[EVENT] Joshquest

[leggierissimo]

Who: The Joshquest Party
What: Joshquest
When: At the end of June
Where: The Night Vale Community Radio station
Warnings: None here, but pay attention to CWs in tag subjects!

Comments

[wolfetracks]

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

[lovelyredthread]

... 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. ]

[jesterlies]

[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.]

[wolfetracks]

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


stoicism saves his dignity yet again. )

[lovelyredthread]

[ 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! ]

[leggierissimo]

[ 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? ]

[wolfetracks]

...

( 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-

[sailingfor]

[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????]

(general reaction ignore me)

[wolfetracks]

--Thorns, I didn't say to eat it.

[leggierissimo]

[ The wall goes silent!

Another maw - because now that Shadow Milk is free, it's easier to see that that's exactly what nabbed him - opens up. It patiently waits, open and periodically making a noise that sounds like, "Ah! Ah!" ]

[sailingfor]

[Oh he wasn't expecting it to have a mouth somehow, okay. Thorns steps closer and starts gently feeding the wall succulent leaves. This poor fucking succulent dude.]

[jesterlies]

[He coils up around Pavlova's shoulders like an angry necklace. Hiss hiss he does not care if you cry!]

I did not consent to being eaten! That's a second date at least!

[lovelyredthread]

I'm not one to say what people can and can't do in relationships but I'd prefer you not getting eaten in general.

[ He's running a finger anxiously along his father's scales. He is also completely unrepentant. Trying to eat his dad is not something he will forgive easily ]

[wolfetracks]

Hm. Does Miss Lily know?

( SIDNEY.

still, might... as well... see if this works? )

[sailingfor]

[still feeding the wall, at least until the succulent is gone. Hm.]

Do you want the soil too?

[The rest of you can make jokes all you want but he's taking this starving wall Very Seriously.]

[leggierissimo]

[ Fortunately, the wall only seems to want the leaves! It snubs it's nose - don't ask how it does that - at the dirt.

But Thorns will find out that, once all of the succulent leaves are gone, the stalk is... a microphone!

Sidney will also note that one of the post-its that Pavlova took is the glowing square from the desk. ]

[wolfetracks]

Oh, interesting. That did something.

"Pavlova Cookie, something you have is an item of interest. One of the post-it notes- there's a square on the desk that I think it goes with. I think it's for the- ah, what that device there is?"

[lovelyredthread]

[ He was perhaps a little distracted by the whole mess. It takes him a second to place what the fuck a post it note is. ]

Oh. Yeah one of them has passwords on it.

[ He was preoccupied with the wall eating his dad. He would have mentioned otherwise.

He leafs through the little notes he stole and picks out the password one, shining a light on it. ]

[jesterlies]

[Shadow Milk sticks his tongue out at Sidney, a little snake flpflflfpflfp and then turns his attention to the paper Pavlova has. Hm.]

[leggierissimo]

[ The post-it note contains several words that are scribbled out. Clearly, the password either changes semi-regularly, or this is a very, very old and occasionally used note, in which case the glue on it is VERY good at its job.

Either way! The most recent word isn't scribbled out yet, so that must be the password. The word is:

MIXTAPE

What will you do with this information? ]

[sailingfor]

[Holding the former succulent still, he strolls over to see what everyone's looking at, reads the word, and then flatly says:]

Sidney, viejo... that's a word you should be familiar with.

[Isidro he's Not That Old.]

[wolfetracks]

( deadpan, and yet one hundred percent sincere: )

I don't know what that is.

( he's from the prohibition era- )

[sailingfor]

...it's. [The way he's about to eat his own words:] It's a collection of various songs put into what you'd call a cassette tape. They're outdated. Most of us just use our phones to store music. We can talk about the technicalities of it later.

Ahem. I imagine this might be the password, and if Mizuki didn't find anything on the computer, perhaps it's meant to be spoken into this microphone.

[...he's going to feel so stupid if this isn't it, but he holds the microphone up and says tentatively:]

Mixtape.

[leggierissimo]

[ Luckily, Thorns doesn't have to feel stupid! The moment that the word is spoken into the microphone, the wall - complete with the shelf in front of it - clicks outward and slides aside. Voila! A path has been opened!

The entrance leads into a hallway, which can only be described as being just shy of a vintage media collector's (very sanitary) hoarder house. The hallway is lined with piles consisting of boxes of tapes, reels, and records. It is a radio station, after all. It makes navigation difficult, but not impossible. At the end of the hallway, the path turns to the right and around a corner.

There are doors lining the hallway, all marked with unlit "ON AIR" signs. Most of these doors are blocked with boxes, though. There is also a set of two doors on the opposite side of the hallway, with men's and women's restroom signs on them. Both signs have printed out papers taped to them, stating "NOW IN UNISEX".

What do you check out first? ]

[sailingfor]

[Can he move the boxes and get into one of the ON AIR labelled rooms? Surely Josh isn't in the bathroom, surely he doesn't want to be walked in on if he is—]