Comic 1167 - Track the noise
Posted on 17th Jan 2019, 6:35 PM
in Like a Bullet from Behind
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Author Notes:
You try to perceive where Willard is located, so you can send him to check on the sound.
He's somewhere... dark. And somewhat cramped.
You have Willard walk forward.
Everyone in the lab pauses as a shuffling, scraping sound travels back across the ceiling.
It's Willard.
"Oh god dammit," Fuse huffs. "I thought time monsters were coming for us."
"Time monsters?," Caius asks. "That a thing?"
"Maybe," Michelle replies. "Prob'ly nothin' to worry about."
You also take a moment to start feeling everyone's... uh... auras. They're not as pronounced as they are with the ghost girls--it's almost hard to perceive the ambient energy coming off each body in the midst of all the energy in the atmosphere, seeping out of the walls and forming the EM fields. It all mostly blends together.
Even with how difficult the auras are to tell apart, though, you can notice faint, subtle differences when you really look for them. You can barely make out thorn-like protrusions in Liz's energy, not unlike Edison's... though, Liz's aura is much more subdued, more passive.
Michelle's feels softer, blending smoothly into the atmospheric energy at the edges. It's almost hard to tell where it really begins and where it ends. Fuse's energy is... odd. Its erratic motions make it easier to notice, and you wonder if his being psychic has something to do with it.
Dr. Finch and Caius have strangely similar auras. Both feel... restrained? As though they're being pulled in and held close, like someone sucking in their gut. You imagine there must be more distinct differences between them--but again, it's hard to get a good read on. You suspect if someone were astral projecting, their aura may be clearer. Focusing intently on Caius and Dr. Finch, though, you do start to pick up that the 'held in' nature of their auras is... lessened, between them. Their energies almost pull toward each other, while recoiling somewhat defensively from everything else.
Talking about EM auras, how about Mamared's over there ?
In that case, let's rev up the ol' trade-up Tradesman ritual and see what happens.
I'm also wondering if Red (the other personality in Mine's mind) has an aura-- and if said aura might have that prickly quality. She's not a gentle person, after all.
Try asking if there's a timebeast or other being sending messages with "one scratch for no, two unsettling noises for yes"?
(Probably nothing, though.)
Huh.
But... yeah, maybe there's practical uses for F&C's soulbond. I wonder if (with enough Astral Lifting) they can get spidey-senses about each other or something? Or easier and more fluid possession?
I'm curious what Willard the rat's aura is like, and at some point we'll want to check the people at Illsworth to see how it compares to Fuse. Feels like the later can wait, though.
Pierce and Dr. Finch should probably lead the group that decides what music bundles we trade up, and the others can make hats and set the time incorrectly on half of the watches for us to blood before we trade them up.
I will say though that we should be exceptionally cautious about passing through the borders of altered time bubbles. If you put your hand into an area where time runs faster, say double rate, it'll "live" and need resources at that double rate, while your heart won't keep up and electrical signals will be wonky. Rejoining in the same timeline it would be numb like ones legs after siting in one position for too long. If the time discrepancy is larger, you may see your hand shrivel and die before you even got a pain reaction. We should definitely do a test or two to see what happens when passing between time-zones, ( :-p ) but anything living will likely want to cross those borders very quickly. (Read: instantly)
They grow up so fast.
Seriously though, +1 for checking up on all our animals
I still say we should try using the bunker zero key from inside bunker zero. If there's no card reader, add one
Cuz they're in love. Y'know.