14 tightropes walked - accidental video/action

[freckleddoll]

Beast...Joker!?

[Doll is making her way through the crowds, being pushed and shoved around easily considering her small stature.]

Are any of you 'ere? [jostled again] 'scuse me.

Dagger? Jumbo?! [craning her neck, trying to see over the other people as she continues calling out her siblings' names in the hopes at least one of them will be there and hear her. She looks pretty tired, considering she spent much of the previous day looking for them as well]

If only I could see t'least one of 'em for a few minutes, t'know they're alright. [spoken to herself, low but not low enough for the device she doesn't know is recording not to capture it.]


((ooc: open for fourth walling! Network or action (just...don't hurt her |D). Anything goes, just no spoiling her past the point she's from i.e. chapter 28.))

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[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

That it is~ That it is...

... My lady, you said earlier that most of your family was here today... ah, may I ask, in that case, if any of them are here with you or just temporary visitors like myself?

[freckleddoll]

No...they were just 'ere for the day. My sis was 'ere with me for a while but she went back 'ome. Don' think any of 'em are stayin'.

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

... My condolences.

[freckleddoll]

S'alright...I mean, I know I'll see 'em again when I get back. An' I'm gettin' by 'ere for now. Even if I hate not being with 'em. We ain't been apart since I was still really little.

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

Knowing that someone is waiting for you is the greatest comfort a human being can ever know, lady Doll. Take it from someone who has kept a friend of his waiting for a... very long time, now. No matter how bad it gets, and no matter how much it hurts not being with them... it will all be worth it when you reunite once more.

[freckleddoll]

Thanks, Brook. I mean...I know that, really, but s'good t'have someone else say it too. Helps me remember.

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

Always a good thing to keep a steady course~ both on a ship, and in here...

[He pauses momentarily, as he realizes that pointing to his own ribcage may not be the best way: after all-]

... Is what I would be saying if I still had a heart! YOOHOHOHOHO!

[freckleddoll]

[She joins in laughing, already used to him. She's spent her whole life around people who were somehow different after all, and she guesses that being a skeleton is just another kind of difference.]

Yeah, it is a good thing!

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

Yoohohoho, how fortunate then that we are of the same opinion~! It would hardly do to get into debates when I have barely been here less than a day!

[freckleddoll]

Yeah...no need not to get along in any case, right?

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

I would hardly be a gentleman if I did not do my best to get along with the people around me~. I prefer to make friendly acquaintances to enemies where I go since living on the outskirts of society only makes it even more necessary to be friendly to those in the same boat as you, so to speak.

[freckleddoll]

Know what you mean. S'hard enough to make friends when you're travellin' all the time without goin' around upsettin' people. S'much easier t'just try an' get along with everyone.

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

Mmm... I suppose that is one thing these strange places have going for them. There is seldom, at least in my own 'home away from home' any dangers or factors pitting people against one another. For beong so strange, they can often be strangely peaceful... mostly.

[freckleddoll]

Mostly...some of the curses 'ere do make people 'urt each other. Really hate it when that 'appens.

((ooc: sorry this is late, my computer monitor died ;;))

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

... Curses? I think that I heard something of them from last time, but... I am afraid I cannot recall what it was...

((OOC: It's okay, I am nothing if not used to epic backdating!))

[freckleddoll]

Usually they only last a day, or two at most. Weird things 'appen...sometimes it ain't too bad, like people singin' instead of talkin'. And sometimes it's a bit scary. Bein' turned into children again, or stuff like that. But it gets really bad when people are forced to fight or do other bad things.

((ooc: \o/))

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

... I see. Much like the effects and events of the camp I am a prisoner of, then.

[freckleddoll]

They do this kinda stuff to you there too?

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

In a manner of speaking then, yes. They do.

In our camp, the power of the camp can alter an individuals mental and physical age and body at will to produce, well, largely random and nonsensical results. One can be turned into an animal or even a plant at any moment, but such things are often rather harmless...

Worse than those by far, are the "Wolf games".

[freckleddoll]

Yeah, sounds familiar. Sometimes people even turn into toys 'ere.

...don' like the sound of those.

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

Ah, I did at one point turn into a knife-rack... I suppose it is not surprising that more worlds than one would have similar effects.

Which you are correct to do, my lady. Fifteen... sometimes more, are randomly chosen. A few are picked to be 'wolves', and others are sheep. Every day that the game is active, the wolves must attempt to, with guile and cunning, to vote out one of the sheep and the sheep must attempt to find out who among them are wolves and vote them out. And at the end of the day... the one who was voted on will be killed. And withdrawn from the game.

[freckleddoll]

Must've been impossible t'get about like that...

They...they force people to do that? But that's 'orrible, it's cruel! Why would anyone do that? Why would they even take part?!

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

Because they are brought to a subdimension within camp, a form of 'world within the world', and unless they do not play by the rules of the game they are not allowed to go back.

Of course, all who 'die' are resurrected at the end of the game. The first time it happened it was simply their minds who died, and the bodies of the losers fell into a coma. But recently the game happened again, and this time... those who died were killed.

[freckleddoll]

[looking distressed]

Why? Ain't it bad enough they're taken away from their homes? I don' understand it...

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

... Have you ever met a person, that have done something so offensive and vile, that you could never find it in your heart to forgive them?