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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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"Yeah, they're floating above your head."
...hang on. They're above his... head... too...
"Shit." Well. Matt has certainly heard all of his thoughts now, hasn't he?
Sighing, Toby shakes his head and draws his cigarettes from his pocket, fiddling with the package to give himself something to do with his hands for a moment as a distraction.
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Matt is so very very glad this is such a harmless thing, whatever it is, because this would not be nearly as funny otherwise. "Well, this is the first time this place has done that since I've been visiting, so I hope so."
He was going to put it more diplomatically, but the symbols above his head kind of ruin that whole approach.
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Though that last set of symbols is unexpected. Heart... not... sound? That's what all those are, right? Why would Matt think those things?
God he hopes that's what it is, because the last thing he needs to do is spring the whole "I'm a vampire" thing on someone new.
...shit. Moving on! Hopefully before Matt catches that!
"You mean my bumping into your table and shuffling around didn't give me away? Or are those kinds of sounds not loud enough for you?" he asks with a laugh.
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Sorry buddy, too late. There's an annoying scramble of text-to-speech going on everywhere, but vampire in such close proximity is something that Matt can't exactly ignore, and his eyebrows shoot up above the rims of his glasses.
"I mean besides that," he amends.
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"Your hearing is that good?"
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"Better," he confirms modestly. "It's kind of a long story. There was an accident, when I was a kid."
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"So rather than rely on your sight, you rely on your hearing to get around?"
Yeah... embarrassing as that might be for mortals, it's just one of those things that happens for Toby. When you're as old as he is, tripping over people is an inevitability.
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"Among other things," Matt agrees, though he can't see the parade of other senses being proudly displayed above his head. "Hearing is one of the stronger contributions to how I perceive the world, but it's everything working together, really."
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Uh, yeah, handshakes are not necessary.
"Tobias Matthews. It's a pleasure to meet you, Matt. Sorry I almost ran into you and ruined your papers. We all good?" He hopes so. His cool guy moves aren't going to help him out, soooo here's hoping being cool is good enough?
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The immediacy with which those appear speaks to how little Matt needs to focus beyond what he's already getting from Toby, though of course it helps to voice it out loud. "You're a smoker, and your last drink was Jack Daniels. You use lavender scented soap. And you had lunch today at the greasiest diner you could find."
Eat your heart out, Sherlock Holmes.
Without a heartbeat to listen to, it's hard for him to tell how anxious Toby is about the whole trample-the-blind-guy's-paperwork thing. Fortunately Matt's response would be about the same, either way. "We're good," he affirms.
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"Spot on - minus one detail." Yes, he's going to be a smart ass about this last detail. It's in his nature and dammit he's not going to hold back now.
"I can imagine," he chuckles. "People aren't always the most observant when explosions happen." Nice cover for missing that he was blind for so long, Toby. Real smooth.