primrosella: (Scared)
Princess Rosella of Daventry ([personal profile] primrosella) wrote2009-08-25 05:33 pm

Quest 115

[Accidental Voice Post]

[The device switches on amidst a shuffle of cloth, presumably by accident--as though, perhaps, it is being kept in a pocket, out of sight, and its owner has jostled it by mistake.]

Don't look don't look don't look don't look--

[The whispered words keep time with the faint clicking of footsteps.]

There's nothing there, it's fine, it's fine, don't look, don't look, there's nothing there, just keep going one step at a time, don't look, don't look, oh, drat these boots! Don't look, there's nothing there, don't look--

[Somewhere nearby, gears grind and electricity crackles. A strangled sort of cry escapes before she can restrain it, and when she begins to speak again, it's with renewed, frantic vigor.]

No, no, no, there's nothing, it's fine, it's fine, there's nothing there, don't look, one step at a time, one and one and one and one, it's fine, it's all right, just get home, it's fine, it's fine--!

[The sound of machinery returns, louder now, clanking and rattling and grinding. Too close--this time, her fear wins out, and her scream is filled with revulsion.]

Get away!

[And now there is scuffling, shuffling, and the distinctive gasping of someone running, stumbling, and running again, as though her life depends on it.]


[OOC: It's mentioned a couple times in the King's Quest Companion that people from Daventry have a deep, universal loathing for technology. Of course, seeing as how the Daventry definition of "technology" means gears and cogs and clockwork stuff...yeah, Rosella's not having a good day. She's been fighting to keep her freaking out under control all day, but between the steampunk atmosphere and her wardrobe modification, it finally got the better of her.

All responses are assumed to be voice, and action for [livejournal.com profile] not_so_smooth and [livejournal.com profile] bombylious.]

[identity profile] ellectroshock.livejournal.com 2009-08-25 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno. They're not that bad.

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2009-08-25 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Not that bad? Those infernal--things?!

[identity profile] ellectroshock.livejournal.com 2009-08-25 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Just machines!

They don't bite much.

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2009-08-25 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Hideous, awful...why would you ever...

They're disgusting.

voice;

[identity profile] ellectroshock.livejournal.com 2009-08-25 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ And she turns the audio on. ]

Sound something like this?

[ Sound of electricity crackling loudly. ]

voice; | why so mean, Elle? =(

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2009-08-25 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yup, that gets a shriek out of her, even though she knows the sound came over the Network and not in person. She's still pretty jumpy, after all.]

Don't!

voice; | love you too ♥

[identity profile] ellectroshock.livejournal.com 2009-08-25 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ And it dies away. Slowly. ]

Oops.

voice; | sooooooob

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2009-08-25 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
They don't bother you.

[It isn't a question.]

voice; | she's a nice girl she swears

[identity profile] ellectroshock.livejournal.com 2009-08-25 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ All innocence. ]

Should they?

voice; | "nice" is a relative term ♥

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2009-08-25 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
They're unnatural.

voice; | 8D

[identity profile] ellectroshock.livejournal.com 2009-08-26 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ She is having way too much fun with this. ]

But they're everywhere. And you can't avoid them, no matter what.

voice; | now she's terrified AND cranky. =(

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2009-08-26 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
[That's it, she might be rattled and shaken and scared out of her mind, but she's still got a temper when she's provoked.]

Until midnight. And then every last one of those wretched things will be gone.

voice; | totally not elle's fault

[identity profile] ellectroshock.livejournal.com 2009-08-26 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
But I've seen modern technology rattle and shake, too.

voice; | suuuuure it isn't

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2009-08-26 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
It's not the same at all.

voice;

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2009-08-26 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Really.