any way you wanna love, speak deep from the inside (part XLII)

(Roleplay entry, but also mostly dialogue over description. Continued from part XLI.)

The last thing Emilly wanted to do was attract the attention of the clown-faced imp on the shore, and really didn't want to risk getting close to the tentacle...things...over the bay, so out of expediency, she dove into the waters and swam for Steam.



She saw...something...off in the far distance of the Dark Sea, but shook her head. She had larger concerns.



She clambered up the bank and moved towards the garden, and got snared by floating tentacles. She fought her way free, stumbling against the garden wall.



She got snared again, and the thing flew, dragging her along the walls of the tower, spinning in place on the balcony outside the main study. She got away again, diving low, opening the study doors and slamming them firmly in the mass of writhing black tentacles outside.

[1:50 AM] RoseDrop Rust: Em emememem
[1:51 AM] RoseDrop Rust: I am under attack.
[11:34 AM] Emilly: Where are you?
[12:06 PM] RoseDrop Rust: Last I looked, I was in the music room. I was chased down there from Justine's rooms by some sort of beasts.
[12:06 PM] Emilly: They're in the house?

[12:37] RoseDrop Rust: Emerly?
[12:38] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Yes?
[12:38] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Oh, gods, are you still in the music room?
[12:38] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): AAAAAAAAH
[12:39] RoseDrop Rust: Yes!
[12:39] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): How in the HELL....I came into the public study and got attacked!

The beast in the house reached through the open study doors, pulling her into the hall beyond, pinning her to the parquet. What were these things?!



Oh, gods. There were eggs. Outside Justine's parlor. Why were there eggs?! What was...

[12:39] RoseDrop Rust: Cowering near the piano. with a globe of something created by a tune ...
[12:41] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I swam across from Darktow, I tried to make my way through the garden.
[12:44] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I had to fight my way through the bamboo! Those beasts are everywhere.

The thing seized her again, dragging her down the hall, where she half-fell down the stairs, but by the time she rolled into a breathless ball, while she could still hear it shrieking upstairs, it was upstairs.

[12:44] RoseDrop Rust: Oh Em!
[12:44] RoseDrop Rust: I am so confused!
[12:45] RoseDrop Rust: What kind of, what can they do?
[12:45] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) breathes out.
[12:46] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Well...Flying's bad. Simplest of things, I do it without thinking about it, and I got snatched out of the air and nearly dragged into the house.
[12:46] RoseDrop Rust: I was so scared I was talking to myself.
[12:46] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): And there are....eggs...near Justine's parlor.
[12:46] RoseDrop Rust: Eggs?

She sincerely hoped they didn't hatch, or if they did, it was well after they'd cleared the house of everything else.

[12:46] RoseDrop Rust: [F*ck]!
[12:47] RoseDrop Rust: I made an ..... energy ball.
[12:47] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Fascinating!
[12:47] RoseDrop Rust: from the piano.....

She made her way to the music room, tilting her head as she looked at the poet.

[12:48] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): You...I thought you were casting, my apologies
[12:49] RoseDrop Rust: "Casting?"
[12:49] RoseDrop Rust: If it is a science? Is it not magic to some?
[12:49] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Well, I suppose that makes sense.
[12:50] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): There is integration between what we think of as magic and what we know as science, after all, at the highest levels. Or the smallest, considering quantum mechanics.
[12:52] RoseDrop Rust: This may be a philosophical discussion we should pursue...Still, there is the matter of the monsters.

She flicked her eyes to the mantel clock, running times in her head. The Stormhold reading group was meeting soon, and she had said she'd tried to be there. Of course, that was before an entire flagship collapsed into the bay...

[12:53] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) I'm close to due on another sim, but--if you use the port circle in the corner, and go to Darktow or the lighthouse, you *should* be clear of the beasts, and can go wherever you need to? And I'll meet up with Justine in Stormhold, and figure out what to do.
[12:53] RoseDrop Rust: What is a "darktow?"
[12:54] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): My apologies, it's the small island. Just be careful, it's *very* close to the debris of the Gray Area.
[12:56] RoseDrop Rust looks for the circle and will go to darktow ...
[12:56] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) nods. Fair winds to your sails.
[12:56] RoseDrop Rust: Emerly ....
[12:56] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): This is going to be...nuts.
\[12:56] RoseDrop Rust: What will you do?
[12:57] RoseDrop Rust: What do you know of these beasts?
[12:58] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Right now? I don't know anything. But I'll learn. I do know they likely came through the rift we've been observing on Tannhauser Station, which is....disappearing in sections, which may be part of the problem.
[12:58] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) hugs him and disapparates to elsewhere, hoping he makes it to Darktow intact.

(Continued in part XLII.)