[ oo3 ]

[icasm]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Every Last One of You Riftwatchers
NOTES: Imagine I posted this on the afternoon of the 15th! Loki has been truthified and has had (even just in passing) much too honest conversations with people by the time he asks this question.

Also for those characters that would have noticed: he was absent from the mage/rifters meeting, he's not been in the Gallows in some number of days, nor has he been seen in Lowtown for several weeks. Those who know where he lives, however, would have been able to find him there at any given moment.

What the Hel is going on? I don't care if it is a guess or not.

Comments

[elegiaque]

...nothing? What are you talking about?

[icasm]

You haven't been driven to speak honestly despite a complete lack of inclination to do so?

[elegiaque]

Why would I not want to be honest? The amount of time the rest of you waste pussy-footing around what you mean to say and do looks exhausting.

( it's not that she hasn't had the soup. )

[icasm]

Norns, this is just how you are, isn't it? No wonder you're perfectly terrifying.

[ A breath. Okay. See? ]

Well. Something has happened, though I don't know who all has been affected.

[favoriteanalyst]

No idea, actually. Just that conversations have gotten really blunt and rambling today, and it's freaking everyone out. Seems centered on the Gallows.

Are you okay?

[icasm]

Ah, excellent. So I am not the only one is a cold comfort, actually, but here we are.

I am so far from okay it is positively ludicrous. How are you, I would much rather talk about that instead.

[favoriteanalyst]

I feel like I'm barely functional most days and am trying to exhaust my options to figure out this nightmare shit, when apparently new not-fun stuff happens on top of it. I'm worried about you. Haven't seen you around.

[icasm]

You're right to worry.

[ Shit. Wait. Loki makes a frustrated noise. ]

I am very tired and it is not helping my otherwise abysmal mood.

[armd]

(With some small amount of exasperation,) Could ask you the same question. (boy where u been)

[icasm]

Lexie had to return to Orlais and I had a falling out with Sylvie and I haven't been sleeping well and have I mentioned that mortality is terrible?

private

[armd]

(Woah there.

Abby truly doesn't mean to react this way, it just comes out of its own accord, sounding slightly wounded,) ... Why didn't you tell me?

private

[icasm]

I was too busy sleeping, and not eating, and being all around depressed, I suppose.

I didn't... I don't... It isn't that I don't think you deserve to know it's more that I don't think I deserve to be comforted about it.

Shit.

[propulsion]

Man, I picked up this crystal to find out what raw honesty sounded like coming outta you but now that I'm thinking about it it'd probably be extremely unsatisfying.

[ Well, that wasn't what he'd planned to say. ]

[icasm]

Good? I suppose?

[propulsion]

I mean. It'd be more convenient to my emotional wellbeing if you'd act like I expect you to act, but then again I don't actually want to deal with more than one megalomaniac drama queen per dimension.

[icasm]

Ah. Right. That is... understandable, actually.

[apocalypsegrown]

[ She really shouldn't engage, because she's just as affected as anyone else, but she's careful with her words-- truth truth but just-- ]

Looks like we've all been drugged by some kind of edible magic; so if you dont want to spill your guts at the slightest inclination I'd put the crystal away for a few days Loki.

[icasm]

All right.

But I have to say: I miss you and I'm sorry.

[apocalypsegrown]

[ Loki ]

You really are shit at listening.

[altusimperius]

[with a wincing air,] It seems like you've gotten your answers.

[icasm]

[ A groan. ]

More than, really. Are you well?

[altusimperius]

I've been worse. [it's the truth]

[rowancrowned]

( thoughtful: ) It is not as terrible as some of the illnesses that have afflicted the Gallows.

[icasm]

...no I suppose it wouldn't be as terrible as anything that could possibly cause death, at the very least.

[rowancrowned]

Merely humiliation, ( said with a mouthful of teeth. )