back into town.

[neverplaysfair]

[ Sigh. ] So impatient. I'm leaving now.

[cynicism]

Looking forward to it.

[neverplaysfair]

[ Yeah so about that getting to the center of town thing. That didn't work out quite so well for Josh.

Or, well. A good ten minutes after Joshua should have shown up, he's still making his way there. Slowly.

He's getting some major deja-vu back to his first time in Pork City as a Composer. Except there's less thoughts overall, but he's more susceptible to them. So things are about balanced out. ]

[cynicism]

[Hisoka knows that face. He spends a lot of time making it.]

Trouble?

[neverplaysfair]

[ Hey. Hey. He's still upright thanks, that's more than he can say for you the first time they met. ]

Actually, your defenses are so poor it's rather impressive.

[cynicism]

[He'd just come back from a kidnapping then, thanks.]

I thought you knew how to make them better.

[neverplaysfair]

[ Details. ]

Yes, and I'm working on them.

[ And it's working! Or maybe he's just adjusting to the pounding headache. It's hard to tell. ]

[cynicism]

It doesn't look like it's doing a very good job of working.

[neverplaysfair]

As I said, you have impressively poor defenses. For all we know, I've made large improvements already. I don't exactly know where the baseline is.

[cynicism]

I'll let you know when I get my body back.

[neverplaysfair]

Fair enough. In the meantime, I'll see what I can do.

[cynicism]

Do you need to sit down and take a rest for a minute? It's a long way from the house.

[neverplaysfair]

I'm fine.

[ Not strictly true but he is also stubborn. ]

[cynicism]

If you say so.

[neverplaysfair]

... Did you see the scars?

[cynicism]

Did you want to have a conversation about them?

[neverplaysfair]

... [ Sigh. ] I suppose that's a yes.

[ It was something he'd planned on keeping from people, but one by one those close to him seem to be finding out. ]

[cynicism]

You're the one who brought it up.

[neverplaysfair]

Yes. I've had a few too many people decide that private conversations were fair game to bring up in public journal entries to leave it to chance.

[cynicism]

You know me better than that.

[neverplaysfair]

Even still.

Have you been affected by this experiment before now?

[cynicism]

My housemates have.

[neverplaysfair]

So this is the first day it's affected you? That's rather fortunate for you.