🎧 homophonic | pcs | libby rhodes

[silicone]

What power in life ever comes without sacrifice?

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wknd 0, friday

[silicone]

[ hello from the other side barrier. eiden literally just walked into it because the mods are cruel and has a hand up against it as he rubs his temple. he'll see her though and give a bit of an embarrassed wave. ]

Alright, cool. Love that. Invisible walls... noted

[medeian]

[giving a concerned glance to his head as he rubs at it]

Are you hurt at all...? I'd think that wasn't possible, but it looks like it stung.

[silicone]

It just surprised me, I think? I just didn't realize we were actually... boxed in.

[medeian]

That's one more thing about this place that doesn't make any sense, I guess.

[making a face before she continues]

Maybe there's a break in it somewhere? There's no way to know whether we're really boxed in until we check.

[silicone]

Yeah, this place is kind of a weird mess. [ he glances at his phone and frowns. ]

We could try and walk it, see if it goes around this place...?

[medeian]

It probably can't hurt, right...?

[silicone]

Nope!

[ he gestures a little and starts to move along the weird barrier. it's hard to tell because like, you have to really look to see where... you can't really see any further? ]

Come on, let's see what's around... what's your name?

[medeian]

[moving along with him, glancing in the direction of the barrier every so often.]

Oh - I'm Libby. Um, Libby Rhodes. I'd say it's nice to meet you, but... Well, either way, what's yours?

wk 0, monday

[silicone]

[ hello we are going to the park!

anyways, topper is rolling himself happily in the grass because wow, he's missed nature! he missed this shit! meanwhile, eiden is watching him roll around. he's jury-rigged a little dangly toy from some long grass and is just keeping it right out of topper's reach so he just ATTACKS IT LIKE A CAT. when eiden looks up and sees her, he grins, waving and letting topper have his grass: ]

Hey! How's your morning been?

[medeian]

[topper is the most important pc in this game. anyways, she gives him a wave and a small smile!]

Pretty good. The fresh air is nice, right? Even if this is more... playground-ish than I would've asked for.

[silicone]

[ i am only playing topper, eiden is his item actually? ]

Yeah, kinda makes me feel a little like I should be a kid to even use it, I'm sort of afraid I'll break something?

[ he leans back. ] Honestly, though, just having a park sort of brightens up the place.

[medeian]

Can't go wrong with fresh air.

[glancing at topper]

Seems like he's enjoying it, too.

[silicone]

He probably misses the woods. Ah well. Not much we can do about it right now.

How's team building going for you?

[medeian]

Oh - really good, actually. I'm pretty satisfied with where I ended up.

[tilting her head]

You?

[silicone]

About the same.

Yakumo is a little anxious, but... we're used to working with groups. Gyuhyuk and Shen Qingqiu are pretty cool people.

[medeian]

Oh, is he from the same place you are? Either way - I'm glad you wound up with people you like.

wk 0, sunday post erasure

[silicone]

[ we are at Anywhere But Selfies and that's ikea where it's possible to sit there and eat a tiny swedish princess cake and drink coffee and sulk quietly about how someone's dead?

(talk about homophobia.)

he's between the cake and a sketchbook that he's just doodling in with a furrowed brow. ]

[medeian]

[she comes in to grab some food as well, but pauses when she sees him. she's got a frown on her face after seeing that, too, but:]

...What're you drawing?

[silicone]

My super cool new crime-solving invention that I'm working on.

[ he pulls his hand away and it's just one of the ikea show rooms, but he's been adding patterns and things on the furniture. ]

[medeian]

Our hero.

[tilting her head as she looks, though.]

Looks nice. So it's not just toys you're good at designing?

[silicone]

Yeah, we'll be drinking slushies while it solves all the mysteries.

[ glancing down. ]

Yeah... people, places, clothing sometimes. Ikea's nice because it feels like fundamentals again. [ he gestures with his hands. ] Lots of straight lines that're good for perspective practice.

[medeian]

Must be good for practice, yeah.

[...]

How are you doing after, um - all that?

[silicone]

Knowing that this happens every weekend...? I'm nervous, I guess. It's a lot crammed into 48 hours.

[ his brows knit tightly. ]

And the people who... if we're dead, double die, they don't get a chance to come back alive unless we find some way around it.

[medeian]

It doesn't have to happen every weekend, but it probably will, yeah.

[sighing.]

Well - if you believe the rulebook, only four of us are going to have that option anyways.

w2, saturday post-trial

[silicone]

[ hi it's after trial and after some time trying to process the entire mess of today and taking a walk in the woods he's going to just... shoot a quick text to libby. ]

hey, are you up for some company?
just wanna talk a bit doesn't have to be about today
we can just chill and get coffee or something