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nexus_crossings2019-05-24 07:45 pm
chocolatechipbadass) wrote in nexus_crossings2019-05-24 07:45 pm
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[Nexus LOL] Technomagic was Never meant to work like this
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!]
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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Forrest seems solid as the mountains themselves, but that doesn't mean he ought to be taken for granted. Even mountains can crumble and collapse.
The thing is, Jack's pretty sure by now that Forrest doesn't intend to ever give him permission to come here, and after hearing a whiff of how the winter went here, and packing all kinds of food to take to Cricket, he can't stand it any longer. He's got to see him.
Boy, did he pick the wrong damn day.
The first thing that pops into his head when he hears the explosion is shit, did someone's still blow up?. Such things happen with relative frequency in the world he comes from. He doesn't notice when the Nexus helpfully translates his inner monologue to 🥃 💥 🔥 ⁉️
It may take him a minute to pick up on the floating emojis. He's never heard of an emoji and this is his first exposure to Nexus strangeness.
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Kinner notices Jack - he recognizes the description he got from Cricket, and he comes over to introduce himself, strange emoji curse be damned. Kinner's not going to stop something like this get in the way of meeting a friend of a friend. He tries to ignore the floating symbols around them.
"Reckon I know who you are." He offers a hand. "You must be Jack Bondurant. The name's Joseph Kinner. I'm a friend of Cricket's. I'd say welcome, but I think the Nexus is doing it for me."
Sure enough, Kinner's head has a 👋 emoji floating over it. Several of them appear, as well as a few scattered 🦗. Well, he's Cricket's friend, and he's sure if Cricket was here he'd get a real kick out of this. As things are, Kinner can't help but smile a little. It's harmless, as far as Nexus unpredictability goes. As long as it doesn't last, hey, he can play along.
"The Nexus is a nice place, most of the time, but it takes some getting used to. Mostly because of things like this. It's unpredictable."
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"What the--!" His first reaction is to swat at the hovering punctuation, and oddly it seems to dodge the swipe of his hand. He tries again, like he's batting at a mosquito, and this time he catches the dot at the bottom of one of the question marks. It drops to the ground and vanishes, and the upper part of the question mark flies off erratically, like a balloon that's been punctured.
😕
Jack just sort of...gapes for a moment, completely lost, and then shakes Kinner's hand, mystified. "Y-yeah. I'm Jack. You know Cricket?"
That's good news! 🦗 🤝
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😕
"Don't ask me. Whatever they are, they weren't around in 1938." In Kinner's time period, cell phones weren't even invented.
Kinner nods eagerly. "Yeah - I know both Cricket and Forrest, though I've only met Forrest once. He was real decent to me. Cricket was one of my first friends here. He helped me get settled when I was pretty new. We were both from the South, we had some similar interests, and he makes great moonshine. I met Forrest when Loki - it's a long story - held a pillow fight." The one where Kinner was a lobster. An involuntary 😳 appears.
The 🍺 and 😋 emojis that float around him give Kinner's opinion of Cricket's moonshine. The little cook's not the toughest of critics, but he likes to think his approval counts for something.