B1, Day 2 [public channel]

[whattaprick]

[ There are a lot of things people need to do right now: help the Prince's servants get resettled, get started on figuring out who can work on a cure for the petrification, deal with the trauma of dying in a hopefully healthy and non-self-destructive way, show the new people the ropes of what the Carnival has to work with.

Instead, in the morning of the second day since the Prince was defeated, anyone on the radio gets this: ]

So, I've been wondering.

[ The Nightrider's voice, for those who recognize it, has definitely been better. It's a low, hoarse rasp, and the pause at the end is not just for effect, but to actually catch his breath. ]

Just how old is everyone here, anyway? Here, I'll start. I'm ... pretty sure I'm almost sixty. [ A beat. ] ... Maybe.

[ Why did anyone let this man have his radio back again? ]

[ ooc; Lambert's flat on his back in the medical tent for this, feel free to bug him in person and threadjack each other at will. ]

Comments

[stompadour]

Prove it.

[kingsroads]

I am under an enchantment back home—one that came damn near close to killing me. But I survived it, I pulled through, and I defeated the one who cursed me to begin with. Admittedly, I haven't freed myself from the enchantment yet, but when you compare my one year to Lazuli's thousands of years, I still have time.

Childermass can verify my claims.

[ Childermass who's gonna be taking Strange's radio away in the next five minutes, enjoy this brief talk cause it sure isn't going to last very long. ]

[periphrasing]

[Peridot groans. PROLONGEDLY. Into the radio.]

Mr. Strange, I keep trying to tell you it's not like an enchantment, it's... Something entirely different. When your form is destabilized it's like... Like.

[What's a good analogy... Dangit...]

Would you still be able to use magic if you were just. A human brain in a jar!?

[She's pretty sure she watched a movie with something like that in it once.]

[scientificist]

I can't see why not.

[periphrasing]

...Okay I have questions about that, but now is not really the appropriate time, so. Later.

[scientificist]

[He finally does actually giggle. On the radio. It's ghoulish. Sorry, everyone on the radios right now.]

[periphrasing]

[Peridot makes exactly this face at her radio and decides it's in her best interest to just. Not dignify that with a response.]

[stompadour]

I'm not talking about an enchantment. I'm talking about... If you were asleep, [she says the word with no small amount of disgust,] and you were trapped inside something that kept you asleep forever. Can you do your human magic while you're unconscious?

[kingsroads]

How can it be like being a brain in a jar and being asleep?

kw relevant

[periphrasing]

It's not like being asleep at all, Jasper's just an idiot.

[stompadour]

What?? Why isn't it? Isn't being asleep what happens to humans when you hit them really hard but they don't die?

[periphrasing]

[.......................Jasper,,]

Okay that's not ENTIRELY incorrect, but also, from what Lapis told me, she was conscious while she was in that mirror, so it's really not the same!