001 • moongazer

[sorte]

[ The Murmur flares to life with a frantic energy despite the voice that comes over it being melodic and smooth without any urgency.

Aventurine has been looking at the moon daily trying to understand what it is about it that would prompt the warning he received through the murmur ever since it happened

With the moon dripping now, the snow captive mid-fall in stones and the animals all staring skyward, he immediately realizes that this is far more likely what that warning rule was about rather than in general.

Not that he thinks he needs to really truly bother telling the others the moon is looking extra fucked up and something is probably happening that they need to be concerned about, but he does want to share a warning about it since he has no idea of any of the others were around to listen during his brief conversation with Ash. ]

A new game's begun. For all those participating, you might find one of the supposedly non-negotiable rules obtained from local sources useful: "to gaze upon the moon is to die."

Who knows how long you have to do so for it to take effect, but there's no gain that we know of for finding out. So ...

Do gaze responsibly.

Comments

[dethangel]

Brutal.

[It is brutal! But also he's pretty glad he heard this message before he started looking at stuff because it'd be really hard not to look at that thing, no matter what he might have heard once.]

We need a science guy who can do it for us and then we'll know how much is okay.

[sorte]

[ in Toki's defense, it's totally right. kinda hard to not stare at the moon dripping like it was painted. ]

Do we have any scientists? I haven't managed to learn about everyone yet.

[dethangel]

Uhhh... yeah, I think I talked to a science guy! Or maybe that was a math guy.

[They're pretty similar, probably, so a science guy can probably do the math stuff and the other way around.]

So if there's one, maybe there's more, and they can get together and figure all this out.

[sorte]

That'd be very useful of them. I don't want to be murdered by any cults that show up for this thing.

[ he hasn't run into anything outside yet... little does he know...! ]

[potentialman]

[ He heard about this already, but yeah, he...kind of hopes people can take the hint. Between the things in the first dream physically trying to force people to look at the sky, all the weird notes about the "Lunar Anomaly," and now this... ]

Well.

It definitely looks like an anomaly.

[ So deadpan. ]

[sorte]

[ Megumi is actually the only other person besides ash he told, but he's glad to hear from him, anyway. ]

...It looks like a lot of other things, too.

Wondering what happens next if this is actually reoccurring. Any of those excerpts you and Ash were piecing together from others suggest what actually happened during the last one?

[potentialman]

Not clearly. [ There's an impression that he's frowning. (Like, more than he normally frowns.) ] Hang on, I think looking at these in order will be more helpful.

[ He takes a moment to revisit the memories, pull on the threads, and try to hear them all again. ]

It's not definitive, but I'd put what Ash found first.

This, twenty-eight days after. This, sixty-nine days after.

And then this, seventy-five days after -- so clearly everyone didn't...succumb? Go crazy? I don't know -- at the same rate.

But I can't place everything. This and this I'm not sure where to place.

This seems like it should go near the end, though.

[offseers]

I didn't think there were so many.

I have a little bit too, about the lunar anomaly.

[scowlish]

[Onni's presence makes itself known for a few minutes before he says anything - just that ever-present scent of petrichor and moss, the sensation of dappled sunlight on skin that accompanies itself whenever he uses the Murmur. For a while, it's just that, while he reads through the other things people have found.

After a while, he speaks, sharing the visual and audio of what he'd received that was similar to what they're sharing now.]

I saw something like those. Some scientific stuff I don't really understand.

[saudades]

...You know, of all the zombie apocalypse fiction out there, I don't think I've ever seen any where the outbreak was caused by the moon. I must concede points for originality, here.

[offseers]

Thanks for the warning.

[ he thinks. he's not so certain. ]

[sorte]

[ he's totally doing his good Samaritan efforts for the month! ]

Can't have anyone getting hurt from something like that if we can help it.

[offseers]

I think we might have bigger concerns.

[ considering. everything. ]

friends c:

[pointedlook]

[ Do gaze responsibly. Said as if the weather is a little off. Arthur recognizes there's a warning under the breezy tone, but just in case anyone on the Murmur mistakes it for anything else: ]

A better idea: don't fucking look at the moon at all.

kyaa friends C:

[sorte]

Oh, I like that one, too!

[ but he won't cry if anyone wants to be a guinea pig for everyone, so long as they report the results to benefit everyone else for doing something so stupid?? ]

It's quite distracting up there, though, so I thought gentler words of caution would make less people panic.

[ shut up, aventurine. ]

isnt he sooo glad to have made this friend

[pointedlook]

Gentler words of caution are going to get people killed, asshole. Maybe even worse, in which they become our collective problem.

If you need some more enrichment, go find a Sudoku puzzle or something.

[opheliac]

So all I've gotta do is have a staring contest with the moon and I'm dunzo? Sounds like an easy way out to me!

[sorte]

According to a person that's most likely dead themselves, you got it in one.

[opheliac]

Someone already made their maker, huh? Let me guess, it's the guy who gets his rocks off whenever you talk about all the dumb ways you can die?

[hexrot]

What the hell is your problem?

[sorte]

[ oh, here's another one, he guesses, but this one is totally new to him. he was hoping to pull at least one. Success! ]

Are you also going to scold me for not absolutely demanding no one look at the moon?

[hexrot]

[ the huff he gives is nearly spat, ]

Look at it yourself for fuck all I care, but don't instigate innocent people into doing it for you.

[sculptedash]

[Ash hasn't quite been the same since her and Ozpin attempted to go underground.

But she has gained some insight.]

It doesn't take long. ...Not long at all.

[sorte]

[ oh, welp. ]

You didn't really stare at it did you?

[ no, that's silly, she'd be dead if she had according to her right ...

well, he's making sure. ]

[sculptedash]

[Her voice sounds a little vague and distant.]

Not directly-

I saw through someone else's eyes.

I heard a voice. It coursed through my being.

It said esiR.

[Don't mind her slipping into backwards talk.]