sticksandbones | [EVENT] Joshquest

Ah, chaval — the phone has a flashlight. Here...

[If Pavlova will let Thorns see the phone, he'll show him how to turn the flashlight on. And Sidney and Shadow Milk too, because he knows your asses don't know what a smartphone flashlight looks like.]

Mizuki, you're good with computers. Do you want to take that? I'll look for anything hidden for now. I have a feeling we're not seeing the full picture somehow.

[ Mizuki nods and heads over to the computer to see if he can turn it on and attempt to ~~open Minesweeper~~ glean anything off of it. ]

Oh- thanks. ... You too, Mizuki, Shadow Milk Cookie.

( phone light: acquired! alongside other lights!

now.

what do his Special Eyes (the ability to see both danger (manifesting through red scratches on the ground/walls/whatever else) and 'important/useful' things (manifesting in a gold highlight that can even be seen through at least one wall)) see, kaed? )

[No door? That's pretty strange, but that just means there's probably some other means of coming and going in this place. Shadow Milk uses his Special Eyes (through the staff because blind.) to see if anything screams Deceit to him. This could mean secret entrances or trap doors or something like that.]

[He will go as far as to touch the walls to see if anything might be inscribed on them magically. testing for the hidden stuff!!]

[ Thorns will find that he is drawn in the direction of the rear wall to the left of the desk. There is no visible doorway here, however. Just a tall shelf with some succulents on it. They are nowhere near a window, but they seem to be thriving nonetheless.

Sidney will find that there is nothing appearing in red (thankfully!) but there does seem to be a gold-highlighted object appearing on the succulent shelf! It's one of the succulents itself. There's another small, square highlight on the computer desk.

Pavlova will find various post-it notes. Some are old lunch orders for someone named Cecil. Some are names and phone numbers. One has what looks like a few passwords written on it, each scribbled out save for the one at the bottom of the list. Inside the drawers are pens and paper and a folder of invoices and receipts, and a bag of trail mix for snacking on.

Mizuki will find that the computer does boot up, but there seems to be nothing of note on it, or at least not that's readily apparent. But he does get to open Minesweeper, so that's a plus! There's also 3D Space Pinball if he's feeling froggy.

Shadow Milk will find that the walls are just normal walls, for the most part. His vision detects nothing that screams Deceit, but one particular touch to the wall seems to feel... spongey? And vaguely wet. When Shadow Milk touches it, it makes a groaning noise similar to heavily creaking wood, and the spongey wetness abruptly grows around his hand, trapping him there in a suddenly sticky, moist prison.

The computer that Mizuki is playing on makes a noise in response. ]

[The various blorps that surround his metal arm point at the wall and succulents like !!!! This must look weird to the rest of you, sorry, rest assured the Corazonix blorps are just here to point at things for now.]

A false wall, perhaps... we might want to move the plants and see if there's a hidden switch somewhere.

[...what is that noise from the computer—]

[ !!!!! Password acquired. He doesn't know what this is for but it looks important. It's his now. As is the trailmix.

He's pawing through the receipts and invoices while the others dick around. He also takes the names and numbers sticky notes just in case those are important for something. Assuming he doesn't find something worth looking at in the pile, the fucked up victory jingle catches his attention and then...

Oh god is Dad's hand stuck in the wall? ]

Uh..? Need help?

NO!

[He's fucking fine, everything is fine he meant to do this- oh god he's up to his fucking elbow in this wall and has dropped his staff so now he can't see.]

[He plants a foot on the wall and the shadows around him start coming alive with his NOT panic. Thank you he's fine!!! Fine!!!]

[Pav, please help him.]

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( this is his succulent now. but before he can investigate it, shadow milk gets shadow moored and, that seems... how do you say... bad.

he's going to take it but he's specifically going to put it in thorns' hands before walking over to the wall. )

... Lovely.

I'm going to try and pull you out, alright?

( but he's not actually touching, until the blind man acknowledges him, on account of he's already being grabbed by shit and he doesn't want to make this worse. )

[holds the succulent gently in his hands and waits several seconds

nibbles the succulent]

Hold on--

[ Tucking his spoils into his himation before hurrying over and picking up Shadow Milk's staff, turning it so he can see what's going on. ]

Couldn't we get it to let go with magic?

[ He'll stab it before he lets you break his dad's arm off. ]

( hey he's gentle and experienced in rescue, why does everyone assume the worst of him :( )

...Hm. You've already hurt yourself for this once, let me do it this time. Just tell me what I need to do.

[ Mizuki is busy fiddling with the computer, putting in a lot of different inputs in hopes that it’ll give him something. Eventually, though, while everyone is busy with the wall, he’ll finally give up and go join them in the great milk catastrophe.

Mizuki pulls his phone out to communicate this time. ]

I have a very slippery mucus that excretes from my tendrils, if you think maybe like… a combination of Shadow Milk Cookie’s shapeshifting and some lubricant and some magic might all work really well?

[That sounds very gross actually but it might have to work.]

[Also thanks Pav, now he can kind of see what's going on. Oh god that wall is Bad. He tilts his head towards Sidney to acknowledge him, but there is a strange undercurrent of panic in his voice. Like whatever is happening here is affecting him more than it probably should! Like he has a terrible fear of being trapped or something!]

Jelly's got a point! I can turn into a snake, but that will positively doom me if this wall sucks me in as a result of not having limbs. Think you can hold onto me tight enough?

( if sidney were without tact, he'd say that bigger monsters have had to kill him to get him to let go of his protectorate, but he does have tact, so he doesn't say some weird shit like that. )

I can.

...

[ He's uneasy. He doesn't like this either for reasons that are probably obvious to Shadow Milk. ]

If it doesn't work I'll try to freeze the wall.

[ It's not that he thinks it will fail, but on the off chance it does... a back up. ]

I’ll make sure to slick only the pet the wall’s got you so you won’t be hard for us to hold onto, ‘kay?

If you can do that preemptively without harming your father, that might be a good idea. We want him out safe, after all.

... I can try.

[ He's reasonably sure he could avoid hurting him, but his magic also isn't that strong. He doesn't know how long it will hold even if he knows the spell. ]

[Time to Become Snake! this is actually one of his easiest forms, so with a little pop of confetti there is now a snake.]

[Stuck in the wall.]

[He wriggles like one might imagine a panicked snake might.]

( TIME TO GENTLY YET FIRMLY HOLD THAT SNAKE, HE DOESN'T WANT TO HURT HIM AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

stoicism saves his dignity yet again. )

[ Freeze!! He holds a hand out and the area around the snek starts to freeze and go rigid. At least it can't pull him in like that. Better get out fast! ]

[ Luckily, the moment that Pavlova begins to freeze the wall, it... screams? In a tiny, shrill sort of way, like tortillas being pressed. It immediately pulls away from Shadow Milk, though, setting him free! Congratulations!

Unfortunately, now the wall is crying like an injured animal. What will you do? ]

...

( he's going to put shadow milk in pavlova's hands and- uh. )

... I cannot believe I am doing this. Look, I'm sorry. I thought you were a threat. You'll be okay, it'll warm up again soon-

[Suddenly he's glad he didn't use acid to melt the wall...

(Munch.)]

Are you hungry? I could share some of this with you. [thorns you werent supposed to eat that to begin with????]

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