two ♓ video;

[cullscuttlefish]

[There is one - surprisingly; she's generally calm and nice - angry Feferi appearing on the video feed. She is fed up and she doesn't care who knows.]

Very funny. Let's all make fun of the people from a different planet who happen to type differently. I don't make fun of your accents or your slang or the things I don't understand. Is it so hard to extend the same courtesy?

I don't think anyone's more or less special or lacking or anything because of how they talk or how they act or what place they have in society. But I am fed up with all of the things on the network that make us out to be freaks. It feels bad. It feels really, really bad.

I'm willing to try and type differently if that helps, but is it really so much to ask to have a little common courtesy?

I'm sorry if this comes off as a 'hussie fit' or whatever the right Earth term is. I'm not normally like this, but this is really upsetting me.

[action/video]

[genius-idiot.livejournal.com]

All over the shopping district today, Kaiji can be found zipping about on his bike, or walking from store to store. He's never been much for Christmas, but people seem into it here in Propsero. But his job doesn't exactly afford him much to spend on gifts (not to mention all those gambling losses), and he really has no idea what makes a good gift.

Anyone else out there will find Kaiji forlornly staring into windows or walking out of stores grumbling, hands still empty if any gifts. Care to help him out?

--

[Later, on the phones:]

So, any plans for Christmas or New Year's parties? I know there's a chance some shit might go down to ruin everything, but that doesn't mean we should sit around and wait for it to happen.

1st glubbin - demandin answwers [text]

[misterwwizard.livejournal.com]

[Eridan woke up in the hotel at Prospero. Did he just die? Was that all just a nightmare? Or was this the true nightmare? A pink fleshy body? What the hell? At least the communicator was familiar. After some tweaking around with the settings, Eridan's ready to get some answers.]
( cut for courier )

second arcanum ✿ video, action

[eats-science.livejournal.com]

► [ ☽ - video; nigh midnight ]

[ Good evening, Prospero. It's very late at night--though not midnight--and the feed blips on. Have Souji, sitting behind a table with white tablecloth draped over it. There are various dining utensils and dinnerware on the table, and judging from the garish, gaudy and just plain old-looking wallpaper it's easy to tell that Souji is in the hotel's restaurant on ground floor. Behind Souji are the large bay windows that look out onto the street. It's sparse at this time of night. ]

Hello.

[ A small, curt nod. ]

We're... testing something.

[ Why, how unscrupulous. Souji checks his watch, then looks over his shoulder outside. It's dark out, but not eerie dark. Not yet, at least. He turns back to face the camera briefly, then his eyes flicker to someone, probably behind the phone. ]

You're sure that they don't come into the Hotel, right? [ small pause, then another nod ] Okay. Good.

[ And suddenly, there is the chiming of an old clock in the background. It's midnight. The setting phases to its eerie discoloration. Souji stands up. From the window it's easy to see the Dark Hour has taken its toll. There are a few coffins on the sidewalk here and there, and the few cars on the road itself are frozen in time. ]

Ah. There's one now.

[ Souji looks off-screen, watching for several moments before raising his arm and waving. ]

...

The Hotel really is a safe zone. They aren't attacking--[ suddenly, there is a very loud crash, accompanied by horrific wailing and groaning. Shadow groaning. Souji goes wide-eyed and dives to the floor as suddenly the table flips, presumably something hitting it, with the feed wildly spinning before it cuts out. ]



► [ ☀ - action; downtown prospero; dark hour ]

[ Not the best experiment ever conducted. For one, the investigator has become the lab rat. Souji is jogging down the streets of Prospero during the Dark Hour. With a trail of maya shadows in hot pursuit! You'd think with a pack of angry, human-killing monsters tailing you he'd be a little more shocked, but judging from his expression it's as if he's out for a midnight run. ]

[ OOC: Phone and action for this one. Feel free to take the video or action from the hotel lobby as Souji is leaving the restaurant! ]