metagame: (Murder is probably the thing I do best.)
Atem ([personal profile] metagame) wrote in [community profile] linkingup2024-09-29 12:53 pm

The City of the Specter, Atem's Palace

The corpse sinks to the floor
Even the brightest gold, even the sharpest blade
Becomes sand, becomes dust
beathollow: (L2D. 027)

Re: phase two

[personal profile] beathollow 2024-10-01 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
( hey, remember how mafuyu finished the puzzle while just wandering around?

...

maybe she should have gone to look at the murals before she takes the final piece back. this is surely not going to go poorly at all. unfortunately, mafuyu does not know anything about being genre savvy, as she does not know genres.

whoopsies. )
finalmix: (29)

[personal profile] finalmix 2024-10-01 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this is some time after mafuyu comes back with the completed puzzle probably but.

looks at the mural, looks at the puzzle and mafuyu. looks at the mural again. looks at mafuyu again. ]


Why do you somehow attract cursed objects?
finalmix: (29)

[personal profile] finalmix 2024-10-01 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ gestures at... the mural....... ]

Remember when I said that puppet you got was maybe cursed, and now this is showing that that puzzle was maybe actually cursed.
beathollow: (OA. 041)

[personal profile] beathollow 2024-10-01 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
( SOMEHOW SHE HAS MISSED THE ATROCITIES. god. ...

fuck it we ball she's going to follow the rest now, but i rolled a 1 and so shes going to get momentarily sidetracked by dealing with the ooze. gross. )
privatedomicile: (whaaaaat)

[personal profile] privatedomicile 2024-10-01 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[Jesse finally notices the mural and the puzzle look extremely similar. He looks back and forth between the two several times before finally replying.]

How'd you even manage to piece it together so fast?!
beathollow: (L2D. 033)

[personal profile] beathollow 2024-10-01 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
It just came to me... I did this before those two attacked, actually.
privatedomicile: (uhhh)

[personal profile] privatedomicile 2024-10-01 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
That's like, crazy impressive.

Just, uh, maybe stay near the middle of the pack in case of the curses.
privatedomicile: (yo)

[personal profile] privatedomicile 2024-10-01 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Like, the mural's sayin some weird shit about the puzzle, and most puzzles in movies and shit like that are cursed.

What's your opinion on horror movies, Mafu? Think you'd like 'em? [He's already guessing that her fascist mother didn't let her watch anything besides maybe pretentious art films or kids' movies.]
beathollow: (OA. 001)

[personal profile] beathollow 2024-10-01 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
...

I wasn't allowed to watch horror movies. I don't know.
privatedomicile: (bit skeptical yo)

[personal profile] privatedomicile 2024-10-01 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm. Well, we probably shouldn't jump straight to grindhouse shit. Hellraiser's a weird-ass movie anyway.

[Jesse rubs the back of his head and tries to think of scary-but-not-too-scary movies to show Mafuyu.] We could go to a video store and rent whatever jumps out to you?

[He's from 2008, before the fall of Blockbuster. RIP Jesse.]
beathollow: (L2D. 027)

[personal profile] beathollow 2024-10-01 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay.