2nd soul

[harm0nixer.livejournal.com]

[somewhat distressed breathing; accidentally recorded;]

What the hell...? The malice, it - my talisman - when did it get like this?  By the looks of it those damn masks could show up at any time...


[deliberately into the journal this time;]

Hey, castle.  Nothing we do can bring people here, right?  Nothing can just follow us from wherever we came from? Not like that would even make a difference... dammit!



[ooc: Yuri's talisman turns red when beatsy monsters are coming to take his soul away. It doesn't apply to him from his canon point, but he doesn't remember that \o/]

Comments

[so-many-needs.livejournal.com]

Well, people from the same world arrive, but it seems to be coincidence.

[harm0nixer.livejournal.com]

Right. So it's more like individual people are taken here on their own, regardless of who else is already here. So something that normally follows someone around shouldn't be able to get here without this place doing it on purpose?

[so-many-needs.livejournal.com]

I guess not.

[harm0nixer.livejournal.com]

Seems like I'm getting off lucky. The wildlife doesn't even include any hideously deformed monsters.

[materdei.livejournal.com]

Careful, you might jinx yourself.

[ooc; lol malice D:]

[harm0nixer.livejournal.com]

You don't seriously believe that, do you?

[materdei.livejournal.com]

Sure, I do. Why wouldn't it be true? If you think about it long and hard enough, you'll sabotage yourself subconsciously.

[harm0nixer.livejournal.com]

Maybe...

Well, sure, when it's something I can control. But if I can't control who or what shows up here, I can't exactly call it sabotage...

[materdei.livejournal.com]

No, but you can control yourself and your will. No point in dwelling on things.

[harm0nixer.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm not dwelling. I don't dwell. I'm just being cautious.

You're in a less dangerous mood today I see?

[materdei.livejournal.com]

Saying is one thing, but to actually practice it is a different matter.

Let's just say I managed to shut up someone the other night.

[harm0nixer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, right. Easy for you to say...

Huh. Sounds like not sticking my nose into that one was the right decision. Maybe I'm learning after all. Are you still - y'know, combusting?

[materdei.livejournal.com]

It is, because I don't.

No, no, you wouldn't want to. I had to deal with an immoral bastard who thought it would be fun to torment me.

...

I'm not.

[harm0nixer.livejournal.com]

But that's just silly. You're not the least bit fun to torment! ... But if you got the upper hand, then good on you.

Good. That's not normal.

[materdei.livejournal.com]

Try telling that fucker that, who felt the need to corner me and prod one too many nerves.

...It's not. It'll blow over.

[avidawaker.livejournal.com]

Malice?

[harm0nixer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, malice. It comes from dead monsters - all their anger and frustration from being beat down. You've heard of it?

[avidawaker.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I've dealt with it before. My weapon's made of malice, too.

[harm0nixer.livejournal.com]

...I've never heard of a weapon being made out of that stuff before. If anything it's a burden. Starts to weigh you down after a while.

Most normal people don't even know it exists. Who are you, anyway?

[avidawaker.livejournal.com]

I've gotten used to it.

Johnny Garland. I'm a detective -- used to be from New York.

[perfectlikeme.livejournal.com]

...Talisman?

What's wrong with it, hun?

[harm0nixer.livejournal.com]

Nothing. I think it's fine. I don't know if that's worse or what. It's hard to explain, but it lets me know when I'm in danger. And it's kind of ... stuck in danger-mode right now.

[perfectlikeme.livejournal.com]

Huh. Stuff like that's useful, but if it's on the fritz...

Who knows, maybe you really are in trouble. You can never tell with this place~

[harm0nixer.livejournal.com]

I think I'll just hang on to the hope that it got broken somehow when I got dumped here. Better than the alternative.

Really? This place doesn't seem all that dangerous to me...

[perfectlikeme.livejournal.com]

You'd be suprised. This castle has a way of springing unpleasant things on people~

Of course, nothing too bad's happened to me yet. ♥