[Day 2, Night - Back at the Inns]

[nyanotech]

[ In ones and twos and groups of a few more, the cheerily victorious and the creature's not so cheery victims make it back to the central square and the inns there.

A few in particular are well-splashed with black slime. ]

Baths, baths~ ♪

So, whose place are we going to?

Comments

[nyanotech]

What's wrong?

[Heading to their inn.]

[beeductionist]

You have observed the mental effects of that substance, yes?

[nyanotech]

Brief, intense, and personal mental trauma leading to a non-responsive state, followed by lingering listlessness and unease edged with restlessness upon the creature's cessation of active functioning.

[beeductionist]

[ ... okay, approving look at that ]

Was there any indication that those would be the symptoms before they first appeared?

[nyanotech]

Not any more than that striking the gates would produce a similar lack of energy on a much greater scale.

[beeductionist]

Exactly.

[nyanotech]

There's a part you're missing, at least in this case.

There's no life in it now.

[beeductionist]

You're referring to the effect?

[nyanotech]

[Idly rubs her fingers together, traces of Loki's ooze long dried on them.]

No. To what caused it.

[beeductionist]

[ a shrug ]

That isn't my point.

[nyanotech]

Is your point that you can't properly anticipate this place?

[beeductionist]

The point is that I am already tired of seeing unpredictable violations of my sanity.

[nyanotech]

You're from later than I thought.

What year?

[beeductionist]

2013.

[nyanotech]

America?

[beeductionist]

Not natively, as I'm sure you've noticed.

[nyanotech]

You don't have to be native to stay there!

[beeductionist]

Hardly. But you can't have deduced the location from my accent.

[nyanotech]

[Her tail swishes back and forth.]

It wasn't a deduction~

[beeductionist]

... Ah. Spoken with someone then? Ms. Christopher, perhaps?

[nyanotech]

Rosette?

[Gosh there's a tell in her voice. An old sadness, warmth . . . regret?]

No. We haven't spoken much at all.

[beeductionist]

[ ... interesting ]

Not since the last time you slept with her?

[nyanotech]

[Grins.]

You're going to get another table thrown at you.

[beeductionist]

Note how I asked you while your hands are full.

[nyanotech]

I'm not the person you need to worry about.

Rosette Christopher is one of the Magdalene Order's nuns.