catholicisms: (104)
ᴀᴠᴏᴄᴀᴅᴏ ᴀᴛ ʟᴀᴡ. ([personal profile] catholicisms) wrote in [community profile] networkinthenight2019-10-15 06:24 pm

[audio] @HK; set during the middle of the event! [open]

( Matt isn't big on the devices, for a multitude of reasons. he'll answer on occasion but most of the time he observes and doesn't participate. his username might not be familiar, even to the people who have met him. maybe his voice will be; that's the medium he chooses, it just makes delivery easier. )

I am sure we've all heard what is going around, that plenty of us are suffering from hallucinations. I know how real they must look, or hear, or sound.

( he's had at least a little of his own issues, mostly voices in his head. touches he can't explain. Matt thinks he might be getting off a little easier on this round of misery because he's blind. that's a first, but it also means he has a different perspective on the situation.

and while he's generally not big about talking about how he uses his other senses, in this instance? he feels like he should.
)

If you don't recognize my voice, my name is Matt. If you don't know me yet, I'm the one with sunglasses and a walking cane. ( hopefully this is obvious enough a cue to imply he's the blind guy wandering around. ) I can't see what you are seeing, any more than anyone else can. But I can tell you that your other senses could help you decipher if what you are experiencing is real.

If you see blood, something dead, rotten, you'd smell it as much as you'd see it. If you can feel things on you, they can't just come out of nowhere. When things come towards you, they leave an audible clue, and it means something if you can't hear it.

The things you are seeing, hearing, feeling — they're terrible, and horrifying, but they also aren't real. Try muffling the sense that is troubling you most. It's already dark here, but a blindfold could help you ignore what isn't there.

( and because he realizes it isn't easy to rely on senses without practice, ) And if it seems real and you need help figuring out what you can trust, maybe I can help.
sauntered_downward: (Default)

@freddie1967

[personal profile] sauntered_downward 2019-10-16 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Is this literally a case of the blind leading the...?
saibot: (18)

@subzero; voice

[personal profile] saibot 2019-10-16 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
The hallucinations are more distracting than anything else.
scarsolderthanyou: (nope)

Audio @Stone

[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou 2019-10-16 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Have a grumpy old man, Matt. Didn't know we had one of those in Beacon, didja?]

I can't do much about the sense bothering me the most, unless I want to stop breathing.

It's hard to tell my head that I'm not really smelling a predator when my tongue is telling me I'm smelling a damn predator. But I'm trying.

[He huffs.]
scarsolderthanyou: (Default)

[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou 2019-10-16 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Not that unusual. He's like a lizard, Matt.]

And I find it unusual that you humans can barely smell at all. Doesn't mean I go around commenting about it.

[At least he doesn't actually sound offended. Just kind of exasperated. It also comes with something of an explanation:]

I'm a Raksura. Smell comes through tasting the air.
Edited 2019-10-16 15:45 (UTC)
sauntered_downward: ([phone] calling)

[personal profile] sauntered_downward 2019-10-16 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[A++ on lacking any chill, Matt. Crowley will not be switching to audio.]

You know there's a lot of people looking for superpowers. Maybe yours is that you get to miss out on all the horrific hallucinations everyone else gets to see during this punishment.
savingthrows: ([sad] somber)

@eleven | audio

[personal profile] savingthrows 2019-10-16 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Her voice sounds a bit more hesitant than he heard her on the beach. The words sit more heavily in her mouth, as if it's a bigger effort to put them on her tongue. ]

I see... bad things with my eyes closed, too.
song_of_ice: ([Jon] Now I'm Pissed)

text; un: snow

[personal profile] song_of_ice 2019-10-16 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Any theories at what's causing this exactly?
webshoots: (Default)

— audio / @parker.

[personal profile] webshoots 2019-10-17 08:21 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for this. [ beat. ] But you've gotta admit, it's kind of thematically on point, right? And I know I've been waiting for my very own chance to re-enact the Blair Witch Project, because this place wasn't creepy enough as it is. Was?

—Although speaking of, I have been wondering if the spirits have been affected as well.
unpredict: (Default)

audio | @kol

[personal profile] unpredict 2019-10-17 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this dude is evidently onto something. either matt's overcome each and every horrifying thing that's been bestowed upon him... or he's immune.

kol doesn't sound angry or ready for a fight. he sounds uncharacteristically resigned. ]
Are you experiencing them, too?
savingthrows: ([sad] foreboding)

[personal profile] savingthrows 2019-10-17 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I see the Upside Down. Nancy's head opens... like the Demogorgon. Steve... looks Flayed.

[ She swallows, breath stuttering. ]

I smell like the lab. I hear the Mind Flayer.

[ The last part, a whisper, as if she's afraid saying it might make it true. ]
scarsolderthanyou: (amused)

[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou 2019-10-18 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I know, none of you humans do. We don't have humans where I come from, just a couple hundred or so species of groundling, sealing, and skyling.

Raksura are a shapeshifters who live in a forest of mountain-trees. One form looks a lot like you people, the other has wings and a tail and a lot of spines. One of you people already mistook me for some kind of forest spirit in that form.
savingthrows: ([sad] but what if)

[personal profile] savingthrows 2019-10-18 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She remembers his face from the beach, and she doesn't want to see it open up like a rotting flower. So Eleven shakes her head, even though they can't see one another - and he can't see full stop. ]

I'm at Castle Miners. I live here, now. With Steve and Nancy.

[ A moment of hesitation. ]

Can we maybe.. just talk. For now? Is that... okay?
webshoots: (( face ) i loved this arc)

[personal profile] webshoots 2019-10-18 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, right. [ BECAUSE OF THE BLIND THING of course. whoops. at least it's not like that time peter just steamrolled ahead and asked how matt looks at himself in the mirror every morning hUH. ]



—There's a lot to unpack here, but I'm just going to start with: the spirit that lives with you? Like, roommate, helps out with the laundry and the cooking...? Or is there a second, lesser used definition we're going with, one that intersects with 'why'?
isochrone: (another's in the mortar in the glass)

audio | @elizabeth

[personal profile] isochrone 2019-10-18 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Elizabeth sounds positively miserable. ]

It's certainly with a shot. Thank you, Mr Matt, for suggesting it.

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