[Nexus LOL] Technomagic was Never meant to work like this

[chocolatechipbadass]

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood Nexus. A really beautiful day.

Six-winged birds singing, flowers blooming everywhere one looks. From far off in the distance on the other side of the Nexus people wandering the Plaza will hear a sudden loud noise and feel a very minor shake but there's no invading force. No colossal calamity to be bested. Now for the poor sod who used to own the internet cafe that's just been blown to smithereens in a cascade of firework trails raining down it's a very bad day. Tina's still swearing about Aimbots and cheaters while waving around a game controller that isn't plugged into anything while the fire burns. She's not going to stop when the potions shop next door catches flame either.

But alllll the way back in the plaza? There's no sign of trouble. Maybe the faintest glimpse of fireworks. The smell of gunpowder mingling with a bitter herb and a touch of...ozone? Honestly with all the pollen in the air it's difficult to tell. Precisely Because it's the Nexus the fallout from this ill conceived haze may not be easily noticed at first.

A flicker of a little symbol over someone's head while they're reading a book. People cutting off mid conversation to glance at their conversation partners. Or rather, over their heads. So many little 😮 popping up over heads as confusion starts to spread only to rapidly dissipate into a myriad of other little pictures when people seem to realize that whatever the flavor of the day weirdness is, it's not seemingly dangerous. Is there a rhyme or a reason to them? What could it mean? Are you affected?


[Please refer to THIS POST in the OOC comm for an explanation of what's going on. The TL;DR to this Nexus LOL is that a character's innermost thoughts will be visible to anyone who is observing them whether they're speaking or not, but they will exclusively be communicated via Emojis. The OOC post has some guidelines for using these emojis in tags and some rules so please check there before posting in. Threadhopping and mingling are required for this post as there is no real Question Asker so Have fun!]

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[chocolatechipbadass]

Amid all of the text-to-speech droning that's going to be threatening to deafen poor Mister Murdock (and really that would just be cruel since he's already blind) the strange combination of smells will get stronger from a certain direction. He'll hear a child's footsteps against the sidewalk and the sound of plastic being drug along the ground carelessly as it catches and tumbles on every bump and crack.

Tina's still sulking when she wanders into the Plaza dragging her broken controller by the cord out behind her. She's in a bad mood and the Plaza has only one thing that interests her. Over her head there's only one thing on repeat, spammed over and over until it fills the entire little space above her head.

🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪

There's usually free food in the plaza and this sulky Young lady demands a snackrifice.

[he_put_the_devil_in_me]

If nothing else, she has his attention solely because it is the same thing over and over again, a constant bland beat of cookie cookie cookie like an annoying stuck record. That aside, he's pretty sure this is the same child he'd heard swearing up a storm in the middle of whatever exploded.

and pop up over his own head, rather quickly, and are followed somewhat belatedly with a .

"Are you all right?" He can't smell blood, or hear broken bones, but that doesn't mean this child is fine.

[chocolatechipbadass]

Tina hasn't really been taking in her surroundings while she came into the plaza properly. She's been completely desensitized to most things from living in her world so the Nexus is one big playground so far as she's concerned. Still, the mantra of 'cookie' is going to stop hella fast when she spies the symbols hovering over Matt's head.

0️⃣🤔

Well isn't that neat. She's never seen someone else who could pull off that kind of thing.

👍

"Me? I'm fine shawty. Lookin' to get me some grub if you now what I'm sayin'. not like, actual grubs though. I bet those taste like broccoli." Which of course taste like butts.

🤢
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[he_put_the_devil_in_me]

What even is happening right now.

Matt is used to having to tune out a lot of junk noise, but this is ridiculous. Where is all this coming from all of a sudden? Why is it happening? A mystery.



Matt frowns in her general direction, trying to focus through the cacophony of nonsense to make sure she's not just bullshitting him. She honestly doesn't sound like she's surprised or traumatized by anything that just happened, though, as far as he can tell. "I... wouldn't think they would."