AUDIO. @VEGEMIGHT; OPEN.

[magnitudes]

( Hello there, darkness dwellers. Is this a new voice you here? It sure is, lucky you. The accent is Australian, broad almost to the point of cliche, and there's something oddly lackadaisical about it, given the... well. The everything, really. )

So, not being funny, but has anyone, I dunno... fallen off the ferry and gotten a bit cuddly with some mysterious glowy, kinda ethereal-seeming tentacles?

Asking for a friend.

Comments

— audio / @parker.

[webshoots]

I hear tentacles are more of a Tuesday affair, but answering for a friend: are we talking cephalopod or more, I don't know, jellyfish? Because I hear cephalopod hugs come pretty highly ranked in terms of things to avoid.

[magnitudes]

Nah mate, I didn't get cephalopod or scyphozoa vibes. And I mean, believe me, I'd be keen to admire jellies and octopusses from a distance, but I know to avoid getting snuggly with 'em, you know?

This was like... it felt kinda boney, actually?

[webshoots]

But your friend missed that memo, right? [ beat. ] I'll be honest, I don't really have much of an immediate response beyond yeesh and a rather belated: try not to go near the water. The river skips the cuddly stage entirely.

[necromantiae]

Is that friend you?

( because that sounds very specific. )

Was the cuddling good cuddling at least?

[magnitudes]

I can neither confirm nor deny.

It was actually a bit glowy and a bit pokey? And very shortlived.

@freddie1967

[sauntered_downward]

What tentacles? Did you see them?

[magnitudes]

well Freddie me old mate
they were very glowy
and sort of boney?
it could be the hypothermia talking

text | @Scientia

[reigniter]

I am not sure 100%

But I think there was a person that jumped into the lake when my group arrived.

[magnitudes]

and everyone thought they were fucking awesome, right?

audio; @mollymauk

[mollymocked]

I told everyone there was a bloody lake monster!

[magnitudes]

But did you do it as stylishly as I did, though?

@kingsknight; text

[broplaints]

You know there are easy ways to get a hug, right?

[magnitudes]

actually, I'm covered in venomous barbs, so I'm impossible to hug :(

Audio. @Crow

[justcawse]

Well, has your friend experienced this that caused you to ask?

[Don't mind him.]

permavoice.

[magnitudes]

My friend might have done some things. Might have made some choices.

audio, @purrsona

[survivaltricks]

[. . . SARISSA. . .]

It has tentacles???

permavoice.

[magnitudes]

( SON..... DON'T...... )

It, it... I mean maybe it could have been a tendril. A grapple-appendage. A curly-grabber.

@jtodd

[mind_blown]

is it 2 late 2 say thats new?
ive heard of stuff in the water b4
thats y it's generally not a good idea to go 4 a swim
so add that 2 the list ig

[magnitudes]

it's good to finally get some verification on that
is swimming what made you type like that?

( she's...... hilarious...... )

audio, @hello

[lunchbreaks]

I'm afraid I don't know anything about that, but did your friend happen to tell you how big it was?

permavoice

[magnitudes]

No, they didn't mention it. They lost consciousness pretty quick, actually. Pretty embarrassing, to be honest.

@thursday | audio

[freetobe]

[ That sure is the 'you're burning your shoes' voice. ]

Is your friend alright?

[ He doesn't get the joke. But then, he also doesn't sound as if he's really that concerned about her friend. ]

Did the tentacles by any chance attach to something glowing in the water about the size of the ferry?

sorry for the slow, I was totally wiped out by work this week :'|

[magnitudes]

( oh no

but he already has such a sound basis to judge her )

They're a bit of a dickhead, don't worry about 'em.

( Fixed it, it's fine. )

Uh, I dunno. Didn't really get a chance to measure it up good and proper, just kind of went "oh Christ these are boney tentacles" and then passed out.

@subzero, text

[saibot]

I have no doubt dangerous creatures lurk within those waters. Did it kill you?

sorry for the slow, I was totally wiped out by work this week :'|

[magnitudes]

more like a cuddle
it might saved my life, actually, I'm not really sure