livestage ([personal profile] livestage) wrote2025-03-15 11:14 am

SUN SIGN

[The Showmaster leads you through the dark stage and you find yourself entering something that looks like a very nice and expensive classroom.

Each desk is spacious with drawers that you will conveniently find any important item that had been on your person or that you feel like you would need here. Each chair is cushy and swivels.

Sitting on top of the teacher's desk is a young girl, older teen / younger adult in age at most, hair that looks like mint cotton candy that probably reaches down to her ankles. She has a knee drawn up to her body, resting her chin on top as she scours the room of who arrived . . .

And then she looks at you all with pure judgment. You'll notice that her purple eyes shifts when she makes the scowl, it goes from a solid purple to a purple mixed in with this symbol in black also.]

Sun Sign, you try to act so heroic, but you're all a bunch of phonies.
heartlands: (pic#14961326)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] heartlands 2025-03-15 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[hushed]

We learned too much.
demonicdomestic: (formidable enemy)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] demonicdomestic 2025-03-15 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Looks from Cashmere, who is bleeding out of his everything
to Velveteen, who is bubbling on the inside and shooting light from his eyes
to Calico, who is literally having body parts fall off
to... Suede. Who is disturbingly calm and blissed out in the middle of everything.]

I don't know who to worry about more.
heartlands: (pic#15331935)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] heartlands 2025-03-15 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
What do we doooooo...
demonicdomestic: (gifts from the enemy)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] demonicdomestic 2025-03-15 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
We finish the next two rounds and complete the story. And then hope that these effects are lenient enough to end when the performance does.
heartlands: (pic#15875287)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] heartlands 2025-03-15 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I have no idea what to pick.
demonicdomestic: (glad to hear it)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] demonicdomestic 2025-03-15 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
The first through third levels don't seem debilitating. and the fourth, while painful, is far more a regular injury than...

[Another look at the rest of the bleeding disintegrated boiling falling apart room.]

... that.
heartlands: (pic#14961328)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] heartlands 2025-03-15 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
When I said that I didn't know what to pick I kinda meant that you're gonna have to tell me what to do...
demonicdomestic: (chance encounters)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] demonicdomestic 2025-03-15 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh.

Why don't you take the first level for shoes, and the second for event?
heartlands: (pic#17739360)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] heartlands 2025-03-15 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[nodding]

Okay.
demonicdomestic: (thank you)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] demonicdomestic 2025-03-15 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you. I'm glad you're at least able to tell me how best to help you.

If there's anything else you need, I'll be here.
heartlands: (pic#14961327)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] heartlands 2025-03-15 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I know. You're so cool and smart and amazing...
demonicdomestic: (academic agonies)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] demonicdomestic 2025-03-15 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Leans his head on Gingham's shoulder.]

And even affected as you are, you're the only other one here with a shred of temperance and restraint.

I can't even blame the Storyteller for this. All she did was provide the knife; we're the ones impaling ourselves on it.
heartlands: (pic#15331935)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] heartlands 2025-03-15 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
It'd be one thing if all of us had, like... Communicated about it beforehand...
demonicdomestic: (thank you)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] demonicdomestic 2025-03-15 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Even if we had, everyone still would have gone their own way. The only thing that would have changed would be that you would have known what to expect.

People seeking "unity" and "cooperation" don't usually end up with us. Headstrong independence, on the other hand...
heartlands: (pic#15331935)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] heartlands 2025-03-15 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Even if we couldn't talk it out, I'd take knowing what to expect over the alternative.
demonicdomestic: (just as we thought)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] demonicdomestic 2025-03-16 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
As far as I can tell...

Cashmere is trying to work out some feelings, and pain and violence are mediums he gravitates to for that. Suede likes to gamble; he's comfortable taking risks, and will make choices simply to see the outcome. Velveteen is calm and stable right up to the point where he is not -- again, usually when pain or violence is involved. And Calico I don't know well enough to say, but I believe he's looking for the security of figuring some of this out on his own.
heartlands: (pic#14961328)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] heartlands 2025-03-16 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
[...]

When you said earlier that we don't normally have people who prioritize stuff like that - like unity and cooperation...

Did you mean you don't think I belong here?
demonicdomestic: (made without artificial ingredients)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] demonicdomestic 2025-03-16 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
No.

You belong in Sun Sign because you chose to be here. I've told you that before, and my opinion on that hasn't changed.
heartlands: (pic#14961328)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] heartlands 2025-03-16 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
...Thanks. Sorry, I'm sure I would have remembered that normally.