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Meulin Leijon ([personal profile] meulin) wrote in [community profile] calling_net2017-01-10 09:13 pm

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Guess where I am!

[A grey face appears on the screen, surrounded by thick black hair and a pair of cat shaped horns. Two gray eyes peer out from within that mass of hair and a smile beams brightly. The camera pulls back a little to show off the lovely river she's beside and dips and twists as she fumbles to show off the buildings nearby. It would appear she's in the City of Romance but that might only be because there's far more couples walking by than seems normal]

My device finally decided to work! I'm not purrticularly sure where I am but it's wonderful. And it's so bright! I've never been anywhere so bright. And everything is covered in white and it's just--gorgeous. I've never seen anything like it.

[And when words finally seem to fail her, she squeals and spins in place] Oh efurryone home is going to be so jealous. Kurloz and me meeting strange new people!

So--So, where is efurryone? I am here. [She holds up her device and makes a slow circle. It looks like she's near the border of Tommorow and Romance] Directions would be nice!
maskedtyrant: (Thinking | subtle eyeroll)

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[personal profile] maskedtyrant 2017-01-11 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
[It's one thing to wake up with someone's weird cellphone in an envelope next to her bed. It's another thing to open up its chat client and find...well Codi isn't sure who they are, to be frank. It could be some kind of underground military or travel organization. The fact that it's over the internet--presumably--makes her think of something more along the lines of an extremely elaborate LARP.]

[The problem is that she doesn't know, and in this new line of work she's made for herself, Codi feels that she can't take any chances. Thankfully she has this useful alter-ego to do reconnaissance with, and this new correspondence to test.]


Usually when I have to ask "where am I" and "how did I get here" I'm not so excited about it.
Was your device supposed to take you somewhere specific, or was random the goal?
maskedtyrant: (Coy | Eyebrow Raise | ???)

[personal profile] maskedtyrant 2017-01-11 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
[...Yeah, anyone in actual danger would not have time for emojis. Things are probably fine. Or it's a test. Best stay incognito and play along, as well as she can given that she's already shown she has no idea what these phones are supposed to do.]

Aren't seven cities in one place just one big city?
maskedtyrant: (Thinking | subtle eyeroll)

[personal profile] maskedtyrant 2017-01-12 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
I see.

[Play it casual, like she knows what she's doing. The trick is deciding how many questions she can ask before she looks like a complete outsider and starts to draw unwanted attention. For...whatever definition of "unwanted attention" Codi has decided to use here. Just bad attention? Any attention at all? She's not entirely sure herself, but it feels important.]

I think your device and my device are set up a little differently.
maskedtyrant: (Grin | Conversational)

[personal profile] maskedtyrant 2017-01-12 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, here we go.]

"Stuck"?
You make it sound like I'm being held hostage or something.
maskedtyrant: (Thinking | subtle eyeroll)

[personal profile] maskedtyrant 2017-01-13 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
Can't argue with that.

[Except she can, and will, because dANGER LURKING]

I like a good vacation just as much as anyone else.
But I think most people try to have more of a concrete travel plan than just "I pressed a button".
Unless winding up somewhere unknown is also something you're into.





Did you hitchhike?
maskedtyrant: (Smug | Brown-Nosing)

[personal profile] maskedtyrant 2017-01-13 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Co-conspirators. Of course! Must be that Kurloz fellow she wants to meet. And if she's got one of these phones with its own app to...secretly book her flight or whatever it is that's going on here, then they must be aiming to initiate her in the same plot. Suddenly it all fits together in Codi's head and sounds properly sinister--but also rife with opportunity. She could infiltrate them, like a hero ought to do.]

Hitchhiking is kind of like what I'm about to ask from you!
Where you are looks and sounds very interesting, but you're right that I can't get there on my own.
Do I need someone who's already arrived to get me there, like your matesprit?
Because then I think you could help me out a lot.
maskedtyrant: (Grin | Conversational)

[personal profile] maskedtyrant 2017-01-13 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Secret requirements, eh? Waiting for the planets to align and the weird button to show up? This is some actual cult shit going on here, she's sure of it. Codi's got your number, cat-pun lady!!]

The device decides?
Did the device choose us?
maskedtyrant: (Thinking | subtle eyeroll)

[personal profile] maskedtyrant 2017-01-13 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Naturally.

[How presumptuous of her, to assume the disciple knows how the mystery relic works. That would be too easy.]

But don't you think that's interesting?
Why us?
maskedtyrant: (Bashful | Deflect)

[personal profile] maskedtyrant 2017-01-13 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Klaxons go off in Codi's head--more than usual, anyway. Asking too many questions, don't ask too many questions]

No, you're right.
Just overthinking things I guess!
I'm happy for the opportunity and I'd like to see it pan out.


[That's suitably diplomatic, right? Sure.]

So what do I have to look forward to?
Is there anything I should have prepared for the trip?
maskedtyrant: (Grin | Conversational)

[personal profile] maskedtyrant 2017-01-14 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Ok!
Do let me know if anything comes up!
Just don't mention it was from me, okay?
maskedtyrant: (Flailing | shit!!)

[personal profile] maskedtyrant 2017-01-14 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
maskedtyrant: (Bashful | Deflect)

[personal profile] maskedtyrant 2017-01-14 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, not unless it's really significant or something!
I don't want to cover up anything useful!






So no language barriers or culture things I need to know about?
Travel guide?
Nothing?
maskedtyrant: (Laughing | Conversational)

[personal profile] maskedtyrant 2017-01-15 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
That makes sense!
Sorry if it seems like I'm grilling you for answers or something.
I'm just really curious!
But I guess you must be, too, so that's cool!

Maybe you could be like
my exploration partner for this place?
Give me some updates on how things are over there?
Until I can go visit myself, I mean
if I can go visit myself.
You and I, I think, we've been given a great privilege.
We should work together to enjoy it as much as possible!
thygospelevity: (Never have I ever been)

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[personal profile] thygospelevity 2017-01-11 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a great clatter as Kurloz turns on the camera before he's even righted the device in his hands.] MEULIN! MEULIN! [Finally, he gets it righted.] At last we may reunite! At long mother fuckin last, the wonders of this world belong to thee! Thou has traversed a vast distance from the proper venue of explanation! But my wicked kittybitch is not yet lost for I know where to find she! Upon the border of cities do you wait! You must migrate post haste in away from the city of flushed affections back to the region of thine advent! It is there an alien awaits behind a desk to explain all that mother fuckin is!
thygospelevity: (I cried out God)

[personal profile] thygospelevity 2017-01-11 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
The tower antecedent to all seen after hosts the escritoire preached! This great spire stands taller than all else within the city! Thou shalt surely know it upon its sight! [She is teasing but he explains it anyway, all but vibrating in his excitement and eagerness to meet her here.] All agreement from me, my pity kitty! But who could have anticipated such beauty of the grim? The shine is unlike even the ancient rite of the stardust shower! How miraculous it is!
thygospelevity: (I cried out God)

[personal profile] thygospelevity 2017-01-12 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I have acquired hive-stay among the towers with a friend! But I must mother fuckin warn thee prior. He appears as though another alien but he is an angel! I have spent time due, however, and can give righteous confirmation he is innocuous and notably kind despite his species.[He nods to emphasize this.] I had been considering offering assitance to the people of adventure or tracing back perhaps study more of the illicit tomes of terror's hold. Continue hence and I shall meet thee instead. Honk.
thygospelevity: (Fall quietly from my spark)

[personal profile] thygospelevity 2017-01-15 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
[He finds himself laughing along with each giggle, giddy as all motherfuck like they together just got superbly high. Which is not the case, at least in this particular instance. His laughter is punctuated by little honks.]

Let us unite just as so, that we may run to one another's sweet embrace, just like within the romcoms of yore!

[He knows what his girl likes.]
thygospelevity: (I cried out God)

[personal profile] thygospelevity 2017-01-23 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Adorable. She's mother fuckin adorable. He loves her so much.]

What barbaric beings would forgo the delight of a full mother fuckin spin of greeting one's dearest? Blasphemey, I do preach! Righteously, we shall spin swift as the holy carousels do!
thygospelevity: (I cried out God)

[personal profile] thygospelevity 2017-01-31 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
[He laughs, returning the gesture of sticking his tongue out at her but unable to keep "composed" as such for long.

The walk is still something. He cannot help but babble.]


There is so much I haven not yet witnessed here, my dear Meulin. So much in which I have not yet partaken. Time may pass but wonder ceases not! My matesprit, there is so much. The opportunities are vast before us!

[He walks faster, looker for ways to great his girl all the sooner. He does not mind if it interrupts his breath, for he talks anyway.]
thygospelevity: (I cried out God)

[personal profile] thygospelevity 2017-02-01 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
Night and calamity and heroes of yore! [He so then affirms with a nod.] We could be heroes, my dearest. We have all the time! All of it! Perhaps we could stay an age simply exploring it all! [This gives him pause. He had not actually considered staying an age. This place was wondrous but it wasn't home. It was a little more so now but...] I do not know if we age here. [He smiles again.] We must most righteous discover this also!

Oh! I recognize that bit! We are soon to greet!
boundinblood: (We're in this together)

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[personal profile] boundinblood 2017-01-13 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
["Animated" is right...are all trolls so enthusiastic about everything, or is it only the young ones?]

You're one of Kurloz's friends?
Edited (whoops) 2017-01-13 06:31 (UTC)
boundinblood: (I MIGHT have gotten a bit carried away..)

[personal profile] boundinblood 2017-01-20 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
Um...no. Well I am one of his new friends, but not the "angel friend". Has he told you about a mage friend, by any chance? My name is Katherine.

[She still doesn't know what a matesprit is. But it sounds important.]
boundinblood: (How precious!)

[personal profile] boundinblood 2017-01-28 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
[She lifts a hand to touch fingertips to a tattoo when they're mentioned, and grins a little brighter.]

I don't see why not. Did your love of cats shape your horns?

[Because she hasn't missed that this is like the third cat pun she's made. Does she mention she might be able to become a cat if she set her mind to it? Or does she keep that a secret?]
boundinblood: (What to do?)

[personal profile] boundinblood 2017-02-05 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't know how your kind is born, or how your horns grow. Yours are very different from Kurloz's. It's an interesting coincidence, at least.

[She's a lot more coherent than Kurloz, though - which gives her the idea to maybe ask this troll about things instead.]

...What is a "lusus", anyway? Kurloz seemed to assume my dog was one, and I don't know what one is.
boundinblood: (What to do?)

[personal profile] boundinblood 2017-02-08 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
So you're-...you're like human-shaped insects, then? We're, um...we have the same basic shape from birth, we don't pupate. We're birthed live, like...

[Is there a thing she would have a frame of reference- oh!]

...like a cat, and the adults in our lives take care of us, like your lusii do. Or...like a mother cat, I suppose. Normally, it's our parents, or some other relative.