your eyes are broken bottles [ 2024 catchall ]

[lunardreaming]

who: lucy kushinada (lunardreaming) + others
when: all throughout 2024
where:
what: 2024 catchall, open quest starters
warnings: will add as necessary




[ note: open starters will be posted in the comments! if you'd like to do something with Lucy, hit me up at cosmonautdelta ]

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[lunardreaming]

[ Yeah, Lucy didn't think he'd go for that. Lucy's not sure she wants to go for that either, since really, it would only identify one frequency. ]

Okay, 'scrolling through all possible frequencies picked up so far' it is, then.

[ Luckily, she's been keeping a log of the frequencies the berry has been putting off so far, and it's relatively easy to have her Bursterfly start outputting the opposite, a sonorous hum that raises and falls in pitch, changing tone every ten seconds or so. ]

Now we wait and see which of these makes your hair stop looking like a nightclub.

[emet_sulk]

[ It surprises him how quickly her little insect manages to reflect the berry's output. How long had she been recording? Would it be enough to counter his ever-changing hair?

He can do little but wait. At first, there's no change. But at some point one of the wavelengths matches a pattern emitted when his hair is about to change its colour again and it abruptly turns back to its proper white. Not ten seconds later, it shifts to another neon colour.

Emet-Selch, having created a small, handheld mirror to observe his own hair in this time, let's out an 'Aha!'. ]

It worked! Briefly, but the theory seems to be sound.

[lunardreaming]

[ Lucy briefly looks victorious, and changes the audio channel back to the one that canceled out the effect on Emet-Selch's hair and eyes. There; he's back to normal now. At least for now. ]

The problem is, I can't follow you around with this until the berry effect wears off. Maybe if I just do this for long enough, it'll... work like an antibiotic.

[emet_sulk]

More's the pity. Since it was a food, I would imagine the effect will fade after it has passed through completely.

[ It doesn't really solve the problem but it's a step towards it. Maybe? ]

What of yourself? [ A vague gesture at her glittery state. ] That cannot be comfortable.

[lunardreaming]

Mmm, you've got a point. Unless the food triggers some kind of permanent magical effect, but that's... hopefully not the case? I don't know.

[ She tinkers with the Bursterfly's settings until it puts out two different frequencies at once, an overlaid hum. The next time she moves her hand, it's decidedly glitter free. Thank fuck. ]

Now I just have to hope the glitter fades too, otherwise the carpet cleaners here are going to kill me.

[emet_sulk]

I'm sure they've developed ways to efficiently clean this...glitter.

[ He watches the Bursterfly for a short while, frowning thoughtfully. ]

That thing is more useful than I first thought. I wonder if he'll be able to make full use of it...

[ Probably not at first. But then, Rhea'li always manages to surprise him somehow. ]