old muse revisited

[lostinpylea]

It's been a while, hasn't it? At least I'm not writin' on any walls this time. But are you really gonna bring me somewhere? I didn't go anywhere last time so the chances are kinda low.

But then again, I don't believe in the inevitable.

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[notjustinthemirror]

Writing on the walls?

[lostinpylea]

It's a good place to write when ya run outta space on the whiteboard.

[notjustinthemirror]

Oh I'm not disputing it. I personally like the psychotic scribbling on the wall look. All the better if there's some arcane symbols or it's written in blood.

[lostinpylea]

Symbols, yes. Blood, no.

[notjustinthemirror]

Well that's one of two. Not a bad average.

Symbols of what? Do share.

[lostinpylea]

That's a secret. If I told ya, then the code wouldn't be as fun to crack.

[notjustinthemirror]

Oh cryptic cyphers? Now I'm very interested.

Just a hint?

[lostinpylea]

A hint... Okay. If you look from beginning to end, it's different from looking top to bottom.

[notjustinthemirror]

Hmmm. Clever.

So you have symbols that form a code for someone to crack. For fun and profit or is there a method to the madness?

[lostinpylea]

For me. Just me.

[notjustinthemirror]

So it's entertainment then. Curious.

Hard to pay the bills with cryptic wallpaper.

[lostinpylea]

I donno, I bet some people might like it. Kinda like modernist art.

[notjustinthemirror]

Art they can't read.

[lostinpylea]

Do they hafta read it to like it? I don't think so.

[notjustinthemirror]

Don't they?

Humans are so strange.

[lostinpylea]

All beings are kinda strange in their own way.

[notjustinthemirror]

You have me there.

What happens if you get put in a game with no walls?

[lostinpylea]

Then I'll just doddle on the floor instead. Or the windows. Any flat surface works.

[notjustinthemirror]

You're kind of creepily dedicated to this.

[lostinpylea]

Sometimes you gotta write down ideas before you forget them no matter what.

[notjustinthemirror]

And you're a lady just brimming with ideas then?

[lostinpylea]

Always.

[notjustinthemirror]

Well then I hope you find a place with ample writing space.

[watchher]

Perhaps not inevitable in a sense of destiny, but they can be terribly stubborn about our fates, I'm afraid.

[lostinpylea]

I've heard that.

[watchher]

It's, um-- it's not always so bad as one might think, the settings they send us to.

[ Though maybe that's just because most horror games resemble a normal day in Sunnydale. ]

[lostinpylea]

One of them gives everybody wings, but not really so you can fly, and they're all different colors unique to each person. That doesn't sound too bad.

[watchher]

Oh-- I've never been, but the- the young woman at the keyboard seems to know the place. She's very fond of it, actually.

My own location is... somewhat more hostile, but still tolerable on the whole.

[lostinpylea]

Mine really likes the magic castle, but I can't be there because there's already another "me" and something about "muncest" if I did go.

[watchher]

They do often spend absurd amounts of time on the decision. I'm entirely settled where I am and she's still tempted to find me a second place.

[lostinpylea]

Ohh, I bet that would get kinda confusing. 'Cause then there'd be two of the same you except you'd have different experiences, which would make a different you. And sometimes it's hard enough keepin' one of you straight if the place is strange enough on its own.

[excuse her crazy rambling, Giles]

[watchher]

[ He gets it from the Scoobies sometimes; this doesn't faze him. ]

Quite. And the settings she chooses are never remotely plain or peaceful ones-- there seems to be an unfortunate shortage of those.

[lostinpylea]

I haven't heard of any. Then again, our own world isn't exactly plain or peaceful. So I don't know how we'd even live in a place like that.

[watchher]

There's certainly that. I suppose the prevalence of demons and widespread magical chaos does make it feel more familiar.

[lostinpylea]

Yep, sounds like home ta me.