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.

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— 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.

[magnitudes]

Well, my friend is a fucking impulsive moron who ignores warnings being given to her, even when it's being given by very intense women with strong opinions.

( Big ups, Miriam Maisel: you were right. Sarissa may never admit it directly. )

And it wasn't like my friend was trying to go near the water, she just saw something glowing and weird and was trying to get a better look.

So... like... bikini season. Not a thing here, I guess?

[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.

[necromantiae]

Are you some sort of mermaid or just a very skilled scuba diver?

( because why would you stay in the water for that long? )

[webshoots]

Anecdotally speaking, those are the warnings you should almost always be listening to.

I don't have the curves for a bikini, but I'm definitely not someone to judge anyone else's sartorial desires — but water-based activities? Yeah, there's a little bit of judging, and this is coming from someone who's ended up in the East River an embarrassing amount of times for someone that hates swimming.

@freddie1967

[sauntered_downward]

What tentacles? Did you see them?

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]

Yeah, I know.

( There's something distinctly childish with how she says it - if it was possible to verbally scuff a heel against the ground, that was how that sounded. )

Hey, if you want to wear a bikini, that's your choice. Don't let anyone tell you what you can't wear. Curves be damned.

( It's nice to have a moment of being able to be a little more flippant and silly amongst... okay, already a lot of her being flippant and silly, but in theory she should be being serious, so like... whatever. )

[magnitudes]

No, no, I'm an idiot who fell off the ferry and passed out after not that long. But it was long enough to have a vague, if amusing anecdote?

[magnitudes]

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

[magnitudes]

and everyone thought they were fucking awesome, right?

[reigniter]

Perhaps. Perhaps they were just curious.

Either way, there was panic around the docks so I suspect that nothing good came off of it.

audio; @mollymauk

[mollymocked]

I told everyone there was a bloody lake monster!

[magnitudes]

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

[magnitudes]

panic at the dockso, nautical adaptation cover band for panic at the disco

I hope you're from earth so you appreciate how funny that is

( it's not funny, but alas, such hubris. )

I'm getting some feedback that the water's not a great time. What's the big deal, do you know?

[reigniter]

Unfortunately, I am not. But I have been reading about it in the Library books.

Nothing about panic in the disco band, I'm afraid

[If he knew it was a pun, he'd embrace it because puns are his jam]

No, it is not. Just like the forest, the lake is dead so creatures that live there adapted to it. If they are creatures. It is useless to fish- I actually strongly advise against it. One of the people I know fished out his own dead body. It could've been a prank from creatures in the water, as the said body turned into foam, but it was quite unsettling to see.

[necromantiae]

What made you fall off the ferry?

( because that was either a big wave or a big klutzy move. )

[magnitudes]

( is this hell? where else could such a pun go unappreciated? )

okay
okay but the whole thing with lakes and forests is that they're ecosystems
they're made up of life, that's sort of how they work
like they got the living organisms, key word there is living
and then they got the non-living components and that
I don't get a lake can be dead

[magnitudes]

Hear me out:

I was hanging off the railings to try and get a better look at the thing I could see in the water.

( big awesome move, right?


no. )

[reigniter]

[It's actually starting to look like hell recently, yes]

I don't know how Forest Spirits survive
But if they are similar to us, they don't have to eat
There aren't many plants in the forest, aside from thorns and weed. There were a few weeks where we could hear cicadas but we didn't hear them. Also, flowers bloomed but died fast and the entire town smelled like a graveyard.
If there is anything living in the lake, I do not know what sustains it.

@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 :(